•World Map by Equal Earth The UN General Assembly voted yesterday to back a resolution spearheaded by several African countries to adopt a map that makes their continent bigger while shrinking North America and Europe. Aimed at “a more accurate representation” of continental landmasses, the resolution was supported by 164 countries while the U...
•A Tobacco smoker New analysis by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that despite significant global decline, Tobacco-leaf production has continued to rise in Africa, with concerns over the health, economic, environmental and sustainable development implications of the trend. The analysis showed that global tobacco-leaf productio...
Two Nigerian brothers, Davis and Emmanuel Eban, have taken their education technology initiative, Edugene, a step closer to the international genomic medicine community after the platform was admitted into the European Genomic Medicine Consortium (EGMEDC). The milestone was announced at the CRISPRMED26 Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, in Apr...
•Obasanjo Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised the model of democracy practised across much of Africa, saying it lacks African context and content and has created a winner-takes-all approach to politics. Obasanjo said the Western liberal democracy inherited by many African countries was not designed around the continent’s realitie...
•Artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence is now driving 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across Africa, making attacks faster, more sophisticated and increasingly difficult to detect, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026. The report warns that the continent’s rapid digital transformation, marked by more...
Chad announced today it planned to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), saying its effectiveness was “limited and uneven” with a focus on Africa. It follows Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, who in September jointly announced they were pulling out of the ICC, which prosecutes individuals for war crimes and crimes against humanity,...
•Members of the Zulu regiment known as the ‘Amabutho’ chant slogans as they march during a demonstration by the “March and March” movement in Durban, South Africa on June 30, 2026 Nigeria and Ghana have agreed to collaborate and strategise to prevent crises from escalating in Africa following recent Afrophobic protests and incidents targeting ...
The Group Chief Executive Officer of Wakanow, Bayo Adedeji, has argued that the high cost of air travel across Africa is driven more by structural challenges than airline greed, saying taxes, fuel costs and government policies are the biggest contributors to expensive airfares. Adedeji made the remarks while speaking at the Africa Technology E...
•A fish farm Africa needs to urgently expand its fish-farming sector to meet its food needs, the head of the UN’s fisheries division said today, even as its latest report found record production levels globally. Fish and seafood is now a $184-billion trade, according to the State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture report by the […]
•Ebola outbreak The Lagos State government has launched a statewide Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) awareness campaign, codenamed “Operation Lagos BioShield”, in a major preventive move aimed at shielding residents from the deadly virus amid fresh outbreaks in parts of East and Central Africa. The initiative signals heightened vigilance by authoriti...
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