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U.S. President Donald Trump (left), Rwandan President Paul Kagame (center) and Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi hold up a signed document during a signing ceremony at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington on Dec 4.
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 24, 2025
Trump’s recall of ambassadors compounds staffing problems at posts in Africa
The mass recall will complicate America’s efforts to push its agenda in a region that has faced military coups and devastating conflicts in recent years.
Confederation of African Football President Patrice Motsepe arrives at a news conference on Saturday in Rabat, Morocco, ahead of the start of the Africa Cup of Nations.
SOCCER
Dec 21, 2025
Africa Cup of Nations to be held every four years after 2028 edition
The tournament has usually been held at two-year intervals, but over the last 15 years it has struggled to find a convenient place in the global calendar.
Hellen Etiman, 30, stands as her malnourished son, Peter Lokoyen, 4, eats wild fruits outside their thatch hut in Lomolem village, in Turkana County in Kenya, on Oct. 29.
WORLD / Society
Dec 12, 2025
Cuts to U.S. aid under Trump disrupt life-saving treatment for starving children
Before the cuts, the U.S. Agency for International Development funded purchase and distribution of half global food paste supplies for the most undernourished children.
The Trump administration's 2025 National Security Strategy shifts focus to the Western Hemisphere and Asia while largely maintaining the underlying limits of America's security policy established under the Biden administration.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 12, 2025
How to read Trump’s National Security Strategy
What I see as the essence of NSS 2025 is that this document appears to be a product of compromise intended to bridge the differences that surfaced within the Trump administration.
Sudanese refugee children watch the sunset in the Tine transit camp amid the conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Army, in eastern Chad on Nov. 23.
WORLD
Dec 7, 2025
Drone strikes on Sudan kindergarten and hospital kill dozens, local official says
Since April 2023, the army and the paramilitary RSF have been locked in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands and displaced nearly 12 million.
Israa Mukhtar, a witness of an attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April on Relief International's medical clinic in Sudan's Zamzam camp, sits inside a tent, in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, on June 13.
WORLD / Society
Dec 1, 2025
Hospital massacre caps long series of attacks on health care in war-torn Sudan
Attacks on health care intensified after the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary besieged al-Fashir in April 2024 amid a civil war against the Sudanese Armed Forces.
Maj. Gen. Horta Inta-a, the new transitional president of Guinea-Bissau, on Thursday
WORLD / Politics
Nov 28, 2025
General sworn in as new Guinea-Bissau leader as ousted president arrives in Senegal
The military toppled the civilian leadership on Wednesday in a swift power grab ahead of the announcement of the results of a weekend election.
The outskirts of Bopolu, Liberia, in 2021. Liberia’s government signed a "carbon credit" agreement with a little-known Dubai company in 2023 that promised to protect vast tracts of forests and offset big polluters' emissions.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Nov 26, 2025
The case of Africa’s ‘vanishing’ carbon deals
Blue Carbon’s Africa venture highlights the complexity of delivering on carbon credits, plans that are often criticized for offering polluters a chance to “greenwash” emissions.
Displaced girls stand in line as they wait for their turn to receive aid in Al-Dabbah, Sudan, on Nov. 15.
WORLD
Nov 26, 2025
Sudan’s displaced and exhausted doctors treat fellow El-Fasher survivors
Both warring sides in Sudan have repeatedly and deliberately targeted doctors and hospitals throughout the two-year conflict.
A solar power station near Lobito, Angola, in 2024
BUSINESS
Nov 24, 2025
EU and Africa leaders to talk trade and minerals, as Ukraine looms large
Leaders are gathering in Angola on Monday for a summit aimed at deepening economic and security ties that will serve as a backdrop to emergency talks on Ukraine.
Open lockers and scattered personal belongings are seen inside a dormitory at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri, Nigeria, on Friday, after 315 students and teachers were seized in Nigeria's second mass school abduction in a week.
WORLD
Nov 23, 2025
Gunmen seize 315 in latest Nigerian mass school kidnapping
The two abductions and a church attack have happened since Donald Trump threatened to intervene in what he called the killing of Christians by radical Islamists in Nigeria.
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 19, 2025
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
They are being told to take action now or risk missing out on big opportunities.
Soldiers of the Somalia National Army walk near the front lines at Sabiid, one of the towns they have liberated from al-Qaida-linked militants al-Shabab, in Somalia's lower-Shabelle region on Nov. 11.
WORLD
Nov 19, 2025
In Somalia, a shaky front line barely holds back the ‘dogs of war’
“The fight that we are doing, it’s not confined and limited to Somalia. This is a global war,” says Somalia’s national security advisor, Awes Hagi Yusuf.
The financial district in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Kenya is classified by the IMF as being at high risk of debt distress.
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 17, 2025
Why Africa pays the highest costs to borrow money
Some see a “prejudice premium,” while others say default risk and a lack of data play a bigger role.
A technician works on solar power panels at the Atlantic Shrimpers farm in Lagos in 2022.
ENVIRONMENT / Energy
Nov 17, 2025
Made in Nigeria: Inside Africa’s push to be a solar superpower
Among African nations, Nigeria aims to reduce its fossil-fuel dependence and generate 30% of its energy from renewables by 2030 as well as develop local manufacturing capacity.
Iron-rich mountains in the Guinea Highlands that daunted Sidiki Kone as a young geologist turned out to hold one of the biggest ore deposits on the planet.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 4, 2025
Huge new mine in Guinea with Chinese backing set to upend world iron ore market
The Simandou deposit is the world’s largest untapped seam of iron ore, with estimated reserves of at least 3 billion tons.
Displaced Sudanese who fled El-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces rest in the camp of Um Yanqur, on the southwestern edge of Tawila, in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on Monday.
WORLD
Nov 4, 2025
Hunger monitor confirms famine in Darfur’s al-Fashir and one other city
The finding is the first time the U.N.-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has determined that the cities are in famine.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after arriving on Air Force One in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday. Trump on Saturday threatened Nigeria with potential military action and said the United States might cut off aid, accusing the West African country’s government of failing to protect Christians.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2025
Trump threatens U.S. military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians
Trump’s post on Nigeria came a day after adding it back to a list of nations that the U.S. says have violated religious freedom.
Sudanese Rapid Support Forces reportedly detain a fighter known as Abu Lulu (left) in al-Fashir, in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region in this image released Thursday.
WORLD
Nov 1, 2025
Hundreds said shot or disappeared after Sudanese city falls to paramilitaries
Fighters riding camels rounded up a couple of hundred men near the Sudanese city of al-Fashir over the weekend and brought them to a reservoir, shouting racial slurs before starting to shoot, according to a man who said he was among them.
An infant at a camp for displaced people who fled from El Fasher to Tawila, Sudan, on Monday. Fears mounted in Sudan three days after paramilitaries seized the key city of El Fasher, amid reports of mass atrocities and the killing of five Red Crescent volunteers in Kordofan.
WORLD
Oct 30, 2025
WHO condemns reported ‘horrific’ mass killing in Sudanese hospital
“All attacks on health care must stop immediately and unconditionally,” said the U.N. health agency’s chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
China’s demand for Soviet-style apartments shows limits to revival
Apartments built during a Soviet Union-inspired construction drive in the 1970s and 1980s tend to suffer from poor insulation and outdated plumbing, but they are seeing a revival in interest due to their attractive locations.
Japanese scientists identify neural mechanism that may explain why we dislike people
The aggressive mouse (left) used in the experiment and a mouse defending itself
Japanese payment processor’s collapse hits banks and restaurants
Zentoshin served around 200,000 shops, many of which rely on early payments to maintain cash flow, raising concerns over their financial stability following the disruption.
Over 70% of accommodations in Japan say they are understaffed amid tourism influx
The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a high of 42.68 million in 2025.
Lenders seek $700 million after Japanese payments firm’s collapse
The financial failure of Osaka-based Zentoshin has left 63 creditors with claims totaling ¥115.16 billion, according to Tokyo Shoko Research.
Japan’s largest exhibition of women photographers rights a wrong in cultural history
Miwa Yanagi’s “Elevator Girl House” series skewers the superficiality of gender roles through staged images.
Over 70% of accommodations in Japan say they are understaffed amid tourism influx
The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a high of 42.68 million in 2025.
‘Princess Mononoke’ comes alive in Super Kabuki staging
The “Princess Mononoke” adaptation was created under Shochiku’s Super Kabuki initiative, a modern form of kabuki with more technology in staging and open to pop culture collaborations.
The beating heart inside ‘Human Vapor’
Different forms of love and connection form the emotional backbone of Netflix’s “Human Vapor,” says actor Shun Oguri, who plays troubled detective Kenji Okamoto.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.

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