Faith Nyasuguta Morocco is making big moves to prepare for its historic role as a co-host of the 2030 FIFA World Cup. The government has announced a huge investment plan worth 38 billion dirhams ($4.2 billion) to modernise and expand the country’s main airports over the next five years – a bold push to handle […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Egypt is making fresh moves to deepen its footprint in West Africa, with some of its wealthiest business leaders and top diplomats reaching out directly to Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader, Captain Ibrahim Traore. Earlier this week, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty touched down in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital, bearing a personal letter from […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Outrage is mounting in Eswatini after the United States quietly deported five foreign men to the small southern African kingdom under a secretive deal that local opposition leaders and activists have branded “human trafficking disguised as deportation.” Eswatini, Africa’s last absolute monarchy, ruled by King Mswati III since 1986, found itself in the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Nigerian billionaire and Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has sounded the alarm over a flood of cheap Russian petroleum products entering African markets, warning it could cripple the continent’s efforts to build a strong, self-reliant oil refining industry. Speaking at an oil and gas conference in Abuja this week, Dangote explained that Western […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ghana could soon celebrate a major economic milestone as inflation is projected to drop to single digits by the end of 2025 – a level not seen in years. According to Deloitte’s latest West Africa Inflation Update, the country’s inflation rate may fall below the Bank of Ghana’s revised year-end target of 12%, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta President Donald Trump has reignited a bitter feud with his first predecessor, Barack Obama, by accusing him of treason in connection with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Speaking during an Oval Office press briefing on Tuesday alongside visiting Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, Trump lashed out at Obama, painting him as the […]
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Faith Nyasuguta African nations are bracing for deep setbacks as the UK government pushes forward with a sweeping 40% cut to its foreign aid budget – a move that will heavily affect vital programs supporting children’s education and women’s health across the continent. The UK’s new spending plan, unveiled this week, shows bilateral aid for […]
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Njoki Kangethe When you hear nuclear, what comes to mind? Clean energy? Danger? National pride? Or maybe just… silence? Because too often, that’s what communities get: no answers, no consultations, just decisions made behind closed doors. Right now, from Egypt to Kenya, Uganda to Ghana, nuclear energy is being pitched as the future of African development, but […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Nigeria has hit a groundbreaking milestone in its energy journey as the Dangote Refinery, the largest single-train refinery in the world, takes Nigerian fuel far beyond Africa’s shores. In just 50 days – between June and July 2025 – the refinery exported about one million tons of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), commonly known […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Mali’s military-led government is stepping up efforts to win fresh support from the United States as it battles Islamist insurgents and searches for new economic opportunities in a region where Western security partnerships have dramatically weakened. This week, a U.S. delegation led by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for West Africa, William Stevens, […]
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