Faith Nyasuguta South Korea is recalibrating its relationship with Nigeria, signalling a move away from traditional aid toward a more strategic partnership built on trade, investment, and institutional collaboration. The shift reflects a broader global trend, as development assistance continues to decline. Officials say total global aid fell sharply in 2025, forcing donor countries to […]
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Faith Nyasuguta The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing a controversial expansion of its refugee admissions policy, with internal discussions focused on increasing the number of white South Africans eligible to resettle in the United States. According to officials familiar with the matter, policymakers are considering raising the current refugee cap by an […]
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Trash to Cash: The Rise of Africa’s Waste Entrepreneurs Njoki Kangethe Introduction: Rethinking Waste For decades, waste in Africa has been framed almost exclusively as a crisis: a visible sign of rapid urbanization, weak infrastructure, and governance challenges. It has been discussed in terms of sanitation, public health, and environmental degradation, rarely in terms of […]
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Wayne Lumbasi In a significant diplomatic breakthrough, the governments of Zimbabwe and Botswana have formally committed to a policy that will allow citizens to cross their shared borders using only national identity cards. This historic decision, reached during the 5th Bi-National Commission in Harare this week, marks the end of a long-standing reliance on passports […]
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Kimberly Mutandiro Civil society groups, migrant activists, and migration-conscious South Africans are rising against xenophobia in the country. Particularly in South Africa, xenophobia is the deep-seated hatred, discrimination, and violence directed toward African migrants from other nations. Xenophobia in this country, considered Africa’s major economy, is often triggered by economic competition for jobs, housing, and […]
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Wayne Lumbasi The current fuel crisis in Malawi has reached a critical juncture, forcing the government into an unconventional financial corner where it must leverage its most stable assets to keep the economy from grinding to a halt. At the heart of the issue is a severe shortage of foreign exchange, which is the hard […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Pope Leo XIV has concluded a high-stakes, ten-day apostolic journey across Algeria, Cameroon, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea, leaving behind a trail of pointed political rebukes. In a tour defined by bluntness rather than traditional diplomatic vagueness, the Pontiff used his platform to expose systemic graft, human rights abuses, and the international arms trade, […]
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Wayne Lumbasi France is in the final stages of a diplomatic and financial maneuver to provide a $108 million (€100 million) loan to South Africa, specifically targeting the deepening infrastructure crisis within the nation’s metropolitan centers. The French Ambassador to South Africa, David Martinon, confirmed the status of the negotiations on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Russia is expanding its military reach across West Africa, using the port of Conakry as a key transit hub to move weapons and equipment into Mali. What appears to be routine maritime traffic is, in reality, a calculated supply chain allowing Moscow to strengthen its presence in the Sahel while sidestepping Western sanctions. […]
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Wayne Lumbasi The United States Department of State has formally signaled a strategic pivot toward the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mining sector, confirming that American firms are actively evaluating a portfolio of high-value assets. At the forefront of this industrial push is the Rubaya coltan deposit, a site of immense technological importance that currently sits […]
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