Wayne Lumbasi Niger is reshaping its uranium industry, seeking greater state participation in one of its most important strategic resources while continuing to attract international capital for new mining projects. The latest move came on September 23, when Niger signed a new mining convention for the Madaouela uranium project, increasing the state’s stake to 40% […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Nigeria’s Dangote Group is moving ahead with the planned groundbreaking of its proposed 700,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery in Lamu, Kenya, despite a court order over land rights that could restrict activities at the project site. The Malindi Environment and Land Court ordered parties to maintain the “status quo prevailing” on a disputed parcel until […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Kenya’s proposed Dangote East Africa Refinery has reached a significant physical milestone, with the first major shipment of construction equipment arriving at the Port of Lamu ahead of the planned groundbreaking on September 30. The vessel MV Da Yang Bai He docked at Lamu on September 26 carrying 2,930.295 metric tonnes of heavy […]
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Wayne Lumbasi The Democratic Republic of Congo has recorded more than 8,000 confirmed Ebola cases in its ongoing outbreak, with the death toll approaching 4,000 as the disease continues to spread across multiple provinces. The latest situation report from the country’s public health institute puts the number of confirmed cases at 8,067, while 3,901 people […]
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Faith Nyasuguta South Africa’s new ambassador to the United States, Roelf Meyer, has delivered one of Pretoria’s clearest rebuttals yet to claims that Afrikaners are facing a “white genocide”, telling the BBC that the alleged campaign of mass attacks against the country’s white minority “does not exist”. Meyer’s intervention is significant not only because he […]
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Njoki Kangethe When we talk about forests, we tend to count trees. We talk about hectares of forest cover, numbers of seedlings planted, tonnes of timber harvested and the percentage of land covered by trees. These measurements are useful, particularly in a country like Kenya where increasing forest cover has become an important national target. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Senegal is moving to expand its refining industry as the country tries to turn its new oil production into a larger domestic industrial economy. The state-owned Société Africaine de Raffinage (SAR) has signed a preliminary agreement with Turkish company Yamata for a second refinery capable of processing 4 million tonnes of crude a […]
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Wayne Lumbasi President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown is leaving a growing trail of deaths, injuries, detention and broken families across the United States, while its consequences are increasingly being felt far beyond American borders. What began as a campaign promise to carry out mass deportations has developed into an expansive enforcement system involving larger […]
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Faith Nyasuguta For 80 years, the United Nations has promoted equality between women and men as a founding principle. Yet one of the organisation’s most powerful positions has never been held by a woman. At the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah placed that contradiction at the centre of […]
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Wayne Lumbasi The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to admit up to 17,500 refugees during the 2027 fiscal year, with the majority expected to be Afrikaners from South Africa, according to a notice sent to Congress by the US State Department. The proposal marks a significant shift in the United States refugee programme, […]
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