Faith Nyasuguta The African Union is stepping into one of the Horn of Africa’s most dangerous diplomatic moments, urging Ethiopia, Eritrea and Egypt to exercise maximum restraint as relations deteriorate and renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia threatens to pull neighbouring states into a wider confrontation. In a statement issued on October 1, the African Union […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Ethiopia has closed its embassy in Eritrea and declared 10 Eritrean diplomats persona non grata, ordering them to leave the country within 48 hours as relations between the two Horn of Africa neighbours deteriorate amid renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia. The decision, announced by Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 1, 2026, […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Botswana has withdrawn from the proposed joint bid with South Africa and Zimbabwe to host the 2028 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) after its government declined to provide the financial guarantee needed for the country’s participation. The decision effectively ends Botswana’s involvement in the three-country proposal and leaves South Africa and Zimbabwe to […]
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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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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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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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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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Faith Nyasuguta Angolan President João Lourenco has called for the immediate and unconditional lifting of the United States’ long-running economic embargo against Cuba, using his address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, to challenge Washington’s treatment of the Caribbean country. Lourenco argued that Cuba should not be treated as […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote is planning to invest more than $3.5 billion in a 2,650-kilometre petroleum-products pipeline linking Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, as part of a much larger ambition to move refined fuel across Africa by pipeline rather than relying heavily on road transport. The proposed Southern African network would form part […]
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