Faith Nyasuguta East Africa’s flagship oil infrastructure project – the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) – has entered its final 12-month construction sprint, according to officials from Uganda and Tanzania. The milestone comes after years of planning, land acquisition disputes and mounting costs, with an estimated $3.6 billion already pumped into the ambitious venture. […]
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Faith Nyasuguta At 92, Cameroon’s President Paul Biya – the world’s oldest serving head of state – has declared he will run for re-election in the country’s upcoming presidential polls on October 12, 2025. Biya, who has ruled the Central African nation since 1982, announced his controversial bid for an eighth term through a statement […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Togo is once again at the center of West Africa’s term-limit crisis as thousands of angry citizens take to the streets, demanding the resignation of President Faure Gnassingbe – whose family has ruled the country for nearly six decades. The unrest comes in the wake of dramatic constitutional changes that many see as […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Canadian mining giant Barrick Gold Corporation is shifting its focus to Zambia, rolling out a massive $2 billion expansion plan at the Lumwana copper mine. This move comes as the company grapples with intensifying tensions in Mali, where disputes over new mining laws and sudden gold seizures have put its West African operations […]
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Faith Nyasuguta U.S. President Donald Trump has reportedly urged several African leaders to accept migrants deported by the United States – even if they are not nationals of those countries – in a controversial push to speed up deportations amid his administration’s renewed hardline stance on immigration. According to two officials who spoke to Reuters […]
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Faith Nyasuguta While many of his childhood classmates dreamed of becoming teachers, doctors, or professional athletes, Burna Boy knew exactly where he belonged – under the spotlight. “They’d hand out the papers and the question would be, ‘What do you want to be?’ … I’d write ‘rock star,’” the Afrobeats powerhouse once recalled. When a […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Nigeria’s Vice-President, Kashim Shettima, has firmly stated that Africa’s greatest battles today are against poverty and climate change – not the pursuit of nuclear weapons. Speaking in Abuja during a courtesy visit by Dr. Robert Floyd, Executive Secretary of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), Shettima reassured the global community that Africa remains […]
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Faith Nyasuguta Mali’s military ruler, General Assimi Goita, has secured a fresh grip on power after signing into law a controversial bill that extends his rule for five more years -with the possibility of renewing his mandate indefinitely and without elections. The new law, which Goita approved this week, stems from recommendations of national dialogue […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A new report by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has sounded the alarm over the country’s worsening urban housing crisis, revealing that about 4.8 million Ghanaians, nearly one in every three urban dwellers, live in slums or informal settlements. The Slums and Informal Settlements Report, which draws on Ghana’s 2021 Population and Housing […]
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Faith Nyasuguta A new study in The Lancet projects that President Trump’s drastic 83% cut to USAID foreign aid announced in early 2025 could result in over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, including 4.5 million deaths among children under five- approximately 700,000 child fatalities per year. Analyzing data from 133 low- and middle-income countries, […]
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