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South African farmers count losses as foot-and-mouth surges
South Africa’s beef exports dropped 26% in 2025 despite rising global demand, hit by its worst foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in years and a resulting Chinese…
Benin offers African diaspora citizenship to mark slavery legacy | REUTERS
Benin’s president has unveiled the ‘My Afro Origins’ program in a bid to raise the country’s profile and herald an initiative that offers Beninese citizenship…
Ethiopia begins construction of ‘Africa’s biggest airport’ | REUTERS
Ethiopian Airlines officially started a $12.5 billion construction project for what officials say will be Africa’s biggest airport when completed in 2030 in the Ethiopian…
How Uganda’s election could be a story of violence and succession | REUTERS
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni seeks to extend his four-decade rule, but political observers are still paying attention to what the vote could tell us about…
Will Central African Republic’s crypto embrace endanger state assets? | REUTERS
Central African Republic has embraced opaque cryptocurrency schemes that raise the risk of state assets being captured by foreign criminal organizations, according to a report…
Guinea-Bissau army seizes power, ousts president | REUTERS
Army officers in coup-prone Guinea-Bissau say they seized power, hours after gunfire erupted near the presidential palace and one day before results from a tense…
South Africa cannot turn back Palestinians, says President Ramaphosa
Speaking on the sidelines of a Johannesburg clean-up campaign, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the media regarding a group of Palestinians who were stranded…
Dar es Salaam under curfew after Tanzania election protests | REUTERS
Tanzanian police ordered a curfew in Dar es Salaam after violent protests marred an election that President Samia Suluhu Hassan is expected to win following…
African Union urges use of world map showing Africa’s true size | REUTERS
The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in…
Death of former Nigerian president Buhari sparks mix of emotions | REUTERS
Nigeria’s late former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died in a London clinic aged 82, will be buried in his northern home state of Katsina. He…

















