By Alexanderia Baker-Haidara, Semafor — The passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson this month comes at an inflection point. Much of the modern US-Africa policy architecture he helped lay the foundations…
By Alexanderia Baker-Haidara, Semafor — The passing of Rev. Jesse Jackson this month comes at an inflection point. Much of the modern US-Africa policy architecture he helped lay the foundations…
By Ulf Engel, The Conversation — The African Union held its 39th Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in February 2026. The two-day assembly produced the usual…
By Franco Bonghan — Bobi Wine was supposed to be just a singer. That miscalculation tells you everything about how afraid Uganda’s establishment is of ordinary people finding their voice….
CNN’s Larry Madowo interviews Bobi Wine in Kampala and is teargassed while covering a rally in Nakawa West. Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu says he would already be president if 2021 was…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Jonathan L. Jackson (IL-1) today released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s recent threat to send U.S. troops into Nigeria amid reports of…
By Joanna Gilmore, The Conversation — In the course of construction work in 2013, the remains of 36 individuals of African descent were uncovered in the heart of downtown Charleston, South Carolina….
Source: Business Insider Africa — Aliko Dangote has made history by becoming the first African to reach a net worth of $30 billion. This landmark achievement, confirmed by Bloomberg’s index,…
By Annah Lake Zhu and Amadou Ndiaye, The Conversation — Africa’s Great Green Wall project began as an ambitious plan to build a 15-kilometre-wide band of trees across the north…
Ethiopia will tomorrow inaugurate Africa’s largest dam, a major source of electricity and national zeal for the country, but one that threatens to fray ties with nations downstream. The Grand…
By The Africa Center for Strategic Studies — Driven by escalating violence in the Sahel, Somalia, and Lake Chad Basin, the 22,307 fatalities linked to militant Islamist groups in Africa…
Surprise move towards trial of veteran diplomat over Patrice Lumumba’s 1961 assassination coincides with show seeking to widen focus on his life and fight. By Jennifer Rankin, The Guardian —…
French government says it is open to dialogue but does not acknowledge responsibility in letter seen by the Guardian. By Eromo Egbejule, The Guardian — More than a century after…