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Maria Matembe: Uganda’s 72 year-old matriarch who would not be silenced
Maria Matembe: Uganda’s 72 year-old matriarch who would not be silenced
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“No More Pillage” – DRC President declares end to extraction of raw materials
“No More Pillage” – DRC President declares end to extraction of raw materials
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The Endgame: First move in a war for Senegal’s soul
The Endgame: First move in a war for Senegal’s soul
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NEWS

EXPOSED: Sensational attempts to bribe SA MP with R10 million cash, a R2-million-a-month tender and promises of “chocolates”

EXPOSED: Sensational attempts to bribe SA MP with R10 million cash, a R2-million-a-month tender and promises of “chocolates”

July 1, 2026
A sworn account now before the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has placed uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) Member of Parliament Vusi Shongwe at the centre of one of the most startling sub-plots yet to emerge from South Africa’s sprawling probe into crimi...
Mozambique moves to govern AI as more African states build laws
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Museveni’s son-in-law admits soldiers beat voters, stuffed ballots in stolen election
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BURKINA FASO DIVORCE: Paris reacts, Francophone Africa watches
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Uganda’s darkest weekend: Muhoozi shuts down independent media as Matembe missing
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World

Israel’s ‘campaign between the wars’: How strategy to contain Iran and its allies risks further straining ties with US

Israel’s ‘campaign between the wars’: How strategy to contain Iran and its allies risks further straining ties with US

July 1, 2026
A lot hangs on whether the United States can compel Israel to cease operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon. After all, an end to the Israeli military offensive was a key provision of the broad U.S.-Iran agreement setting out a road map to end the I...
Online hate, real consequences: Maryland man jailed 15 months for threats against Black and Muslim groups
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Expert Q&A: Why did so many buildings collapse in Venezuela’s double earthquake?
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BRICS NEWS

Mashatile in Beijing: South Africa seeks value‑chain deals, mineral beneficiation and regional hubs

Mashatile in Beijing: South Africa seeks value‑chain deals, mineral beneficiation and regional hubs

June 23, 2026
SOUTH Africa’s Deputy President Paul Mashatile used the China International Supply Chain Expo in Beijing on 22 June 2026 to launch a concentrated bid for South Africa to move from commodity supplier to industrial partner - pitching the country as a ...
Beijing bonds: Xi and Putin deepen the BRICS axis as the multipolar order takes shape
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Ethiopia’s BRICS dividend: Addis Ababa charts a new course in the architecture of global power
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Hybrid seed leading revival of cotton farming in Zimbabwe

Hybrid seed leading revival of cotton farming in Zimbabwe

July 1, 2026
LITERATURE
Reviving the heart of African literature

Reviving the heart of African literature

June 9, 2026
MOTORING
BMW unveils five-way power play with all-new X5 – electric, hydrogen and the ‘Heart of Joy’

BMW unveils five-way power play with all-new X5 – electric, hydrogen and the ‘Heart of Joy’

July 1, 2026
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Igniting Tomorrow: BMW Group South Africa puts youth in the driver’s seat

Igniting Tomorrow: BMW Group South Africa puts youth in the driver’s seat

June 25, 2026

Sports

FIFA 2026 WORLD CUP: Morocco shines, the Elephants crash out, with pride

FIFA 2026 WORLD CUP: Morocco shines, the Elephants crash out, with pride

July 1, 2026
Somewhere in a FIFA marketing meeting months ago, someone probably penned a tidy little narrative for this World Cup: the usual European heavyweights, a South American flourish, and Africa cast as the plucky extras who show up, smile for the group p...
Atlas Lions Roar, Albirroja Ambush: Africa toasts as Europe’s giants crumble on penalties
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Eustáquio’s stoppage-time heist mugs Bafana – But leave World Cup with heads held high
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Business

Angola just took a decisive step to turn AfCFTA from paper promise into business reality

Angola just took a decisive step to turn AfCFTA from paper promise into business reality

July 1, 2026
ANGOLA has validated a National AfCFTA Strategy and Action Plan, signalling a shift from commodity dependence toward a trade‑led industrialisation push. The move maps out how Luanda intends to tap a single African market of more than a billion consu...
Nigeria’s US$1 billion AfCFTA credit push tests if Africa’s trade finance gap can be eased
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When global trade becomes a weapon, how can African economies protect themselves?
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Lifestyle

Abdullah Ibrahim in the 1960s: how the famous pianist began to shape an African jazz sound

Abdullah Ibrahim in the 1960s: how the famous pianist began to shape an African jazz sound

June 30, 2026
THE 1960s are a significant era in Abdullah Ibrahim’s story. It’s a time when the South African master’s international career as a jazz pianist was gradually established and he laid the foundations for the signature sound that is recognised today as...
Nasty C, Skwatta Kamp and DJ Tira set Constitution Hill alight as Basha Uhuru turns 50 years of freedom into one giant street party
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The Nollywood plot nobody wrote: a Nigerian artist, the Obamas, and a wall that lasts forever
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Thought Leadership

The matriarch who would not be silenced: Miria Matembe’s long war against power

The matriarch who would not be silenced: Miria Matembe’s long war against power

JOVIAL RANTAOJuly 1, 2026
There is a particular kind of courage that belongs almost exclusively to those who have nothing left to prove and nothing left to lose. At 72, Dr Miria Rukoza Koburunga Matembe has spent more than three decades demonstrating exactly that kind of cou...
South Africa’s political and economic crisis: in search of a visible enemy, ghosts and African immigrants
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The Final Severance. Burkina Faso, France and the end of an era in the Sahel
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EDUCATION
Nigerian kids learning purpose through play

Nigerian kids learning purpose through play

July 1, 2026
SUSTAINABILITY
Experts call for greater investment in Africa-led research to safeguard the Congo Basin

Experts call for greater investment in Africa-led research to safeguard the Congo Basin

July 1, 2026
HUMAN RIGHTS
In conversation with Funke Adeoye on detainees’ rights in Nigeria

In conversation with Funke Adeoye on detainees’ rights in Nigeria

March 27, 2026
MEDIA FREEDOM
Burkina Faso’s missing journalist exposes the junta’s tightening grip on dissent

Burkina Faso’s missing journalist exposes the junta’s tightening grip on dissent

June 27, 2026
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Online hate, real consequences: Maryland man jailed 15 months for threats against Black and Muslim groups

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“No More Pillage” – DRC President declares end to extraction of raw materials

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A force forged in the crucible of African development

A force forged in the crucible of African development

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IN the corridors of the , system, where ambition is plentiful but transformative action rare, Daphine Hazvibvi Muzawazi has become something of an in...

Health

Vaccine hesitancy can’t be boiled down to a single factor: what we learnt in South Africa and Brazil
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Technology

People are marrying holograms and making friends with chatbots. But can AI bring true happiness?
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Africities

China is helping build Africa’s cities, but its approach sidelines local urban planners and residents
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MULTIMEDIA

Gallery: The Lion of Bamako: Tribute to Hameye Mahaman Cissé
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