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What the rest of the world is publishing about the Horn of Africa — and what the Horn's own newsrooms are publishing about everywhere else.
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Senegal has reached an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a new $2.2 billion debt programme, the financial institution said on Tuesday. An earlier agreement was suspended in 2024 after the discovery of underreported debt.
Across Africa, assisted reproductive technology (ART) is expanding at an unprecedented pace. Fertility clinics are opening in countries where, until recently, couples had little choice but to travel abroad, often to Europe, India, or…
Kenyan aviation workers have called off a strike that paralysed the country's main international airport for two days, the civil aviation authority said Tuesday.
The year 2026 marks the 70 th anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March against extending the dompas to the black women of South Africa. Every August, the commemoration of Women’s Month highlights the inheritances and unfinished legacies of…
Spain's government has approved more than 300 million euros in additional aid for its North African exclave of Ceuta. Madrid said the funding is aimed at supporting "all fronts" as it struggles to accommodate thousands of migrants who…
The question of why 70,000 Moroccans migrated to the Spanish-governed territories of Ceuta and Melilla within hours on 30 July – ‘Throne Day’, which is one of the most respectable celebrations of the Morocco Kingdom – still lingers in…
Tunisia's president Kais Saied welcomed Germany's Foreign Minister to Tunis on Monday for talks on ways to develop their partnership.
Lesotho is two years into a national state of disaster: US tariffs have gutted its garment factories, unemployment has passed 30%, and its main trade lifeline is guaranteed for less than a year. To understand how the mountain kingdom keeps…
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema was sworn in for a second term Tuesday with the main opposition leader, who was the runner-up in last month's elections, in jail on treason charges.
A network of Christian evangelical organizations has spent nearly two decades and tens of millions of dollars fueling a storm of anti-LGBTI+ legislation across Africa . That same network now drafts and bankrolls a parallel wave of…
Football fans in Buenos Aires reacted with shock and sadness on Monday to the news that Argentina superstar Lionel Messi is retiring from international football.
Duane "Keffe D" Davis, a former Los Angeles gang leader, was found guilty on Monday by a Las Vegas court of the 1996 murder of chart-topping rapper Tupac Shakur
Balladur, who was born in Turkey, served as President Francois Mitterrand's last prime minister from March 1993 to May 1995, carrying out several major privatisations of state companies, and unsuccessfully ran for the top job in 1995
Health workers and officials leading the Ebola response celebrated the five's discharge, with the head of the response coalition saying it was a "momentous day" and a "source of pride" for his team
Airlink, Southern Africa’s premier airline, released a statement assuring the public that the events were planned and rehearsed beforehand, and that it was approved by the Civil Aviation Authority
A UN committee has called on countries to adopt comprehensive reparations for people of African descent, arguing that the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade continues to fuel systemic racism and racial inequality. It says governments…
Lionel Messi has retired from international football at 39, ending a remarkable 21-year career with Argentina just weeks after leading the team to the 2026 World Cup final. He leaves as the nation’s record appearance holder and top scorer.
When four members of Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms travelled to London in March 2026 to accept the Chatham House Prize on behalf of the movement, the ceremony was widely celebrated as a moment of recognition for one of the most…
Guinea-Bissau voted Sunday on a proposed new constitution that would significantly strengthen presidential powers and shrink parliament, in a referendum seen as a test of the military government's bid to reshape the political system before…
This essay concludes a three-part series by the author on agriculture in Sudan. Read the previous instalments here and here . A different approach is needed to determine what to invest in, where to invest, who should benefit, how…
The Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has surpassed 6,000 confirmed cases and killed 2,911 people, making it the country’s largest outbreak on record and one of the fastest-growing Ebola epidemics ever recorded. More…
Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church near Haiti’s capital on Sunday to bury victims of a brutal gang attack that killed at least 47 people and left more than 50 others kidnapped. The killings have renewed fears that worsening violence…
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says there is no evidence that Moroccan authorities were involved in the sudden arrival of more than 70,000 migrants in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta last month.
Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has ordered the introduction of the death penalty for deliberately setting forest fires after a recent wave of blazes killed 12 people. The move comes as authorities investigate fires that erupted…
London’s Notting Hill Carnival got underway on Sunday with revellers covered in oil and paint as the annual celebration of Caribbean culture and music returned to the British capital. The three-day event is marking its 60th anniversary and…
'It gives hope for their lives': Africa's first Shaolin temple in Zambia's capital Lusaka trains students in Shaolin Kung Fu.
Latest Iranian state television visuals showed what it said were ballistic missiles being fired by Iran at US bases in Jordan in response to the American strikes.
Passengers at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport faced long delays on Sunday after Kenyan air traffic controllers and airport staff resumed a strike.
Ballot counting begins in military-run Guinea-Bissau after voting ended in a referendum that could expand the president's powers, ahead of a general election later this year aimed at restoring civilian rule.
Life in Niamey returned to normal on Sunday, one day after Niger’s military regime put down a mutiny by soldiers.