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Business & Innovation

Business professionals collaborating in Africa with digital technology.

Belmoney And RwandaCash Partner To Unlock Pan-European Remittances To Rwanda

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How Morocco Just Signed Africa’s Boldest Bet on Artificial Intelligence

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Not Asking for Permission: Inside Africa’s $705 Million Startup Surge

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Beyond Borrowing: Financing Africa’s AI Future Through Scalable Capital Structures

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Cameroon Prepares For Pope’s Landmark Visit As Africa Emerges Central To The Church’s Future

Cameroon Prepares for Pope’s Landmark Visit

Africa’s Supply Chains: Finance, Sustainability And The Case For Simplicity

Africa's Supply Chains (1)
Discover how AI is shaping Africa's future and transforming industries across the continent.
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Women CEOs in Africa - Africa.com.
Discover how AI is shaping Africa's future and transforming industries across the continent.
Digital infrastructure map of Africa with icons representing connectivity and technology.
Women CEOs in Africa - Africa.com.
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Features & Opinion

Africa's Supply Chains (1)

Africa’s Supply Chains: Finance, Sustainability And The Case For Simplicity

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From Investment To Impact: Rethinking Infrastructure In Developing Economies And Africa

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Not Asking for Permission: Inside Africa’s $705 Million Startup Surge

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Why Human Rights Matter In The Modern Workplace

Safari

Why 2026 Should Be Your “Year Of The Safari”

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Africa.com’s US Contributing Editor: Liz Grossman Kitoyi to Cover Africa From Washington D.C.

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The Son of Augustine Returns: Pope Leo XIV Steps Into History in Algeria

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South Africa’s Franchise Sector Expands as Support Structures Struggle to Keep Pace

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A Legal Imperative For Strengthening Data Governance And Protecting Personal Information

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A New Alliance for Peace: IEP and Peace First Ethiopia Sign Historic MOU to Advance Positive Peace Across Africa

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Two of a Kind, Twice: Inside Virunga’s Extraordinary Wildlife Comeback

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Gates Foundation Deepens Africa Commitment, Betting on Local Institutions and AI to Drive Health and Economic Outcomes

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Skills Development As A Foundation For Sustainable Renewable Energy Projects

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Why Côte d’Ivoire Could Become Francophone Africa’s Next Investment Gateway

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While the World Debates Digital Assets, Africa Shows How They Work

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Arts, Culture & Society

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Why 2026 Should Be Your “Year Of The Safari”

For travellers from around the world, a Kruger National Park safari stands out as one of the most sought-after adventures on ...

Chimp conflict offers clues to origins of human violence

Chimpanzee civil war

Five iconic African destinations every traveler should visit

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Newly revealed letter debunks myth of King Tut curse

King Tut's curse

Cameroon Prepares For Pope’s Landmark Visit As Africa Emerges Central To The Church’s Future

Cameroon Prepares for Pope’s Landmark Visit

Africa’s Supply Chains: Finance, Sustainability And The Case For Simplicity

Africa's Supply Chains (1)
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Senegal issues first conviction under new LGBTQ+ law

Senegal has issued its first conviction under a controversial new law that dramatically sharpens penalties for LGBTQ+ individuals. A 24-year-old man ...

China secures lithium export quota

Zimbabwe ends lithium export freeze for China’s Yahua

China’s Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group has secured a six-month lithium export quota from Zimbabwe, breaking a two-month freeze that threatened global ...

H.E. Felix Tshisekedi, H.E. John Dramani Mahama, and H.E. Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé.

Africa’s Supply Chains: Finance, Sustainability And The Case For Simplicity

By Natalie van Graan Global trade is fast being reshaped by converging forces: tariff fragmentation, geopolitical realignment, energy volatility and an escalating sustainability agenda.  This continent has 60 per cent of the world’s best solar...

From Investment To Impact: Rethinking Infrastructure In Developing Economies And Africa

New BCG report analyses three decades of infrastructure investment across 92 countries, revealing which types of projects deliver the strongest economic growth impact. Infrastructure underpins economic growth, national security, and social progress. Yet countries are...

Inside the high-stakes race to map Africa’s fungi

Fungi feed nearly all of Earth’s plant life, store a significant portion of global carbon emissions underground, and are essential to healthy ecosystems—yet they remain one of the most overlooked kingdoms of life on the...

South Africa returns remains and sacred carving to Zimbabwe

In a ceremony at a Cape Town museum, South Africa returned eight sets of human remains and a sacred soapstone bird carving to Zimbabwe—long-overdue justice for colonial-era plunder. The remains, exhumed as so-called “scientific specimens”...

Kenya hikes gas prices amid Middle East conflict

Kenya has sharply increased retail fuel prices as global oil costs surge amid ongoing tensions in the Middle East, placing fresh pressure on consumers and businesses. Petrol prices jumped over 16%, while diesel rose even...

France's Emmanuel Macron

France signals openness to slavery reparations talks

Following a meeting between President John Dramani Mahama and France’s Emmanuel Macron in Paris, Ghanaian officials say France has signaled openness ...

Africa's Latest News

Fela Kuti and Sade Adu make Hall of Fame history

Fela and Sade Adu inducted into Rock n Roll Hall of Fame

Morocco and EU join forces to shape global AI

Data center in North Africa

Nigeria becomes net petrol exporter

Oil refinery infrastructure with pipelines and processing units at Dangote Refinery site.

Cameroon separatists halt fighting for papal visit

Pope Leo's Cameroon trip

Fela Kuti and Sade Adu make Hall of Fame history

Fela and Sade Adu inducted into Rock n Roll Hall of Fame

Morocco and EU join forces to shape global AI

Data center in North Africa

Nigeria becomes net petrol exporter

Oil refinery infrastructure with pipelines and processing units at Dangote Refinery site.

Cameroon separatists halt fighting for papal visit

Pope Leo's Cameroon trip

Pretoria appoints apartheid-era negotiator as US ambassador

South Africa's new ambassador to the US

Makemation reimagines AI through an African lens

Nigerian movie about AI

Engage & Learn

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Thinkyoung And Boeing Launch First STEM School In Angola

Gabriel Kwaku Agbeshie offers eye care services to children in Ghana, promoting health and education.

Gabriel Kwaku Agbeshie ALP ’25 Provides Essential Eye Care to Children in Ghana

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Transcorp Power School Pupil Emerges Overall Winner Of Delta State Mathematics Competition

African classroom with engaged students and teacher emphasizing education as a human right.

Education As A Human Right: Moving From Access To Graduation

Thebe Ikalafeng delivering a speech at the SPU inauguration, honoring Solomon Plaatje's legacy durin.

Thebe Ikalafeng Inaugurated New Chancellor Of SPU In Ceremony Anchored In The Legacy Of Solomon Plaatje

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Historic Chancellor Investiture Set To Redefine Academic Ceremony In Africa

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Happening

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Thinkyoung And Boeing Launch First STEM School In Angola

ThinkYoung, in partnership with Boeing [NYSE: BA], concluded the first edition of the ThinkYoung STEM School in Luanda, a free educational ...

Africa Energy Indaba Unveils 2027 Theme: African Energy – Pathways To Prosperity

South African Minister of Electricity and Energy, Dr. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa giving a key note at the Africa Energy Indaba 2026 (1)

Africa Travel Week Announces 2026 Media Awards Winners

Africa Travel Week

GLF Africa 2026: Stewarding Our Rangelands

GLF Africa 2026

Cameroon Prepares For Pope’s Landmark Visit As Africa Emerges Central To The Church’s Future

Cameroon Prepares for Pope’s Landmark Visit

Africa’s Supply Chains: Finance, Sustainability And The Case For Simplicity

Africa's Supply Chains (1)
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Headlines

Three years of war: Sudan’s people abandoned and hungry

Three years of war: Sudan’s people abandoned and hungry

Burundi investigates illness that has caused five deaths

BLUEMIND FOUNDATION JOINS THE 2026 MULAGO RAINER FELLOWS PROGRAM, A GLOBAL BENCHMARK FOR LARGE-SCALE IMPACT

BLUEMIND FOUNDATION JOINS THE 2026 MULAGO RAINER FELLOWS PROGRAM, A GLOBAL BENCHMARK FOR LARGE-SCALE IMPACT

Delta Hotels by Marriott® Brings Its Seamless Travel Experience to Antananarivo

Delta Hotels by Marriott® Brings Its Seamless Travel Experience to Antananarivo

Putting science at the service of fairer and more effective care: An interview with Dr Kadiatou Diallo (Guinea)

Putting science at the service of fairer and more effective care: An interview with Dr Kadiatou Diallo (Guinea)

When Science Protects the Most Vulnerable: An Interview with Professor Anne Esther Njom Nlend (Cameroon)

When Science Protects the Most Vulnerable: An Interview with Professor Anne Esther Njom Nlend (Cameroon)

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Cameroon Prepares for Pope’s Landmark Visit

Cameroon Prepares For Pope’s Landmark Visit As Africa Emerges Central To The Church’s Future

Africa's Supply Chains (1)

Africa’s Supply Chains: Finance, Sustainability And The Case For Simplicity

ThinkYoungSTEMSchool Angola 2

Thinkyoung And Boeing Launch First STEM School In Angola

South African Minister of Electricity and Energy, Dr. Kgosientsho Ramokgopa giving a key note at the Africa Energy Indaba 2026 (1)

Africa Energy Indaba Unveils 2027 Theme: African Energy – Pathways To Prosperity

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The Silent Cost Of Avoidance

Bridge construction with heavy machinery and workers in progress.

From Investment To Impact: Rethinking Infrastructure In Developing Economies And Africa

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