Monrovia — Niger Strips Exiled Opposition Chief of Nationality Niger’s navy junta has signed a decree provisionally stripping Nigerien nationality from Mariama Djibrine, a distinguished opposition determine residing in exile. The measure is predicated on a 2024 decree that established a nationwide database of people suspected of terrorism. Authorities have accused Djibrine of disseminating “info…
Holocene closed its first enterprise fund, marking the ultimate shut of what it describes as Southern Africa’s first devoted high-growth local weather tech fund. Holocene Ventures Fund I backs early-stage founders constructing climate-focused firms throughout the area. The agency targets startups that want capital and operational help to achieve scale in areas akin to round…
Monnify processed ₦25 trillion, or about $18.3 billion, in transaction quantity in 2025 as Nigerian companies continued to depend on digital fee infrastructure. The fee gateway, which operates inside Moniepoint Inc.’s know-how arm TeamApt, recorded 38% progress in transaction quantity in contrast with 2023. The expansion got here throughout a interval marked by foreign money…
The South African and Malawian governments have intensified efforts to facilitate the repatriation of Malawian nationals, with 980 folks having already left the Lindela Repatriation Centre in Krugersdorp. Extra Malawian nationals had been additionally getting ready to return residence. This because the Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) on Migration briefed the media on Sunday, the place it…
South African athletes triumphed within the Comrades as George Kusche gained the ‘up run’ in file time, whereas Gerda Steyn secured a historic fifth title, breaking her personal file, once more. For the primary time in 18 years, the lads’s Comrades Marathon “up run” file has fallen, and it was South Africa’s very personal George…
The Confédération Africaine de Soccer (“CAF”) not too long ago held a profitable two-day assembly with the Chairpersons and Vice Chairperson of the CAF’s Judicial Tribunals on the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The target of the two-day assembly was to carry collectively the management (Chair and vice chairpersons) of the Disciplinary Board, Attraction Board,…
Morocco as soon as once more demonstrated why they continue to be one in all world soccer’s most revered rising powers after holding five-time champions Brazil to an entertaining 1-1 draw of their opening Group C match of the FIFA World Cup 2026 on Saturday. In a contest that introduced collectively Africa’s most profitable facet…
The returnees had been flown in on a government-arranged evacuation flight operated below the coordination of the Ministry of Overseas Affairs and related businesses. The primary group of Nigerians evacuated from South Africa has arrived in Lagos, following weeks of rising xenophobic assaults that triggered a government-coordinated repatriation train. The returnees, totalling 262, arrived on…
United Nations — From knowledge embassies to AI “factories,” policymakers say management over knowledge will outline the continent’s financial future. African leaders are sharpening their deal with digital sovereignty, warning that the continent’s financial future will rely not simply on connectivity, however on who controls its data–and the place it’s saved. At a high-level roundtable…
Bonn — Africa contributes the least to international greenhouse fuel emissions, but it faces among the world’s most extreme climate-related well being impacts. A number of realities outline the continent’s local weather and well being panorama – elevated infectious illnesses, air air pollution, dying, disruption and stress on well being techniques by heatwaves, floods, droughts…