Benin bets on turning its cotton crop into clothes at home to retain more of its value
Benin is Africa’s top cotton producer, according to data from the US Department of Agriculture. Benin produced 1.15 million bales of cotton between 2025 and 2026, accounting for 0.9 per cent of global production.
African Airlines Association conference in Nairobi wants governments to cut aviation costs
Speaking during a hybrid media roundtable in Nairobi under the theme, Resilient African Aviation: Partnerships, Empowerment, Profitability, Berthé noted that African carriers were expected to record a profit margin of only 0.2 per cent in 2026 despite passenger traffic projected to reach 137.3 million.
Africa did not grow: For centuries, the continent was drawn as a mute blot on world map; UN acknowledges the centuries-old error
Analysts say the resolution’s significance reaches well beyond cartography. The initiative, proposed by Togo and endorsed by the African Union (AU) before winning overwhelming support at the UN, is in their view both a rare display of the continent speaking with one voice and a measure of Africa’s growing ability to place its own concerns on the international agenda.
Nigerian government strike secret ceasefire deal with Boko Haram as country prepares for elections
After 17 years of a war that has indirectly cost close to 350,000 civilian lives, the idea of negotiations with Boko Haram – officially Jama’at Ahl al Sunna li Da’wa wal Jihad (JAS) – and other armed groups sharply divides Nigerians. Those living closest to the conflict tend to be far more supportive of dialogue than the rest of the country.
Africa’s top health agency warns the continent is on verge of Ebola Armageddon as the virus spans out of epicentre
The World Health Organization has said the outbreak remains out of control and is on track to surpass the 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola outbreak – the deadliest on record – which killed more than 11,000 people, primarily in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Sidi Ould Tah’s one year in office: He’s begun to connect AfDB capital mobilisation, risk-sharing, project preparation and internal reform
After a year in office, Sidi Ould Tah has begun to reshape how the African Development Bank (AfDB) raises money and prepares projects. Delivery, however, is the harder test. On May 29, 2025, shortly after his election as the ninth president of the African Development Bank Group, Tah stood before...
Africa told guard critical infrastructure against terrorism for accelerated social and economic growth
Convened by Kenya’s National Counter Terrorism Centre and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism, the two-day forum is being held under the theme “Protecting Critical Infrastructure Systems and Public Spaces from Terrorism.”
With nearly one billion Africans still dependent of wood fuel, carbon credit financing is emerging as continent’s bet for clean energy
Nearly 1 billion Africans still rely on charcoal or firewood for everyday cooking. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that household air pollution from these fuels contributes to about 850,000 deaths annually on the continent.
For more than 50 years, Namibia capital, Windhoek, has been drinking its own sewage’, now America and Canadian cities are following suit
The plant running today is not the 1968 original. The New Goreangab Reclamation Plant was finished in 2002. Veolia puts its daily output at 21,000 cubic metres, and the whole trip from sewer to tap takes about a day, serving a city of around 350,000 people.
Schools in Congo welcome back 31 million students, but parents in Ebola-ravaged east lament the reopening ‘came too soon’
The reopening comes as nearly 31 million pupils are expected to attend school across the country this academic year, according to DRC Minister of State for National Education Raissa Malu, who officially launched the new school year on Tuesday in the capital Kinshasa against a national backdrop marked by both armed insecurity and serious public health risks.
