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Under heavy sanctions following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia stepped up its courting of African governments with offers of military cooperation, weapons, grain and fertilizers. It’s also ...

President Donald Trump has withdrawn South Africa's invitation to next year's G20 summit in Miami, Fla., escalating a row ...

After a decade building her eponymous brand in New York, designer Tia Adeola is now relocating her entire supply chain to Nigeria. Her Fall/Winter 2025 collection, titled From Lagos with love, will ...

Maritime security firm Vanguard says a Portuguese-flagged gas tanker, the CGAS Saturn, was attacked several miles west of ...

West Africa awoke to fresh tremors on December 7, 2025, when a group of soldiers in Benin Republic briefly seized the ...

Kidnapping, ransom, extortion, violence rip across the Sahel, perpetrated by an Al-Qaeda linked terrorist network. Mali may be just the beginning. Is North Africa next? Opinion.

A red quarter of a circle with the words 'The Quarter Mark' beside it. A year-long series looking back on the most significant moments of the past 25 years, how they changed our world, and how they ...

Nigeria’s credibility in the global technology arena received a major boost as Task Systems Limited, one of the country’s ...

The border has shifted under our feet. A senior immigration officer in Ogun State told me the job had begun to feel like a revolving door. Since intelligence filtered that the South-West Ogun in ...

It seems bizarre to be talking about killing or curbing the growth rate of Africa’s elephants, considering that they were listed as “endangered” barely a decade ago following a dramatic 60% population ...

Guinea-Bissau can only expect messages of condemnation and threats of isolation from ECOWAS, the AU, and the UN. Such ...