Today in Africa — September 29, 2025: Youth-Led Protests Shake Morocco and Madagascar, NoViolet Bulawayo Wins ‘Best of Caine’ Award

Every day, OkayAfrica shares a roundup of news we’re following but haven’t published as full articles. These short updates cover what’s happening on the continent — in culture, politics, and beyond. For more on stories like these, be sure to check...

How Africa Can Get Rich

Africa too can get rich, as once-poor Asian countries have, but not if governments keep doing what they’ve been doing. Basically, they will have to throw off the stifling tax systems inherited from their prior colonial governments. Certainly,...

New Hungarian diplomatic representation opened in Africa

Hungary is opening a diplomatic representation in Dar es Salaam “with regard to opportunities in bilateral cooperation”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Tanzania’s largest city on Monday. The foreign ministry quoted Szijjártó as saying at...

Community Events Calendar: Oct. 24 through Nov.1

Time, date, location subject to change. Check veronapress.com for updates. Drug Take Back 8-10 a.m., Verona Senior Center, 108 Paoli St. Help create a safer community by bringing your unused or expired medications to the Drug Take Back event....

Lawyer: $309 billion lawsuit by Malawi against Vancouver-based gem wholesaler essentially dismissed

The African nation of Malawi’s bid to seek $309 billion from a Vancouver gem wholesaler appears to be at its end. U.S. District Court Judge David Estudillo issued a new decision in the case Monday, overriding a previous decision allowing the...

Nigeria extends visa-free entry beyond Africa in landmark Caribbean deal

The recent visa-free travel agreement between Nigeria and St. Kitts & Nevis stemmed from high-level talks between Prime Minister Dr. Terrance M. Drew and Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in Abuja earlier this year, alongside wider...

Electricity is bedrock of jobs, manufacturing and economic growth in power-deficit Africa

Around 600mn people in Africa—roughly 43% of the continent’s population — still lack access to electricity. While electrification rates have improved over the past decade (from about 40% in 2010 to around 57% in 2024), sub-Saharan Africa remains...

BII Invests $20 million in Acumen’s H2R Initiative to Expand Energy Access in Africa

Quick Read: The initiative will deploy innovative financing to off-grid solar companies serving households and businesses across 17 frontier economies in Africa. BII’s investment in the initiative’s debt-focussed vehicle, H2R Amplify, will improve...

Douala Port’s 150th Anniversary: A $2B Trade Surge Target for CEMAC by 2030?

(Business in Cameroon) - Cameroon’s government expects its main port activities to generate $2 billion in additional annual trade for the CEMAC region by 2030, according to figures shared during the inauguration of new infrastructure at the Port...

Haj Toufic: We have entered a new phase in relations with African chambers

Senator Khalil Al-Haj Toufic, President of the Jordan Chamber of Commerce, along with members of the Chamber’s Board of Directors, held a series of bilateral meetings with heads and representatives of chambers of commerce and industry from several...

Discover how 'Raising Champions' inspires South Africans through the stories of sports legends

Myan Subrayan's new book, Raising Champions, features the inspiring stories of Olympic gold medallist Chad le Clos, Bafana Bafana legend Shaun Bartlett, and Rugby World Cup winner CJ van der Linde, offering a “blueprint” for South Africans to...

A tale of two Africas

The west and east African countries of the Ivory Coast and Eritrea sit about five and a half thousand kilometres apart from one another, at opposite ends of that great continent. That’s about as far from London as Boston, Massachusetts in one...

Black Paper: A symbolic title or Africa's answer to colonial debt narratives?

GhanaWeb Feature by Ernestina Serwaa Asante Following the launch of the Pan-African "Black Paper" on debt earlier in 2025, many have been left wondering why it was named the Black Paper. Is the paper itself black, or is it simply a symbolic title?...

Nigerian Soldiers Fighting Boko Haram Paid Only N20,000 Out of N100,000 Approved Allowance, Face Severe Financial Hardship

In a shocking revelation, Nigerian soldiers deployed to combat the deadly Boko Haram insurgency in the Northeast are reportedly receiving only a fraction of their approved operational allowances. According to credible sources within the military,...

ECOWAS: A Pact for a Democratic Future for West Africa, By Jibrin Ibrahim

This week, I am in Accra attending an ECOWAS consultative meeting in line with the organisation’s concern that it is facing an existential crisis and that a year-long grassroots consultation process be organised to prepare a pact for the future of...

Tradex to enter Congo’s fuel market in 2026

Cameroonian company targets $1 billion market as part of regional expansion.Cameroon-based petroleum company Tradex is preparing to launch its first service stations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2026, marking a significant step in...

Today in Africa — September 26, 2025: Protests and Curfew Shake Madagascar, Interpol Arrests 260 in Africa-wide Romance Scams, UNGA Presses for Sudan Ceasefire

News Madagascar security forces fire tear gas as protesters demonstrate against repeated water and electricity outages in Antananarivo on September 25, 2025. by Rijasolo/AFP via Getty Images Every day, OkayAfrica shares a roundup of news we’re...

Seventeen further governments in Africa commit to scale up electricity access

Seventeen African governments have committed to reforms and actionable plans to expand electricity access as part of Mission 300, which is a partnership between development finance institutions (DFIs) the World Bank Group and the African...

Osinbajo arrives Côte d’Ivoire to lead ECOWAS election observers

The Head of the Economic Community of West African States Election Observation Mission for Côte d’Ivoire’s upcoming presidential election, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, arrived in Abidjan on Monday afternoon to lead the regional bloc’s efforts in...

Trump's tariffs: What's in effect and what could be in store?

US President Donald Trump | Photo Credit: EVELYN HOCKSTEIN US President Donald Trump has launched a global trade war with an array of tariffs that target individual products and countries. Trump has set a baseline tariff of 10 per cent on all...