Category: World news
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Fighting has returned across Tigray, Amhara and Afar, shattering the 2022 Pretoria Agreement. From the Djibouti supply corridor to a coalition of old enemies, here is why it matters far beyond Ethiopia.
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UAE-Africa trade hit USD 158 billion in 2025, up 41.6 percent, with a USD 168 billion project pipeline behind it. The opportunity is real. The leverage is the unresolved part.
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Africa took its pitch for a bigger share of the global economy to the UN General Assembly. The ambition is real. Whether the math moves fast enough is another question.
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The trade deal that gives 33 African countries duty-free access to the US market expires in 97 days. Washington is still debating whether to renew it. The rest of the world is not waiting.
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IGAD’s new regional report says food insecurity has become a structural crisis, not a seasonal emergency. It wants governments to invest in resilience instead of relief.
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At the UN Security Council, the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic said the technology they are racing to build needs global oversight. The two governments best placed to slow it down are not interested.
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The government has announced the death of Princess Lindiwe Dlamini, the King’s sister and Minister of Home Affairs since 2018. Her state funeral is set for Saturday. This is our note on what her passing means for a small kingdom’s public service.
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For most of the last three years, the AI story was acceleration. In September 2026, a second story surfaced alongside it: some of the people closest to the technology started talking about slowing down. On 14 September, several tech stocks fell after leading AI CEOs publicly called for a slower pace in developing the most…
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Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta and DeepSeek all moved inside ten days, with a price war and a cyber-capability warning running underneath the launch noise.
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The US energy outlook sees crude falling toward $78 a barrel by the fourth quarter as supply routes normalise, while OPEC has trimmed its demand view.