Suez Canal Authority issues navigational maps for planned extension
The Suez Canal Authority's chairman, Osama Rabie, said on Monday that navigational maps for the planned 10km (6.2 mile) canal ...
Rwandan-backed M23 advance into DR Congo threatens regional war
M23 now controls nearly all of North Kivu and the province’s vast mineral wealth—including tin (cassiterite), tantalum ...
Congo's displaced fear violence, rape if they return home
Widow Francine Nsengiyumva and her three children have little to eat and sleep on the hard ground, but like many others at a ...
The Economist1d
France’s bitter retreat from west Africa
Following the ignominious end in 2022 of Barkhane, the multi-country anti-terrorism operation it launched at Mali’s request ...
Nigerian Tribune on MSN2d
Terrorists are focused on S/West because of gold, other solid minerals —Aare Gani Adams
The Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Chief Gani Adams, speaks with BOLA BADMUS on the recent arrest of Boko Haram elements in Ilesa, Osun State, and the need for governors of South West states to ...
Congo losses expose limit of South Africa's diplomatic ambitions
South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the "global south" on the world stage, but the ...
Mapping HIV-linked infections unearths diagnosis 'blank spots' in Africa
A map of deadly infectious diseases known to attack the central nervous system (CNS) of people who are already suffering with ...
Wetlands in South Africa’s Addo elephant park are in danger: what’s being done to protect them
Environmental scientists have compiled the first list of wetlands in the park. This will be useful to measure the effects of ...
The Africa Report4d
Which African countries are the mining leaders of tomorrow?
As the race for the minerals powering the energy transition intensifies and the price of gold rises, our unique ranking ...
Daily Nation on MSN4d
Before Google maps, there was Gladys West, the woman who shaped modern GPS technology
In the 1930s, in segregated Sutherland town south of Richmond, Virginia, USA, there were two occupational options for black women. They could either work for penurious pay on local sharecropping ...
Mobile home fire on Santa Fe's south side leaves two boys with injuries
Two boys were hospitalized early Monday morning for treatment of injuries sustained in a mobile home fire on Santa Fe’s south side. A 16-year-old boy was taken to an area hospital and a 12-year-old ...