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Project PHAREZ Announces Public Donation Campaign to Revolutionize Africa’s Energy Future
Project PHAREZ, Nigeria’s first indigenous nuclear fusion research initiative, launches a public donation campaign, inviting contributions to co-own transformative clean energy technology. Nigeria, July 17, 2025 — Pioneering the Future of African...

Music: A major part of African culture
Music has been a potentially influential tool for unification in Africa, hence it has not been the re-assembling point to disseminate the ideals of pan-Africanism in the region, but instead, it has lent itself to the minor politics of nationalism...

TOP AFRICA NEWS Named Best Environment & Natural Resources News Platform 2025 By MEA Markets
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) KIGALI, Rwanda, July 16, 2025/APO Group/ -- TOP AFRICA NEWS ( ) has been recognized as the Best Environment & Natural Resources News Platform 2025 by MEA Markets, highlighting its significant contribution to...

Nigerian Church leaders decry ‘silent genocide’ amid relentless massacres, clergy abductions
Violence against Christians in Nigeria is escalating at an alarming rate, and Catholic leaders warn that a coordinated campaign of persecution — marked by massacres and the routine abduction of clergy — has become a near-daily reality. In one of...
Women leaders urged to influence policy
Allexer Namundjembo Women in politics were urged to move beyond representation and focus on creating meaningful impact. This call was made during a national roundtable on women in politics and decision-making held on Wednesday at Seaside Hotel in...

Op-ed: UN Women at 15: A Partner in Liberia’s Journey and a Pillar for Global Gender Equality
By H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President of the Republic of Liberia. On 2nd July 2010, the global community birthed a new UN agency, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), whose establishment...

UN Women at 15 : A Partner in Liberia’s Journey and a Pillar for Global Gender Equality
On 2nd July 2010, the global community birthed a new UN agency,the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), whose establishment was made possible by the coming together of member states and the powerful...

Novartis Appoints Jonas as Head of People Services & Soln.
- Advertisement - Novartis has named Jonas Prasanna as the new Head of People Services & Solutions (PS&S) for India. Based in Hyderabad, Jonas will oversee HR operations and service delivery across the country, with a focus on enhancing employee...

An open letter to Chimhama: are you in South Africa?
Dear Madam Chimhama, I hope I find you well, daughter of the African soil! I am writing this letter because I am deeply concerned about your utterances of violence in your video you made and was played in Point 5 Creatives studies platform: DJ...

Egypt launches first Health Diplomacy for Medical Students in Africa
By Opesika Tetteh Puplampu Tema, July 16, GNA – Egypt has launched the first edition of the “Health Diplomacy for Medical Students” programme, the first of its kind in Egypt and on the African continent. The initiative was organised under the...

What does Mnangagwa call a 'brutal colonial regime' when the ZANU-PF government is even more brutal?
It's often easy for the pot to accuse the kettle of being black. I am always left bewildered whenever I hear President Emmerson Mnangagwa express outrage at what he calls ‘the brutal colonial regime,' as if brutality is something he truly finds...

Buhari’s demise a great loss to Nigeria, Africa – Gov Radda
The Governor of Katsina State, Malam Dikko Umar Radda, has said the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari is a “great loss to the people of Katsina, the nation, and Africa in general.” Radda stated this on Wednesday after a brief prayer for...
Brazil offers COP30 cruise ship rooms and cost caps but negotiators...
The Brazilian government says it has offered accommodation for COP30 costing no more than US$220 a night to representatives of some of the world’s poorest countries after African and Pacific delegations aired big concerns over the lack of...

UBA’s LEO Becomes Africa’s First Chatbot to Power Cross-Border Payments
Advertisements In a landmark development for digital banking in Africa, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has announced that its AI-powered chatbot, LEO, is now equipped to perform cross-border payment transactions, making it the first chatbot on...

Locals Installed in Worldwide HOD Leadership Roles
David Joss of Atlanta’s Lodge Carmel was installed as Grand President of the Hebrew Order of David International at their recent international biennial in Atlanta, during which the Jewish fraternal organization presented a $400,000 check to the...

Osun 2026: Confusion in PDP, unease in APC as Adeleke mulls defections
A political storm is brewing in Osun State as speculation intensifies over Governor Ademola Adeleke’s alleged plan to defect from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The unfolding drama has not only sent...

US deports migrants from Jamaica, Cuba, and other countries to Africa's Eswatini
The United States sent five migrants it describes as "barbaric" criminals to the African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration's largely secretive third-country deportation program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security...

Meet Bogolo Joy Kenewendo: Botswana’s Trailblazing Minister Shaping Trade, Energy & Africa’s Future
Bogolo Joy Kenewendo’s career has been marked by history-making milestones. In 2016, she entered Botswana’s political scene as a presidential nominee to parliament, and by 2018, at just 30, she became the country’s youngest cabinet minister when...

Shettima: Buhari’s Death A Major Loss To Nigeria, African Continent
* Says Tinubu is personally pained by former leader’s demise * Gov Radda, ministers, ex-govs, opposition leaders join VP for prayers in Daura Deji Elumoye in Abuja Vice-President Kashim Shettima has described the passing of former President...
South Africa’s Growing Discontent as they Reject the Lungu Family: A Controversy Over Wealth and Influence
Larry mweetwa writes: South Africa’s Growing Discontent as they Reject the Lungu Family: A Controversy Over Wealth and Influence. Recent public discourse in South Africa has turned sharply against Esther and Tasila Lungu, daughters of former...