Ghana champions Nature-Based Solutions as key to sustainable development at Africa Climate Dialogue 

Albert Oppong-Ansah Accra, Oct. 23, GNA – Ghana has reaffirmed its leadership and commitment to advancing Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) as a central strategy for achieving sustainable national development and climate resilience. “Nature-Based...

Sanwo-Olu urges African leaders to join forces against ritual killings

Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has called for stronger collaboration among African nations to combat human trafficking, ritual abuse and exploitation. Sanwo-Olu made the call at the opening of the First Annual Africa Colloquium Against...

Wike, Ohuabunwa, Onyebuchi Canvass Shift From Transactional to Transformational Leadership in Africa

*Identify poor leadership, power capture as halting continent’s progress Deji Elumoye in Abuja Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, on Thursday flayed what he described as Africa’s entrenched culture of transactional and...

Parliamentary Fragility And Rising Instability: Pakistan’s Decline In Regional Peace

In the post-Cold War era, the disintegration of the Communist Bloc, followed by the resurgence of civil wars, ethnic conflict, and interstate clashes in Asia, Africa, and Eastern and Central Europe, has necessitated a prolonged and continuous...

The Future Awards Africa Reveals 2025 Nominee List Celebrating Young Leaders Across the Continent

The Future Awards Africa (TFAA) has announced the nominees for its 19th edition, celebrating young Africans who are shaping the continent’s future through creativity, innovation, and leadership. This year’s theme, “Threads of Legacy,” highlights...

Cele tells Parliament of Beverly Hills Hotel meeting with ‘Cat’ Matlala, who he 'knew very well'

Organised crime accused Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala apparently told former police minister Bheki Cele that he was asked to depose an affidavit that would lead to the Crime Intelligence boss’ arrest. This is what Cele has testified at Parliament’s ad...

G20 is Africa' s chance to reframe economic priorities globally

Adeoye O. Akinola|Published 24 minutes ago Copy to Clipboard IN THE contemporary dispensation of mounting global economic uncertainty and geopolitical realignment, Africa’s voice in shaping the rules of international finance remains marginal. Its...

Obi decries Nigeria’s exclusion from IMF’s list of fastest-growing economies, advocates quality leadership  

Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has lamented Nigeria’s exclusion from the recent International Monetary Fund Report on fast-expanding economies in Africa, citing bad leadership and corruption in the...

Trump mulls asking Israel to free Palestinian leader Barghouti as U.S. looks to Gaza’s post-Hamas rule

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is suggesting he could call on Israel to release imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader, as the United States aims to fill a leadership vacuum in...

JNIM Imposes Shari’a via Blockade; Burundi Hedges in the Eastern DRC: Africa File, October 23, 2025

To receive the weekly Africa File or triweekly Congo War Security Review via email, please subscribe here. Follow CTP on X, LinkedIn, and BlueSky. Contributors: Femi Omotayo, Anping Zhu, Alexandria Johnson, and Chris Dayton Key Takeaways: Mali. Al...

Top business leaders meet in UK to chart way forward for Africa

Delegates at the ongoing FT Africa Summit/HANDOUT Top policy makers in Africa are meeting in the UK to frame how the continent is discussed in the global economic narrative at the annual Financial Times Africa Summit. This year’s theme, “Africa in...

How Washington is writing a new colonial script for Africa

DAR ES SALAAM: TANZANIA’S inclusion in a U.S. visa bond program and repeated security warnings expose how modern diplomacy can quietly mirror the old colonial order. When the United States announced that Tanzanians would soon have to pay up to...

A Silent Genocide? Church Leaders Welcome U.S. Investigator’s Report Exposing Systematic Erasure of Christianity in Nigeria

(ZENIT News / Rome, 10.23.2025).- For years, Nigeria’s Christian communities have lived under the shadow of relentless violence—villages razed, churches burned, and thousands of faithful slaughtered in attacks that rarely make international...

Africa’s children: 20 years on, what happened to the millennium babies?

Twenty years ago, the Guardian featured 10 newborn babies in countries across Africa, describing their births, their families and the environments they had been born into. We followed these babies at five-year intervals up to 2015 – the date the...

Flow Crowned Best Large Public Relations Consultancy in South Africa

Flow Communications has announced that it has been recognised as the best large public relations consultancy in South Africa. The agency won the Best Large Public Relations Consultancy category at the 2025 PRISM Awards, at a gala event at The...

Africa’s emerging AI landscape: What’s happening and what’s next

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept; it is the engine quietly, and sometimes loudly, reshaping how we live, work, and think. From healthcare and banking to education and manufacturing, AI is redefining possibilities...

WHO awards global research grant to UFS’ African Medicines platform

The African Medicines Innovations and Technology Development Platform (AMITD) at the University of the Free State (UFS), under the leadership of Prof Motlalepula Matsabisa will now lead global research into traditional medicine after being awarded...

Will South Africa finally get off the FATF greylist?

Government and the private sector are waiting with bated breath for the FATF plenary on Friday, where the organisation will decide if South Africa can be removed from the greylist. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) greylisted South Africa in...

Fuel subsidy: States, LGs, FG sharing over N2trn monthly because of Tinubu’s bold leadership – Wike

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday said President Bola Tinubu took a bold decision in removing the fuel subsidy. Wike noted that, despite initial public outcry over the decision, conditions have begun to...

WORLD South Africa and HIV, Church of Norway, Wayne Brady, Manchester Pride

South Africa Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi called lenacapavir—the first twice-yearly HIV prevention shot in the world—a “groundbreaking” tool to fight the disease; however, he warned that the initial donated supply would be limited to nearly...