Europe launches a ‘digital euro for banks’
The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched Pontes, a new infrastructure designed to connect Europe’s traditional financial system with blockchain-based markets, marking a major step in the Eurosystem’s plans for a more digital financial sector. Launched on September 21, 2026, Pontes allows wholesale transactions involving tokenised assets to be settled using central bank money. The... Read More
Trump Heads to U.N. Seeking Diplomatic Wins After Difficult Week
U.S. President Donald Trump is heading to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, where he is expected to use a packed schedule of meetings with world leaders to advance his foreign-policy agenda. Trump’s visit comes as the United Nations gathers against the backdrop of wars and diplomatic tensions involving Iran, Gaza and Ukraine,... Read More
Dangote Signals $10bn Power Investment as Refinery IPO Opens
Aliko Dangote has announced plans to invest more than $10 billion in Africa’s power sector over the next three to four years, as the business group considers redirecting funds from some planned ventures, including its steel project, toward electricity generation. Dangote said the investment is aimed at addressing Africa’s severe electricity shortage and supporting... Read More
Tinubu to Africa: Stop Selling Off Our Minerals, Start Making Things
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu used the sidelines of the 81st United Nations General Assemblyto deliver one of the sharpest interventions of the week from an African leader, calling on thecontinent to stop exporting raw minerals to global industries and to start capturing the value athome.Speaking through Vice-President Kashim Shettima – who is representing him in... Read More
Tinubu Skips UNGA — Sends VP Shettima to New York for Third Year Time
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will not attend the 81st Session of the United Nations GeneralAssembly in New York this week — and has instructed Vice President Kashim Shettima to leadNigeria’s delegation in his place, the Presidency confirmed in a statement issued on Sundaynight and dominating Monday morning’s front pages.The announcement, released by Senior Special Assistant... Read More
Seven Rebel Groups Unite to Topple Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed
Seven of Ethiopia’s most powerful armed factions announced a formal alliance on Sundayaimed at overthrowing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government — a move that could plungeAfrica’s second most populous country back into full-scale war and that has diplomats acrossthe continent scrambling to respond by Monday morning.The coalition, calling itself the Ethiopian Peoples’ Forces Alliance for... Read More
‘Westminster’s Time Is Coming to an End’: The Cardiff Pact That Could Break Britain
For the first time in the history of the United Kingdom, all three of its devolved nations are led by parties that want to leave it. That fact — improbable even six months ago — became the political reality of Britain this weekwhen the first ministers of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland gathered in Cardiff... Read More
Poland Sounds Alarm: Russia Preparing Drone Strikes on NATO Soil
Europe woke up to a sharper warning than any it has heard in months. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk toldparliament that Russia is actively preparing hybrid drone and missile strikes on NATO territory — and intends tolabel each incident an ‘accident’ so the alliance is too paralyzed by ambiguity to invoke Article 5.The Kremlin’s objective,... Read More
37 Miners Dead in NSCDC Cell: FG Suspends Commander as Outcry Explodes
Nigeria is confronting one of the ugliest custody scandals in recent memory. At least 37 people arrested forsuspected illegal mining in Niger State have died in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps(NSCDC) in Minna — and the Federal Government has now suspended the state commandant while an officialinquiry begins.The suspects were... Read More
UN Report: US May Have Committed War Crimes in Iran Strikes
A United Nations-backed fact-finding mission has concluded there are “reasonable grounds” tobelieve the United States committed war crimes during its February airstrikes on Iran, in abombshell report published Thursday in Geneva that reshapes the diplomatic landscape aroundthe still-simmering conflict.The report, released just hours ago by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission onIran, focuses on two strikes... Read More