The Nobel laureate turned wartime leader Abiy Ahmed leads Ethiopia for Second Term
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was sworn in for a second five-year term onTuesday, pledging renewal and reform in a ceremony that opened the Ethiopian parliament’s newsession — even as fresh clashes in the north and a deepening standoff with Eritrea cast a longshadow over the capital.The 50-year-old leader, whose Prosperity Party swept the June elections... Read More
Belgian-American Physicist Francis Halzen Wins 2026 Nobel in Physics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday morning awarded the 2026Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis Halzen, the Belgian-American particle physicist whosedecades-long bet on glacial ice at the South Pole changed how humanity sees the universe.The announcement, made just after 11:45 Central European Time, cited Halzen’s “decisivecontributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the... Read More
Nigeria in Mourning: Chief of Air Staff Among 32 Dead in NAF Crash
ABUJA — Nigeria woke on Tuesday to the heaviest blow its military has absorbed in years.President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has declared three days of national mourning after a Nigerian AirForce ATR-42 aircraft crashed near a naval base in Igbokoda, Ondo State, killing all 32 people onboard — including Air Chief Marshal Sunday Kelvin Aneke, the... Read More
Kenya Confirms First-Ever Ebola Death as 28 ContactsAre Traced
NAIROBI — Kenya recorded its first-ever Ebola death on Tuesday, Health Minister Aden Dualeconfirmed in an early-morning briefing, opening a tense new chapter in East Africa’s responseto an outbreak that has already killed thousands across the Democratic Republic of Congo.The patient, a Kenyan citizen who had been living in Congo, fell ill about a month... Read More
Dangote and Ruto launch $16bn Kenya refinery despite Lamu land protests
Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote and Kenyan President William Ruto have formally launched construction of a $16 billion oil refinery in the coastal county of Lamu, setting in motion one of East Africa’s biggest industrial projects despite protests and a court dispute over land. The Dangote East Africa Petroleum Refinery is designed to process up to... Read More
Tinubu says Nigeria’s economic course is corrected, declares ‘age of prosperity’
President Bola Tinubu has declared that Nigeria has moved beyond the most difficult phase of his administration’s economic reforms, saying the country’s economic course has been corrected and a new era focused on shared prosperity should now begin. In his 66th Independence Day address on Thursday, Tinubu said the government’s main objective over the past... Read More
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