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The Grand Egyptian Museum opened beside the Giza Plateau on 1 November 2025, displaying King Tutankhamun's complete collection together for the first time. A year on, the museum is a global draw — though Egypt's own official counts of its visitors disagree with each other by millions, and ticket prices rise on 1 November 2026.
Zanzibar received 917,167 international visitors in 2025, up 24.5% on 2024 and the highest total in its history, on official statistics. December alone brought more than 100,000 arrivals. Now operators and officials are debating whether the island should chase a million visitors — or chase higher spending per visitor instead.
The Victoria Falls area received a record combined 565,083 visitors in 2024, passing the pre-pandemic 2019 total, and its airport broke the half-million passenger mark the same year. Growth continued into 2025. Conservation specialists are asking what the ceiling should be for one of the world's great waterfalls.
More than 11 million people visited Notre-Dame Cathedral in the year after it reopened on 7 December 2024 — a record, roughly 30% above its pre-fire levels, and more than the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower draw. The towers reopened in September 2025, entry remains free, and the argument over whether it should stay that way continues.
When INEC published the final governorship lists for 2027, some of Nigeria's best-known candidates were not on them — including the PDP's Isa Pantami in Gombe and Ladi Adebutu in Ogun. INEC says it was applying a Supreme Court judgment on party membership registers. The affected parties say their candidates were properly registered. We checked both versions.
Japan welcomed a record 42.68 million international visitors in 2025, passing 40 million for the first time, and they spent ¥9.5 trillion. In 2026 the curve has bent: arrivals dipped in the first half after Beijing advised its citizens against travelling to Japan, even as other markets kept growing.
A Research 8020 survey published by The Standard puts President William Ruto on 26 percent and Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna on 25 — a one-point race. An earlier October survey by Politrack Africa put Ruto on 45.1 percent. Both cannot describe the same country the same way; we set out what each poll actually says.
Nigeria's voter register now stands at 103 million after 10.77 million new registrations, INEC says, and collection of new Permanent Voter Cards began on 9 October. With presidential elections fixed for 16 January 2027, the Commission says nine of the fourteen milestones in its revised timetable are done.
Ghana's Gold Board says it will supply $1.5 billion of foreign exchange in October 2026 — $1 billion to commercial banks and $500 million to the Bank of Ghana — after a $130 million spot sale at GH¢11.60 to the dollar. The Board says the cedi has appreciated for three straight weeks on the interbank market.
A monumental gilt-bronze Anyanwu by Ben Enwonwu — conceived in 1954-55 as a symbol of a rising Nigeria — sold for £602,100 at Bonhams in London on 21 October 2026, the top lot in a £3.35 million Modern and Contemporary African Art sale. It was the work's first appearance at public auction.
The African-led Great Green Wall aims to restore 100 million hectares, create 10 million jobs and capture 250 million tonnes of carbon by 2030, across an 8,000 km belt from Senegal to Djibouti. UNCCD materials put completion near 18 percent, while counts limited to the original tree-planting zone come out near 4 percent, and that gap is the story.
Ayra Starr has announced a 20-city world tour for her third album, Starrgirl — opening in Cologne on 20 January 2027, reaching London on 2 February and crossing North America from Houston to San Francisco in the spring. The announcement landed a day after she headlined the halftime show at the NFL's London game.
In March 2025 Cassava Technologies said it would build Africa's first AI factory with NVIDIA, starting in South Africa and then expanding to Egypt, Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria. Deployment in South Africa has since begun, but the other countries remain a plan, not a finished build.
In Ekiti local government area of Kwara State, former senator Simeon Ajibola, a former APC chairman and a crowd organisers put at about 6,000 have crossed from the ruling APC to the PDP. It is the latest move in a two-way traffic of defections — lawmakers have also been leaving the PDP — as Nigeria's parties re-form for 2027.
President William Ruto used Mashujaa Day in Eldoret to warn that the 'political transition' of 2022 'must not be reversed', and days earlier challenged rivals to match his record. The opposition's answer is a rolling series of rallies — and an unresolved argument about who should lead it into August 2027.
The World Bank's Africa Pulse assessment ranked the cedi Africa's worst-performing currency of the second quarter of 2026, down more than 15 percent. The government tells a different story — inflation near 5 percent, public debt down to about 45 percent of GDP, FDI up fourfold. Both cite real numbers; they are measuring different things.
South Africa's MeerKAT telescope detected a millisecond flash that travelled for more than 10 billion years, and NASA's Webb telescope found its small home galaxy. The work also shows what the bigger SKA-Mid array, now being built around MeerKAT, is being made to do.
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will jointly host AFCON 2027 from 19 June to 17 July 2027, the first time three countries have staged the tournament. CAF has confirmed the hosts, the dates and the qualifying route, but stadium readiness and the final venue are still being worked through.
Speaker Alban Bagbin told a summit in Koforidua that his 2021 election as Speaker was carried by opposition NPP votes — 'Many more NPP members voted for me… I have the details.' The ballot was secret, the result was 138 to 136, and the claim cannot be checked against any record. Here is what is actually known.
Olamide has announced his next album, Time and Space, for 16 November 2026 — and, a day earlier, the biggest concert booking of his career: a headline show at London's O2 Arena on 25 March 2027, following last year's sold-out night at the smaller OVO Arena Wembley.
Cameroon's October 2025 election produced an official winner, a rival winner, two incompatible tallies and a protest crackdown whose death toll still has no agreed number. A year on, Vozia's labels have not moved — because the evidence needed to move them has never been published.
Hannah O'Leary, who co-founded Bonhams' African art auctions in 2006 and built Sotheby's African art department from 2016, has launched her own firm, HOLFA, for private sales and advice — debuting at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London with works by seven modernists from across the continent.
Ghana beat their visitors 2–0 in Accra in a result confirmed by the match officials' report and both federations. The goals are not in dispute; the attendance figure and what it means for the group still are.
Reports are coming in of an incident involving a passenger ferry. Early posts disagree on where it happened, how many people were on board, and whether there are casualties. This page will grow claim by claim as things are confirmed — and only as they are confirmed.
The first face-to-face ministerial talks between ECOWAS and the breakaway Sahel bloc ended with working groups and a framework to negotiate. Read the communiqué language carefully: it promises cooperation. It does not promise a return.
Google's Equiano cable to South Africa has been launched and is carrying the promise of more capacity on the west coast. Meta's 2Africa core system was reported complete in November 2025, while Google's Umoja link to Australia still had no confirmed completion date when it was announced.
After the latest round of talks, each side published its own account of what was agreed. Read side by side, the two statements agree on a pause in fighting and disagree on almost everything that would make it last. We publish both, and mark what independent observers have actually confirmed.
A year ago the world's two largest economies called a truce in Busan: rare-earth controls delayed, a tariff cut, port fees paused. Both sides signed the same facts — and then described them with different words. This page keeps both descriptions visible.
World cocoa prices have hit record levels, and Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire — who grow most of the world's cocoa — are arguing over how much of that money reaches the farm gate. Regulators say the share is protected; farmers' groups say it is not arriving.
Egypt and Ethiopia became full BRICS members on 1 January 2024, joining South Africa, while Nigeria holds the lesser partner-country status. Access to the bloc's New Development Bank is not automatic: Egypt is a bank member, Ethiopia is only a prospective member, and BRICS still has no common currency and no permanent secretariat.
The Basketball Africa League, run by the NBA and FIBA, finished its fifth season in 2025 with Al Ahli Tripoli of Libya beating Petro de Luanda 88-67 in Pretoria. FIBA reported a record 141,564 fans attended across the season.
Nigeria's coastal highway is being built — that much is not in dispute. What is in dispute is the maths. The Works Minister's figures work out near ₦7.5 billion per kilometre; his critics say the same contract works out near ₦22.5 billion. We lined up every claim, checked what could be checked, and labelled the rest honestly.
A year on from the FATF's October 2025 plenary, the delisting of Africa's two largest economies still shapes how banks treat their money. The removal itself is documented; the size of the economic prize is the argument.
Ethiopia earned $2.65 billion from coffee exports in the 2024/25 fiscal year, from 468,967 tonnes, according to the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority. That is well above both the year's target and the $1.4 billion earned the year before.
NASA satellites measured dust leaving the Sahara, crossing the Atlantic and falling on the Amazon. The phosphorus in that dust, about 22,000 tons a year, is roughly what the rainforest loses to rain and flooding.
Mobile and broadband services stuttered across several West African countries after damage to undersea cables off the coast. Operators agree on the disruption. Nobody with evidence has yet confirmed what cut the cables.
M-Pesa has grown from a money-transfer service into Safaricom's biggest business. Now Safaricom wants it to hold Kenyans' savings and investments too — a move that puts it directly against the banks.
Nigeria's cinemas took a record N11.58 billion in 2024, up from N7.3 billion in 2023, according to FilmOne's box office report using Comscore data for CEAN. The year also produced the first Nollywood film to cross N1 billion within a calendar year.
Nigerian data say paddy production rose from about four million tonnes in 2015 to seven million in 2022. But the US Department of Agriculture expects rice production to fall and imports to rise to 2.8 million tonnes in 2025/26, which sits awkwardly beside claims of self-sufficiency.
Lake Chad really did collapse in the droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. But a multi-satellite study found its extent has been stable for two decades and that it is not shrinking now - which is why the simple 'shrinking lake' story needs care.
Ghana created a state board to buy all small-scale gold, and official exports nearly doubled in a year. The government calls it a triumph of formalisation; its own chief executive calls it a claw-back of smuggled gold. Both descriptions matter.
More countries are adding malaria vaccines to routine childhood immunisation. The rollout itself is documented. Claims about how much it has already cut deaths run ahead of the published data, and we have labelled them that way.
Kenya's avocado exports earned $159 million in 2024, up 11 percent, even though production fell because of poor rainfall. Behind the growth sit two hard gates: China's market, opened to fresh Kenyan avocados in 2022, and strict maturity rules meant to stop unripe Hass fruit reaching buyers.
Since 2005 the Ezulwini Consensus has asked for no fewer than two permanent African seats, with the veto while the veto exists, plus five non-permanent seats. The clearest recent offer, from the United States in September 2024, backs two permanent African seats but no new vetoes, and any change needs a UN Charter amendment every permanent member must ratify.
Two emergency declarations, two different end dates, one shared warning. The mpox story shows why 'the emergency is over' and 'the disease is over' are different sentences — and why Vozia labels them differently.
An H3Africa study sequenced 426 people from 50 ethnolinguistic groups and uncovered more than 3 million previously undescribed genetic variants. It is a plain measure of how much of Africa's diversity global databases had missed.
A twice-yearly injection that prevented every infection in its main trial is the biggest HIV-prevention development in years. What the WHO has actually said is verified; whether the promised $40 price reaches African clinics is the part still to prove.
In September 2023, Rema and Selena Gomez's Calm Down became the first track led by an African artist to reach one billion streams on Spotify. Spotify Africa announced the milestone, and the song had already peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The African Union became a permanent G20 member on 9 September 2023, giving Africa a standing voice in the world's main economic forum. But the G20 has no treaty, no permanent secretariat and no power to force debt relief or finance, and the AU cannot bind its own member states to one position.
Nigeria's biggest refinery runs at full capacity and has cut its gantry prices repeatedly. What it has not settled is the argument at the pump: whether domestic supply can replace imports, and whether cheaper gantry prices mean cheaper petrol for motorists.
On 10 September 2024 a breach of the Alau Dam flooded about 40 percent of Maiduguri. OCHA figures cited by UNICEF put deaths at 37, with close to 400,000 displaced people registered in camps within a week, while investigators dispute how a dam that received repair money ended up in that state.
In 2021 the IUCN assessed Africa's two elephant species separately for the first time. Forest elephants, down more than 86% in 31 years, were listed as Critically Endangered, and savanna elephants, down at least 60% in 50 years, as Endangered.
The WAFCON 2025 final looked finished at 2–0 to the hosts in 24 minutes. Nigeria scored three second-half goals and took a record tenth title — the kind of match the tournament's history will be measured against.
Ethiopia inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on 9 September 2025, calling it a shared opportunity for the region. Egypt, which relies on the Nile for almost all its water, calls the dam an existential threat, and both Egypt and Sudan want a legally binding agreement on how it is filled and run.
South African singer Tyla won the first-ever Grammy for Best African Music Performance in February 2024 with Water, an amapiano-infused pop song. The track peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, making her the highest-charting African female solo musician in Billboard history, according to the Recording Academy.
The Congo Basin is the largest remaining net carbon sink in the tropics, yet published figures for how much carbon it takes up differ widely because they measure different things. At the same time, about 780,000 hectares of its primary forest were lost in 2024, and peer-reviewed work shows the wider tropical sink has been weakening since the 1990s.
BioNTech inaugurated its Kigali site in December 2023, built around container-like BioNTainer units, with about USD 150 million committed and room for up to 50 million doses a year of a COVID-like product. Its own plan put test production for validation in 2025 - commercial supply is a later step, and we found no confirmation it has begun.
The summer's biggest transfer story ended in Istanbul. Galatasaray's stock-exchange filing puts the numbers on the record: a €75 million fee, a sell-on clause for Napoli, and a package worth €21 million a season to Nigeria's biggest football star.
Nigeria's biggest fintech by merchant footprint closed one of Africa's largest funding rounds. The cash is verified; whether a private valuation makes a 'unicorn' worth a billion dollars is the argument the sector is still having.
South Africa's neighbours connect through Starlink; South Africa argues about it. The blocker is an ownership law written to correct apartheid-era exclusion, and the fight is now between the minister who wants an exception and the regulator who says only Parliament can make one.
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Nigeria's coastal highway is being built — that much is not in dispute. What is in dispute is the maths. The Works Minister's figures work out near ₦7.5 billion per kilometre; his critics say the same contract works out near ₦22.5 billion. We lined up every claim, checked what could be checked, and labelled the rest honestly.
The Grand Egyptian Museum officially opened on 1 November 2025, near the Giza Pyramids, after roughly two decades of construction.
From: A year of the Grand Egyptian MuseumThe complete Tutankhamun collection — more than 5,000 objects — is displayed together for the first time, within a museum of more than 100,000 artefacts covering about 5,000 years; it is described as the largest archaeological museum dedicated to a single civilisation.
From: A year of the Grand Egyptian MuseumThe museum has received about 7 million visitors since opening and is the world's third most visited museum.
From: A year of the Grand Egyptian MuseumMuseum CEO Ahmed Ghoneim said in July 2026 that foreign visitors made up about 60% of attendance and Egyptians about 40%.
From: A year of the Grand Egyptian MuseumFrom 1 November 2026 a foreign adult ticket costs EGP 1,830 (up from EGP 1,570, +16.6%) and an Egyptian adult ticket EGP 220 (up from EGP 200, +10%), with every category rising between 10% and 16.6%.
From: A year of the Grand Egyptian MuseumZanzibar received 917,167 international visitors in 2025, an increase of 24.5% on the 736,755 recorded in 2024, and the highest annual total in its history.
From: Zanzibar's record yearDecember 2025 brought 100,729 visitors, with bed occupancy close to 89% and more than 815,000 bed nights sold in the month.
From: Zanzibar's record yearThe climb has been steep and sustained: from 260,644 arrivals in 2020 through 638,498 in 2023 and 736,755 in 2024 to the 2025 record, with August 2025 the busiest month ever at 105,506 arrivals.
From: Zanzibar's record yearZanzibar has stopped issuing new land leases on Pemba while it completes its planning frameworks.
From: Zanzibar's record yearChasing ever-higher arrival numbers is the right strategy for Zanzibar.
From: Zanzibar's record yearThe Falls area received a record combined total of 565,083 visitors in 2024, surpassing the previous record of 537,980 set in 2019.
From: Victoria Falls' record 565,083 visitors — and the question of how many the Falls can takeThe south-bank rainforest park in Zimbabwe received 394,681 visitors in 2024, including 295,084 international visitors — just short of its 2019 record of 397,436.
From: Victoria Falls' record 565,083 visitors — and the question of how many the Falls can takeThe Grand Egyptian Museum opened beside the Giza Plateau on 1 November 2025, displaying King Tutankhamun's complete collection together for the first time.
The contract sum, divided by the full 700 km route, gives an average of about ₦7.5 billion per kilometre.
Dividing the announced Section One contract by its length gives roughly ₦22.5 billion per kilometre — three times the Minister's figure.
Nigeria's coastal highway is being built — that much is not in dispute. What is in dispute is the maths. The Works Minister's figures work out near ₦7.5 billion per kilometre; his critics say the same contract works out near ₦22.5 billion. We lined up every claim, checked what could be checked, and labelled the rest honestly.
The Grand Egyptian Museum opened beside the Giza Plateau on 1 November 2025, displaying King Tutankhamun's complete collection together for the first time. A year on, the museum is a global draw — though Egypt's own official counts of its visitors disagree with each other by millions, and ticket prices rise on 1 November 2026.
Zanzibar received 917,167 international visitors in 2025, up 24.5% on 2024 and the highest total in its history, on official statistics. December alone brought more than 100,000 arrivals. Now operators and officials are debating whether the island should chase a million visitors — or chase higher spending per visitor instead.
The Victoria Falls area received a record combined 565,083 visitors in 2024, passing the pre-pandemic 2019 total, and its airport broke the half-million passenger mark the same year. Growth continued into 2025. Conservation specialists are asking what the ceiling should be for one of the world's great waterfalls.
More than 11 million people visited Notre-Dame Cathedral in the year after it reopened on 7 December 2024 — a record, roughly 30% above its pre-fire levels, and more than the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower draw. The towers reopened in September 2025, entry remains free, and the argument over whether it should stay that way continues.
When INEC published the final governorship lists for 2027, some of Nigeria's best-known candidates were not on them — including the PDP's Isa Pantami in Gombe and Ladi Adebutu in Ogun. INEC says it was applying a Supreme Court judgment on party membership registers. The affected parties say their candidates were properly registered. We checked both versions.
Japan welcomed a record 42.68 million international visitors in 2025, passing 40 million for the first time, and they spent ¥9.5 trillion. In 2026 the curve has bent: arrivals dipped in the first half after Beijing advised its citizens against travelling to Japan, even as other markets kept growing.
A Research 8020 survey published by The Standard puts President William Ruto on 26 percent and Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna on 25 — a one-point race. An earlier October survey by Politrack Africa put Ruto on 45.1 percent. Both cannot describe the same country the same way; we set out what each poll actually says.
Nigeria's voter register now stands at 103 million after 10.77 million new registrations, INEC says, and collection of new Permanent Voter Cards began on 9 October. With presidential elections fixed for 16 January 2027, the Commission says nine of the fourteen milestones in its revised timetable are done.
Ghana's Gold Board says it will supply $1.5 billion of foreign exchange in October 2026 — $1 billion to commercial banks and $500 million to the Bank of Ghana — after a $130 million spot sale at GH¢11.60 to the dollar. The Board says the cedi has appreciated for three straight weeks on the interbank market.
A monumental gilt-bronze Anyanwu by Ben Enwonwu — conceived in 1954-55 as a symbol of a rising Nigeria — sold for £602,100 at Bonhams in London on 21 October 2026, the top lot in a £3.35 million Modern and Contemporary African Art sale. It was the work's first appearance at public auction.
The African-led Great Green Wall aims to restore 100 million hectares, create 10 million jobs and capture 250 million tonnes of carbon by 2030, across an 8,000 km belt from Senegal to Djibouti. UNCCD materials put completion near 18 percent, while counts limited to the original tree-planting zone come out near 4 percent, and that gap is the story.
Ayra Starr has announced a 20-city world tour for her third album, Starrgirl — opening in Cologne on 20 January 2027, reaching London on 2 February and crossing North America from Houston to San Francisco in the spring. The announcement landed a day after she headlined the halftime show at the NFL's London game.
In March 2025 Cassava Technologies said it would build Africa's first AI factory with NVIDIA, starting in South Africa and then expanding to Egypt, Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria. Deployment in South Africa has since begun, but the other countries remain a plan, not a finished build.
In Ekiti local government area of Kwara State, former senator Simeon Ajibola, a former APC chairman and a crowd organisers put at about 6,000 have crossed from the ruling APC to the PDP. It is the latest move in a two-way traffic of defections — lawmakers have also been leaving the PDP — as Nigeria's parties re-form for 2027.
President William Ruto used Mashujaa Day in Eldoret to warn that the 'political transition' of 2022 'must not be reversed', and days earlier challenged rivals to match his record. The opposition's answer is a rolling series of rallies — and an unresolved argument about who should lead it into August 2027.
The World Bank's Africa Pulse assessment ranked the cedi Africa's worst-performing currency of the second quarter of 2026, down more than 15 percent. The government tells a different story — inflation near 5 percent, public debt down to about 45 percent of GDP, FDI up fourfold. Both cite real numbers; they are measuring different things.
South Africa's MeerKAT telescope detected a millisecond flash that travelled for more than 10 billion years, and NASA's Webb telescope found its small home galaxy. The work also shows what the bigger SKA-Mid array, now being built around MeerKAT, is being made to do.
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will jointly host AFCON 2027 from 19 June to 17 July 2027, the first time three countries have staged the tournament. CAF has confirmed the hosts, the dates and the qualifying route, but stadium readiness and the final venue are still being worked through.
Speaker Alban Bagbin told a summit in Koforidua that his 2021 election as Speaker was carried by opposition NPP votes — 'Many more NPP members voted for me… I have the details.' The ballot was secret, the result was 138 to 136, and the claim cannot be checked against any record. Here is what is actually known.
Olamide has announced his next album, Time and Space, for 16 November 2026 — and, a day earlier, the biggest concert booking of his career: a headline show at London's O2 Arena on 25 March 2027, following last year's sold-out night at the smaller OVO Arena Wembley.
Cameroon's October 2025 election produced an official winner, a rival winner, two incompatible tallies and a protest crackdown whose death toll still has no agreed number. A year on, Vozia's labels have not moved — because the evidence needed to move them has never been published.
Hannah O'Leary, who co-founded Bonhams' African art auctions in 2006 and built Sotheby's African art department from 2016, has launched her own firm, HOLFA, for private sales and advice — debuting at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London with works by seven modernists from across the continent.
Ghana beat their visitors 2–0 in Accra in a result confirmed by the match officials' report and both federations. The goals are not in dispute; the attendance figure and what it means for the group still are.
Reports are coming in of an incident involving a passenger ferry. Early posts disagree on where it happened, how many people were on board, and whether there are casualties. This page will grow claim by claim as things are confirmed — and only as they are confirmed.
The first face-to-face ministerial talks between ECOWAS and the breakaway Sahel bloc ended with working groups and a framework to negotiate. Read the communiqué language carefully: it promises cooperation. It does not promise a return.
Google's Equiano cable to South Africa has been launched and is carrying the promise of more capacity on the west coast. Meta's 2Africa core system was reported complete in November 2025, while Google's Umoja link to Australia still had no confirmed completion date when it was announced.
After the latest round of talks, each side published its own account of what was agreed. Read side by side, the two statements agree on a pause in fighting and disagree on almost everything that would make it last. We publish both, and mark what independent observers have actually confirmed.
A year ago the world's two largest economies called a truce in Busan: rare-earth controls delayed, a tariff cut, port fees paused. Both sides signed the same facts — and then described them with different words. This page keeps both descriptions visible.
World cocoa prices have hit record levels, and Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire — who grow most of the world's cocoa — are arguing over how much of that money reaches the farm gate. Regulators say the share is protected; farmers' groups say it is not arriving.
Egypt and Ethiopia became full BRICS members on 1 January 2024, joining South Africa, while Nigeria holds the lesser partner-country status. Access to the bloc's New Development Bank is not automatic: Egypt is a bank member, Ethiopia is only a prospective member, and BRICS still has no common currency and no permanent secretariat.
The Basketball Africa League, run by the NBA and FIBA, finished its fifth season in 2025 with Al Ahli Tripoli of Libya beating Petro de Luanda 88-67 in Pretoria. FIBA reported a record 141,564 fans attended across the season.
A year on from the FATF's October 2025 plenary, the delisting of Africa's two largest economies still shapes how banks treat their money. The removal itself is documented; the size of the economic prize is the argument.
Ethiopia earned $2.65 billion from coffee exports in the 2024/25 fiscal year, from 468,967 tonnes, according to the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority. That is well above both the year's target and the $1.4 billion earned the year before.
NASA satellites measured dust leaving the Sahara, crossing the Atlantic and falling on the Amazon. The phosphorus in that dust, about 22,000 tons a year, is roughly what the rainforest loses to rain and flooding.
Mobile and broadband services stuttered across several West African countries after damage to undersea cables off the coast. Operators agree on the disruption. Nobody with evidence has yet confirmed what cut the cables.
M-Pesa has grown from a money-transfer service into Safaricom's biggest business. Now Safaricom wants it to hold Kenyans' savings and investments too — a move that puts it directly against the banks.
Nigeria's cinemas took a record N11.58 billion in 2024, up from N7.3 billion in 2023, according to FilmOne's box office report using Comscore data for CEAN. The year also produced the first Nollywood film to cross N1 billion within a calendar year.
Nigerian data say paddy production rose from about four million tonnes in 2015 to seven million in 2022. But the US Department of Agriculture expects rice production to fall and imports to rise to 2.8 million tonnes in 2025/26, which sits awkwardly beside claims of self-sufficiency.
Lake Chad really did collapse in the droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. But a multi-satellite study found its extent has been stable for two decades and that it is not shrinking now - which is why the simple 'shrinking lake' story needs care.
Ghana created a state board to buy all small-scale gold, and official exports nearly doubled in a year. The government calls it a triumph of formalisation; its own chief executive calls it a claw-back of smuggled gold. Both descriptions matter.
More countries are adding malaria vaccines to routine childhood immunisation. The rollout itself is documented. Claims about how much it has already cut deaths run ahead of the published data, and we have labelled them that way.
Kenya's avocado exports earned $159 million in 2024, up 11 percent, even though production fell because of poor rainfall. Behind the growth sit two hard gates: China's market, opened to fresh Kenyan avocados in 2022, and strict maturity rules meant to stop unripe Hass fruit reaching buyers.
Since 2005 the Ezulwini Consensus has asked for no fewer than two permanent African seats, with the veto while the veto exists, plus five non-permanent seats. The clearest recent offer, from the United States in September 2024, backs two permanent African seats but no new vetoes, and any change needs a UN Charter amendment every permanent member must ratify.
Two emergency declarations, two different end dates, one shared warning. The mpox story shows why 'the emergency is over' and 'the disease is over' are different sentences — and why Vozia labels them differently.
An H3Africa study sequenced 426 people from 50 ethnolinguistic groups and uncovered more than 3 million previously undescribed genetic variants. It is a plain measure of how much of Africa's diversity global databases had missed.
In September 2023, Rema and Selena Gomez's Calm Down became the first track led by an African artist to reach one billion streams on Spotify. Spotify Africa announced the milestone, and the song had already peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The African Union became a permanent G20 member on 9 September 2023, giving Africa a standing voice in the world's main economic forum. But the G20 has no treaty, no permanent secretariat and no power to force debt relief or finance, and the AU cannot bind its own member states to one position.
Nigeria's biggest refinery runs at full capacity and has cut its gantry prices repeatedly. What it has not settled is the argument at the pump: whether domestic supply can replace imports, and whether cheaper gantry prices mean cheaper petrol for motorists.
On 10 September 2024 a breach of the Alau Dam flooded about 40 percent of Maiduguri. OCHA figures cited by UNICEF put deaths at 37, with close to 400,000 displaced people registered in camps within a week, while investigators dispute how a dam that received repair money ended up in that state.
In 2021 the IUCN assessed Africa's two elephant species separately for the first time. Forest elephants, down more than 86% in 31 years, were listed as Critically Endangered, and savanna elephants, down at least 60% in 50 years, as Endangered.
The WAFCON 2025 final looked finished at 2–0 to the hosts in 24 minutes. Nigeria scored three second-half goals and took a record tenth title — the kind of match the tournament's history will be measured against.
Ethiopia inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on 9 September 2025, calling it a shared opportunity for the region. Egypt, which relies on the Nile for almost all its water, calls the dam an existential threat, and both Egypt and Sudan want a legally binding agreement on how it is filled and run.
South African singer Tyla won the first-ever Grammy for Best African Music Performance in February 2024 with Water, an amapiano-infused pop song. The track peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, making her the highest-charting African female solo musician in Billboard history, according to the Recording Academy.
The Congo Basin is the largest remaining net carbon sink in the tropics, yet published figures for how much carbon it takes up differ widely because they measure different things. At the same time, about 780,000 hectares of its primary forest were lost in 2024, and peer-reviewed work shows the wider tropical sink has been weakening since the 1990s.
BioNTech inaugurated its Kigali site in December 2023, built around container-like BioNTainer units, with about USD 150 million committed and room for up to 50 million doses a year of a COVID-like product. Its own plan put test production for validation in 2025 - commercial supply is a later step, and we found no confirmation it has begun.
The summer's biggest transfer story ended in Istanbul. Galatasaray's stock-exchange filing puts the numbers on the record: a €75 million fee, a sell-on clause for Napoli, and a package worth €21 million a season to Nigeria's biggest football star.
South Africa's neighbours connect through Starlink; South Africa argues about it. The blocker is an ownership law written to correct apartheid-era exclusion, and the fight is now between the minister who wants an exception and the regulator who says only Parliament can make one.
When INEC published the final governorship lists for 2027, some of Nigeria's best-known candidates were not on them — including the PDP's Isa Pantami in Gombe and Ladi Adebutu in Ogun. INEC says it was applying a Supreme Court judgment on party membership registers. The affected parties say their candidates were properly registered. We checked both versions.
A Research 8020 survey published by The Standard puts President William Ruto on 26 percent and Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna on 25 — a one-point race. An earlier October survey by Politrack Africa put Ruto on 45.1 percent. Both cannot describe the same country the same way; we set out what each poll actually says.
Nigeria's voter register now stands at 103 million after 10.77 million new registrations, INEC says, and collection of new Permanent Voter Cards began on 9 October. With presidential elections fixed for 16 January 2027, the Commission says nine of the fourteen milestones in its revised timetable are done.
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will jointly host AFCON 2027 from 19 June to 17 July 2027, the first time three countries have staged the tournament. CAF has confirmed the hosts, the dates and the qualifying route, but stadium readiness and the final venue are still being worked through.
Ghana beat their visitors 2–0 in Accra in a result confirmed by the match officials' report and both federations. The goals are not in dispute; the attendance figure and what it means for the group still are.
The Basketball Africa League, run by the NBA and FIBA, finished its fifth season in 2025 with Al Ahli Tripoli of Libya beating Petro de Luanda 88-67 in Pretoria. FIBA reported a record 141,564 fans attended across the season.
Ghana's Gold Board says it will supply $1.5 billion of foreign exchange in October 2026 — $1 billion to commercial banks and $500 million to the Bank of Ghana — after a $130 million spot sale at GH¢11.60 to the dollar. The Board says the cedi has appreciated for three straight weeks on the interbank market.
The World Bank's Africa Pulse assessment ranked the cedi Africa's worst-performing currency of the second quarter of 2026, down more than 15 percent. The government tells a different story — inflation near 5 percent, public debt down to about 45 percent of GDP, FDI up fourfold. Both cite real numbers; they are measuring different things.
World cocoa prices have hit record levels, and Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire — who grow most of the world's cocoa — are arguing over how much of that money reaches the farm gate. Regulators say the share is protected; farmers' groups say it is not arriving.
In March 2025 Cassava Technologies said it would build Africa's first AI factory with NVIDIA, starting in South Africa and then expanding to Egypt, Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria. Deployment in South Africa has since begun, but the other countries remain a plan, not a finished build.
Google's Equiano cable to South Africa has been launched and is carrying the promise of more capacity on the west coast. Meta's 2Africa core system was reported complete in November 2025, while Google's Umoja link to Australia still had no confirmed completion date when it was announced.
Mobile and broadband services stuttered across several West African countries after damage to undersea cables off the coast. Operators agree on the disruption. Nobody with evidence has yet confirmed what cut the cables.
South Africa's MeerKAT telescope detected a millisecond flash that travelled for more than 10 billion years, and NASA's Webb telescope found its small home galaxy. The work also shows what the bigger SKA-Mid array, now being built around MeerKAT, is being made to do.
NASA satellites measured dust leaving the Sahara, crossing the Atlantic and falling on the Amazon. The phosphorus in that dust, about 22,000 tons a year, is roughly what the rainforest loses to rain and flooding.
Lake Chad really did collapse in the droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. But a multi-satellite study found its extent has been stable for two decades and that it is not shrinking now - which is why the simple 'shrinking lake' story needs care.
More countries are adding malaria vaccines to routine childhood immunisation. The rollout itself is documented. Claims about how much it has already cut deaths run ahead of the published data, and we have labelled them that way.
Two emergency declarations, two different end dates, one shared warning. The mpox story shows why 'the emergency is over' and 'the disease is over' are different sentences — and why Vozia labels them differently.
A twice-yearly injection that prevented every infection in its main trial is the biggest HIV-prevention development in years. What the WHO has actually said is verified; whether the promised $40 price reaches African clinics is the part still to prove.
Ethiopia earned $2.65 billion from coffee exports in the 2024/25 fiscal year, from 468,967 tonnes, according to the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority. That is well above both the year's target and the $1.4 billion earned the year before.
Nigerian data say paddy production rose from about four million tonnes in 2015 to seven million in 2022. But the US Department of Agriculture expects rice production to fall and imports to rise to 2.8 million tonnes in 2025/26, which sits awkwardly beside claims of self-sufficiency.
Kenya's avocado exports earned $159 million in 2024, up 11 percent, even though production fell because of poor rainfall. Behind the growth sit two hard gates: China's market, opened to fresh Kenyan avocados in 2022, and strict maturity rules meant to stop unripe Hass fruit reaching buyers.
A monumental gilt-bronze Anyanwu by Ben Enwonwu — conceived in 1954-55 as a symbol of a rising Nigeria — sold for £602,100 at Bonhams in London on 21 October 2026, the top lot in a £3.35 million Modern and Contemporary African Art sale. It was the work's first appearance at public auction.
Ayra Starr has announced a 20-city world tour for her third album, Starrgirl — opening in Cologne on 20 January 2027, reaching London on 2 February and crossing North America from Houston to San Francisco in the spring. The announcement landed a day after she headlined the halftime show at the NFL's London game.
Olamide has announced his next album, Time and Space, for 16 November 2026 — and, a day earlier, the biggest concert booking of his career: a headline show at London's O2 Arena on 25 March 2027, following last year's sold-out night at the smaller OVO Arena Wembley.
The African-led Great Green Wall aims to restore 100 million hectares, create 10 million jobs and capture 250 million tonnes of carbon by 2030, across an 8,000 km belt from Senegal to Djibouti. UNCCD materials put completion near 18 percent, while counts limited to the original tree-planting zone come out near 4 percent, and that gap is the story.
On 10 September 2024 a breach of the Alau Dam flooded about 40 percent of Maiduguri. OCHA figures cited by UNICEF put deaths at 37, with close to 400,000 displaced people registered in camps within a week, while investigators dispute how a dam that received repair money ended up in that state.
The Congo Basin is the largest remaining net carbon sink in the tropics, yet published figures for how much carbon it takes up differ widely because they measure different things. At the same time, about 780,000 hectares of its primary forest were lost in 2024, and peer-reviewed work shows the wider tropical sink has been weakening since the 1990s.
The Grand Egyptian Museum opened beside the Giza Plateau on 1 November 2025, displaying King Tutankhamun's complete collection together for the first time. A year on, the museum is a global draw — though Egypt's own official counts of its visitors disagree with each other by millions, and ticket prices rise on 1 November 2026.
Zanzibar received 917,167 international visitors in 2025, up 24.5% on 2024 and the highest total in its history, on official statistics. December alone brought more than 100,000 arrivals. Now operators and officials are debating whether the island should chase a million visitors — or chase higher spending per visitor instead.
The Victoria Falls area received a record combined 565,083 visitors in 2024, passing the pre-pandemic 2019 total, and its airport broke the half-million passenger mark the same year. Growth continued into 2025. Conservation specialists are asking what the ceiling should be for one of the world's great waterfalls.
Reports are coming in of an incident involving a passenger ferry. Early posts disagree on where it happened, how many people were on board, and whether there are casualties. This page will grow claim by claim as things are confirmed — and only as they are confirmed.
After the latest round of talks, each side published its own account of what was agreed. Read side by side, the two statements agree on a pause in fighting and disagree on almost everything that would make it last. We publish both, and mark what independent observers have actually confirmed.
A year ago the world's two largest economies called a truce in Busan: rare-earth controls delayed, a tariff cut, port fees paused. Both sides signed the same facts — and then described them with different words. This page keeps both descriptions visible.
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Old Trafford Tours — come for the history, leave with three points. Bournemouth did.
For the third time in four seasons, Bournemouth won 3–0 at Old Trafford.
Manchester United 0–3 Bournemouth — Old Trafford, Sun 25 Oct 2026 · Reuters
Theatre of Dreams — Bournemouth performed the whole play. United just provided the stage.
Rayan (38'), Marcus Tavernier (43') and Evanilson (71') scored the goals.
Manchester United 0–3 Bournemouth — Old Trafford, Sun 25 Oct 2026 · Reuters
Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon in 1:59:40 in Vienna — the first sub-two-hour marathon in history. It was an exhibition run under special conditions, so it does not count as an official world record.
Sources: Olympics.com
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