Israel’s top court has temporarily halted the government’s plan to deport some 40,000 migrants from Eritrea and Sudan to a third nation in Africa.
M-Kopa, the Kenyan pay-per-use solar power provider, is downsizing in a bid to improve its competitiveness, ensure long-term sustainability, and increase return for investors.
China is increasingly cracking down on vessels from its country that are engaged in illegal fishing activities in West Africa. It’s a move environmental groups say is indicative of increased intolerance towards illicit practices in high seas and an effort to improve its image globally.
This story has been updated.
After 130 years of publication, National Geographic magazine is reckoning with its past, saying its coverage of people of color both and in and outside the United States was for generations “racist.”
On the days before and after US secretary of State Rex Tillerson embarked on his first official trip to Africa, one issue has risen as the main concern among American officials: China’s ascendant role in the African continent.
Italy has elected its first black senator, a Nigerian immigrant who is a member of the country’s far-right, anti-immigrant League party. Toni Iwobi, the head of the party’s immigration department, was elected on Sunday (March 4) in Brescia, an industrial city in northern Italy.
US secretary of State Rex Tillerson has criticized China’s model of economic development in Africa, saying it encouraged dependency and denied governments long-term democratic growth.
Kenya has for years regarded blockchain technology and digital currencies with suspicion, comparing bitcoin to a “pyramid scheme,” and emphasizing that it had no legal footing.
It was a tribute to Eritrea that left social media abuzz with delight and joy.
The internet, still slow and inaccessible to many, has been restored in Cameroon’s Anglophone regions, sources and digital rights groups say.
In an evening in 1952, princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom went up the Treetops Hotel near Nyeri town in Kenya’s central highlands with her husband Philip. The hotel was built on top of trees and near a waterhole to give guests a view of the congregating wildlife from relative safety. The next morning, when the 25-year-old princess descended, she was told that her father, King George VI, had died—effectively making her queen.
Migration from African nations has increased dramatically in the last three decades, going from just 1% in the 1990s to 31% by the 2000s, a new study shows.
After a three-decade run, one of Kenya’s biggest supermarkets Uchumi closed its prime location at the Sarit Center mall in Nairobi in late February. Bedeviled by debts and stock-outs, the retailer had already been forced out of Tanzania and Uganda and saw the number of its countrywide stores in Kenya reduced to 20 branches.
Africa—a global leader in mobile money—is now second in the world in terms of banking growth and profitability, according to consulting firm McKinsey.
In what is being hailed as a global first, Seychelles has agreed to swap parts of its debt in return for designating nearly a third of its waters as protected areas.
Israel stayed true to its promise of arresting and expelling African migrants last week after it detained seven Eritreans who refused to be deported to Rwanda.
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
In a recent survey of social media use in Africa, WhatsApp—and its Facebook-owned sister app Messenger—was crowned the king of apps in Africa.
Almost exactly a year ago, a report from an independent consultant to Kenya’s telecoms regulator, sparked uproar and panic. It recommended the government look into breaking up the dominant mobile operator Safaricom by spinning off the even more dominant mobile money service, M-Pesa.
Tanzania is set to overhaul its extractive industry after the government passed a new law that posits strict guidelines for foreign companies.
The world’s wealthiest people have found a new place to hunt for second homes: Kenya.
It’s Black Panther week, and fans across the world have been flocking to screenings to watch the latest Marvel superhero movie.
Ethiopia has declared a state of emergency, a day after prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned.
