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Nigeria has issued an arrest warrant for its former oil ministerNigeria’s plans to bring home its former oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, to face corruption charges is gathering pace.
Updated July 21, 20222 min read
Nigeria’s plans to bring home its former oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, to face corruption charges is gathering pace.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo)—the world’s largest producer of cobalt—has slammed a three-fold increase on royalties paid for the mineral.
African subscribers of Netflix will soon have more local options of shows to watch.
Nigeria’s president Muhammadu Buhari is denying rumors that he’s dead, but by doing so he’s committing yet another communications gaffe.
Cameroon’s ongoing insecurity crisis continues to come at a cost.
More than a century after they were looted, the decades-old campaign for European museums to return African art—particularly Benin bronzes—is finally looking like a real possibility.
With Nigeria’s general elections only three months away, local newsrooms are taking a stand against fake news.
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A major artificial intelligence (AI) conference will be held in Africa in 2020—because the organizers admit it will be more difficult for African researchers to get foreign visas to attend it elsewhere.
The claims by Nigeria’s government that terrorist group Boko Haram has been “defeated” continue to ring hollow.
MTN and Orange—the largest mobile operators in Anglophone and Francophone Africa—are teaming up in an attempt to dominate the continent’s mobile money market.
A long-serving president—or strongmen leaders, as they are also known—is still a common feature of African politics.
New regulation requirements by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) could make it difficult for some fintech companies to operate.
Recent evidence suggests that Nigeria’s drug abuse problem is not going away anytime soon.
Global ride-hailing giant Uber has gone from having no competitors in Africa to having more than 50.
An additional 1.3 billion people will be added to Africa’s population by 2050 and, unless infrastructure development happens at an unprecedented pace, sharp housing shortages will likely be an offshoot of the rapid population growth.
MTN, Africa’s largest telecoms company, is doubling down on its Nigeria operations despite a history of billion-dollar fines.
The English Premier League—the world’s richest soccer league—is getting its first female boss.
Egypt’s latest archaeological find is a nod to the special attention ancient Egyptians paid to cats.
Three years after she was first arrested in London on money laundering charges, Nigeria is finally looking to bring home its former oil minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, to face corruption charges.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has built a reputation for its quick containment of Ebola virus outbreaks since the virus was first discovered there in 1976. However, the current outbreak—its tenth—is proving to be the worst.
After nearly three weeks of an information blackout, Gabon is finally shedding light on the health of its president.
Students at select schools in Nigeria’s southwest will soon be taught science in Yoruba, a language that’s native to the region.
Dethroning Naspers-owned DStv as the pay TV market leader in Africa is proving a death knell for its competitors.