https://www.panafricanewsmedia.comLive television, breaking news and original reporting from across Africa and its diaspora — politics, business, technology, culture and sport, told from the continent. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-high-petrol-prices-continue-to-worry-families-and-motorists-68b986/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-high-petrol-prices-continue-to-worry-families-and-motorists-68b986/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:58:40 GMTBusinessPetrol prices continue to worry families and motorists in Nigeria as transport costs put pressure on household budgets. In Abuja, the Nigerian capital, petrol prices remain a key concern for consumers hoping for lasting relief. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/johann-rupert-s-richemont-may-join-the-bid-for-de-beers-42f78b/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/johann-rupert-s-richemont-may-join-the-bid-for-de-beers-42f78b/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTBusinessThe Cartier owner is in talks to join a consortium led by a former De Beers chief. Botswana, which owns 15%, has the right of first refusal. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/burkina-faso-launches-a-sovereignty-league-with-salaried-players-ae7b89/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/burkina-faso-launches-a-sovereignty-league-with-salaried-players-ae7b89/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTSportTwenty teams from every region, a monthly wage of about $300 for selected players and a promise of 1,000 jobs. How it fits with the football federation is unclear. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/who-urges-faster-action-on-lead-which-kills-3-5-million-a-year-d32602/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/who-urges-faster-action-on-lead-which-kills-3-5-million-a-year-d32602/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTHealthFewer than half of countries have binding controls on lead paint. Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania are getting help to test children's blood. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/somalia-sets-elections-for-april-and-may-2027-opposition-rejects-the-t-f93df0/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/somalia-sets-elections-for-april-and-may-2027-opposition-rejects-the-t-f93df0/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTPoliticsParliamentary elections are set for 15 April and the presidential vote for 15 May. Voter registration reopens on 1 November. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/chef-reuben-riffel-brings-fire-cooked-game-to-franschhoek-aiming-to-do-37ed53/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/chef-reuben-riffel-brings-fire-cooked-game-to-franschhoek-aiming-to-do-37ed53/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTCultureFlame and Game, backed by R1.5 million from the Western Cape's tourism fund, will add ten jobs and buy from local game farmers, growers and wine farms. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/soap-and-water-could-save-south-african-children-minister-says-7c1bee/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/soap-and-water-could-save-south-african-children-minister-says-7c1bee/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTHealthNearly 3,000 children under five died of diarrhoea, flu and pneumonia in 2024. On Global Handwashing Day, the government asked parents and teachers to make clean hands a habit. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-to-host-africa-s-global-entrepreneurship-festival-with-dangote-a-54c437/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-to-host-africa-s-global-entrepreneurship-festival-with-dangote-a-54c437/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTBusinessAfter Nigeria and Ghana, the festival comes to New Cairo from 6 to 8 November, with more than 200 investors and entrepreneurs from 70 countries. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/east-london-s-science-park-now-supports-more-than-71-young-companies-3282ae/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/east-london-s-science-park-now-supports-more-than-71-young-companies-3282ae/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTTechnologySouth Africa's only science park inside an industrial zone hosts Science Minister Blade Nzimande on Friday, as the government looks for ways to turn research into products. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-national-campaign-launched-to-mobilise-citizens-ahead-of-2027--52b0cc/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-national-campaign-launched-to-mobilise-citizens-ahead-of-2027--52b0cc/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:12:00 GMTPoliticsNigeria’s National Orientation Agency (NOA) launched a nationwide campaign in Abuja on October 15, 2026, to mobilise citizens ahead of the 2027 general elections. The initiative urges Nigerians to reject voter apathy, vote-buying and electoral violence while promoting peaceful and credible elections. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-energy-week-deals-reach-10bn-but-delegates-want-jobs-too-eac9b4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-energy-week-deals-reach-10bn-but-delegates-want-jobs-too-eac9b4/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusinessFrom Angola's oil assets to Senegal's gas, Cape Town's energy conference has produced billions in deals. Participants say the resources must also build industries and employment. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/campaigners-urge-malawi-to-pass-a-law-letting-refugees-work-and-trade-78b502/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/campaigners-urge-malawi-to-pass-a-law-letting-refugees-work-and-trade-78b502/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTPoliticsThe Refugee Bill would let refugees take paid jobs and run small businesses, cutting their reliance on aid, says INUA Advocacy. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zamfara-graduates-300-young-people-with-skills-and-starter-packs-de5539/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zamfara-graduates-300-young-people-with-skills-and-starter-packs-de5539/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusinessThe trainees, backed by the EU and IOM, leave with the tools to start businesses in the trades they learned. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/namibia-and-angola-hold-their-first-heads-of-state-commission-next-wee-d5f916/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/namibia-and-angola-hold-their-first-heads-of-state-commission-next-wee-d5f916/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTPoliticsPresidents Nandi-Ndaitwah and Lourenço will meet in Luanda on trade, energy, water, transport and border security. Ninety-five Namibian businesses want to join the business forum. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/japan-gives-1-8m-to-feed-94-000-people-displaced-in-cabo-delgado-10a3b4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/japan-gives-1-8m-to-feed-94-000-people-displaced-in-cabo-delgado-10a3b4/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTPoliticsThe money goes through the World Food Programme. Japan has given about $21.4 million to the agency's work in Mozambique since 2019. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/solar-cold-rooms-could-help-africa-s-women-farmers-keep-what-they-grow-0d0e6f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/solar-cold-rooms-could-help-africa-s-women-farmers-keep-what-they-grow-0d0e6f/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTBusinessThree in four working women in sub-Saharan Africa work in farming and food. In Enugu, solar cold rooms and greenhouses are being built for 500 young farmers, most of them women. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/black-owned-businesses-in-five-african-countries-are-short-of-209bn-re-77782a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/black-owned-businesses-in-five-african-countries-are-short-of-209bn-re-77782a/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTBusinessThey are almost every small firm in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire, but far fewer of the large ones. A study by two development financiers sets out how to close the gap. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-namibian-charity-has-sterilised-30-000-pets-for-owners-who-cannot-pa-f61ee7/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-namibian-charity-has-sterilised-30-000-pets-for-owners-who-cannot-pa-f61ee7/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTClimateHave a Heart has no paid staff and works with local vets. In September alone it treated more than 800 feral cats, including 300 in Oshana. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-imports-most-of-its-medicines-the-case-for-making-them-at-home-c7117f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-imports-most-of-its-medicines-the-case-for-making-them-at-home-c7117f/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTBusinessThe continent buys in 70 to 80% of the medicines it uses and up to 95% of their ingredients. Twenty years after the AU's manufacturing plan, the push for a home-grown industry is back. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/durban-finishes-r232-6m-of-flood-defences-for-its-industrial-south-eebe07/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/durban-finishes-r232-6m-of-flood-defences-for-its-industrial-south-eebe07/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTClimateA rebuilt canal, a new sea outfall and a sports field that doubles as a flood basin are meant to protect Prospecton, one of the country's manufacturing hubs. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-opens-disability-rights-awareness-month-with-a-walk-to-th-62c585/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-opens-disability-rights-awareness-month-with-a-walk-to-th-62c585/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTPoliticsPeople with disabilities, officials and campaigners will walk from Church Square on Friday to call for equal rights and an end to the barriers that keep people out. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-intercity-buses-get-their-first-new-coaches-since-2010-0af5b0/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-intercity-buses-get-their-first-new-coaches-since-2010-0af5b0/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTBusinessPRASA has added 17 long-distance coaches with lane assistance and stability systems, and plans 78 more by 2030. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/sixty-five-people-in-gqeberha-receive-the-birth-certificates-they-neve-cf82e4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/sixty-five-people-in-gqeberha-receive-the-birth-certificates-they-neve-cf82e4/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTPoliticsHome Affairs' Services on Wheels brought late birth registration to Motherwell, giving people the legal identity they need to reach government services. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-wants-waste-treated-as-a-business-not-a-burden-e2304a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-wants-waste-treated-as-a-business-not-a-burden-e2304a/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTClimateRecyclers could get licences in 90 days, and producers' recycling bodies may have to put 40% of their fees into infrastructure. Fifty-six recycling firms have already had R200m of support. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/new-tb-vaccines-could-save-7-3-million-lives-and-africa-should-prepare-a07d32/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/new-tb-vaccines-could-save-7-3-million-lives-and-africa-should-prepare-a07d32/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTHealthThe first new tuberculosis vaccines in a century could arrive by 2029. Gavi says the countries that plan before approval will get them fastest, as they did with malaria. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/uganda-begins-testing-a-vaccine-against-the-ebola-strain-that-has-none-46621e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/uganda-begins-testing-a-vaccine-against-the-ebola-strain-that-has-none-46621e/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTHealthScientists in Masaka have started a first human trial of a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain behind Congo's outbreak. Congo itself starts a larger trial this month. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/school-meals-bring-children-back-to-class-in-the-central-african-repub-c47f8e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/school-meals-bring-children-back-to-class-in-the-central-african-repub-c47f8e/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTPoliticsMore than 250,000 children eat at school in 335 schools. In one village enrolment has nearly doubled, and the food is bought from local farmers. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kagame-invites-africa-to-make-the-rwanda-grand-prix-the-whole-continen-5af953/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kagame-invites-africa-to-make-the-rwanda-grand-prix-the-whole-continen-5af953/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTSportAfter congratulations from Ramaphosa and Hichilema, Rwanda's president said he wants other African countries to help make the Formula One race a continental success. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-inflation-falls-for-a-fourth-month-in-a-row-to-14-63-843796/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-inflation-falls-for-a-fourth-month-in-a-row-to-14-63-843796/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTBusinessPrices rose 14.63% in the year to September, down from 20.98% a year earlier. Food prices fell month on month, and the naira firmed to ₦1,333 to the dollar. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/dangote-s-share-sale-reaches-egypt-as-it-courts-investors-across-afric-65208b/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/dangote-s-share-sale-reaches-egypt-as-it-courts-investors-across-afric-65208b/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTBusinessAfter Kenya, Botswana and Ethiopia, the $1.6bn refinery IPO is heading to the Egyptian Exchange. The offer now closes on 27 October. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-raises-petrol-prices-by-6-as-middle-east-conflict-lifts-import-c-c4ea24/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-raises-petrol-prices-by-6-as-middle-east-conflict-lifts-import-c-c4ea24/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTBusinessDiesel is up 4.5% and kerosene also costs more. Matatu operators warn fares will follow. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-cdc-cannot-trace-700m-given-for-congo-s-ebola-response-2c07dd/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-cdc-cannot-trace-700m-given-for-congo-s-ebola-response-2c07dd/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTHealthDonors say they paid out $962 million; a joint check found just over $200 million reached the groups running the response. Fewer than 30% of partners came to account for it. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mauritius-extends-curfew-after-protests-over-water-and-living-costs-tu-95a3f8/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mauritius-extends-curfew-after-protests-over-water-and-living-costs-tu-95a3f8/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTPoliticsNinety-four people have been arrested, seven police officers wounded and schools closed. The prime minister blames drug traffickers for fuelling the unrest. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/fitch-turns-positive-on-nigeria-s-biggest-banks-cc202a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/fitch-turns-positive-on-nigeria-s-biggest-banks-cc202a/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTBusinessAccess, Zenith, UBA, GTCO, First HoldCo and others move to a positive outlook after Nigeria's own outlook improved. Their ratings stay at B. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/abuja-rising-food-prices-make-life-harder-for-families-6cdd2a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/abuja-rising-food-prices-make-life-harder-for-families-6cdd2a/Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:40:33 GMTBusinessAt Wuse Market in Abuja’s Wuse district, customers are complaining bitterly about rising food prices, with one onion reportedly selling for as much as ₦500. Traders say families are struggling to afford basic food items, as the same amount of money now buys far less than before. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/lagos-gymnastics-championship-returns-to-give-young-gymnasts-a-stage-e53e5c/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/lagos-gymnastics-championship-returns-to-give-young-gymnasts-a-stage-e53e5c/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTSportThe third GYMFEST, at The Dome in Lekki on 7 November, follows two editions that drew more than 400 athletes from over 20 schools. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/forty-years-on-a-book-collects-dele-giwa-s-journalism-a5bdd9/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/forty-years-on-a-book-collects-dele-giwa-s-journalism-a5bdd9/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTCultureNewswatch will present Dele Giwa's Granite Journalism, edited by Ray Ekpu, in Lagos on 19 October, the anniversary of its founding editor's killing. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/brewer-backs-malawi-s-mulhako-wa-alhomwe-festival-ahead-of-this-year-s-2912c0/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/brewer-backs-malawi-s-mulhako-wa-alhomwe-festival-ahead-of-this-year-s-2912c0/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTCultureChibuku Products has given K3 million to the cultural organisation, part of its long-running support for Malawi's heritage festivals. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/gauteng-starts-repairs-on-seven-tshwane-bridges-1a814c/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/gauteng-starts-repairs-on-seven-tshwane-bridges-1a814c/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTBusinessWork on bridges over the Hennops River and on the R511 and R514 will repair rails, joints and concrete and widen some approaches. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/navi-pillay-dedicates-her-nobel-to-survivors-and-asks-the-world-to-def-da54c8/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/navi-pillay-dedicates-her-nobel-to-survivors-and-asks-the-world-to-def-da54c8/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTPoliticsThe South African jurist, 85, learned of her prize in the Nuremberg courtroom where the post-war trials were held. She wants collective action, not statements, for international justice. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ramaphosa-to-open-a-zinc-expansion-that-puts-a-northern-cape-mine-amon-95c638/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ramaphosa-to-open-a-zinc-expansion-that-puts-a-northern-cape-mine-amon-95c638/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTBusinessPhase II of Vedanta's Gamsberg operation at Aggeneys lifts output to about 500,000 tonnes of zinc a year and is expected to sustain up to 1,000 jobs, most of them local. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nine-in-ten-south-african-homes-now-have-electricity-up-from-77-in-200-70043a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nine-in-ten-south-african-homes-now-have-electricity-up-from-77-in-200-70043a/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTPoliticsAhead of the 4 November local elections, Africa Check's factsheet shows how far connections have come, where the gaps are, and how sharply reported power cuts have fallen. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-marks-world-food-day-in-the-north-west-with-a-push-for-fa-d54a95/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-marks-world-food-day-in-the-north-west-with-a-push-for-fa-d54a95/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTBusinessUnder the theme Innovate Today, Nourish Tomorrow, the national celebration at Tosca Village on 16 October will launch food security projects in a province where parts face food insecurity. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/cairo-s-film-festival-turns-50-with-145-films-and-a-tribute-to-abderra-e0b583/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/cairo-s-film-festival-turns-50-with-145-films-and-a-tribute-to-abderra-e0b583/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTCultureThe 47th Cairo International Film Festival runs from 11 to 20 November. Morocco's Nabil Ayouch chairs the main jury, and 850 young filmmakers will take part in its industry days. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mali-is-sheltering-more-than-322-000-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-1fe34f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mali-is-sheltering-more-than-322-000-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-1fe34f/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTPoliticsEven with 414,000 of its own people displaced, Mali has taken in refugees, among them 86,000 from Burkina Faso in one region alone, and passed a new law on statelessness. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/liberia-invites-investors-into-fish-farming-processing-and-cold-storag-f18179/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/liberia-invites-investors-into-fish-farming-processing-and-cold-storag-f18179/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusinessWith a World Bank fisheries project more than 80% spent, Liberia's fisheries authority says the next step is private investment that keeps the sector's value at home. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/abia-promises-to-speed-up-its-industrial-park-with-a-modular-refinery--25816a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/abia-promises-to-speed-up-its-industrial-park-with-a-modular-refinery--25816a/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusinessThe Abia Industrial Innovation Park at Owaza has a new managing director, and Governor Alex Otti says several companies want in. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-registers-231-million-phones-as-it-starts-checking-devices-934c18/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-registers-231-million-phones-as-it-starts-checking-devices-934c18/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTTechnologyPhones already on the networks are safe, the regulator says. New devices must now be verified before they can connect, to keep out counterfeits. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/imf-chief-confident-senegal-will-reach-a-deal-with-its-creditors-8e1c40/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/imf-chief-confident-senegal-will-reach-a-deal-with-its-creditors-8e1c40/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusinessKristalina Georgieva says a $2.2bn programme is ready and Senegal's case will test whether the reformed G20 debt framework works. Dakar hopes for a first payment in November. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/one-date-in-five-is-grown-in-egypt-now-it-wants-to-sell-them-finished-e4f724/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/one-date-in-five-is-grown-in-egypt-now-it-wants-to-sell-them-finished-e4f724/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTBusinessEgypt produces 20% of the world's dates and has planted the world's largest date farm. At the festival in Siwa, the government set out how to earn more from every harvest. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenyan-court-lets-dangote-s-16bn-lamu-refinery-go-ahead-while-resident-f0fd39/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenyan-court-lets-dangote-s-16bn-lamu-refinery-go-ahead-while-resident-f0fd39/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTBusinessA judge lifted an order that had frozen the site after finding the petitioners had cited the wrong plot of land. The case returns to court on 24 November. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-s-cheapest-electricity-ethiopia-charges-less-than-a-cent-b43bc6/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-s-cheapest-electricity-ethiopia-charges-less-than-a-cent-b43bc6/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTBusinessEthiopia, Angola, Sudan, Egypt and Zambia top a ranking of the continent's lowest household power prices. Nigeria is sixth, at about a quarter of the African average. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/tired-of-waiting-for-a-government-house-a-67-year-old-built-her-own-5cba83/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/tired-of-waiting-for-a-government-house-a-67-year-old-built-her-own-5cba83/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTPoliticsNomonde Mboyi has spent three years and her pension building a mud-brick home in the Eastern Cape. The state house promised to her after a 2019 storm is still a foundation. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-opens-a-egp-700m-dry-port-in-alexandria-to-take-pressure-off-the-3c1b2f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-opens-a-egp-700m-dry-port-in-alexandria-to-take-pressure-off-the-3c1b2f/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTBusinessThe Amreya dry port, Egypt's second, lets cargo be handled away from the quays. Thirty-three more are planned. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-offers-400-ready-built-factory-units-to-small-investors-a19aa8/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-offers-400-ready-built-factory-units-to-small-investors-a19aa8/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTBusinessThe units, in 11 industrial complexes across 10 governorates, come with utilities and can be bought or rented online from 15 to 29 October. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-and-djibouti-sign-a-trade-protocol-to-open-the-horn-of-africa-to-79d57c/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-and-djibouti-sign-a-trade-protocol-to-open-the-horn-of-africa-to-79d57c/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTBusinessDjibouti offers access to the Horn's markets from the mouth of the Red Sea; Egypt offers medicines, fertilisers, food and engineering goods. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-universities-told-to-teach-for-a-world-shaped-by-ai-and-adebed/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-universities-told-to-teach-for-a-world-shaped-by-ai-and-adebed/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTTechnologyHigher Education Minister Buti Manamela said assessment must test judgement, not just answers, and that Africa needs AI in its own languages and on its own data. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-record-2-65-million-south-africans-apply-to-vote-early-754202/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-record-2-65-million-south-africans-apply-to-vote-early-754202/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTPoliticsSpecial vote applications for the 4 November local elections are up 131% on 2021. Most home-visit applicants are women over 60. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/young-africans-must-move-from-promise-to-power-agenda-2063-symposium-h-22e31c/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/young-africans-must-move-from-promise-to-power-agenda-2063-symposium-h-22e31c/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:30:00 GMTPoliticsAt JCI Sandton's fifth Agenda 2063 symposium, speakers from the Presidency, AUDA-NEPAD and Afrobarometer agreed the plans exist. The test now is delivery, with young people given real authority. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-nigerian-scientist-s-software-could-cut-mri-scans-from-20-minutes-to-4b7066/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-nigerian-scientist-s-software-could-cut-mri-scans-from-20-minutes-to-4b7066/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTTechnologyMary-Brenda Akoda, a Google DeepMind scholar trained at Imperial College, plans to launch GenMRI in Nigeria and Britain next year. It works on the scanners hospitals already have. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/tanzania-s-hospitals-have-nearly-doubled-their-beds-since-2021-70786e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/tanzania-s-hospitals-have-nearly-doubled-their-beds-since-2021-70786e/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTHealthTwenty-seven years after Julius Nyerere's death, the country he set against poverty, ignorance and disease reports ICU beds up sixfold and maternal deaths sharply down. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/african-football-s-federations-now-get-three-and-a-half-times-what-the-fb0095/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/african-football-s-federations-now-get-three-and-a-half-times-what-the-fb0095/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTSportCAF has raised its yearly support to each of its 54 member associations to $700,000, up from $200,000 in 2021, to fund academies, women's football and coaching. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mo-abudu-opens-a-home-for-african-film-in-the-heart-of-london-6d9536/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mo-abudu-opens-a-home-for-african-film-in-the-heart-of-london-6d9536/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTDiasporaEbonyLife Place, a few steps from Parliament, has a cinema for African and black storytelling, a Nigerian restaurant and a boutique for African designers. It is the first of its kind in Britain and Europe. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-wants-its-old-earphones-and-chargers-back-2b6d85/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-wants-its-old-earphones-and-chargers-back-2b6d85/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTClimateOn International E-Waste Day, the government urged households to recycle small electronics. The country produces more than 360,000 tonnes of e-waste a year and recycles about a tenth. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-confirms-a-second-ebola-case-a-relative-already-in-quarantine-3ba97a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-confirms-a-second-ebola-case-a-relative-already-in-quarantine-3ba97a/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTHealthThe 39-year-old developed symptoms while isolated as a close contact of Kenya's first case, who died in Nairobi on 5 October. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/investors-see-less-risk-in-egypt-than-at-any-time-since-2014-minister--9c9b7f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/investors-see-less-risk-in-egypt-than-at-any-time-since-2014-minister--9c9b7f/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTBusinessFinance Minister Ahmed Kouchouk told investors in Bangkok that the private sector now accounts for 65% of investment and the economy is growing at 5.1%. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-adds-5-000-clinics-to-its-basic-health-fund-and-releases-40-7b-6d2aa2/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-adds-5-000-clinics-to-its-basic-health-fund-and-releases-40-7b-6d2aa2/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTHealthMore than 13,000 primary health centres will now benefit, and about 90,000 prisoners are being brought into health insurance. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-puts-65-projects-worth-78-5bn-in-front-of-investors-da0b5d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-puts-65-projects-worth-78-5bn-in-front-of-investors-da0b5d/Thu, 15 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTBusinessFrom a Lagos rail line to a fertiliser plant and a data centre powered by flare gas, the portfolio presented in Bangkok could create about 367,000 jobs, the government says. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/five-new-judges-take-their-seats-at-west-africa-s-court-fb8fa0/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/five-new-judges-take-their-seats-at-west-africa-s-court-fb8fa0/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:36:00 GMTPoliticsSworn in before Senegal's president, the judges from Benin, The Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria and Togo will each serve a single four-year term. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-headies-move-to-toronto-and-to-april-2027-2d3290/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-headies-move-to-toronto-and-to-april-2027-2d3290/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTCultureNigeria's leading music awards will be held over two days in Canada instead of on 23 October. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/lagos-creative-showcase-adds-grants-for-its-most-promising-businesses-8e4014/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/lagos-creative-showcase-adds-grants-for-its-most-promising-businesses-8e4014/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTCultureEntertainment Week Africa will fund standout companies from its Deal Room when it returns to Lagos in November. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigerian-senate-advances-bill-to-stop-punishing-attempted-suicide-55acaa/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigerian-senate-advances-bill-to-stop-punishing-attempted-suicide-55acaa/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTHealthMost senators backed treating it as a medical emergency. Senate President Godswill Akpabio said survivors should still face jail. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/morocco-s-first-woman-prime-minister-forms-a-four-party-government-19351e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/morocco-s-first-woman-prime-minister-forms-a-four-party-government-19351e/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTPoliticsFatima Ezzahra El Mansouri's coalition holds 207 seats in the lower house, nine more than it needs for a majority. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-border-agency-brings-in-data-to-catch-stolen-cars-9ae974/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-border-agency-brings-in-data-to-catch-stolen-cars-9ae974/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTTechnologyA new Vehicle Targeting System at Lebombo will pick out vehicles for inspection by intelligence, not at random. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-aims-for-520-000-technical-college-students-859858/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-aims-for-520-000-technical-college-students-859858/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTCultureThe government is also funding 700,000 students through its aid scheme this year, and offering full scholarships to China, Germany and Hungary. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/seven-million-trees-in-six-months-south-africa-s-planting-drive-04bdf6/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/seven-million-trees-in-six-months-south-africa-s-planting-drive-04bdf6/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTClimateThe government says 7.1 million trees have gone into the ground since April, against a goal of one billion. The Western Cape has planted the most. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/west-africa-s-border-chiefs-a-boundary-is-not-only-a-line-2620dc/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/west-africa-s-border-chiefs-a-boundary-is-not-only-a-line-2620dc/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTPoliticsHeads of national boundary commissions met in The Gambia to speed up the marking of frontiers, as the regional bloc pushes freer movement across them. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-scientist-who-brought-south-africa-s-cattle-vaccine-home-e86528/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-scientist-who-brought-south-africa-s-cattle-vaccine-home-e86528/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTTechnologyDr Faith Peta has spent 20 years rebuilding the country's ability to make its own foot-and-mouth vaccine. The first local doses went out in February. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/electric-car-convoy-rolls-into-durban-as-sa-auto-week-opens-7b29f7/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/electric-car-convoy-rolls-into-durban-as-sa-auto-week-opens-7b29f7/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTTechnologyKwaZulu-Natal wants a share of the investment and jobs as South Africa's car industry moves towards cleaner vehicles. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/opay-s-profit-quadruples-to-90-9m-as-it-prepares-to-list-44bdd6/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/opay-s-profit-quadruples-to-90-9m-as-it-prepares-to-list-44bdd6/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTTechnologyThe Nigerian payments company's revenue more than doubled in six months, with lending now earning more than payments. Loan losses are rising too. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/liberia-turns-to-nigeria-for-lessons-on-insurance-reform-aaebb7/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/liberia-turns-to-nigeria-for-lessons-on-insurance-reform-aaebb7/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusinessA Central Bank of Liberia team visited Nigeria's insurance regulator after 50 Nigerian insurers raised about N720 billion in new capital. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/world-tourism-body-honours-south-africa-after-record-10-5-million-visi-1226a5/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/world-tourism-body-honours-south-africa-after-record-10-5-million-visi-1226a5/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusinessTourism Minister Patricia de Lille received a global award in Malta for bringing government and business together to grow the industry. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/imf-lifts-nigeria-s-growth-forecast-to-4-2-and-urges-help-with-food-co-aad65e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/imf-lifts-nigeria-s-growth-forecast-to-4-2-and-urges-help-with-food-co-aad65e/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusinessThe fund sees 4.3% growth next year, but says rising prices are hurting households and calls for targeted cash support. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/east-africa-s-digital-customs-win-praise-from-tax-chiefs-8ba865/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/east-africa-s-digital-customs-win-praise-from-tax-chiefs-8ba865/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTTechnologyCommonwealth tax administrators visiting Arusha commended the region's shared customs territory and its electronic tracking of cargo across borders. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-builds-one-table-for-its-primary-health-care-plans-389b06/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-builds-one-table-for-its-primary-health-care-plans-389b06/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTHealthA new continental mechanism rests on a simple rule: countries lead, regional bodies coordinate, partners support. It comes with scorecards and annual reviews. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/no-app-store-no-site-visit-the-software-behind-a-lagos-build-run-from--eba4c4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/no-app-store-no-site-visit-the-software-behind-a-lagos-build-run-from--eba4c4/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTTechnologyProptiva Africa has put approvals, photo evidence, messages and payments for a property project into one login. Here is how the pieces fit together. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-reviews-its-160bn-list-of-cross-border-projects-44af80/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-reviews-its-160bn-list-of-cross-border-projects-44af80/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTBusinessThe African Union has begun a mid-term check on 69 regional infrastructure schemes. The question it wants answered: why are so many stuck? https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/gambia-malawi-and-mauritius-back-un-inquiry-on-sudan-ac57dc/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/gambia-malawi-and-mauritius-back-un-inquiry-on-sudan-ac57dc/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTPoliticsA record number of countries voted to renew the fact-finding mission. Human Rights Watch says they stopped short of giving it the means to preserve evidence. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/lookman-scores-nine-minutes-after-coming-on-to-sink-manchester-united-ded3ff/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/lookman-scores-nine-minutes-after-coming-on-to-sink-manchester-united-ded3ff/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTSportThe Nigerian forward sealed a 2-0 Champions League win for Atletico Madrid. Victor Osimhen's Galatasaray lost 4-1 to Barcelona. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egyptians-abroad-send-home-33-9bn-in-eight-months-up-27-2f7976/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egyptians-abroad-send-home-33-9bn-in-eight-months-up-27-2f7976/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTDiasporaMoney sent by Egyptians working overseas reached $4.2 billion in August alone, the central bank says. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/big-ships-are-coming-back-to-the-suez-canal-fe3f3b/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/big-ships-are-coming-back-to-the-suez-canal-fe3f3b/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTBusinessThe canal says 166 large container ships crossed between July and September, against 16 in the same months last year. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-backs-funding-drive-for-36-nile-basin-projects-164ee7/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-backs-funding-drive-for-36-nile-basin-projects-164ee7/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTBusinessThe projects, in the countries of the southern basin, cover hydropower, power lines and water supply. Cairo has also opened a $100 million fund of its own. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zimbabwe-lithium-mine-to-process-at-home-in-1bn-expansion-bf1bc6/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zimbabwe-lithium-mine-to-process-at-home-in-1bn-expansion-bf1bc6/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:00:00 GMTBusinessBikita Minerals says a $400 million lithium sulphate plant will be finished in 2027, as Zimbabwe pushes to sell finished products instead of raw ore. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-shuts-its-iron-ore-railway-for-ten-days-of-repairs-45acd5/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-shuts-its-iron-ore-railway-for-ten-days-of-repairs-45acd5/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTBusinessThe 861-kilometre line from Sishen to Saldanha is getting new rails, sleepers and signalling, as the state prepares to let private operators run trains on it. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-record-962-832-south-africans-sit-school-leaving-exams-aa939a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-record-962-832-south-africans-sit-school-leaving-exams-aa939a/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTCultureThe matric exams began on Tuesday and run to 26 November. Ministers want a pass rate above last year's 88% and have warned against phones in the exam room. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/not-old-style-paternalism-south-africa-s-terms-for-europe-f0a9b5/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/not-old-style-paternalism-south-africa-s-terms-for-europe-f0a9b5/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTBusinessThe foreign minister says Africa wants European capital and technology to process its own minerals, and warns that the EU's carbon tax could cost the continent $25bn. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/every-ebola-dollar-must-be-traceable-africa-s-health-agency-says-59beb6/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/every-ebola-dollar-must-be-traceable-africa-s-health-agency-says-59beb6/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTHealthDonors have pledged $2.9bn for the outbreak in DR Congo. Africa CDC is backing Kinshasa's demand that every organisation report what it received and spent. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/formula-one-is-coming-back-to-africa-and-rwanda-will-host-6bdbcc/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/formula-one-is-coming-back-to-africa-and-rwanda-will-host-6bdbcc/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTSportA ten-year deal will bring a Grand Prix to a new circuit at Bugesera in the early 2030s, the first race on the continent since 1993. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/dangote-refinery-turns-a-117m-loss-into-a-4-7bn-profit-abb6ab/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/dangote-refinery-turns-a-117m-loss-into-a-4-7bn-profit-abb6ab/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTBusinessNine-month revenue more than doubled to $22.5 billion as the Lekki refinery moved from start-up into full commercial running. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-ghana-zambia-and-burundi-win-seats-on-un-rights-council-8068ff/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-ghana-zambia-and-burundi-win-seats-on-un-rights-council-8068ff/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTPoliticsFour African countries are among 15 elected by the General Assembly to serve on the Human Rights Council from 2027 to 2029. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-is-getting-ready-for-disasters-faster-than-anywhere-else-405692/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-is-getting-ready-for-disasters-faster-than-anywhere-else-405692/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTClimateA worldwide survey finds every African region has improved its resilience score since 2023, more than any other part of the world. Warnings that reach people in time are the next task. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/super-falcons-put-five-past-comoros-to-set-up-morocco-tie-e25e48/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/super-falcons-put-five-past-comoros-to-set-up-morocco-tie-e25e48/Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:30:00 GMTSportToni Payne and Uchenna Kanu scored twice each as Nigeria won 7-0 on aggregate in qualifying for the 2028 Olympics. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-cervical-cancer-vaccine-is-working-038114/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-cervical-cancer-vaccine-is-working-038114/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:00:00 GMTHealthInfection with the virus behind the disease is 83% lower among teenage girls who were offered the jab. Now a doctor born two kilometres away is taking same-day screening to rural Mpumalanga. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/london-court-to-test-what-responsible-gold-means-bdd944/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/london-court-to-test-what-responsible-gold-means-bdd944/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTBusinessThe families of two young Tanzanians shot dead near a mine in 2019 are suing the body that certified its gold. Thirty more Tanzanians have joined them. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-healers-are-running-out-of-plants-9439a0/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-healers-are-running-out-of-plants-9439a0/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTCultureOne in ten of the country's plant species is used as medicine, and 154 of them are at risk. A deputy minister wants healers to grow what they pick. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-dam-that-ended-a-village-s-dry-season-quarrels-a7cb6b/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-dam-that-ended-a-village-s-dry-season-quarrels-a7cb6b/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTClimateIn Torla, in northern Côte d'Ivoire, a herder and his partner, a vegetable grower, used to compete for the same water. A rebuilt dam changed that. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/west-african-gas-pipeline-reports-22-rise-in-supply-b19f9f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/west-african-gas-pipeline-reports-22-rise-in-supply-b19f9f/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTBusinessThe pipeline's regulator briefed the region's new infrastructure commissioner. The line was set up by Benin, Ghana, Nigeria and Togo to supply power stations. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-brings-home-105-citizens-found-in-ghana-cybercrime-raids-2f3149/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-brings-home-105-citizens-found-in-ghana-cybercrime-raids-2f3149/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTDiasporaThe anti-trafficking agency says each returnee will be assessed. It has not said how many were victims and how many were willing participants. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-s-payment-systems-are-faster-than-its-currencies-77917a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-s-payment-systems-are-faster-than-its-currencies-77917a/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusinessThe pipes for instant cross-border transfers now exist, a payments executive argues. What is missing is enough local currency at the other end. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-says-120-000-vehicles-now-run-on-gas-ab165b/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-says-120-000-vehicles-now-run-on-gas-ab165b/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusinessThe information minister says the conversion programme has drawn $2.5bn in private money. Drivers still face a high upfront cost and too few filling stations. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/tongaat-leaves-the-johannesburg-bourse-after-74-years-c173b1/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/tongaat-leaves-the-johannesburg-bourse-after-74-years-c173b1/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTBusinessThe sugar producer will be delisted on 3 November. With it, 2026 will have seen 13 companies leave the exchange and only two arrive. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/guinea-bissau-approves-disputed-newborn-vaccine-trial-c7f81f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/guinea-bissau-approves-disputed-newborn-vaccine-trial-c7f81f/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTHealthHalf of 14,000 babies would go without the hepatitis B vaccine for their first six weeks. Africa's public health agency opposes the US-funded study. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-to-demand-money-not-more-paperwork-at-nature-summit-e50bb5/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-to-demand-money-not-more-paperwork-at-nature-summit-e50bb5/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTClimateNearly half the country's ecosystem types are threatened. Its delegation heads to Armenia arguing that poor countries should not borrow to protect wildlife. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/families-moved-for-a-coal-mine-got-5-of-what-they-lost-f63bb5/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/families-moved-for-a-coal-mine-got-5-of-what-they-lost-f63bb5/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTClimateA study of 115 households near Somkhele, in KwaZulu-Natal, counts R80 million in lost land, crops and livestock against R3.6 million paid. The mine disputes the research. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/lagos-court-clears-way-for-inquest-into-death-of-adichie-s-son-8f453b/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/lagos-court-clears-way-for-inquest-into-death-of-adichie-s-son-8f453b/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTCultureA judge has rejected a hospital operator's attempt to stop the coroner's inquiry, ruling that an inquest is a fact-finding exercise in which nobody is on trial. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-s-university-lecturers-dig-in-as-pay-talks-collapse-2e997b/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-s-university-lecturers-dig-in-as-pay-talks-collapse-2e997b/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTCultureThe union says the government returned with almost the same offer it rejected on 1 October, and that the Treasury did not come to the meeting. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-sudan-eritrea-and-somalia-close-ranks-on-the-horn-500c9c/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-sudan-eritrea-and-somalia-close-ranks-on-the-horn-500c9c/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMTPoliticsFour leaders meeting at El Alamein agreed five principles, from the Nile to the Red Sea. The country they did not name, but had in mind, was Ethiopia. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/sent-to-countries-they-had-never-seen-us-deportations-to-africa-920945/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/sent-to-countries-they-had-never-seen-us-deportations-to-africa-920945/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTDiasporaMore than 500 people the US could not return home have been flown to African states instead, Human Rights Watch says. The US Supreme Court hears the case in December. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-government-sounds-the-alarm-on-ai-fraud-2f552e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-government-sounds-the-alarm-on-ai-fraud-2f552e/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTTechnologyCloned voices, deepfake video and machine-written phishing are changing cybercrime, a senior communications official warns. His advice: verify before you pay. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/west-africa-agrees-to-ban-the-trade-in-donkey-skins-78c98e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/west-africa-agrees-to-ban-the-trade-in-donkey-skins-78c98e/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTClimateMinisters meeting in Lomé adopted three regional plans: to protect donkeys by 2030, and to control foot-and-mouth disease and bird flu from 2027. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/high-blood-pressure-drives-a-quarter-of-africa-s-chronic-disease-death-21f88e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/high-blood-pressure-drives-a-quarter-of-africa-s-chronic-disease-death-21f88e/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTHealthHeart disease, stroke, kidney disease and diabetes killed 4.7 million Africans in 2023, a Lancet analysis finds. More than half the deaths trace to three preventable risks. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-and-kenya-vote-in-2027-will-their-young-people-31e881/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-and-kenya-vote-in-2027-will-their-young-people-31e881/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:18:51 GMTPoliticsBoth countries spent 2026 signing up young voters by the million. The numbers look similar. The politics behind them do not. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/lassa-fever-has-killed-268-nigerians-this-year-aecb1e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/lassa-fever-has-killed-268-nigerians-this-year-aecb1e/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMTHealthNearly one in four confirmed patients has died, up from fewer than one in five last year. Health officials blame late arrival at hospital and the cost of treatment. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-swings-to-a-2-8bn-payments-surplus-47db73/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-swings-to-a-2-8bn-payments-surplus-47db73/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMTBusinessRemittances of $47.3bn and a jump in foreign investment outweighed a trade deficit that widened by more than a quarter. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/two-names-two-parties-oddities-in-edo-s-candidate-list-0cf941/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/two-names-two-parties-oddities-in-edo-s-candidate-list-0cf941/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMTPoliticsThe electoral commission's final list for the state assembly shows two men standing for both the PDP and the APM. Fewer than one candidate in ten is a woman. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/tiktok-says-it-did-not-cut-access-in-northern-nigeria-9b3900/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/tiktok-says-it-did-not-cut-access-in-northern-nigeria-9b3900/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMTTechnologyUsers in four states have struggled to load or upload videos since mid-September. Civil society groups want to know whether someone ordered it. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-declares-ebola-a-formidable-epidemic-disease-dc8225/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-declares-ebola-a-formidable-epidemic-disease-dc8225/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMTHealthNew rules cover screening, quarantine, contact tracing and burials. The WHO says 94 of 127 listed contacts are in quarantine, and advises against travel bans. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-missed-click-could-keep-181-anc-candidates-off-the-ballot-6baa49/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-missed-click-could-keep-181-anc-candidates-off-the-ballot-6baa49/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMTPoliticsSouth Africa's top court is weighing whether failing to press a final 'submit' button is reason enough to exclude a party's candidates, three weeks before local elections. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/australia-close-in-on-victory-as-proteas-lose-four-ca4e57/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/australia-close-in-on-victory-as-proteas-lose-four-ca4e57/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMTSportSouth Africa ended day four of the Durban Test on 102 for four, more than 300 runs adrift. Matt Renshaw followed his 190 with 82. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/spain-clears-ceuta-s-last-big-migrant-camp-before-royal-visit-3706bc/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/spain-clears-ceuta-s-last-big-migrant-camp-before-royal-visit-3706bc/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMTDiasporaMore than 350 police, backed by soldiers, moved hundreds of people from makeshift shelters two days before the king and queen arrive. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ethiopian-forces-enter-adwa-as-tigray-rebels-pull-back-829185/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ethiopian-forces-enter-adwa-as-tigray-rebels-pull-back-829185/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMTPoliticsResidents say federal troops and allied militia have taken the town near the Eritrean border, nine days after government-allied forces retook Mekelle. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-deputy-police-chief-quits-before-hearing-76fe0e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-deputy-police-chief-quits-before-hearing-76fe0e/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:10:00 GMTPoliticsShadrack Sibiya resigned as his disciplinary case was about to begin. The police say it will be recorded as a dishonourable discharge. He is in custody on separate charges, which he denies. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/drought-and-war-push-darfur-and-kordofan-towards-famine-0cb9ad/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/drought-and-war-push-darfur-and-kordofan-towards-famine-0cb9ad/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTHealthA UN-backed hunger monitor says child malnutrition in two Darfur camps is above the famine threshold, and only a quarter of the sickest children are being treated. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-to-fingerprint-asylum-seekers-online-14d95d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-to-fingerprint-asylum-seekers-online-14d95d/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTTechnologyA biometric platform due on 10 November is meant to stop rejected applicants filing again. The minister says the appeals backlog is about 120,000 cases. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ramaphosa-2-5-million-hectares-for-black-farmers-with-deeds-1366bb/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ramaphosa-2-5-million-hectares-for-black-farmers-with-deeds-1366bb/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTBusinessSouth Africa's farm exports hit a record R270 billion last year. The president says Black farmers produce about a tenth of commercial output. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/senegal-s-anti-gay-law-has-led-to-hundreds-of-arrests-59e5bf/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/senegal-s-anti-gay-law-has-led-to-hundreds-of-arrests-59e5bf/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:00:00 GMTPoliticsHuman Rights Watch documents forced HIV tests, leaked medical records and lawyers too afraid to take cases, weeks before Dakar hosts the Youth Olympics. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/six-in-ten-ugandan-children-never-see-a-pre-school-d6a006/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/six-in-ten-ugandan-children-never-see-a-pre-school-d6a006/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:12:43 GMTCulturePrimary and secondary school are free. The years before are left to private providers. A UN committee says that should end. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/in-baidoa-fighting-returns-to-a-city-already-starving-549f49/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/in-baidoa-fighting-returns-to-a-city-already-starving-549f49/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:12:39 GMTPoliticsTwo million Somali children are malnourished. The World Food Programme, which once fed four million people a month, now reaches 670,000. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ebola-has-left-1-900-congolese-children-without-a-parent-ec5638/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ebola-has-left-1-900-congolese-children-without-a-parent-ec5638/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:12:33 GMTHealthChildren are a quarter of the cases but a third of the deaths. Among the under-fives who catch it, seven in ten die. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/203-million-for-niger-2-2-billion-for-senegal-imf-deals-explained-8ec620/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/203-million-for-niger-2-2-billion-for-senegal-imf-deals-explained-8ec620/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:12:28 GMTBusinessTwo neighbours, two very different programmes under the same name. What an Extended Credit Facility is, and why the sums differ tenfold. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/world-s-mapping-standards-body-meets-in-africa-for-first-time-a21ead/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/world-s-mapping-standards-body-meets-in-africa-for-first-time-a21ead/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:11:53 GMTTechnologyThe Open Geospatial Consortium opens four days of meetings in Cape Town today. Its standards sit behind the digital maps on every phone. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/west-africa-goes-digital-to-track-livestock-disease-4a4e62/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/west-africa-goes-digital-to-track-livestock-disease-4a4e62/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:11:49 GMTClimateVets from across the region have adopted a shared online system for reporting outbreaks of diseases that cross borders with the herds. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/east-africa-agrees-one-voice-for-the-climate-summit-5545f6/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/east-africa-agrees-one-voice-for-the-climate-summit-5545f6/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:11:45 GMTClimateThe bloc will ask for adaptation money to be tripled by 2035 and for countries to draw directly on the loss and damage fund. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ecowas-puts-its-free-movement-promise-to-the-test-in-togo-b761b6/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ecowas-puts-its-free-movement-promise-to-the-test-in-togo-b761b6/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:11:41 GMTBusinessOfficials spent five days at four border posts with Benin and Ghana, timing the queues and asking traders and drivers what really happens. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/niger-admits-holding-journalist-missing-since-august-7e5b81/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/niger-admits-holding-journalist-missing-since-august-7e5b81/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:11:38 GMTPoliticsMoussa Kaka vanished in Niamey on 31 August. The justice minister has now said he is detained, without saying on what charge. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mozambique-sets-december-deadline-to-hand-in-illegal-guns-a8a741/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mozambique-sets-december-deadline-to-hand-in-illegal-guns-a8a741/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:11:35 GMTPoliticsPresident Chapo says nobody who surrenders a weapon under the amnesty will be questioned or detained. After the deadline, the police will come for them. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/burundi-heads-back-to-un-rights-council-unopposed-a29664/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/burundi-heads-back-to-un-rights-council-unopposed-a29664/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:11:29 GMTPoliticsFour African countries are standing for four African seats in Monday's vote. Human Rights Watch says a contest with no losers is not an election. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/leave-them-to-me-ruto-renews-attack-on-kenyatta-9931f4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/leave-them-to-me-ruto-renews-attack-on-kenyatta-9931f4/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:11:24 GMTPoliticsKenya's president told a church service that he will deal with those he says are paying for his opponents, as the 2027 election draws nearer. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/east-africa-plans-34-mobile-labs-to-catch-outbreaks-early-76c319/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/east-africa-plans-34-mobile-labs-to-catch-outbreaks-early-76c319/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:11:10 GMTHealthHealth ministers from eight countries also agreed to buy medicines together and to share outbreak intelligence in real time. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/bandits-ambush-traders-under-army-escort-in-zamfara-cb2286/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/bandits-ambush-traders-under-army-escort-in-zamfara-cb2286/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:11:00 GMTPoliticsAt least 22 people are feared dead after gunmen attacked a convoy heading to a weekly market in Bukkuyum. The army and police have yet to comment. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/air-strikes-kill-dozens-of-gold-miners-on-sudan-egypt-border-f987be/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/air-strikes-kill-dozens-of-gold-miners-on-sudan-egypt-border-f987be/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:10:24 GMTPoliticsA Sudanese rights group says at least 72 people died at a remote mining site and blames Egypt's air force. Cairo has not commented. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/liberia-wants-its-minerals-processed-at-home-89ae42/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/liberia-wants-its-minerals-processed-at-home-89ae42/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:10:21 GMTBusinessAt a town hall in Bomi County, the mines minister said the test is how much value stays in the country, and floated a gold refinery and a state mining company. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-and-indonesia-aim-for-5bn-in-trade-by-2030-922f01/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-and-indonesia-aim-for-5bn-in-trade-by-2030-922f01/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:10:18 GMTBusinessPresidents Sisi and Prabowo signed four agreements in Jakarta. Indonesia also backed Egypt's position on the Nile. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/malawi-puts-1-million-behind-its-seed-plan-c2bd66/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/malawi-puts-1-million-behind-its-seed-plan-c2bd66/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:10:15 GMTBusinessThe head of the farm body AGRA says African countries have good seed laws and weak delivery, and that plans written into national budgets are the ones that happen. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zimbabwe-s-clinics-have-half-the-medicines-they-need-40f42b/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zimbabwe-s-clinics-have-half-the-medicines-they-need-40f42b/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:10:11 GMTHealthThe health ministry asked for ZWG89 billion for 2027 and was told to plan for a third of that. Dialysis supplies and blood are already running short. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/what-a-masekela-record-says-about-south-africa-s-migrants-66e60f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/what-a-masekela-record-says-about-south-africa-s-migrants-66e60f/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:10:08 GMTCultureAn essay in Daily Maverick reads the credits of two 1970s albums as a record of what the rest of Africa gave South Africans in exile. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/smith-s-four-catches-leave-south-africa-chasing-the-game-00b267/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/smith-s-four-catches-leave-south-africa-chasing-the-game-00b267/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:10:04 GMTSportThe Proteas were bowled out for 284 in reply to Australia's 390 at Kingsmead, and Steve Smith took a Test fielding record on the way. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-is-0-15-of-gene-studies-six-countries-want-to-fix-it-8dbc99/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-is-0-15-of-gene-studies-six-countries-want-to-fix-it-8dbc99/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:10:01 GMTTechnologyTunisia, Egypt and Senegal have national genome projects and three more are planning them. A new paper sets out what will decide whether patients benefit. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-first-lady-calls-for-an-end-to-child-marriage-f9ce49/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-first-lady-calls-for-an-end-to-child-marriage-f9ce49/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:09:58 GMTCultureMarking the International Day of the Girl, Oluremi Tinubu said protecting girls is an economic priority and asked for action, not statements. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-egyptian-apps-taking-the-shame-out-of-periods-b5f52a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-egyptian-apps-taking-the-shame-out-of-periods-b5f52a/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:09:55 GMTTechnologyOnly one Egyptian woman in five has medical insurance. A Cairo app and a maker of reusable underwear are building products around what women will not ask aloud. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/floods-and-storms-wreck-homes-and-farms-across-taraba-218572/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/floods-and-storms-wreck-homes-and-farms-across-taraba-218572/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:09:52 GMTClimateThe state emergency agency reports damage in seven local government areas after prolonged heavy rain and is telling riverside communities to move. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/how-kenya-s-first-ebola-case-got-past-two-airport-checks-dc19c5/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/how-kenya-s-first-ebola-case-got-past-two-airport-checks-dc19c5/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:09:48 GMTHealthThe man was screened in Entebbe and again in Nairobi and was not flagged. Health officials say fever checks alone were never going to be enough. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/maps-show-where-a-forgotten-african-bean-will-grow-df60b3/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/maps-show-where-a-forgotten-african-bean-will-grow-df60b3/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:09:44 GMTClimateResearchers simulated 49 seasons across South Africa and Eswatini to find where bambara groundnut gives a reliable harvest. October planting came out best. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/african-union-takes-debt-and-tax-demands-to-bangkok-5c6c00/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/african-union-takes-debt-and-tax-demands-to-bangkok-5c6c00/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:09:41 GMTBusinessThe AU will run four side events at this week's IMF and World Bank meetings, on tax rules, cross-border payments, its own financial institutions and debt. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kipchoge-41-wins-in-melbourne-with-a-course-record-8a0725/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kipchoge-41-wins-in-melbourne-with-a-course-record-8a0725/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:09:33 GMTSportIt is the Kenyan's first marathon victory since Berlin in 2023, and the high point so far of his attempt to run one on every continent. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ghana-drills-its-outbreak-command-centres-e7105e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ghana-drills-its-outbreak-command-centres-e7105e/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:09:23 GMTHealthFifty specialists from across the country trained in Accra to run the operations rooms that coordinate a response when disease strikes. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-sudanese-and-an-egyptian-among-12-dead-at-riyadh-airport-b913b2/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-sudanese-and-an-egyptian-among-12-dead-at-riyadh-airport-b913b2/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:09:15 GMTDiasporaNigeria and Egypt have condemned the Houthi strike on Saudi Arabia's main airport. The Egyptian victim was a 28-year-old flight attendant. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/france-expels-two-nigerien-intelligence-officers-793861/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/france-expels-two-nigerien-intelligence-officers-793861/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTDiasporaThe pair worked at Niger's embassy in Paris. One was suspected of watching exiled opponents of the junta, Le Monde reports. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/fitch-lifts-nigeria-s-outlook-to-positive-635905/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/fitch-lifts-nigeria-s-outlook-to-positive-635905/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTBusinessThe agency kept the rating at B but says reforms to the naira and interest rates are working, and that reserves have reached $54.9 billion. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nearly-four-million-people-uprooted-in-the-central-sahel-9bad20/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nearly-four-million-people-uprooted-in-the-central-sahel-9bad20/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTPoliticsThe number forced from their homes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger has more than doubled in six years. The UN refugee agency has a quarter of the money it needs. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-s-inflation-eases-to-13-9-as-vegetable-prices-jump-477e85/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-s-inflation-eases-to-13-9-as-vegetable-prices-jump-477e85/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTBusinessThe annual rate in cities fell for September, but prices rose 1.3% in the month, led by a 15% rise in vegetables. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-has-108-ebola-contacts-in-quarantine-none-ill-06ac85/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-has-108-ebola-contacts-in-quarantine-none-ill-06ac85/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTHealthNo new infection has been found since the first case was confirmed on 6 October. Borders and airports remain open. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-governors-pledge-a-national-fund-to-fight-malnutrition-2f8adf/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-governors-pledge-a-national-fund-to-fight-malnutrition-2f8adf/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTHealthAfter studying Ethiopia's approach, all 36 state governors also resolved to declare a nationwide nutrition emergency. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-and-african-union-agency-plan-push-on-local-medicines-4e11b2/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-and-african-union-agency-plan-push-on-local-medicines-4e11b2/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTHealthThe two agreed in Berlin to draw up a long-term plan to make more drugs and vaccines in Africa. No projects or funding have been announced. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kipruto-wins-chicago-marathon-in-2-01-09-215c2c/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kipruto-wins-chicago-marathon-in-2-01-09-215c2c/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTSportThe Kenyan broke clear with seven kilometres to go for a personal best. Ethiopia's Hawi Feysa kept the women's title. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/hunters-lose-court-bid-against-animal-wellbeing-law-a95be4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/hunters-lose-court-bid-against-animal-wellbeing-law-a95be4/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTClimateSouth Africa's Constitutional Court has upheld rules that make the wellbeing of wild animals part of how they are managed and used. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/carthage-music-festival-returns-with-tunisia-s-own-stars-152c00/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/carthage-music-festival-returns-with-tunisia-s-own-stars-152c00/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTCultureAfter nearly two years away, the festival drew a young crowd with 26 acts from 15 countries, at least 60% of them Tunisian. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-markets-regulator-warns-against-wayvepay-2e8008/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-markets-regulator-warns-against-wayvepay-2e8008/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTTechnologyThe Securities and Exchange Commission says the online investment platform is not registered and that anyone who uses it does so at their own risk. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/lagos-promises-to-triple-its-power-supply-by-march-80f161/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/lagos-promises-to-triple-its-power-supply-by-march-80f161/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTTechnologyThe state says it will go from under 1,000MW to more than 3,000MW, using smart meters, private plants and its new powers to regulate electricity. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/african-football-lines-up-behind-infantino-d4cb02/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/african-football-lines-up-behind-infantino-d4cb02/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTSportAll 54 federations will back the FIFA president for another term, Patrice Motsepe says, as support for him weakens in Europe. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/in-kibera-children-play-chess-on-boards-made-from-waste-edbe40/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/in-kibera-children-play-chess-on-boards-made-from-waste-edbe40/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTCultureA community project has turned 200kg of discarded plastic into nearly 2,000 chess sets for children who could not otherwise afford one. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/at-least-139-dead-as-migrant-boat-sinks-off-djibouti-7816d1/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/at-least-139-dead-as-migrant-boat-sinks-off-djibouti-7816d1/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTDiasporaFifteen children are among the dead and 84 people are missing. Survivors, all Ethiopian, say the boat began to sink as soon as they boarded. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/eritrea-asks-un-to-act-over-ethiopia-s-declaration-of-war-11173f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/eritrea-asks-un-to-act-over-ethiopia-s-declaration-of-war-11173f/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTPoliticsAsmara denies sending troops into Tigray. Addis Ababa says they advanced 60km. In the border city of Adigrat, residents say food and medicine are running out. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mauritania-s-pm-quits-over-blackouts-then-is-reappointed-045ba0/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mauritania-s-pm-quits-over-blackouts-then-is-reappointed-045ba0/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTPoliticsA report blamed substandard imported parts and poor supervision for two substation fires that cut power to the capital for days. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kabila-says-dr-congo-is-no-longer-a-republic-270e79/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kabila-says-dr-congo-is-no-longer-a-republic-270e79/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTPoliticsIn a video address, the former president accused his successor of personal rule and called for a national dialogue to end the war in the east. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-to-ask-a-court-to-oversee-its-asylum-fix-4768e1/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-to-ask-a-court-to-oversee-its-asylum-fix-4768e1/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTPoliticsA new registration system is promised by 10 November. Thirty people have been arrested over the unrest, and deportations of those with no claim will continue. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-electoral-body-drops-two-pdp-governorship-candidates-8777a9/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-electoral-body-drops-two-pdp-governorship-candidates-8777a9/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:48 GMTPoliticsIsa Pantami in Gombe and Ladi Adebutu in Ogun are missing from the final list for February's elections. INEC has given no reasons. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/after-its-own-ratings-agency-au-targets-the-africa-premium-b284e0/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/after-its-own-ratings-agency-au-targets-the-africa-premium-b284e0/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTBusinessA day after launching the Africa Credit Rating Agency, the African Union gathered lenders in Mauritius to ask why the continent still pays more to borrow. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-world-bank-s-ai-advice-for-africa-think-small-d56ae7/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-world-bank-s-ai-advice-for-africa-think-small-d56ae7/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTTechnologyForget the race for giant models. The bank says the continent's opening is in cheap, local tools for farms, clinics and classrooms, if the power stays on. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/from-luthuli-to-pillay-south-africa-s-nobel-peace-line-eb048e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/from-luthuli-to-pillay-south-africa-s-nobel-peace-line-eb048e/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:00:00 GMTCultureNavi Pillay is the fifth South African to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The first four were honoured for ending apartheid. She is honoured for what came after. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/what-south-africa-s-asylum-ruling-does-and-doesn-t-do-54b6fd/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/what-south-africa-s-asylum-ruling-does-and-doesn-t-do-54b6fd/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTDiasporaThe court judgment behind a week of unrest gives no one the right to stay. It gives them the right to be heard. An explainer. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-s-first-seed-summit-backs-a-continental-gene-bank-7b2cbe/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-s-first-seed-summit-backs-a-continental-gene-bank-7b2cbe/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTClimateGovernments meeting in Eswatini agreed to link national seed banks, breed climate-hardy varieties and make it easier to trade seed across borders. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/un-extends-sudan-sanctions-for-just-two-more-months-f1d64f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/un-extends-sudan-sanctions-for-just-two-more-months-f1d64f/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:00:00 GMTPoliticsThe Security Council agreed only a short "technical rollover". In Darfur, 700,000 displaced people in one town are short of food, water and medicine. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/world-bank-lifts-africa-growth-forecast-to-4-3-79f26d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/world-bank-lifts-africa-growth-forecast-to-4-3-79f26d/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMTBusinessThree in four economies south of the Sahara have been upgraded. But prices are rising again, and income per person is growing at under 2% a year. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ebola-8-728-cases-and-most-deaths-are-outside-clinics-b81ce7/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ebola-8-728-cases-and-most-deaths-are-outside-clinics-b81ce7/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMTHealthThe World Health Organization's latest count from DR Congo shows about 72 new cases a day. Of 379 recent deaths, 264 happened in the community. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-ugandan-lab-turning-seized-ivory-into-convictions-42afef/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-ugandan-lab-turning-seized-ivory-into-convictions-42afef/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMTClimatePoachers now strip carcasses of anything that identifies them. In Entebbe, scientists use DNA to tell a court exactly which animal a piece of meat or tusk came from. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/bundibugyo-the-ebola-strain-with-no-vaccine-a4a515/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/bundibugyo-the-ebola-strain-with-no-vaccine-a4a515/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMTHealthThe virus behind the outbreak in DR Congo is a rarer cousin of the one the world learned to vaccinate against. Here is what is known about it. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-police-vow-arrests-over-asylum-riots-b5a4d0/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-police-vow-arrests-over-asylum-riots-b5a4d0/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMTPoliticsTwenty-four cars were burned outside Home Affairs offices in Soweto and Durban. The department says it pulled its asylum directive because staff and the public were at risk. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/icc-tells-member-states-its-fate-is-in-their-hands-83a74c/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/icc-tells-member-states-its-fate-is-in-their-hands-83a74c/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMTPoliticsSanctioned by Washington as an institution, the court says it will not be deterred. The US says allies must rein it in or watch it be dismantled "brick by brick". https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/congolese-scientist-jean-jacques-muyembe-receives-the-2026-virchow-pri-3b07ab/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/congolese-scientist-jean-jacques-muyembe-receives-the-2026-virchow-pri-3b07ab/Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:47:12 GMTHealthFifty years after he confronted the first Ebola outbreak in Yambuku, the Congolese virologist is honoured alongside Peter Piot with one of global health's most prestigious awards — a recognition of African scientific leadership. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-foundation-backing-students-and-first-time-founders-in-nigeria-with--368809/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-foundation-backing-students-and-first-time-founders-in-nigeria-with--368809/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:26:15 GMTBusinessThe Eli Adewole Foundation pairs education and business grants with mentorship and skills training. Its argument is that money alone rarely gets a young person from potential to progress. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/us-report-says-kenyan-officials-linked-to-human-trafficking-are-going--0b1918/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/us-report-says-kenyan-officials-linked-to-human-trafficking-are-going--0b1918/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:26:11 GMTPoliticsConvictions fell from 21 to six in a year. The report also cites claims that some embassy staff in Saudi Arabia demanded sex or cash from women seeking help. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-hundred-fishing-boats-for-luxor-s-poorest-fishers-607f95/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-hundred-fishing-boats-for-luxor-s-poorest-fishers-607f95/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:26:07 GMTBusinessEgypt's biggest state bank has given motorboats and gear, free, to breadwinners who could not afford a vessel of their own. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ohale-returns-to-italy-with-como-as-gift-monday-joins-boston-s-new-nws-cb7b79/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ohale-returns-to-italy-with-como-as-gift-monday-joins-boston-s-new-nws-cb7b79/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:26:04 GMTSportTwo Super Falcons, two moves: the veteran defender signs for Como after leaving Pachuca, and the forward is traded from Washington Spirit. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/diesel-is-up-80-this-year-in-the-western-cape-71-000-children-s-school-664463/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/diesel-is-up-80-this-year-in-the-western-cape-71-000-children-s-school-664463/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:26:01 GMTBusinessBus operators who carry pupils for the provincial government say they are running at a loss. A one-day strike left nearly 22,000 children without transport, days before final exams. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/trump-tells-minnesotans-to-fight-back-against-somali-immigrants-d8a60e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/trump-tells-minnesotans-to-fight-back-against-somali-immigrants-d8a60e/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:25:57 GMTDiasporaThe White House has not said what the president meant. Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community in the United States. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-durban-chef-moves-his-poke-kitchen-into-the-cowshed-of-a-museum-of-a-4b56ef/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-durban-chef-moves-his-poke-kitchen-into-the-cowshed-of-a-museum-of-a-4b56ef/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:25:53 GMTCultureThomas Wright started Poké Box from a friend's pantry the week South Africa locked down. Its third home is the Phansi Museum. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/senegal-urges-guinea-bissau-s-military-rulers-to-lift-restrictions-as--979dab/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/senegal-urges-guinea-bissau-s-military-rulers-to-lift-restrictions-as--979dab/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:25:40 GMTPoliticsPresident Faye is mediating for ECOWAS. Guinea-Bissau's own electoral commission says conditions for the election are not in place. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/liberia-starts-rewriting-its-mining-law-to-qualify-for-a-second-us-com-1b6a65/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/liberia-starts-rewriting-its-mining-law-to-qualify-for-a-second-us-com-1b6a65/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:25:36 GMTBusinessThe Law Reform Commission and the Millennium Challenge Corporation have begun reviewing the law. Legislators are pressing for stronger local content rules. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/cash-for-the-poor-beats-subsidies-for-everyone-imf-says-subsidies-cost-bc9660/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/cash-for-the-poor-beats-subsidies-for-everyone-imf-says-subsidies-cost-bc9660/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:25:33 GMTBusinessThe fund's study of 76 countries lands as Nigeria argues over a petrol discount and South Africa over diesel. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-is-failing-its-people-not-the-other-way-round-0a3cbb/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-is-failing-its-people-not-the-other-way-round-0a3cbb/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 23:25:29 GMTOpinionOn Pan African Half Hour, Jay Adewole argues that the country's problem was never a shortage of talent or resources. It is the absence of systems that outlast the people in charge. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kaniola-nindja-walungu-remembers-its-dead-and-demands-peace-justice-an-059f16/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kaniola-nindja-walungu-remembers-its-dead-and-demands-peace-justice-an-059f16/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:51:34 GMTPoliticsAs survivors gather to honour the victims of the Kaniola and Nindja massacres, Patricia Maisha, candidate for national deputy for Walungu, calls for an end to fear and impunity in a territory where civilians are still being killed. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/only-africa-can-save-africa-here-is-what-we-are-doing-about-it-a25e4d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/only-africa-can-save-africa-here-is-what-we-are-doing-about-it-a25e4d/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:09:50 GMTOpinionAid has its place, but development that lasts is led by the people who live with the result. The African Coalition for Development sets out what it is working on now. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/in-lagos-a-startup-is-turning-errands-airport-runs-and-deliveries-into-10bcf6/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/in-lagos-a-startup-is-turning-errands-airport-runs-and-deliveries-into-10bcf6/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:08:22 GMTTechnologyThe Naija Concierge matches clients with vetted drivers, errand runners and inspectors it calls Gigsters, and pays them through the app. It is betting that trust is the thing Lagos logistics has been missing. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/building-a-house-in-lagos-from-london-the-startup-that-wants-owners-to-d1ffd4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/building-a-house-in-lagos-from-london-the-startup-that-wants-owners-to-d1ffd4/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:06:52 GMTTechnologyProptiva Africa gives property owners abroad a team on the ground in Lagos, Abuja and Accra, and a portal where every update is photographed and time-stamped. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-fake-tinubu-recording-a-fake-atiku-front-page-nigeria-s-2027-electio-8d4e44/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-fake-tinubu-recording-a-fake-atiku-front-page-nigeria-s-2027-electio-8d4e44/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:04:05 GMTTechnologyA media researcher argues that the country's institutions were built for a slower kind of lie, and that they must be ready before the campaign, not after the first crisis. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/morocco-s-king-puts-youth-at-the-top-of-the-agenda-6d0608/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/morocco-s-king-puts-youth-at-the-top-of-the-agenda-6d0608/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTPoliticsOpening parliament months after youth-led protests, Mohammed VI called for equal opportunities in education, skills and work. The opposition says it will judge by results. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/racist-slur-in-a-private-chat-is-still-hate-speech-court-says-7a66f6/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/racist-slur-in-a-private-chat-is-still-hate-speech-court-says-7a66f6/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTPoliticsSouth Africa's appeal court has ruled that using the k-word is unlawful whoever hears it. A businessman must apologise and pay R500,000. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-state-lender-put-r23-4bn-into-48-black-firms-2865aa/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-state-lender-put-r23-4bn-into-48-black-firms-2865aa/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTBusinessThe Industrial Development Corporation's funding for Black industrialists went to manufacturing and other value-adding sectors last year, the trade minister says. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-left-r4-9bn-of-grant-money-unspent-d26c5d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-left-r4-9bn-of-grant-money-unspent-d26c5d/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTBusinessThe social development department calls it a saving. MPs call it a failure, in a country where 23 million people live below the poverty line. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-to-question-candidates-for-who-s-top-job-1b971d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-to-question-candidates-for-who-s-top-job-1b971d/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTHealthHealth and finance ministers from 54 countries will put their priorities to the six contenders in Addis Ababa on 23 November. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ugandan-schools-take-on-the-taboo-around-periods-e311cd/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ugandan-schools-take-on-the-taboo-around-periods-e311cd/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTHealthMore than 20 schools in the Rwenzori region used drama and essays to talk openly about menstruation. A head teacher says silence leaves schools unprepared. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/cairo-mall-gets-a-vending-machine-that-sells-gold-7e451e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/cairo-mall-gets-a-vending-machine-that-sells-gold-7e451e/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTTechnologyShoppers can buy gold bars from a quarter of a gram, and silver from five grams, with a bank card. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/osimhen-back-with-an-assist-after-13-careful-minutes-c475ab/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/osimhen-back-with-an-assist-after-13-careful-minutes-c475ab/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTSportGalatasaray say they are protecting the Nigerian striker after injury. He had six goals in four games before he was hurt. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/jali-and-nyatama-chase-marumo-gallants-for-unpaid-money-0f1fd4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/jali-and-nyatama-chase-marumo-gallants-for-unpaid-money-0f1fd4/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTSportA South African court has refused to treat the club's bid to protect its R2.3 million monthly league grant as urgent. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-says-84-citizens-are-dead-or-missing-in-ukraine-war-dfb16c/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-says-84-citizens-are-dead-or-missing-in-ukraine-war-dfb16c/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTDiasporaThe foreign ministry has traced 354 Kenyans drawn into the conflict. Sixty-two have come home and five are prisoners of war. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ugandan-in-us-court-over-cocaine-and-cartel-arms-plot-4dba71/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ugandan-in-us-court-over-cocaine-and-cartel-arms-plot-4dba71/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTDiasporaMichael Katungi Mpweire, extradited from Uganda, is accused with three others of offering weapons worth $58 million to a Mexican cartel. Two co-accused have pleaded guilty. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/us-lobbyist-sues-tinubu-and-nigeria-for-57-million-fa86ce/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/us-lobbyist-sues-tinubu-and-nigeria-for-57-million-fa86ce/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTDiasporaKarl Von Batten alleges defamation and a plot to harm him. A lobbying firm also named in the Washington suit calls the claims absurd. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/pretoria-mob-threatens-to-burn-traders-in-their-shops-f6d28f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/pretoria-mob-threatens-to-burn-traders-in-their-shops-f6d28f/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTDiasporaAnti-immigrant groups forced foreign-owned shops to close near a refugee office. A reporter was assaulted. A Nigerian trader of 24 years was among those shut out. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-aims-to-train-five-million-out-of-poverty-16ee0c/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-aims-to-train-five-million-out-of-poverty-16ee0c/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTBusinessA presidential skills programme has graduated its first 700 young people in Oyo State, with laptops, sewing machines and make-up kits to start work. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/old-skulls-reopen-the-question-of-sacrifice-in-ancient-egypt-fb0c38/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/old-skulls-reopen-the-question-of-sacrifice-in-ancient-egypt-fb0c38/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTCultureA new study of 46 skulls from the tombs of Egypt's first kings finds injuries around the time of death in 18 of them. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/appeal-court-keeps-el-rufai-in-custody-as-trial-nears-09ddd1/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/appeal-court-keeps-el-rufai-in-custody-as-trial-nears-09ddd1/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTPoliticsThe former Kaduna governor has been held since February. Judges said he showed no new facts to justify bail. His trial is due to begin on Monday. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/court-orders-anc-to-put-lungisa-back-on-its-list-97c4f1/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/court-orders-anc-to-put-lungisa-back-on-its-list-97c4f1/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTPoliticsA judge found the party's secretary-general had no power to strike the mayoral hopeful from the Nelson Mandela Bay list. The election is on 4 November. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/freed-after-a-week-but-who-paid-imo-police-deny-ransom-d88a22/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/freed-after-a-week-but-who-paid-imo-police-deny-ransom-d88a22/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTPoliticsTwenty young Nigerians on their way to national service were abducted on 1 October and released a week later. Parents say they paid. The police say they know of no payment. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kogi-councillor-abducted-on-30-september-dies-in-captivity-de6dd5/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kogi-councillor-abducted-on-30-september-dies-in-captivity-de6dd5/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTPoliticsRosemary Adukwu was seized near the Enugu-Anambra border. Her family says the kidnappers did not contact them for almost a week. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/liberia-jails-ex-security-deputy-pending-cocaine-trial-d7dd4e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/liberia-jails-ex-security-deputy-pending-cocaine-trial-d7dd4e/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:52:46 GMTPoliticsGerald Folley Smith and four others have been sent to Monrovia Central Prison over a $317 million seizure. The indictment names 18 people. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-hiv-prevention-jab-has-reached-71-000-people-it-needs-t-3ae8ef/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-hiv-prevention-jab-has-reached-71-000-people-it-needs-t-3ae8ef/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTHealthResearchers who studied the rollout of prevention pills say the new twice-yearly injection will not sell itself: people hear about it from people, not from billboards. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-fish-that-feed-the-world-s-fish-farms-are-being-taken-from-african-60d177/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-fish-that-feed-the-world-s-fish-farms-are-being-taken-from-african-60d177/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTClimateFrom South Africa's anchovy boats to fishmeal factories in Senegal, Gambia and Mauritania, an Outlaw Ocean Project report traces what farmed seafood costs the coasts that supply it. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-mthatha-designer-telling-african-stories-without-the-cliches-e9d6b3/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-mthatha-designer-telling-african-stories-without-the-cliches-e9d6b3/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTCultureXolela Madlanga builds her patterns from lines and shapes. She is one of 15 creatives chosen from 700 for a French-backed incubator. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/alozie-and-kanu-give-the-super-falcons-a-2-0-start-on-the-road-to-los--63133a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/alozie-and-kanu-give-the-super-falcons-a-2-0-start-on-the-road-to-los--63133a/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTSportNigeria were held for 45 minutes by a Comoros side that scored 30 goals in the previous round. The second leg is on Tuesday. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kruger-s-former-crown-prince-ranger-is-convicted-of-killing-a-rhino-te-8a8787/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kruger-s-former-crown-prince-ranger-is-convicted-of-killing-a-rhino-te-8a8787/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTClimateRodney Landela was once seen as a future leader of the park's rangers. A court has found that he and a state veterinary technician shot a white rhino in 2016. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/in-sheffield-a-nigerian-singer-reads-her-grandmother-s-letter-on-stage-6559d7/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/in-sheffield-a-nigerian-singer-reads-her-grandmother-s-letter-on-stage-6559d7/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTCultureKayefi's Tales & Tunes brought music, fashion, dance and food together, with the producer ID Cabasa directing the music. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/fifty-two-miners-have-died-in-south-africa-this-year-already-more-than-251004/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/fifty-two-miners-have-died-in-south-africa-this-year-already-more-than-251004/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTBusinessThe mining minister called it a "deeply concerning regression" after last year's record low of 41 deaths. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/airtel-money-starts-trading-in-london-with-a-7-billion-target-ca6b0e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/airtel-money-starts-trading-in-london-with-a-7-billion-target-ca6b0e/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTTechnologyThe mobile money business, which operates in 13 African countries, opened slightly below its offer price. Full trading begins on 14 October. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ethiopia-opens-a-month-long-cybersecurity-campaign-with-children-first-c9c5a4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ethiopia-opens-a-month-long-cybersecurity-campaign-with-children-first-c9c5a4/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTTechnologyThe seventh national Cybersecurity Month runs from 11 October to 9 November, with a focus on protecting children online. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/niger-and-the-imf-agree-a-new-203-million-programme-6d13b2/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/niger-and-the-imf-agree-a-new-203-million-programme-6d13b2/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTBusinessThe 38-month deal still needs approval by the fund's board. The IMF expects Niger's economy to grow by about 7% this year. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/vaccines-returned-30-billion-to-poorer-countries-last-year-gavi-says-d1a0fe/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/vaccines-returned-30-billion-to-poorer-countries-last-year-gavi-says-d1a0fe/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTHealthThe vaccine alliance says 73 million children were immunised in 2025, a record, and that countries paid a record $301 million towards their own vaccines. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-caravan-clinic-gave-100-000-zimbabwean-teenagers-discreet-access-to--c8d6d3/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-caravan-clinic-gave-100-000-zimbabwean-teenagers-discreet-access-to--c8d6d3/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTHealthA $9 million grant was cancelled with $6 million unspent, and Swedish support ended in August. The government has pledged $2.25 million a year. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-navi-pillay-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize-bd7430/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-navi-pillay-wins-the-nobel-peace-prize-bd7430/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTPoliticsThe 85-year-old jurist, a former UN human rights chief, was honoured for defending international law at a time when its courts are under attack. She dedicated the prize to survivors. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-and-south-korea-sign-12-agreements-and-open-free-trade-talks-93b3d5/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-and-south-korea-sign-12-agreements-and-open-free-trade-talks-93b3d5/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTBusinessPresident Sisi pitched a Korean industrial zone on the Suez Canal to 23 companies in Seoul before flying on to Malaysia. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/twenty-thousand-ethiopians-have-crossed-into-djibouti-in-three-weeks-ae60e4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/twenty-thousand-ethiopians-have-crossed-into-djibouti-in-three-weeks-ae60e4/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTDiasporaMore than 3,000 are stranded in remote desert with little food or water, the UN migration agency says, as Djibouti also receives people returning from Yemen. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nortje-takes-two-in-an-over-on-his-test-return-as-south-africa-have-au-88cb5f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nortje-takes-two-in-an-over-on-his-test-return-as-south-africa-have-au-88cb5f/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTSportThe fast bowler had not played a Test for three years. Bad light ended the first day in Durban two hours early. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/us-sanctions-the-international-criminal-court-hours-after-its-former-j-a51ccc/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/us-sanctions-the-international-criminal-court-hours-after-its-former-j-a51ccc/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTPoliticsWashington has banned transactions with the court, a step that could cut it off from banks, insurers and software suppliers. "Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC," the US secretary of state said. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ethiopia-and-eritrea-accuse-each-other-of-starting-a-war-as-flights-to-34d935/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ethiopia-and-eritrea-accuse-each-other-of-starting-a-war-as-flights-to-34d935/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTPoliticsAddis Ababa says Eritrea is backing Tigrayan forces. Asmara says it is the victim of an unprovoked war. Ethiopian Airlines returns to Tigray's capital on Sunday. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-rights-commission-and-five-embassies-call-for-an-end-to-the--e04f34/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-rights-commission-and-five-embassies-call-for-an-end-to-the--e04f34/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTPoliticsMore than 3,000 people are on death row in Nigeria, which will reach ten years without an execution in December. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zuma-is-in-hospital-and-his-party-s-election-campaign-is-built-around--c53203/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zuma-is-in-hospital-and-his-party-s-election-campaign-is-built-around--c53203/Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:09:52 GMTPoliticsThe MK Party says the former president had a routine check-up. President Ramaphosa says he has been unwell. Local elections are approaching. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/tigray-faces-failed-rains-and-war-at-once-with-3-2-million-people-cut--1cf6cf/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/tigray-faces-failed-rains-and-war-at-once-with-3-2-million-people-cut--1cf6cf/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:04:17 GMTHealthCrops have been scorched across 252,500 hectares and aid warehouses looted since fighting resumed, according to an account from a Tigray health network published by The New Humanitarian. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-s-suspected-second-ebola-case-turns-out-to-be-malaria-f3f30c/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-s-suspected-second-ebola-case-turns-out-to-be-malaria-f3f30c/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:04:04 GMTHealthA patient isolated in Wajir tested negative for the virus, the health minister says. Screening and contact tracing continue after the country's first confirmed death on Tuesday. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/australia-return-to-south-africa-for-a-test-series-for-the-first-time--ccdc62/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/australia-return-to-south-africa-for-a-test-series-for-the-first-time--ccdc62/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:03:56 GMTSportThe world's two top-ranked Test sides meet in Durban from Friday. South Africa are without Kagiso Rabada, and Anrich Nortje plays his first Test in more than three years. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigerians-abroad-are-sending-money-home-in-digital-dollars-to-avoid-th-56becc/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigerians-abroad-are-sending-money-home-in-digital-dollars-to-avoid-th-56becc/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:03:41 GMTTechnologySending $200 through a traditional service costs about $17. Stablecoin services charge between 0.5% and 2%, and Nigeria now accounts for most of sub-Saharan Africa's inflows. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zimbabwe-buries-wicknell-chivayo-the-tycoon-it-both-admired-and-resent-766be9/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zimbabwe-buries-wicknell-chivayo-the-tycoon-it-both-admired-and-resent-766be9/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:02:59 GMTBusinessSoldiers saluted the coffin of the 43-year-old businessman, who died with his wife and four others in a helicopter crash last week. He was known for giving away cars and for his closeness to the ruling party. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/rwandan-genocide-suspect-callixte-mbarushimana-dies-in-france-without--aba694/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/rwandan-genocide-suspect-callixte-mbarushimana-dies-in-france-without--aba694/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:02:16 GMTPoliticsThe former UN employee and senior figure in the FDLR militia was 63. A French investigation into him had been reopened last year after an appeal by survivors' groups. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/prosecutors-in-niger-seek-five-years-for-a-lawyer-over-a-facebook-post-d69af0/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/prosecutors-in-niger-seek-five-years-for-a-lawyer-over-a-facebook-post-d69af0/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:01:57 GMTPoliticsHuman Rights Watch says the case, and the unexplained detention of a veteran journalist, show the military government tightening its hold on what can be said. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mnangagwa-splits-zimbabwe-s-economic-team-and-makes-tycoon-tagwirei-a--934a7d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mnangagwa-splits-zimbabwe-s-economic-team-and-makes-tycoon-tagwirei-a--934a7d/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:00:36 GMTPoliticsMthuli Ncube keeps finance. Kudakwashe Tagwirei, a prominent businessman sworn in as a senator only last month, takes a new portfolio for economic development and investment. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/eight-northern-nigerian-states-back-a-500-million-top-up-for-drylands--6f63fc/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/eight-northern-nigerian-states-back-a-500-million-top-up-for-drylands--6f63fc/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:00:32 GMTClimateThe ACReSAL programme, which restores degraded land in the semi-arid north, counts 4.4 million direct beneficiaries. Supporters want additional financing to extend it. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-s-monitored-wildlife-populations-have-fallen-by-80-since-1970-w-f4b0fc/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-s-monitored-wildlife-populations-have-fallen-by-80-since-1970-w-f4b0fc/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:00:28 GMTClimateForest elephants are down by more than 60%. The report says the world spends over thirty times more on activities that harm nature than on protecting it. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/fighting-across-the-red-sea-is-pushing-refugees-and-higher-prices-into-f96d54/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/fighting-across-the-red-sea-is-pushing-refugees-and-higher-prices-into-f96d54/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:00:24 GMTBusinessAt least 3,700 people have fled Yemen for Djibouti in a month, and the cost of insuring ships through the Bab el-Mandeb has nearly doubled, raising fuel and fertiliser prices across the continent. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/eswatini-says-it-has-sent-home-10-of-the-31-people-the-us-deported-to--538190/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/eswatini-says-it-has-sent-home-10-of-the-31-people-the-us-deported-to--538190/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:00:20 GMTDiasporaThe government denies reports that deportees were slipped across the border at night, but will not say which countries they travelled through. Twenty-one are still waiting. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/sol-plaatje-at-150-the-writer-who-gave-black-south-africa-its-first-en-933841/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/sol-plaatje-at-150-the-writer-who-gave-black-south-africa-its-first-en-933841/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:42:49 GMTCultureBorn on 9 October 1876, he was a newspaper editor, translator of Shakespeare into Setswana and the first general secretary of what became the ANC. New books are bringing his letters and writing back into print. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/super-falcons-begin-their-road-to-los-angeles-against-a-comoros-side-t-d364c1/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/super-falcons-begin-their-road-to-los-angeles-against-a-comoros-side-t-d364c1/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:42:38 GMTSportNigeria host both legs in Ikenne, starting on Friday evening, without Asisat Oshoala and four other regulars. Only two African teams will reach the 2028 Olympics. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-state-oil-company-to-sell-petrol-at-cost-for-30-days-f69abb/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigeria-s-state-oil-company-to-sell-petrol-at-cost-for-30-days-f69abb/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:42:26 GMTBusinessThe presidency says NNPC stations will give up their retail margin as crude passes $100 a barrel. It insists this is not the return of the subsidy. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-five-year-plan-against-hunger-met-11-of-its-65-objectiv-ceebc4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-s-five-year-plan-against-hunger-met-11-of-its-65-objectiv-ceebc4/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:39:14 GMTHealthAn evaluation found the plan was never funded and the council meant to lead it never met. The government disputes the finding that political will was lacking. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-new-dinosaur-from-lake-kariba-shows-zimbabwe-s-were-not-like-south-a-bfba20/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-new-dinosaur-from-lake-kariba-shows-zimbabwe-s-were-not-like-south-a-bfba20/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:39:03 GMTTechnologyMusango matusadonaensis walked on two legs about 210 million years ago and was found by a safari camp manager. Scientists worked from houseboats to dig it out. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-african-court-strikes-down-black-ownership-code-for-law-firms-c6d63c/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-african-court-strikes-down-black-ownership-code-for-law-firms-c6d63c/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:38:57 GMTBusinessThe Gauteng High Court found the trade minister approved the rules without properly assessing them. It did not rule on whether the code itself is lawful, and sent it back to him. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/tunisian-blogger-jailed-for-26-months-over-a-facebook-live-video-4bc8c3/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/tunisian-blogger-jailed-for-26-months-over-a-facebook-live-video-4bc8c3/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:38:40 GMTPoliticsHajer Awadi was convicted of glorifying terrorism, inciting hatred and making threats after speaking about a security operation. A press freedom group calls it punishment for criticism. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-withdraws-asylum-directive-after-days-of-violent-protests-6a61ed/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-withdraws-asylum-directive-after-days-of-violent-protests-6a61ed/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:38:35 GMTPoliticsHome Affairs says the instruction, issued to carry out a Constitutional Court ruling, overwhelmed refugee offices and put officials at risk. Vehicles were torched in Durban and Soweto. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/liberian-court-issues-warrants-for-20-people-in-317-million-cocaine-ca-0311b1/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/liberian-court-issues-warrants-for-20-people-in-317-million-cocaine-ca-0311b1/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTPoliticsFormer vice president Jewel Howard-Taylor is among those named in what a Monrovia newspaper calls the largest narcotics case in the country's judicial history. The allegations have not been proven. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zimbabwe-turns-to-the-makers-of-india-s-upi-to-cut-the-cost-of-digital-63634d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zimbabwe-turns-to-the-makers-of-india-s-upi-to-cut-the-cost-of-digital-63634d/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTTechnologyThe central bank is negotiating with the overseas arm of India's national payments body to build a shared system for banks, mobile money and fintech firms. Talks could conclude by the end of October. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ai-could-pass-africa-s-poor-by-world-bank-warns-054a93/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ai-could-pass-africa-s-poor-by-world-bank-warns-054a93/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTTechnologyDeveloper numbers are soaring in Nigeria and Ghana, but only 12% of the poorest households in 19 countries have both a phone and electricity, the bank's latest Africa report says. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/food-aid-for-congolese-refugees-in-burundi-could-stop-without-30-milli-b06b15/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/food-aid-for-congolese-refugees-in-burundi-could-stop-without-30-milli-b06b15/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTPoliticsThe UN food agency needs about $5 million a month to keep feeding people who fled eastern DR Congo. Refugees at Busuma camp already receive the equivalent of $12 each a month. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/medicines-are-running-out-in-darfur-who-warns-with-its-appeal-23-funde-6e971a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/medicines-are-running-out-in-darfur-who-warns-with-its-appeal-23-funde-6e971a/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTHealthMore than 700,000 displaced people in Tawila face severe shortages, the agency's Sudan chief says. The UN Security Council has meanwhile extended its Sudan sanctions for two months. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-nigerian-photographer-s-pictures-of-the-shrine-appear-on-a-new-editi-27dcaa/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-nigerian-photographer-s-pictures-of-the-shrine-appear-on-a-new-editi-27dcaa/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTCultureBolaji Alonge's photographs of the New Afrika Shrine sit beside Lemi Ghariokwu's original artwork on a limited vinyl release of 1,000 copies. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/fifty-nine-years-after-the-asaba-massacre-obasanjo-asks-for-forgivenes-39b091/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/fifty-nine-years-after-the-asaba-massacre-obasanjo-asks-for-forgivenes-39b091/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTCultureAt this year's memorial, the traditional ruler of Asaba said his people are ready to forgive but want a sitting Nigerian president to say sorry for the killing of more than 1,000 civilians in 1967. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/namibia-s-ports-authority-puts-n-90-million-into-football-33ccdd/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/namibia-s-ports-authority-puts-n-90-million-into-football-33ccdd/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTSportNamport will pay the Namibia Football Association N$30 million a year for three years. The prime minister told officials to spend it only on what it is meant for. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigerian-customs-rescue-three-live-pangolins-from-suspected-trafficker-d91fd9/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/nigerian-customs-rescue-three-live-pangolins-from-suspected-trafficker-d91fd9/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTClimateOfficers found the animals caged and hidden in sacks at a waterside in Abeokuta. The suspects fled, and the pangolins have gone to a conservation group for release. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-says-354-of-its-citizens-were-drawn-into-the-russia-ukraine-war-3efa2a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-says-354-of-its-citizens-were-drawn-into-the-russia-ukraine-war-3efa2a/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTDiasporaFigures given to Parliament show 84 killed or missing in action, 77 still on the front lines and 62 brought home. Nairobi wants them treated as victims of human trafficking. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-s-harambee-starlets-beat-seychelles-11-0-in-olympic-qualifier-4b3830/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-s-harambee-starlets-beat-seychelles-11-0-in-olympic-qualifier-4b3830/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTSportValary Nekesa scored twice before half-time and Kenya added eight more after the break in Nairobi. The second leg is on Monday. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/bringing-back-nigeria-s-fuel-subsidy-would-cost-over-20-trillion-a-yea-a32ba0/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/bringing-back-nigeria-s-fuel-subsidy-would-cost-over-20-trillion-a-yea-a32ba0/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTBusinessTaiwo Oyedele warns that a return to the subsidy could push the naira towards ₦3,000 to the dollar. The government says it will offer targeted relief instead. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mozambique-says-cashew-smuggling-has-cost-it-7-million-in-three-years-7b8268/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mozambique-says-cashew-smuggling-has-cost-it-7-million-in-three-years-7b8268/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTBusinessAbout 35,000 tonnes of nuts left the country through illegal channels, the agriculture minister says. He wants smuggling treated as a crime and the trade tracked digitally. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/four-kenyan-women-win-hackathon-with-an-ai-fare-payment-system-for-mat-e9a592/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/four-kenyan-women-win-hackathon-with-an-ai-fare-payment-system-for-mat-e9a592/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTTechnologyThe team behind Naulisako beat 40 other young developers in a 30-hour contest at Konza Technopolis and will now compete against winners from five other African countries. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/somalia-sets-up-a-six-ministry-ebola-committee-as-the-outbreak-reaches-58301d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/somalia-sets-up-a-six-ministry-ebola-committee-as-the-outbreak-reaches-58301d/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTHealthThe cabinet approved preparedness measures days after Kenya confirmed its first death. The government has not said whether any case has been detected in Somalia. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/us-deportations-to-africa-are-designed-to-frighten-migrants-human-righ-53217d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/us-deportations-to-africa-are-designed-to-frighten-migrants-human-righ-53217d/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTDiasporaMore than 500 people have been sent to African countries that are not their own. Fifteen African governments have now agreed to take deportees, the latest being Burundi. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kruger-national-park-to-get-a-quarter-of-its-power-from-renewables-wit-602fd1/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kruger-national-park-to-get-a-quarter-of-its-power-from-renewables-wit-602fd1/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTClimateUnder a sponsorship deal, clean electricity generated elsewhere will be delivered through South Africa's national grid. SANParks calls it a pilot that could extend to other parks. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ethiopian-drones-hit-eritrean-troops-near-adigrat-as-the-two-governmen-0a6e6d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ethiopian-drones-hit-eritrean-troops-near-adigrat-as-the-two-governmen-0a6e6d/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTPoliticsWitnesses and a conflict monitor report repeated strikes on Eritrean positions inside Tigray. Neither Addis Ababa nor Asmara has commented, days after the two countries cut diplomatic ties. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/guinea-bissau-s-election-body-says-the-country-is-not-ready-for-decemb-8dc99d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/guinea-bissau-s-election-body-says-the-country-is-not-ready-for-decemb-8dc99d/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTPoliticsThe electoral commission has told the military-led transition that conditions for the vote meant to restore civilian rule have not been met. The decision on a delay rests with the transitional president. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-charges-six-fact-checking-journalists-with-terrorism-offences-23dbad/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/egypt-charges-six-fact-checking-journalists-with-terrorism-offences-23dbad/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:38:33 GMTPoliticsProsecutors say the staff of the platform Matsadaash worked for the banned Muslim Brotherhood. The outlet denies it, and lawyers say the journalists were tortured, which the Interior Ministry rejects. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/el-ni-o-could-be-the-strongest-since-1950-and-will-peak-in-december-un-2267ea/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/el-ni-o-could-be-the-strongest-since-1950-and-will-peak-in-december-un-2267ea/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTClimateThe World Meteorological Organization expects wetter conditions across the Greater Horn of Africa and says the event is almost certain to last until February. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zambia-accepts-a-revised-us-health-deal-that-zimbabwe-and-ghana-have-t-46c090/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zambia-accepts-a-revised-us-health-deal-that-zimbabwe-and-ghana-have-t-46c090/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTHealthLusaka says clauses on sharing patient samples were removed. Harare called the terms lopsided and a breach of sovereignty, and now risks losing HIV funding. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/vigilantes-confront-asylum-seekers-as-south-africa-reopens-its-refugee-d9af90/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/vigilantes-confront-asylum-seekers-as-south-africa-reopens-its-refugee-d9af90/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTDiasporaAbout 15 members of an anti-migrant group tried to block people queuing at the Durban reception office. Only 20 applicants were processed that day. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/eu-halts-namibian-beef-imports-after-first-foot-and-mouth-outbreak-in--c58c01/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/eu-halts-namibian-beef-imports-after-first-foot-and-mouth-outbreak-in--c58c01/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTBusinessEurope buys more than four-fifths of Namibia's beef exports. The disease has reached 11 farms in the south since it was declared on 22 September. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/almost-all-of-west-africa-s-cotton-leaves-as-raw-fibre-growers-say-the-a4dde7/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/almost-all-of-west-africa-s-cotton-leaves-as-raw-fibre-growers-say-the-a4dde7/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTBusinessOn World Cotton Day, a South African industry voice argues the continent should spin, weave and sew more of what it grows, and points to one farmer's rise from four hectares to 200. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/second-life-batteries-and-solar-cold-rooms-ten-clean-power-projects-wi-cb47c4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/second-life-batteries-and-solar-cold-rooms-ten-clean-power-projects-wi-cb47c4/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTTechnologyMore than £2 million will help companies in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and elsewhere replace diesel generators at clinics, phone masts, farms and fishing harbours. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/sport-s-highest-court-hears-senegal-s-bid-to-win-back-the-africa-cup-o-15b62b/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/sport-s-highest-court-hears-senegal-s-bid-to-win-back-the-africa-cup-o-15b62b/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTSportSenegal beat Morocco 1-0 on the pitch in January, then lost the final by forfeit after a walk-off. Arbitrators in Lausanne must decide which result stands. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/heart-disease-and-stroke-now-kill-1-5-million-africans-a-year-study-fi-7e0fbb/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/heart-disease-and-stroke-now-kill-1-5-million-africans-a-year-study-fi-7e0fbb/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTHealthNon-communicable diseases caused 4.7 million deaths on the continent in 2023. High blood pressure, diet and dirty air account for more than half of them. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ghana-look-for-another-coach-after-queiroz-leaves-for-the-second-time--6d6215/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ghana-look-for-another-coach-after-queiroz-leaves-for-the-second-time--6d6215/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTSportThe 73-year-old returned to the Black Stars in September and lasted a month, after qualifying defeats to Ivory Coast and Gambia. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/why-raila-odinga-s-mausoleum-has-five-sides-53aeb7/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/why-raila-odinga-s-mausoleum-has-five-sides-53aeb7/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTCultureThe pentagon at the family home in Bondo recalls the raised fist that became his signature, and the five-member team that carried his 2007 campaign. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zimbabwe-declares-a-disaster-after-hailstorm-tears-the-roofs-off-8-500-762ac7/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/zimbabwe-declares-a-disaster-after-hailstorm-tears-the-roofs-off-8-500-762ac7/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTClimateA university campus, a maternity ward, the airport and government offices were also damaged. Power cuts have knocked out water and sewage systems as the rains begin. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/imf-praises-malawi-s-reforms-but-leaves-without-a-loan-deal-2ab63f/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/imf-praises-malawi-s-reforms-but-leaves-without-a-loan-deal-2ab63f/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTBusinessTwo weeks of talks in Lilongwe ended with warm words on spending discipline and fuel pricing, and no agreement yet on the financing the country has lacked since May 2025. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/search-teams-struggle-to-reach-wreckage-of-nigerian-military-plane-tha-762816/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/search-teams-struggle-to-reach-wreckage-of-nigerian-military-plane-tha-762816/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTPoliticsThe aircraft came down in mangrove swamp near Igbokoda in Ondo State. The flight recorders have not been found and President Tinubu has declared three days of mourning. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/eritrean-troops-reported-inside-tigray-as-fighting-in-northern-ethiopi-158d5b/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/eritrean-troops-reported-inside-tigray-as-fighting-in-northern-ethiopi-158d5b/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTPoliticsWitnesses and a pro-government commander say uniformed Eritrean soldiers with heavy weapons have been in the town of Adigrat for days. Addis Ababa and Asmara cut diplomatic ties last week. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/sudan-s-war-may-have-killed-80-000-people-last-year-researchers-estima-8b1a00/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/sudan-s-war-may-have-killed-80-000-people-last-year-researchers-estima-8b1a00/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTPoliticsA new statistical model puts the likely 2025 toll far above the confirmed counts. It comes as a record number of countries vote to keep the UN's Sudan investigation running. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/african-union-mediators-meet-m23-in-goma-as-kenyatta-consults-kigali-8bc9a2/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/african-union-mediators-meet-m23-in-goma-as-kenyatta-consults-kigali-8bc9a2/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTPoliticsThree former presidents visited the rebel-held city on Monday. A day later Uhuru Kenyatta was in Rwanda to discuss how to move two parallel peace tracks forward. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ramaphosa-presses-kiir-on-south-sudan-s-december-election-99e470/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ramaphosa-presses-kiir-on-south-sudan-s-december-election-99e470/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTPoliticsSouth Africa's president, who chairs the African Union committee on South Sudan, told Salva Kiir that political, security and logistical problems must be settled before the 22 December vote. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/somalia-says-it-has-killed-the-former-head-of-al-shabab-s-intelligence-ae18d5/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/somalia-says-it-has-killed-the-former-head-of-al-shabab-s-intelligence-ae18d5/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTPoliticsThe national intelligence agency says Bashir Ahmed Haji Nunow, who ran the group's feared Amniyat unit for eight years, died in an operation in Jilib on 1 October. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/sirleaf-tells-liberia-its-anti-corruption-laws-need-teeth-d822ed/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/sirleaf-tells-liberia-its-anti-corruption-laws-need-teeth-d822ed/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTPoliticsThe former president said accountability must start with those at the very top, and admitted the institutions her own government built have not ended graft. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-african-court-rejects-kemi-seba-s-immunity-claim-clearing-a-path-5eb20e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-african-court-rejects-kemi-seba-s-immunity-claim-clearing-a-path-5eb20e/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:11:43 GMTPoliticsThe activist, wanted in Benin after backing a failed coup, said he was a diplomat for Niger. The court found no evidence he was ever accredited in South Africa. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-must-prove-it-is-clean-before-hosting-the-world-anti-doping-chie-cbef8e/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-must-prove-it-is-clean-before-hosting-the-world-anti-doping-chie-cbef8e/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:36:20 GMTSportNairobi will stage the 2029 World Athletics Championships, the first African city chosen to do so. The head of Wada says promises on doping now have to become results. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-congolese-photographer-puts-the-women-history-left-out-back-in-the-f-8a05ca/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/a-congolese-photographer-puts-the-women-history-left-out-back-in-the-f-8a05ca/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:36:20 GMTCulturePamela Tulizo's series Mababu uses costume and staged scenes to portray African women who resisted slavery and colonisation. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/southern-madagascar-braces-for-what-may-be-the-strongest-el-ni-o-on-re-c67906/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/southern-madagascar-braces-for-what-may-be-the-strongest-el-ni-o-on-re-c67906/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:36:20 GMTClimateFarmers say the rains no longer arrive when they should. With parts of the south already hit by famine, aid agencies warn that drought could deepen hunger. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/uganda-joins-kenya-in-opening-the-dangote-refinery-share-sale-to-its-i-f5c6e6/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/uganda-joins-kenya-in-opening-the-dangote-refinery-share-sale-to-its-i-f5c6e6/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:36:20 GMTBusinessThe Nigerian refinery is trying to raise $1.6bn in what could be Africa's largest stock market listing. The offer closes on 13 October. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/green-red-yellow-wheat-the-many-words-africans-use-for-skin-tone-68bfd8/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/green-red-yellow-wheat-the-many-words-africans-use-for-skin-tone-68bfd8/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:36:20 GMTDiasporaFrom Sudan to Ghana, communities describe complexion with vocabularies that carry history, status and ideas of beauty, and do not translate neatly into "Black". https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mali-s-army-re-enters-kidal-as-tuareg-separatists-pull-out-a68588/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/mali-s-army-re-enters-kidal-as-tuareg-separatists-pull-out-a68588/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:36:20 GMTPoliticsThe northern town fell to rebels in April. Analysts call its recapture, with Russian support, a symbolic win for the military government rather than a decisive one. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-races-to-trace-contacts-after-its-first-ebola-death-as-the-outbr-8d0725/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/kenya-races-to-trace-contacts-after-its-first-ebola-death-as-the-outbr-8d0725/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:21:16 GMTHealthA man who fell ill in DR Congo crossed three countries before dying in a Nairobi hospital. No other infection has been confirmed in Kenya, but the case has raised hard questions about border screening. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/in-libreville-drivers-queue-for-hours-as-diesel-runs-short-c0bd5d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/in-libreville-drivers-queue-for-hours-as-diesel-runs-short-c0bd5d/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:18:01 GMTBusinessFuel has been rationed in Gabon's capital since late September. The government calls it a temporary disruption; station managers say deliveries keep coming up short. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/street-medicine-is-booming-in-central-africa-a-un-report-says-weak-hea-3381d1/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/street-medicine-is-booming-in-central-africa-a-un-report-says-weak-hea-3381d1/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:18:01 GMTHealthMore than 250 tonnes of medical products were seized in five countries in six years. Where a pharmacy is too far or too expensive, the UN finds, illicit sellers fill the gap. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/morocco-s-sal-film-festival-puts-women-in-cinema-centre-stage-ddb7cd/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/morocco-s-sal-film-festival-puts-women-in-cinema-centre-stage-ddb7cd/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:18:01 GMTCultureThe festival's 19th edition celebrates women filmmakers, examines the roles and funding they are offered, and subtitles its films in Arabic for the first time. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/libya-s-eastern-parliament-removes-its-speaker-after-nearly-12-years-8dbe60/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/libya-s-eastern-parliament-removes-its-speaker-after-nearly-12-years-8dbe60/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:18:01 GMTPoliticsAguila Saleh, a long-time ally of Khalifa Haftar, has been replaced by a Tobruk lawmaker a day after MPs voted to limit the speaker's term. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/solar-is-becoming-africa-s-default-power-source-analysis-finds-d790cd/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/solar-is-becoming-africa-s-default-power-source-analysis-finds-d790cd/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:38:14 GMTTechnologyAround 100,000 solar panels were installed across the continent every day this year, one estimate suggests, as households and businesses abandon diesel generators. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-ethiopian-photographer-who-turned-the-camera-on-herself-a6f372/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/the-ethiopian-photographer-who-turned-the-camera-on-herself-a6f372/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:38:14 GMTCultureSosina Mengistu began taking self-portraits while stranded during the pandemic. Six years on, the project has become a record of a generation's uncertainty. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-gets-its-own-credit-rating-agency-its-first-test-will-be-whethe-26ce8a/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/africa-gets-its-own-credit-rating-agency-its-first-test-will-be-whethe-26ce8a/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:38:14 GMTBusinessThe African Union-backed AfCRA, based in Mauritius, is meant to offer an alternative to Fitch, Moody's and S&P — and to bring down what the continent pays to borrow. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-to-make-its-case-for-africa-s-first-olympic-games-e3113d/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/south-africa-to-make-its-case-for-africa-s-first-olympic-games-e3113d/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:38:14 GMTSportThe country is one of seven invited to present a bid for 2036 in November, though Qatar is widely seen as the favourite. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/senegal-delays-the-school-year-after-deadly-floods-d142e4/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/senegal-delays-the-school-year-after-deadly-floods-d142e4/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:38:14 GMTClimateAt least five people have died after four days of torrential rain. Schools will now open on 12 October, and more rain is forecast. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ghana-s-cabinet-backs-a-formal-bid-to-join-brics-ff0c26/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/ghana-s-cabinet-backs-a-formal-bid-to-join-brics-ff0c26/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:38:14 GMTPoliticsAccra has asked India to support its application as it looks to widen its economic and diplomatic partnerships, the foreign minister says. https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/only-africa-can-save-africa-the-case-for-a-summit-built-on-jobs-the-di-a01c58/https://www.panafricanewsmedia.com/news/only-africa-can-save-africa-the-case-for-a-summit-built-on-jobs-the-di-a01c58/Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:59:55 GMTDiasporaOrganisers of the African Development Summit 2026 say the continent's missing piece is not talent or ideas but coordination and execution — and that the diaspora should be treated as partners and builders, not only as senders of remittances.