Congo is heading towards another tightly watched presidential race after the ruling Congolese Labor Party confirmed it will again back veteran leader Denis Sassou Nguesso, extending the 82-year-old’s decades-long grip on power into a 2026 election already drawing opposition scrutiny. Congo’s President Denis Sassou Nguesso will stand for re-election in March this year, his party […]
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CLAUDIA MENDE Judaism in Morocco has a long history. Most Jews left the country for Israel after 1948. Today the small Jewish community and the Muslim population live side by side, despite the emotional fallout from the war in Gaza. The only known Jewish Museum in the Arab world is tucked away in a residential […]
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The Israeli foreign minister arrived in Somaliland on Tuesday, January 6 in a high-profile visit, condemned by Somalia as an “unauthorized incursion”, after Israel recognized the breakaway region in the Horn of Africa. Israel announced last month it was officially recognizing Somaliland, a first for the self-proclaimed republic since it declared independence from Somalia in […]
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ZIMBABWE and Zambia have committed a combined US$440 million towards accelerating the implementation of the Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric Scheme (BGHES) following a meeting of the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) Council of Ministers held on Monday, December 29, 2025, in Victoria Falls. The council, chaired for 2026 by Zimbabwe’s Minister of Energy and Power Development, July […]
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This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history. CANDIDA MOSS Last May – 2025 – marks 1,700 years since the convening of what is arguably the most important and influential council in Christian history. For three months in 325 CE, Emperor Constantine gathered hundreds […]
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Across Africa, contested ballots, violent crackdowns, coups d’état and military transitions morphing into long-term rule combined to make 2025 a year in which, as one analyst tells RFI, “the law of the strongest has become commonplace”. With no fewer than 10 presidential elections held across the African continent, the political stakes were high in 2025. […]
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SOLOMON EKANEM Zambia has started accepting China’s yuan for mining taxes, becoming the first African nation to do so. This reflects China’s increasing financial influence in Africa’s strategic resource sectors. The Bank of Zambia is aligning its reserve management with the significant role of China as a major copper trade and debt […]
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CRISTINA BURACK Best known for large-scale burlap sack installations, Ibrahim Mahama is helping shift power in the art world to the Global South while redefining art as a collective practice. A rough burlap sack launched Ibrahim Mahama to global fame. In 2015, when Mahama was in his late 20s and finishing up his fine arts […]
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Facing unemployment and social tensions, young people in Madagascar are returning to ancestral possession rituals and traditions tied to identity and belonging. In a small town near Mahajanga, chants of the Sakalava, one of Madagascar’s ethnic groups, drift through the open windows of a house where around 60 guests, mostly young people, are gathered in […]
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Chinese panels are now so affordable that businesses and families are snapping them up, slashing their bills and challenging utilities. SOMINI SENGUPTA Ismet Booley, a dentist in Cape Town, had a serious problem a few years ago. Patients showed up for appointments, only to find the power had gone out. No power meant no X-rays, […]
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