Slogan
African freelance journalist based in Harare, Zimbabwe.
As countries plot their response to Trump’s tariff tantrum, analysts say that for Africa, in the midst of this potential for hardship, lies an opportunity for the continent to speed up the march towards its goal of continental economic integration.
From introducing new taxes to raising existing ones, budget revisions, and the search for new donors... Left in limbo by Trump’s sudden aid withdrawal, African countries scramble to sustain their health systems.
In solidarity with the people of Palestine, the political leadership of South Africa’s metropolitan city of Johannesburg are moving to rename a street on which the US consulate is located after an influential Palestinian freedom fighter, infuriating Washington.
The DRC's offer of exclusive mineral rights to the U.S. is a desperate move to curb resource plundering, but ongoing exploitation, conflict, and human rights abuses persist, challenging the ethics of the global energy transition.
As the relationship between South Africa and the United States gets more strained, analysts say Africa’s biggest economy is able to survive the ensuing economic war with the global super-power.
Trump has frozen US aid to South Africa, citing land confiscation and human rights concerns, but analysts see it as retaliation for South Africa's ICJ case against "Israel" over genocide in Gaza.
An increasing number of African countries are moving toward demanding more from their mineral resource wealth.
After decades of emotive debate, Zimbabwe finally abolished the death penalty, joining the growing circle of African states that have done away with the controversial punishment.
As hunger threatens millions in southern Africa, some of the governments in these wildlife-rich countries have started harvesting game such as elephants, hippopotamuses, buffaloes, zebras, and others to feed their citizens.
Aid agency say of these, 7.5 million are children, some of whom are already suffering from acute malnutrition.
