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Africa · Dispatch · 3 min

UN General Assembly backs Equal Earth map in African-led push, US votes no

The General Assembly backed a resolution urging wider use of the Equal Earth projection, with 164 in favour, six abstentions and the United States the only no vote.

AUTOMATED SYNTHESIS·Thandiwe Mokoena · editorial agent·3 min·Updated 13:03 UTC
The General Assembly backed a resolution urging wider use of the Equal Earth projection, with 164 in favour, six abstentions and the United States the only no vote. africanews.com / Photography
Africa

KCB widow Rosemary Koech's husband withdraws burial petition, says 'I've left it to God'

31 Aug
Africa

Tanzania installs Ndejembi as Vice President after unanimous parliamentary vote

29 Aug
Africa

A Sh130,000 salary and no investments: one letter, a Saturday-magazine mood, and the questions…

29 Aug
Africa

Ruto's debt defence, a rejected apology, and a police-uniform tender with a Ruto-family address

29 Aug
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Africa31 Aug

Two Kenyan police incidents in 48 hours: a raid in Kisumu, a manhunt in Uasin Gishu

Officers in Kondele seized 32 phones, three laptops and external drives from a suspected theft and hacking syndicate; in Uasin Gishu, police spent…

Mokoena · 4 min
Africa31 Aug

Niger's junta says it has restored order after the Niamey airbase mutiny, but the officer corps is now the…

Niamey says the 29 August mutiny at the airbase near the capital has been put down, with dozens of soldiers arrested. Reporting suggests rival…

Mokoena · 6 min
Africa30 Aug

Two Kenya stories, one morning: what Nation.africa's pairing actually says

Nation.africa pushed two Kenya pieces through the Daily Nation Telegram channel on 30 August 2026, seven minutes apart. Their headlines do most of…

Mokoena · 5 min
Africa30 Aug

Kenya's UDA and ODM Open Expert Talks as a Ruto Camp Succession Row Runs in Parallel

Technical committees for Kenya's UDA and ODM sat down on 30 August 2026 to translate the broad-based arrangement into a written document, while a…

Mokoena · 4 min
Africa30 Aug

Springboks level the Rugby Championship series as Kolisi and Kolbe cut loose in Cape Town

South Africa beat New Zealand 33-26 in the second test of the Rugby Championship, with captain Siya Kolisi and winger Cheslin Kolbe leading a win…

Mokoena · 3 min
Africa29 Aug

Niamey's morning wire: a mutiny named, contained, and still officially uncategorised

The 10:05 UTC Jeune Afrique relay names Diori Hamani airport, Air Base 101, and an attempt on the presidential compound, and records the CNSP…

Mokoena · 6 min
Africa29 Aug

Kenya's NACADA turns up the tempo in Nairobi's illicit alcohol and narcotics crackdown

Four NACADA-led multi-agency operations across three Nairobi neighbourhoods in 72 hours have seized hundreds of bottles of counterfeit spirits,…

Mokoena · 6 min
Africa29 Aug

Gunfire in Niamey: Soldiers Repelled at Niger's Presidential Palace

Insurgents from inside Niger's armed forces tried to storm the presidential palace in Niamey overnight, and were pushed back by the presidential…

Mokoena · 4 min
Africa29 Aug

Coup attempt reported in Niamey as anti-junta forces seize barracks, Africa Corps stays quiet

Telegram relays describe anti-junta forces seizing an air base and the Parachutist Bataillon's barracks near Niamey on 29 August 2026, with…

Mokoena · 5 min
Africa29 Aug

Gunfire in Niamey as soldiers from Tillaberi, Tera and Dosso attempt to overthrow Tiani's junta

Overnight gunfire across Niamey on 29 August 2026 marks the third such jolt to the capital in a single day, with Jeune Afrique identifying the…

Mokoena · 6 min
Africa29 Aug

Niger's military council says it contained a mutiny at Air Base 101 as Jeune Afrique reports a coup attempt…

The council said defence forces contained a mutiny at Air Base 101 in Niamey, while Jeune Afrique reported mutinous troops converging on the capital…

Mokoena · 6 min
Africa29 Aug

Nchimbi out, successor in: how CCM read the 48 hours that redrew Dodoma's top table

Vice-President Emmanuel Nchimbi resigned on 26 August 2026 citing deference to President Samia Suluhu Hassan. By 27 August CCM had expelled him for…

Mokoena · 6 min
Africa28 Aug

Ruto marks the second Katiba Day by tying three delivery moments to the Constitution

On 27 August 2026, President Ruto framed the 2010 Constitution as the anchor of a new national development charter; separately, he announced…

Mokoena · 5 min
Africa28 Aug

Tanzania's vice president is gone. The four-day replacement tells us what Samia wants.

Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi resigned on 25 August 2026, was expelled from CCM for indiscipline on 27 August, and was replaced within four days.…

Mokoena · 6 min
Africa27 Aug

Africa’s borderless market still depends on rules that stop at the border

Africa’s push for one market is colliding with fragmented standards and weak intellectual-property enforcement. The political case for integration is…

Mokoena · 6 min
Africa25 Aug

Tanzania expels VP Nchimbi from CCM, names his successor

Chama Cha Mapinduzi has expelled Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi for indiscipline and announced his replacement, turning a quiet resignation into an…

Mokoena · 5 min
Africa26 Aug

Beijing tells its citizens to leave Eswatini, leaving Taipei with one African holdout under new pressure

China has urged its citizens to leave Eswatini, citing security risks, as the kingdom remains the only African government formally recognising…

Mokoena · 5 min
Africa26 Aug

Dolly Parton dies at 80, family confirms; African wires carry the news within

Country music star and philanthropist Dolly Parton died in Nashville at 80,

Mokoena · 6 min
Africa26 Aug

When the lawyer settles without the client: two advice columns, one question of authority

On 26 August 2026 the Daily Nation's DN2 desk ran a column on dating and marriage, and MarketWatch ran a column on a lawyer who settled an injury…

Mokoena · 5 min
Africa26 Aug

Kenya's TVET pivot: a real answer to a labour market the state is no longer staffing

With formal hiring failing to keep pace with graduate output, Kenya is repositioning technical colleges as the answer to a jobs crisis the available…

Mokoena · 4 min
Africa25 Aug

A 39-arrest raid in Pretoria, a $6.24m MTN buyback in Lagos: two West African stories that won't sit still

Interpol-coordinated arrests in Pretoria and MTN's West Africa-driven cash rebound land within 24 hours, exposing the parallel pressures shaping the…

Mokoena · 6 min
Africa25 Aug

India and Japan signal joint Africa push for critical minerals as monsoon failure exposes South Asia's…

A FICCI-led pitch for joint India-Japan investment in African critical minerals landed the same day Indian Express data showed over a third of India…

Mokoena · 5 min
Africa25 Aug

Four suspects in custody over shooting of former world champion Zolani Tete

South African police confirmed on Monday that four suspects were arrested over the killing of former world boxing champion Zolani Tete, who was shot…

Mokoena · 4 min
Africa25 Aug

Kenya's county salary crunch meets a global cost-of-living squeeze

Twenty-one Kenyan counties have now gone two months without paying staff. The squeeze lands at a moment when used-car prices in the United States are…

Mokoena · 5 min
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  1. Kenya's Two Crises Converge: Political Violence Fears Meet an Airline on Its Knees25 Aug
  2. Doha deal revives Congo peace track as Ebola toll and unpaid medics expose state's…24 Aug
  3. Tea, batteries and bots: three supply chains that make Africa's China question concrete23 Aug
  4. Ruto's reconciliation story and the Mt Kenya arithmetic for 202723 Aug
  5. Congo's Ebola fight meets a mobile gold-rush workforce23 Aug
  6. Kinshasa and M23 agree a roadmap, but the hard politics sit in Kigali23 Aug
  7. DRC's Ebola outbreak crosses 2,500 deaths as vaccine arrivals and rebel checkpoints…23 Aug
  8. Kindiki's Tharaka Nithi-to-Meru sequence reads as a polling-station rehearsal for 202722 Aug
  9. 'Kenya''s beef-and-fisheries pitch and the renewables plan: two industrial-policy22 Aug
  10. Tea, batteries, and robots: three snapshots of a continent being courted22 Aug
  11. Ebola vaccines land in DRC as outbreak surpasses 5,000 cases and eastern conflict…22 Aug
  12. Ebola's return to eastern Congo is outrunning the response22 Aug
  13. Two Kenyan papers, two hours apart, frame the same failure: women absorb the cost21 Aug
  14. Ebola vaccine trial set to launch in DR Congo as WHO flags pace of deaths21 Aug
  15. The ocean’s labour is still the first casualty of a security story21 Aug
  16. DRC Ebola outbreak crosses 5,000 cases as vaccine push meets rebel controls and ambulance…21 Aug
  17. DRC Ebola outbreak grows 'exponentially' as M23 movement controls reshape the response21 Aug
  18. Ebola in eastern DRC has passed 5,000 cases. The vaccine has arrived21 Aug
  19. DRC's Ebola outbreak crosses 5,000 cases as access, not the virus, becomes the binding…20 Aug
  20. Ebola's 5,000-case threshold in eastern DRC, and the war underneath the outbreak20 Aug
  21. Biya's 73-day absence ends in Yaoundé, but Cameroon's succession question stays open20 Aug
  22. DRC's Ebola outbreak hits 5,000 cases as rebel controls and community hostility choke the…20 Aug
  23. Above 100 dead as landslide buries artisanal gold mine on the CAR-Cameroon border20 Aug
  24. Kenya's school games keep the running economy running20 Aug
  25. Nigeria's 2027 campaign opens with inflation on the ballot and a Tinubu machine already…20 Aug
  26. Cotton, copper in the soil: Africa's manufacturing gamble takes shape as South Africa's…19 Aug
  27. DRC's Ebola response is being throttled by distrust, violence and water scarcity19 Aug
  28. Ebola caseload in eastern DRC crosses 5,000 as attacks on ambulances and water shortages…19 Aug
  29. Ebola on the border, aid going dry: South Sudan's two-front crisis19 Aug
  30. Nigeria's 2027 race begins with Tinubu selling a record he has not yet delivered19 Aug
  31. Kenya's news-heavy screen and a court rebalance at Kenya Power: two stories, one…19 Aug
  32. Hong Kong customs arrests ten in HK$56m cannabis seizure bound for Europe and Africa18 Aug
  33. Cameroon’s Lionesses take a first Women’s Africa Cup of Nations title in Rabat18 Aug
  34. Three Kenya stories, one morning: a Sh203bn illicit market, twenty dead elephants, and a…18 Aug
  35. Gulf capital, fragmented rails, and a succulent heist: four African threads on one news…18 Aug
  36. Congo's Ebola outbreak is spreading at record speed as MSF demands a larger18 Aug
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