A  Catholic splinter group consecrated four bishops on Wednesday, despite a direct appeal from Pope Leo to call it off.

Ransacked shelves and discarded packaging were all that remained inside several shops near the port city of Durban Wednesday after looting during protests demanding that undocumented foreign nationals leave South Africa.

Kiharu MP, Ndindi Nyoro. PHOTO/UGC. BY MUHOHO FRANCIS Kiharu MP, Ndīndī Nyoro, stands as a revealing mirror of Mount Kenya’s contemporary leadership crisis. The Member of Parliament is not a leader in the traditional or transformative sense. Rather, he resembles a discotheque performer of economic rhetoric—animated, visible, and constantly in motion, yet ultimately detached from the structural realities he claims to address. He frequently brandishes spreadsheets, speaks fluently about bottom-up economics, and tweets gross domestic product figures as though he alone discovered the arithmetic of development. Yet the fundamental question remains unanswered: where is the parliamentary Bill that translates these assertions into binding law? Where is the motion designed to dismantle the entrenched coffee cartels that continue to impoverish farmers in Kangema, Mathira, and Othaya? Where is the legislative intervention aimed at breaking the dairy sector monopolies that determine the pr...

Barrister Ntumfon Ndangoh Tah Calvin of Cameroon. PHOTO/UGC. By Ntumfon Ndangoh Tah Calvin Recent reports of xenophobic violence targeting Africans, including Cameroonians and other foreign nationals in South Africa, have once again raised serious concerns about the protection of African citizens within their own continent. The continued silence and apparent lack of decisive response from several African governments, including Cameroon, is both troubling and disappointing. As a Cameroonian, it is difficult to understand why stronger diplomatic measures have not been taken to address the recurring incidents of hostility and discrimination directed at fellow Africans in South Africa. African unity cannot be reduced to rhetoric and slogans while citizens of one African state are attacked, intimidated, or denied opportunities in another. Diplomacy is grounded in mutual respect and reciprocity. The principle is straightforward: if you treat my citizens with dignity and fairness, I will ens...

The anti-migrant protesters in South Africa blame foreigners for the nation's unemployment and high crime. It's a familiar story for South Africans -- this is the biggest such demonstrations since 2008, when a wave of anti-migrant violence spread across the country. Nearly two decades earlier, in May 2008, a wave of xenophobic riots started in Johannesburg before spreading across the country.

A viral video showing handcuffed men walking in single file is being shared by Islamophobic accounts claiming it depicts Muslims enslaving Christian Africans. However, the video has been taken out of context.

The Middle East ceasefire has eased market tensions, but African investors should remain cautious. Cliff Bakashaba, Head of Investments at Jubilee Asset Management Limited, explains how geopolitical shocks continue to affect inflation, currencies, interest rates and investment performance across Africa. The article explores why long-term investors, insurers and asset managers must look beyond short-term market relief and focus on resilience, risk management and country-specific investment strategies.

Open Startup has launched The Science Road, a new pan-African strategy to accelerate science, deep tech and research-led startups as the organisation celebrates its 10th anniversary. The initiative combines startup acceleration, early-stage financing through the new Openers First investment arm, and strategic partnerships with universities, investors and industry leaders to help African innovations move from research labs to global markets. The platform aims to strengthen Africa's innovation ecosystem by supporting ventures in artificial intelligence, health, climate technology and other high-impact sectors.

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Six employees of a shelter built to protect mothers and children in northern Germany are dead after a custody appointment turned into a massacre, with the three-month-old infant at the center of the dispute pulled from the building unharmed. The 45-year-old suspect had scheduled the meeting at the facility in Stade, a town near Hamburg, […]