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[ISS] America will remain a vital partner, so African governments should expand, not reduce, their options to advance their interests.
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In Benin, the lakeside village of Ganvié is seeing a quiet shift: its once discreet meeting spots are fading as young couples swap secret night encounters for smartphones and social media.
[Nyasa Times] Food security occupied a central place in President Peter Mutharika's SONA address today, reflecting both the political sensitivity of hunger and the economic vulnerability of a country where over 80 percent of the population depends on rain-fed agriculture.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa says the army will work with the police to fight organised crime and illegal mining.
[Daily Trust] A retired United States Army officer, Major Yinka Ogunsanya, has condemned the payment of ransom to terrorists by government authorities, describing it as a dangerous practice that strengthens insurgents and worsens Nigeria's insecurity crisis.
[Shabelle] Mogadishu -- The UK Minister for International Development and Africa, Baroness Jenny Chapman, concluded her first visit to Somalia, during which she also announced £6 million in new humanitarian funding.
[Premium Times] Two of the three single-page documents were written in Russian, and the third was a mix of Russian and English.
[Premium Times] An official said that all remaining processing units will begin their respective performance test runs in Phase 2, scheduled to commence next week.
In his State of the Nation address, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the army would help police fight gang violence and illegal mining in two different provinces.
[Premium Times] Governor Siminalayi Fubara has dissolved the Rivers State Executive Council days after a closed-door meeting with President Bola Tinubu and FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, deepening intrigue over the state's protracted political standoff.
[HRW] African Union Summit Crucial Opportunity to Address Protection of Civilians
[Shabait] Asmara, 13 February 2026- President Isaias Afwerki met, in the late afternoon hours yesterday at Denden Guest House, Saudi delegation led by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Engineer Waleed Bin Abdulkarim al-Khereiji.
[Horn Diplomat] Abu Dhabi -- The United Arab Emirates on Thursday rejected allegations that it financed and supported a training camp in Ethiopia for Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), calling the claims unfounded.
[New Dawn] Harbel -- The Executive Governor of the Central Bank of Liberia, Henry F. Saamoi, highlighted significant progress in regional monetary integration at the 67th Ordinary Meeting of the Committee of Governors of Central Banks of ECOWAS Member States, hosted in Liberia.
[New Dawn] Paynesville -- The National Elections Commission (NEC) has outlined a series of post-election activities and ongoing engagements with international stakeholders and development partners as part of its preparations for the 2029 Presidential and legislative elections.
Vladimir Stevanovic braves Serbia’s icy lakes and snowy ridges in shorts, using extreme cold as daily meditation that slows his mind and resets his body.
[Liberian Observer] Despite Africa's vast mineral wealth, communities living closest to mining sites and within concessions remain among the poorest and most vulnerable. This paradox took the center stage at the Alternative Mining Indaba (AMI) 2026 taking place in Cape Town, South Africa where civil society organizations (CSOs) and inter-faith leaders called for urgent reforms to ensure extractive revenues genuinely support national resource mobilization and community development.
Morocco plans to spend some $330 million on regions hit hardest by weeks of flooding across the country's north that have battered its key agricultural zones, the government said Thursday
[Liberian Observer] The country's fight against corruption and the misuse of public funds entered a critical phase this week when the Supreme Court of Liberia reaffirmed that former Finance Minister Samuel Tweah and several ex-officials are not shielded from prosecution under claims of National Security Council (NSC) immunity.
[Liberian Observer] MNG Gold Liberia has firmly denied allegations of bribery influencing an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report on a recent hydrochloric acid spill, describing the claims as "unimaginable" and beyond credibility.
[Ghanaian Times] The Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralisation (IMCC), together with the Ministry of Education (MoE), has launched the process to enact a new Education Sector Devolution Bill.
