By Sarah Miansoni with AP Hundreds of workers, union members and opposition supporters marched in Senegal’s capital Dakar on Wednesday to protest what they say are broken government promises and a worsening cost-of-living, as the country is plagued by a severe debt crisis. The protest was organised by the country’s main labor unions and the Front for the Defense of Democracy and the Republic, also known as FDR, opposition coalition. Mody Guiro, secretary-general of the National Confederation of Senegalese Workers, the country’s largest labor union, said the government had betrayed a deal last year that had frozen strikes in exchange…
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By Rédaction Africanews and Agencies Madagascar has declared state of emergency over concerns about energy supplies to the Indian Ocean nation. President Randrianirina has signed a decree authorising the government to take emergency measures to secure fuel supplies, including requisitioning stocks. If necessary, authorities can also suspend the automatic price adjustment mechanism currently in place. It sets the cost of petrol based on its purchase price on the international market. Most of the island’s electricity is generated from oil and it depends on fuel imported from Oman, just south of the Strait of Hormuz, currently closed by Iran. While Madagascar…
By Rédaction Africanews and AP Emergency workers in Beirut searched for survivors on Thursday after Israeli strikes on busy commercial and residential areas of the Lebanese capital the previous day. The attacks came without warning, hours after a ceasefire was announced in the US-Israel war with Iran. Any sense of relief after the truce was announced soon turned to panic as Israel launched what it said was its largest coordinated strike of the current war – hitting 100 targets within 10 minutes in Beirut, southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley. Lebanon said it was the deadliest day of the…
Gabriel Kwaku Agbeshie, a passionate 2025 Aspire Leaders Program alumnus and moderator from Ghana, channels his own childhood struggles with vision into a powerful mission: identifying visual impairments in underserved schoolchildren early so they can receive the eye care needed to succeed in school and life. Through iScreen4Kids, an initiative he developed with the help of Aspire’s Seed Fund grant, Agbeshie delivers essential eye screenings, education, and support to children, helping them overcome vision barriers before they become lifelong obstacles. The Early Impact of Impaired Vision Throughout his childhood and adolescence, Agbeshie lived with undiagnosed myopia. Eye care for children was not commonplace, and…
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) is proud to announce that it is supporting Dangote Group, as it seeks to expand its operations and grow its turnover to US$100 billion by 2030. The Group’s leadership presented its long-term growth strategy “Vision 2030: Supercharging Dangote Group for Long Term Success” to the Afreximbank Board of Directors and its executive team on Tuesday, 31 March 2026. The strategy outlines a two‑phase expansion programme spanning 2025–2028 and 2028–2030. During the presentation, Dangote Group outlined plans to scale and optimise its existing platforms and expand capacity across all active sectors. Key initiatives include increasing the…
By: Lasbery Chioma Oludimu: VP of Global Operations and MD of Yellow Card Nigeria This year, the digital asset industry will no longer be divided by ideology, but by execution. The question will not be whether digital assets belong in the financial system, that debate is effectively over, but rather which platforms can operate at scale, under regulation, and across borders without friction. This is the point where much of the industry will be tested. For years, digital assets were defined by innovation cycles and adoption narratives. Over the next phase, they will be defined by infrastructure: reliability, liquidity, compliance, and…
By Sarah Miansoni In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the relocation process for army members released by the AFC/M23 rebel group appears to be at a standstill, according to French radio RFI. On March 8, the Rwanda-backed AFC/M23 announced the liberation of 5,000 soldiers from the armed forces of the DRC (FARDC) previously captured by the group. At the time, the movement’s spokesperson said these soldiers had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRCI), which was then supposed to supervise their transfer to Kinshasa. “As a neutral mediator, the ICRC stands ready to support such an operation…
By Rédaction Africanews A row has erupted after Nigel Farage’s party, Reform UK, unveiled plans to refuse visas to nationals from countries pursuing compensation for the transatlantic slave trade, drawing sharp criticism from Caribbean leaders. The proposal, announced on Tuesday, would target states advocating for reparations, including members of the Commonwealth such as Ghana and Jamaica. Reform UK, which currently holds a small number of seats in parliament but is polling strongly ahead of the next general election, said the measure is intended to push back against what it sees as unfair demands on Britain. The party’s home affairs lead, Zia Yusuf,…
By Rédaction Africanews James Swan has officially taken office as the new head of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, MONUSCO. The American diplomat was appointed in early March and succeeds Guinean official Bintou Keita, who left Kinshasa on 30 November 2025 after four years in charge. Swan is no stranger to the country. He previously served as US ambassador to the DRC under President Barack Obama, and later headed the UN mission in Somalia. But he returns to Congo at a particularly tense moment, with relations between Kinshasa and Kigali poisoned by the conflict in the…
British barrister Martin Hackett has been appointed as The Gambia’s first special prosecutor to try those responsible for human rights abuses carried out during the 22-year rule of ex-President Yahya Jammeh, which ended when he went into exile in 2017. Hackett will head a newly created office charged with dealing with the cases from a period characterised by widespread repression, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings. The Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) was set up to document the extent of the alleged abuses. In its final report, handed to current President Adama Barrow in 2021, it identified those most responsible…