Author: Montage Africa

A group of 20 young people who were abducted in south-east Nigeria last week have been rescued, police say. The graduates were kidnapped on 1 October while they were travelling for a national community service programme in the Abia and Akwa Ibom states in the south of the country. They were rescued by the police with the assistance of other security agencies. Police spokesman Ani Iniedu said in a statement on Wednesday the group were rescued at Amakohia Ubi in Imo State after a sustained search-and-rescue operation. The group are being looked after and have been taken for medical evaluation.…

Wicknell Chivayo, the Zimbabwean tycoon who died in a helicopter crash along with his wife Lucy Muteke last week, divided opinion in life and continues to do so in death. He called himself “Sir Wicknell”, a nod to the embellishment that epitomised his lifestyle – and a nickname some used for the 45-year-old who packed enough controversy into his short life to last several lifetimes. He was relentlessly self-documenting, building much of his public persona on social media, where he posed with piles of cash and announced the cars and money he gave to people whom he considered deserving. Chivayo…

Campaign group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the deportation of migrants from the US to third-party African countries is against the law and exploits suffering to deter migration. “Many, if not most” of the deportees have no practical option but to return to their home countries regardless of the harm they face there, HRW says in a report. Since Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2025, more than 500 people have been sent to African countries where they are not citizens, the group says, citing US data. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said “third country removals…

By Rédaction Africanews and Francine Sinarinzi The World Food Programme is seeking more than $30 million to maintain food assistance for Congolese refugees in Burundi, warning that supplies could run out as early as October 2026 without additional funding. The WFP said on July 24 that it may struggle to maintain food and nutrition assistance through August 2027. A sudden interruption has been avoided after donors, with support from the Burundian government, provided part of the funding initially requested. Jean de Lestrange, a WFP partnerships and communications officer, said the additional support would allow assistance to continue for only a…

Africa launched its own credit rating agency on Wednesday, aimed at countering what many see as unfair assessments by global institutions that make it more expensive for African nations to borrow money. The Africa Credit Ratings Agency (AfCRA), backed by the African Union after nearly a decade of talks, will judge the credit worthiness of countries, businesses and institutions. The Indian Ocean island of Mauritius was chosen as the agency’s operations base, partly due to its established financial services industry. It aims to offer an alternative viewpoint to the “big three” global credit ratings, Fitch, Moody’s and S&P, which…

Zambia has signed a five-year health financing agreement with the US, ending months of public dispute over whether the country was trading citizens’ medical data and mineral rights for aid. Under the memorandum of understanding, signed in Lusaka on Thursday along with a data-sharing deal, the US will provide about $1.5bn (£1.1bn), with Zambia also contributing. Civil society groups had criticised a leaked draft they said allowed too much data sharing, while activists seized on reports that health money was being linked to preferential access for US companies to minerals, which the then-US ambassador denied. The deal comes after the…

By Zecharias Zelalem After nearly two weeks of fierce fighting, Ethiopian federal forces entered the Tigrayan capital of Mekelle as forces from an alliance of rebel groups, including the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), withdrew from the city. The fighting that erupted late last month has effectively ended the 2022 Pretoria ceasefire and the fragile peace that followed the devastating Tigray war. end of list But Mekelle’s capture may mark the end of conventional warfare rather than the end of the conflict. Fighting has continued elsewhere in Tigray, while reports of Eritrean troops entering northern Tigrayan towns have added a…

Joule Work, Joule Assistants and SAP Business AI Platform help organizations turn business AI into trusted outcomes across every core function Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE LAS VEGAS, United States of America, 7 October 2026 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/ – SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today showcased the Autonomous Enterprise in action at SAP Connect, demonstrating how Joule Work and Joule Assistants generate value for customers across every line of business. “This is a breakthrough moment for business AI,” said Christian Klein, CEO of SAP SE. “The Autonomous Enterprise has arrived. With Joule and SAP Autonomous Suite, built…

A 700MW cross-border transmission line will bring affordable power to the DRC’s Copperbelt, unlock new mining and industrial capacity, open export routes for licensed Zambian power producers, and enable new generation KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo, 7 October 2026 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/ -The Strategic Investment Fund of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“FIS-RDC”), Enterprise Power DRC SARL (“EnPower”), Trafigura and Gridworks Development Partners (together, “the Parties”) have signed a Strategic Framework Agreement to jointly finance, build and operate a 200km high-voltage power line connecting Kalumbila, Zambia, with Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Kalumbila–Kolwezi Interconnector…

By AFP The largest market for Namibian beef, the European Union, announced Monday it had suspended imports after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, which wreaked havoc in Europe 25 years ago. Namibia announced last month its first outbreak of foot-and-mouth (FMD) in its primary commercial livestock zone in 60 years, prompting a nationwide ban on livestock movement and meat exports. “The EU has decided to temporarily suspend the entry into its territory of fresh meat of cattle, sheep and goats…,” the EU delegation announced. The suspension included meat from relevant farmed and wild hooved animals, and certain processed meat products,…