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Eid al-Fitr and 1,400 years of Islam in Africa

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Africa has the largest Muslim population of any continent by share of global Islam. It arrived here before it reached…

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Can Africa own its social media layer?

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Africaspoint Editorial

Africa has 385 million social media users and a creator economy headed for $30 billion, yet every dollar spent on…

AfricaBusiness

Belgium to try a man for killing Lumumba

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Africaspoint Editorial

A Brussels court has ordered former diplomat Étienne Davignon, 93, to stand trial for war crimes connected to the 1961…

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CAF takes Senegal’s AFCON crown

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Africaspoint Editorial

CAF's appeals board has stripped Senegal of the 2025 AFCON title and handed it to Morocco 57 days after the…

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US-Iran truce sends oil crashing

A US-Iran ceasefire agreement and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz have sent Brent…

Africa startup funding May 2026 $259 million Bima NALA LemFi fintech reboundAI

MTN’s MoMo is going super app

MTN Group Fintech has partnered with Ant International, the global payments firm behind Alipay, to…

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AfDB backs Arua airport in Uganda

The African Development Bank has approved $180 million to upgrade Uganda's Arua Airport into an…

South Africa immigration xenophobia Ramaphosa March deportation crackdown 2026South Africa Infrastructure

South Africa braces for June 30

South Africa's police service has activated joint operations in all nine provinces at a projected…

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Sassou at 42 years: Congo’s permanent president

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Iran’s yuan gambit just broke the oil market

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Nairobi cleans up. Can it become a habit?

EditorialPaul Kagame

Rwanda shut 15,000 churches. Here is why.

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