The country’s shame and Africa’s failure

Football should reward skill, not survival of the shrewdest. South African teams offer professionalism and infrastructure that uplift the continent. Allowing gamesmanship to thrive diminishes all of that. CAF owes African football’s integrity a level playing field. If not, South African sides have every right to fight fire with calculated, rules-based fire

The current squad stands out as one of the most impressive in recent memory. Its strength draws heavily from the domestic powerhouse clubs

At present, most policy responses remain fragmented. Governments focus on border enforcement, documentation systems, policing and short-term political responses. Yet these interventions rarely address the structural drivers behind migration flows

On World Hunger Day on 28 May, it is important to point out that more than one in five people in Africa go hungry today, and nearly six in 10 face moderate or severe food insecurity.

He warns against reducing people to measurable outputs, predictive profiles or behavioural categories. Once technology becomes the standard by which human beings are judged, it no longer serves human development; it begins to reshape society according to its own logic

The sheer brilliance of Iran’s three-tiered governance structure

Africa Day should not be observed merely as a ritual of speeches and nostalgia. It should be approached as a test.

The African continent has long played a secondary role in shaping global events, energy being one of the main characteristics of this subsidiary role. We now can play a role in helping to choose the direction of global decision-making

By shifting our focus towards the establishment of a Public Whistleblower Authority, aligning this architecture with any future anti-corruption agency, introducing real monetary incentives and convening an immediate national engagement to iron out these mechanics, we can ensure that the state finally shares the risk borne by those who speak the truth.

The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development is accelerating oversight of large road projects in Togo, Madagascar and Nigeria as Gulf states expand strategic infrastructure investments across Africa amid rising geopolitical tension and global trade disruptions

The farce lies in the performance of Pan-Africanism without power. It lies in institutions that speak of unity while African economies remain exposed to rating agencies, foreign currencies, creditor punishments and donor instructions. It lies in regional bodies that discipline disobedient states while tolerating client regimes that sell their people into permanent dependency

Until the AU can fund a much greater share of its own agenda and use Africa’s financial institutions more strategically, its agency will remain constrained