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Polished: The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro remains
one of Côte d’Ivoire’s most recognisable architectural landmarks. the town’s deep
cultural and historical significance. Photo:  Wendy Mosetlhi

Côte d’Ivoire is more than a stopover. It’s a story you travel through

A seven-day journey across Côte d’Ivoire reveals cocoa towns, coastal escapes, living history and cultural traditions carried carefully across generations

Well-organised ecosystems: Typical red flags include pressure to act urgently, official-looking emails with errors in the address, website links with misspellings, requests for PINs for unexpected payments and crypto schemes promising fast profits.

Beating rampant cybercrime in Africa

Most cyberattacks succeed because they exploit human behaviour rather than technical weaknesses. Consumers are the frontline of defence against cybercrime

Malawi has committed about 550 000 hectares of public forest, close to 6% of the country’s land area, to a 40-year carbon-credit arrangement before parliament has passed a dedicated law to regulate such deals.

Portuguese carbon deal ‘locks’ Malawian forests for decades

A sweeping agreement to market carbon credits from 14 forest reserves could generate more than $1.5 billion but critics warn the legal framework remains unfinished

New empire: US President Donald Trump has threatened to grab Greenland. Photo: Doctor Dave

Angst about Trump’s Greenland threat

When coercion is directed outward from the West toward the Global South it is normalised, bureaucratised and framed as responsible governance

Life president: NRM Presidential Candidate Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, together with the First Lady Maama
Janet Museveni, arrive at Buziga Islamic School grounds, Makindye Division, to kick off election campaigns.
Photo: National Resistance Movement

Africa 2026: polls sans choice, jobs

In addition, some of the continent’s wars show little sign of resolution

Cote D’Ivoire’s President Alassane Ouattara has confirmed his candidacy for re-election. Photo: File

Ouattara poised to win Cote d’Ivoire’s October presidential elections

This is despite protests by opposition parties

Nestlé’s Communication Executive Mota Mota.

Climate crisis: Huge blow to cocoa producers

Chocolate prices set to soar as climate change affects Nestlé’s production

Local farmers gather dried cocoa beans to be weighed before selling them to merchants in a village outside of Kumasi, Ghana.
(Photo by Jane Hahn/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Easter chocs may leave bitter taste

Chocolate products have become more expensive on the back of soaring cocoa prices, but there is not likely to be a shortage

A DR Congo supporter reacts during the Africa Cup of Nations 2024 group F football match between DR Congo and Zambia at Stade Laurent Pokou in San Pedro on January 17, 2024. (Photo by SIA KAMBOU / AFP)

Total football, total sportswashing

The beautiful game arrives at the perfect time to scrub the mud off Afcon’s lead sponsor

Local is lekker: Ivorian chef Charlie Koffi prepares gouagouassou sauce with rabbit accompanied by rice in his restaurant at Villa Alvira in Abidjan last month. Photo: Sia Kambou/AFP

Ivorian cuisine with much ooh la la

Restaurants in Côte d’Ivoire are increasingly mixing French finesse with local flavour

Disillusioned: Kenyans queue for cash handouts at a rally in Kisumu. The number of young voters registered for Kenya’s August 2022 elections has
dropped since the last poll five years ago, pointing to disenchantment caused by economic hardship and corruption. Photo: Brian Ongoro

Africa’s chief executives focus on Francophone markets

Leaders at some African firms are looking at Francophone markets as a way to expand sales hit by Covid-19 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

How an African artist turns electronic waste to works of art

Mounou Désiré Koffi is bringing attention to the world’s e-waste menace by using dead cell phone keyboards in his art.

A man holds a sign reading “Support to the army. Long live Russia and China, Ecowas and France get out” as supporters of the CNSP (National Committee for the Salvation of the People) take part in a rally on Independence square in Bamako,   on September 8, 2020, following a call by the MP4 (Popular Movement of 4th September) for a gathering to support the role of the army in Mali’s transition phase after a military junta overthrew the president. (Photo by MICHELE CATTANI / AFP)

Democracy delayed in Mali spurs sanctions from neighbours

Mali’s junta now finds itself ostracised by its regional peers – and at the centre of a dangerous new geopolitical game.

An employee walks past stockpiled of coal for shipping at the Richard’s Bay coal terminal, in Richard’s Bay. (Dean Hutton/Bloomberg/Getty Images)

COP26: Momentum gathers to end new coal builds

South Africa, the continent’s largest emitter, is not among several African countries that joined the UK-led coalition committing to phase out the fossil fuel

Billboard in Freetown, Sierra Leone reads “Ebola, Survivors are our Heroes & Heroines. Stop The Stigma !!!”

Africa in brief: August 21 – 28

What’s been happening on the continent this week?