South Africa’s battered ANC seeks coalition to stay in power

South Africa’s ANC, which ruled the country for three decades, seeks to join a coalition government after it obtained only 40% of the votes in the May 29 elections. The debacle of ANC was expected as polls showed a falling popularity of the party that ruled what used to be Africa’s richest country since the […]

Sahel crisis spillover strains Gulf of Guinea as insecurity, disease, and displacement surge

West Africa faces a deepening humanitarian crisis as the fallout from armed conflict in the Central Sahel region continues to spill into neighboring Gulf of Guinea countries, according to a new UNICEF report. In the first half of 2025, escalating violence in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger has displaced more than 515,000 people into coastal […]

Morocco has more mobile phone subscriptions than people, official statistics

Morocco has 46.67 million mobile phone subscribers, that is more than the entire population estimated at 40 million people.   The latest figures released by telecoms regulator ANRT show that mobile phone penetration rate last year was 131.14%, noting that subscriptions in mobile phone services operated by the three main companies rose 20.54% last year. […]