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Wealth Report 2023 confirms that ’Africa is not poor but impoverished’

Not all Africans are poor — this could arguably be the main message from the 2023 edition of the annual Africa Wealth Report by London-based Henley & Partners that reveals that the ‘Big 5’ wealth markets in Africa — South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, and Morocco — together account for a significant 56% of Africa’s […]

AU insists on exclusivity of UN process to settle Sahara issue

The 14th African Union Extraordinary Session of the Assembly on Silencing the Guns has ended with a reiteration of the primacy of the UN as the exclusive framework for a political solution to the Sahara issue. The decision deals a new blow to Algeria and its national Ismail Chergui who heads the AU’s Peace and […]

Sudan’s emergency volunteer network wins Norway’s top human rights award

Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms (ERRs), a grassroots network of volunteer aid groups, have been awarded the 2025 Rafto Prize for human rights work, in recognition of their life-saving efforts amid the country’s deepening war and humanitarian collapse. Founded during the 2023 civil war between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the ERRs emerged […]