The United Kingdom has launched a comprehensive new approach to African engagement, pivoting from traditional aid frameworks toward investment-driven partnerships emphasizing trade, climate action, and long-term collaboration. Baroness Chapman of Darlington, UK Minister for Development and Africa, unveiled the policy this week in London before African ambassadors, high commissioners, parliamentarians, civil society representatives, and private […]
Somali forces took control of a popular hotel Sunday (21 August) and ended a deadly 30-hour siege in the country’s capital Mogadishu with security personnel clearing explosives planted by al-Shabab fighters in the damaged building. The Mogadishu attack began when fighters from the al-Qaeda-linked armed group unleashed a gun-and-bomb assault on the popular Hayat Hotel […]
Rwanda has recently signed two landmark deals that may see the East African country become a hub for research in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and nuclear energy — both of which are part of Rwanda’s ambitious aspirations to become an upper-middle income country by 2035, and a high-income country by 2050. Rwanda has […]
