At least 11 soldiers have been killed and 50 civilians were missing in Burkina Faso after armed fighters attacked a 150-vehicle military-escorted convoy taking supplies to a northern town, the country’s government has said, condemning the “barbaric, cowardly” attack. The government said the assault took place on Monday (26 September) in Soum province, where armed […]
A ceremony held in Nigeria on Tuesday (20 December), which saw twenty historic bronze sculptures returned to the country by Germany as part of efforts to address its “dark colonial past,” was the culmination of a years-long process that upended Germany’s approach to museum items looted during the colonial era. Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock […]
The revival of the Lobito Corridor, a 1,300 km railway linking Zambia’s copper belt to Angola’s Atlantic coast, captures a profound change in Europe’s approach to Africa from development aid to transnationalism. Once a colonial-era route for mineral extraction, the line is now the centerpiece of the EU’s 2 billion euro investment under its Global […]
