Exterior of Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand, Johannesburg, which hosts the IEC national results centre — File: Gallagher Estate, Midrand. Photo: NJR ZA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Politics · South Africa · Local elections

110 hung councils as SA wakes to a coalition country — metros still unsettled

With about 95% of the national vote counted on Friday night, the IEC dashboard showed 110 municipal councils without an outright winner. Official declaration is due Sunday evening.

By Zanele Nkosi · Johannesburg · 7 Nov 2026, 05:40 Africa/Johannesburg

Photo: Forbes Bulgaria

Business · Profile · Feature

Kaloyan Dimov: the entrepreneur with a Midas touch, in Africa and beyond

By Chinedu Eze · Lagos · 13:08 SAST

The Federal High Court complex in Abuja, Nigeria, seen from the front — Photo: Ovinuchi Prince Ejiohuo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Politics · Nigeria · 2027 election

ADC appeals judgment voiding Atiku’s candidacy and asks INEC to wait on a stay

By Chinedu Eze · Lagos · 05:42 SAST

Tundu Lissu addressing a crowd during presidential campaigning in Kibaigwa, Dodoma, in 2015 — Photo: Likumbage / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Politics · Tanzania · Opposition

Tundu Lissu convicted of incitement and jailed for four years — acquitted of treason

By Amina Yusuf · Nairobi · 05:44 SAST

Toddler walking while holding a MORI cream and latte supersoft striped knitted blanket — Photo: MORI, used with permission

Business · United Kingdom · Turkey · South Africa

MORI: how a family-inspired babywear brand turned global expertise into a business advantage

By Chinedu Eze · Johannesburg · 22:18 SAST

A view across the town of Asosa in western Ethiopia, with buildings and trees under a hazy sky — Photo: Emiliano Tomei / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Security · Horn of Africa · Sudan–Ethiopia

Sudan and Ethiopia shut each other’s border consulates as fears of a wider Horn war grow

By Lemlem Bekele · Addis Ababa · 05:55 SAST

Rows of young avocado trees of the Maluma cultivar planted close together at a farm in Tzaneen, Limpopo — Photo: Edrean / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Business · South Africa · Agribusiness

From a run-down Limpopo farm to the world’s avocado giant: how Tzaneen became an export powerhouse

By Thabo Molefe · Johannesburg · 05:45 SAST

Morning desk · Saturday Archive →

Politics · South Africa · Local elections

SA local election results 2026: who is leading

By Zanele Nkosi · Johannesburg · 05:40 SAST

Politics · South Africa · Local elections

110 hung councils as SA wakes to a coalition country — metros still unsettled

By Zanele Nkosi · Johannesburg · 05:40 SAST

Politics · Nigeria · 2027 election

ADC appeals judgment voiding Atiku’s candidacy and asks INEC to wait on a stay

By Chinedu Eze · Lagos · 05:42 SAST

Politics · Tanzania · Opposition

Tundu Lissu convicted of incitement and jailed for four years — acquitted of treason

By Amina Yusuf · Nairobi · 05:44 SAST

Evening desk · Friday Archive →

Business · United Kingdom · Turkey · South Africa

MORI: how a family-inspired babywear brand turned global expertise into a business advantage

By Chinedu Eze · Johannesburg · 22:18 SAST

Morning desk · Friday Archive →

Politics · Nigeria · 2027 election

Nigerian court nullifies Atiku’s ADC presidential nomination and sacks the party’s leadership

By Chinedu Eze · Lagos · 05:50 SAST

Security · Horn of Africa · Sudan–Ethiopia

Sudan and Ethiopia shut each other’s border consulates as fears of a wider Horn war grow

By Lemlem Bekele · Addis Ababa · 05:55 SAST

Business · South Africa · Agribusiness

From a run-down Limpopo farm to the world’s avocado giant: how Tzaneen became an export powerhouse

By Thabo Molefe · Johannesburg · 05:45 SAST

Morning desk · Thursday Archive →

The entrance to the Gallagher Estate convention centre in Midrand, with a row of flags along its roof under a clear blue sky — Photo: NJR ZA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Politics · South Africa · Local elections

ANC and DA neck and neck as South Africa’s local election count begins, with turnout heading for about half of voters

By Zanele Nkosi · Johannesburg · 05:45 SAST

Four young men in Addis Ababa leaning in to read an Amharic-language newspaper together — Photo: Terje Skjerdal / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Politics · Ethiopia · Horn of Africa

Ethiopia suspends The Reporter indefinitely, silencing one of its last independent newspapers over ‘national interests’

By Lemlem Bekele · Addis Ababa · 05:50 SAST

A Nedbank branch on a street corner in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, with green Nedbank, bureau de change and ATM signage above the entrance — Photo: Ossewa / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Business · Kenya · South Africa · East Africa

Nedbank takes control of Kenya’s NCBA, paying $178.7m in cash plus new shares for a 66% stake

By Amina Yusuf · Nairobi · 05:55 SAST

Morning desk · Wednesday Archive →

Steel cut-out figures of people queueing behind a giant silhouette of Nelson Mandela, the Voting Line artwork at the Donkin Reserve in Gqeberha, at sunset — Photo: Suzi-k / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Politics · South Africa · Local elections

South Africa votes today: 29.2 million people are registered to choose 257 municipal councils, with 1.4 million ballots already cast

By Sipho Dlamini · Johannesburg · 05:50 SAST

Ugandan soldiers in helmets and body armour with rifles behind sandbag and mesh barriers on a Mogadishu street — Photo: AMISOM Public Information / Wikimedia Commons, CC0

Security · Somalia · Uganda · Horn of Africa

Uganda starts pulling its troops out of Somalia after 20 years, and AU peacekeepers move to plug the gap around Mogadishu

By Amina Yusuf · Nairobi · 05:55 SAST

The white modernist facade of Senegal’s National Assembly in Dakar, with palm trees and blue ornamental pools in front — Photo: HaguardDuNord / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Business · Senegal · West Africa

Senegal’s parliament throws out the revised 2026 budget, putting a $2.2bn IMF programme at risk

By Fatou Diallo · Dakar · 06:00 SAST

Politics · Southern Africa · Updated

IEC: 1,425,942 special votes cast over two days, out of about 2.6 million approved; ballots to be counted tonight with election-day votes

By Zanele Nkosi · Johannesburg · Updated 06:05 SAST

Tuesday desk Archive →

Photo: Forbes Bulgaria

Business · South Africa · Profile

Kaloyan Dimov: the entrepreneur with a Midas touch, in Africa and beyond

By Chinedu Eze · Lagos · 13:08 SAST

A Takealot delivery truck charging at the SAEV Charge station at Die Veldskoen Padstal on the N1 — Photo: Die Veldskoen Padstal (supplied)

Climate & Energy · South Africa · E-mobility

South Africa’s plug-in boom outruns its chargers: newcomer SAEV Charge builds fast while GridCars replaces its first-generation units

By Naledi van Wyk · Cape Town · 09:54 SAST

Aerial view of container stacks, cranes and two container ships at the Port of Durban — Photo: Media Club / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Business · South Africa · Rwanda · Trade

Trump moves to cut South Africa and Rwanda out of AGOA from 1 January, putting $1.7bn of South African exports at risk

By Thabo Molefe · Johannesburg · 05:50 SAST

Dusk over the low ochre buildings of Laayoune, with satellite dishes and white UN vehicles in the MINURSO compound in the foreground — Photo: cingularite / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Politics · Western Sahara · North Africa

The UN’s Western Sahara mission ends after 35 years as Russia vetoes a US plan to rename it and drop the referendum

By Yasmine El-Sayed · Cairo · 05:55 SAST

Tall pink and cream office blocks in Abuja’s Central Business District seen from a balcony under a grey sky — Photo: Kenogenic / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Climate & Energy · Nigeria · Pan-African

Afreximbank and African oil producers launch a $5bn Africa Energy Bank in Abuja as Western lenders pull back from oil and gas

By Chinedu Eze · Lagos · 06:00 SAST

Politics · Southern Africa · Updated

IEC says at least 780,000 special votes were cast on day one, as late ballot papers delayed 217 Cape Town stations

By Zanele Nkosi · Johannesburg · Updated 06:05 SAST

Business · Egypt · Updated

Banque du Caire closes its first EGX session at EGP 5.31, just above the offer price, after touching EGP 5.68

By Yasmine El-Sayed · Cairo · Updated 06:10 SAST

Saturday desk Archive →

The carved wooden doorway and brass plaque of a Banque du Caire branch in Cairo’s Sayeda Zeinab district — Photo: David Broad / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

Business · Egypt

Banque du Caire starts trading in Cairo on Monday after the biggest private book in EGX history

By Yasmine El-Sayed · Cairo · 11:50 SAST

Newly built cream and orange apartment blocks and a white high-rise against a blue sky in uptown Mogadishu — Photo: ATMIS Somalia / Wikimedia Commons, CC0

Politics · Somalia · Horn of Africa

The UN closes its political mission in Somalia today, ending three decades of political missions in the country

By Wanjiku Kamau · Nairobi · 11:55 SAST

A floating oil production vessel with a burning gas flare on the open sea off Nigeria under grey cloud — Photo: Ciacho5 / Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Business · Nigeria · Oil & Gas

TotalEnergies sells SAPETRO 40% of Nigeria’s OPL257 to fast-track the Egina South oil find, untouched since 2005

By Chinedu Eze · Lagos · 12:00 SAST

Afternoon desk · Friday Archive →

The mud-brick walls and tower of Fort Madama rising from orange sand dunes in northern Niger under a pale sky — Photo: DirkBw / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Security · North Africa & Sahel

Algeria will send troops into Niger, its first deployment abroad since 1973, to guard Sonatrach’s oil interests at Madama

By Rania Benali · Cairo · 13:20 SAST

A street in Nyala with small shops, a white car and pedestrians in front of the Sudan Post office building — Photo: Leovdvxxx / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Security · Sudan · Darfur

Army drone strike on a Nyala market kills dozens. Rights groups say more than 100 died; the army says it hit RSF recruits

By Lemlem Bekele · Addis Ababa · 13:25 SAST

Green hills covered with houses and trees above Butembo in North Kivu, with blue mountains in the distance — Photo: Gavin Finnegan / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Business · Central & East Africa

Conflict gold now pays for the Islamic State-linked ADF in eastern Congo, and much of it ends up in Uganda, a report says

By Amina Yusuf · Nairobi · 13:30 SAST

Security · East Africa · Updated

Moyale: Kenya and aid agencies now plan for up to 80,000 arrivals from Ethiopia, IOM says

By Lemlem Bekele · Addis Ababa · Updated 13:35 SAST

Morning desk · Friday Archive →

A white Bayraktar TB2 drone with a long, slender wing parked on a concrete apron under a blue sky — Photo: Bayhaluk / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Security · Horn of Africa

Sudan accuses Ethiopia of letting 162 drone attacks be launched from its soil as strikes black out power stations

By Lemlem Bekele · Addis Ababa · 05:40 SAST

Red crawler cranes lifting a tall silver crude distillation column at the Dangote refinery construction site under a pale blue sky — Photo: FrankvEck / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Business · Central & West Africa

Cameroon turns to Dangote’s refinery for half its fuel in a 30-month deal, but the Yaoundé signing is postponed

By Chinedu Eze · Lagos · 05:45 SAST

The Kinshasa skyline, low and grey on the far bank of the wide Congo River, seen from Brazzaville under a hazy sky — Photo: Karin Lakeman / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Business · Central Africa

DR Congo tables a record $24.8bn budget for 2027, with $6.1bn for security as the war in the east continues

By Fatou Diallo · Dakar · 05:50 SAST

Politics · East Africa · Updated

Kremlin publishes the adopted Moscow Declaration: 101 points, from sanctions and the ICC to South Africa’s G20 seat

By Amina Yusuf · Nairobi · Updated 05:55 SAST

Daytime desk · Thursday Archive →

A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-35 in a green and yellow camouflage scheme climbing steeply against a blue sky and white cloud — Photo: Oleg Belyakov / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Security · Horn of Africa

Ethiopia unveils Russian Su-35 jets and S-400 plans in Moscow as its standoff with Eritrea hardens

By Lemlem Bekele · Addis Ababa · 20:20 SAST

Inside a South African voting station: white IEC voting booths along a wall and tables with ballot boxes and papers — Photo: warrenski / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Politics · Southern Africa

South Africa’s local elections start on Monday with a record 2.66 million special votes

By Zanele Nkosi · Johannesburg · 20:25 SAST

Office towers along the Nile Corniche in Cairo, reflected in the river under a pale sky — Photo: Faris El-Gwely / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Business · North Africa

MNT-Halan’s parent ploughs EGP 4bn of its IPO proceeds back into the Egyptian fintech

By Yasmine El-Sayed · Cairo · 20:30 SAST

Kenya’s Parliament Buildings in Nairobi, framed by palm trees under a blue sky — Photo: Jorge Láscar / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Security · East Africa

Kenya wants the African Union to take up Russia’s recruitment of Africans as the Moscow summit stays silent

By Wanjiku Kamau · Nairobi · 18:30 SAST

Pedestrians on the tree-lined central promenade of Avenue Habib Bourguiba in Tunis — Photo: Bahbouhe / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Politics · North Africa

Tunisia jails journalist Zied el-Heni for four more years on terrorism charges in the “audio leaks” case

By Rania Benali · Cairo · 18:20 SAST

The empty UN Security Council chamber in New York, with its horseshoe table and large mural — Photo: Jdforrester / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Politics · West Africa

Liberia counts down to its first UN Security Council presidency since 1961, with Boakai to chair a maritime-security debate

By Kwame Mensah · Accra · 18:25 SAST

The skyline of central Kigali, Rwanda, with office towers on the hills — Photo: Adrien K / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Security · Great Lakes

US sanctions Rwanda’s defence ministry and the Zigama bank over support for M23 in eastern Congo

By Lemlem Bekele · Addis Ababa · 16:20 SAST

Central Yaoundé, Cameroon, with a high-rise office tower and the city spreading over hills behind — Photo: Kateregga1 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Politics · Central Africa

Cameroon suspends Issa Tchiroma’s party for three months ahead of 2027 local and legislative polls

By Fatou Diallo · Dakar · 16:30 SAST

An Oryx Gas sign and Oryx Energies canopy at a filling station in Korogwe, Tanzania — Photo: Praygod mwanga / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Business · Pan-African

Afreximbank puts $975m behind the management buyout that takes Oryx Energies into African hands

By Chinedu Eze · Lagos · 16:25 SAST

View over central Niamey from the Grand Mosque, with market stalls and a main road — Photo: Roland Huziaker / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0

Politics · Sahel

Two months after Moussa Kaka vanished in Niamey, Niger still won’t say where the journalist is held

By Fatou Diallo · Dakar · 14:30 SAST

The Banco de Moçambique building on Avenida 25 de Setembro in Maputo — Photo: Jcornelius / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Business · Southern Africa

Mozambique’s central bank plans to buy locally mined gold to diversify its reserves

By Thabo Molefe · Johannesburg · 14:25 SAST

Shops and offices on Independence Avenue in central Windhoek, Namibia — Photo: Zairon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Business · Southern Africa

Bank of Namibia lifts repo rate to 7% to shield the rand peg from the fuel-price shock

By Naledi van Wyk · Cape Town · 14:20 SAST

The Dar es Salaam waterfront and skyline seen from the harbour — Photo: Chen Hualin / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Politics · East Africa

A year after Tanzania’s deadly election, rights groups say no official has faced prosecution

By Amina Yusuf · Nairobi · 12:10 SAST

The green-domed National Assembly building in Abuja, Nigeria — Photo: Kabusa16 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Business · West Africa

Tinubu asks Senate to approve $21.7bn in new foreign loans as Oyedele calls it “investment, not borrowing”

By Amara Okonkwo · Lagos · 12:20 SAST

Aerial view of the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Dar es Salaam — Photo: Mxcarter / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Sport · Pan-African

CAF Champions League draw: Pirates get Simba and Berkane as holders Sundowns watch from outside

By Sipho Dlamini · Johannesburg · 12:15 SAST

The Marsabit–Moyale road crossing dry plains in northern Kenya — Photo: Lindsey Nicholson / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0

Security · Horn of Africa

Up to 50,000 cross into Kenya at Moyale as Oromia–Somali clashes spill over the border

By Lemlem Bekele · Addis Ababa · 10:20 SAST

Colourised electron micrograph of an Ebola virus particle — Illustrative. Image: CDC / Cynthia Goldsmith via Wikimedia Commons, public domain

Health & Fitness · Central & East Africa

Ebola outbreak passes 10,000 confirmed cases as Africa CDC calls health ministers together

By Amina Yusuf · Nairobi · 10:30 SAST

The Cairo skyline along the Nile River — Photo: Vyacheslav Argenberg / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Politics · North Africa

Cairo court orders Mada Masr shut and fines editor Lina Attalah EGP 3 million

By Yasmine El-Sayed · Cairo · 10:25 SAST

Energy & Industry Climate & Energy →

Climate & Energy · East Africa

Tanzania announces first major gas discovery in a decade at Mnazi Bay

Energy Minister Juma Homera put 223 billion cubic feet of estimated reserves on the Kasa-1X ST2 well. Production is pitched for early November — a domestic-power story more than an LNG boom narrative.

By Amina Yusuf · Nairobi
Business · Southern Africa

Solar MD’s Cape Town plant and Africa’s storage export race

Solar MD’s Richmond Park footprint — a 3 GWh plant anchoring a Cape industrial cluster built for export.

By Thabo Molefe · Johannesburg
Business · North Africa

EBRD takes up to $221m equity stake in Scatec’s Egypt renewables vehicle

The bank’s minority position in Egypt Renewables Holdings B.V. is pitched at 2.7 GW solar, 900 MW wind and 4.2 GWh of storage — a North Africa business lead about institutional capital, not a completed build-out.

By Rania Benali · Cairo