By 164 votes to one, the UN General Assembly backed a world map that better respects the true area of continents. Equal Earth ends the artificial shrinking of Africa, turning cartography into a global debate about education, perception and power.
S&P Dow Jones Indices has ultimately kept Egypt in the emerging markets category. After the threat of a downgrade, this decision protects the international visibility of the Cairo Stock Exchange, without erasing the country's economic vulnerabilities.
Abuja Tech x Art Fest 2026 wants to place Nigeria's capital on Africa's creative-tech map, connecting startups, artists, investors and public policy.
Achievers Summit Africa 2026 opens in Lagos with a clear message: turn African youth, enterprise and leadership into contracts, networks and economic power.
Entertainment Week Africa 2026 is turning Lagos into a continental platform for music, film, fashion, AI, animation and African creative capital.
Google Cloud is turning its Africa bet into an infrastructure strategy: an Eastern Cape hub, an applied AI lab in Accra, creative training and startup acceleration.
In Luanda, African states adopted a declaration aimed at making oceans, lakes, and rivers a driver of jobs, food security, and investment. Behind this decision lies a market already estimated at nearly $300 billion.
Giant fish, airplanes, musical instruments, or cocoa pods: Ghana's fantasy coffins tell an entire life story in a sculpture. A new international exhibition places this Ga art, revealed in Paris in 1989, at the center of the global stage.
The AIDS 2026 conference concludes in Rio with a striking paradox: prevention and treatment tools have never been more powerful, yet an unprecedented funding crisis threatens to deprive millions of these advancements.
The migratory landscape of Boma-Badingilo, home to the largest known terrestrial mammal migration, becomes the first site from South Sudan inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List. This historic recognition comes with an immediate alert for its protection.
UNESCO has inscribed six historic medinas from the Comoros on its World Heritage list. This marks a first for the archipelago, placing its ancient sultanates at the heart of Indian Ocean history and opening a new battle for their preservation.
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