Huge hubris: Who truly deserved Nobel Peace Prize in 2025?

The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, announced last Friday, was awarded to Maria Corina Machado, leader of the opposition in Venezuela. There was significant public interest in the outcome before the announcement, largely because U.S. President Donald...

70-year-old who set world record at Sacramento's Urban Cow Half Marathon runs in Chicago Marathon

Jacob Nur, a 70-year-old runner who set a new world record in his age group at Sacramento's Urban Cow Half Marathon last month, was among thousands of runners at the Chicago Marathon over the weekend. Nur previously finished the Urban Cow race in...

Africa could have some of the cheapest electricity in the world

Africa is more than twice as sunny as the Netherlands, has 90 times more people, and is nearly 800 times larger. But the continent’s total solar power capacity last year was less than that enjoyed by the Dutch. This year, finally, imports of solar...

It’s All Bad: When Horners Practice Horn Diplomacy

Ethiopia wrote a letter to the UN, TPLF replied to the UN with a cc to everybody else, and Eritrea…posted an X post. It all started on October 2, 2025 when Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister sent a letter to the UN Secretary General. It was a steaming...

KEMRI Announces Major Partnership With US Billionaire Bill Gates

The Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) has announced a Ksh516 million flagship project that aims to elevate women's health research on the continent. In a statement on Saturday, September 11, the institute said that the three-year Gates...

Mile posts: Items on Will Norris, Missy Rock, Biya Simbassa, Annie Frisbie, Geneva Timmerman

Will Norris is a marathon champion. And it's a prestigious marathon that he won. The former Spirit Lake prep and Northwestern College Hall of Famer withstood a challenge from Tesfu Tewelde of Eritrea over the final 2 kilometers to capture the win...

World Cerebral Palsy Day Observed In Central Region

(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Download logo World Cerebral Palsy Day, 6 October, was observed in Asmara at the national level under the theme“We Call for Overall Support to People Living with Intellectual and Developmental Disability.” Mr....

'Breath-taking' Lake District town ranked the most romantic to visit in the UK

Known for being the 'home' to the famous poets of the romantic era, it's not hard to see why. William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Thomas de Quincey and John Ruskin were hugely affected by their surroundings. But one place may have been the...

Egypt — a Vulnerable Crossroads of Africa, Europe, and Asia

Thesis and Introduction For several years, Egypt has been mired in an economic crisis and is an example of a state that is too big to fail. The EU is making a range of efforts to prevent it from falling into the sphere of influence of other...

  Officials Call for respect of Laws in South Sudan

By Lodu William Odiya The Director General for Nationality, Passport, and Migration, Maj. Gen. Elia Kosta Faustino, has urged migrants residing in South Sudan to respect the country’s laws and regulations. Speaking during the opening of a one-day...

Immigration chief urges migrants to respect South Sudan’s laws

Maj. Gen. Elia Kosta Faustino, Director General for Civil Registry, Nationality, Passport, and Immigration. [Photo: Courtesy]JUBA – South Sudan’s Director General for Civil Registry, Nationality, Passport, and Immigration, Maj. Gen. Elia Kosta...

Africa has ‘unlimited’ solar potential. Off-grid power could help light up the continent

Globally, more than 660 million people still lack access to electricity — and 85% of them reside in sub-Saharan Africa. Washikala Malango was one of these people. Malango was born and raised in Baraka, a village on the shores of a vast lake in the...

Where the Medicine Isn’t

By Amy Weaver This story first appeared in Amy Weaver’s LinkedIn newsletter, Direct Relief: Hope Ahead. Subscribe on LinkedIn Just before leaving for Africa, I finished John Green's new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis. One line stayed with me:...

Bill Maher says there’s a genocide against Christians in Nigeria. Is he right?

“If you don’t know what’s going on in Nigeria, your media sources suck! You are in a bubble.” I first saw the clip of Bill Maher berating the world’s media over Nigeria a few hours after it was broadcast on his late-night talk show. It has been...

Israel-Gaza Truce A Day Before Nobel Peace Prize Day: Coincidence or Trump’s Calculated Move?

Premium On the eve of the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump brokers an Israel-Hamas truce — but is it genuine peacemaking or a last-minute bid to claim the world’s most coveted peace honour? Coincidence or Calculation? Israel-Gaza Truce Arrives Just Before...

AnalysisWho will be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? Not Trump but a 'quiet winner'

A grand total of 338 people and organisations were nominated for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but the candidate least likely to win is Donald J Trump. Consensus among Nobel watchers has it that the man who craves it most has least chance. The...

Ethiopia’s National Dialogue Commission: Last Chance for Peace or Another Lost Cause?

(ANALYSIS) Ethiopia stands at a critical juncture. Years of civil war and ethnic strife have left deep wounds and a fragile peace. The northern civil war (2020–2022) alone caused an estimated 600,000 deaths and displaced millions. Atrocities were...

'We have work to do': 'Jaja's African Hair Braiding' cast finds humor amid political turmoil

A hair braiding shop is more than a salon, it’s a community center. As a Black woman, sometimes you see the person who braids your hair more than you see your doctor or your therapist, says Bisserat Tseggai, who plays stylist Miriam in “Jaja’s...

Calais police up their game but migrants board bigger boats

In the three years that Annie Daniels has been a charity worker in the migrant camps of northern France, she has never seen them as busy as they are now. “Last year, we would typically have around 600 people living in this camp,” said Daniels, 58,...

GERD at Dawn: Ethiopia’s Triumph and the Nile’s Uncertainty

A symbol of ambition, the dam reshapes power, pride, and peril. The 9 September inauguration of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) marks a defining moment in Ethiopia’s modern history, a testament to perseverance and ambition. Prime...