Unlock Africa's Energy Potential at Wider African Energy Summit 2025

Don't miss the Wider African Energy Summit (WAES) 2025 in Aberdeen, Scotland, organized by OGV, where NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamber (AEC), will deliver the opening address on November 18-19, 2025, at the Marcliffe Hotel...

Donald Trump lands second Nobel Peace Prize nomination during Asia week — this time from Japan

Sanae Takaichi, Japan's first woman prime minister, lauded US President Donald Trump's role in mediating international conflicts and announced plans to nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize, according to the White House. This is Trump's second...

Shipping Industry Faces Record Flag-Hopping in 2025

The latest report from Clarksons Research’s World Fleet Monitor reveals alarming trends in the shipping industry as geopolitical tensions escalate in 2025. The phenomenon of flag-hopping has surged to unprecedented levels, with over half of...

Google AI Plus is now in 77 countries

Just under a month after the announcement, Google AI Plus is coming to 36 more emerging markets for a total of 77 countries. It’s meant to be cheaper than AI Pro. In the Gemini app, you get access to 2.5 Pro and Deep Research with a 128K token...

Flag-hopping hits extreme levels

The monthly publication of Clarksons Research’s World Fleet Monitor increasingly shows data that reflects the extraordinary geopolitical challenges and machinations that shipping has to navigate in 2025. With flag-hopping becoming standard...

FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualification: Which teams can still qualify? Full scenarios explained

The battle for the FIFA World Cup 2026 is heating up as countries across continents reach closer to filling a slot in the expanded 48-team tournament hosted by USA, Mexico, and Canada. As 20 teams have already qualified, the October international...

Russian Academic Frames Western Sahara as Core to Moroccan Foreign Policy Identity

Marrakech – A new Russian academic study positions Western Sahara as the cornerstone and compass of Morocco’s foreign policy identity, arguing that the North African country’s defense of its territorial integrity is central to its national...

Supporting journalism: The catalytic role of independently verified information (commentary)

Mongabay Founder and CEO Rhett Ayers Butler argues that journalism supplies the conditions necessary for effective environmental action—credible, timely, public information that converts private harm into collective accountability and enables...

Moanda secure the first of Group C's two tickets to the Elite 16

KINSHASA (DR Congo) – Gabon’s Moanda BB secured their place in the Elite 16 of the 2026 Road to BAL with an 85–76 victory over Central African Republic's New Tech Bantou. Cédric Tsangue Kenfack and his teammates are returning to the Elite 16, but,...

Top defense CEO says non-linear paths can take you to the top: ‘Leapfrogging is one of my core values’

Toni Townes-Whitley didn’t follow a step-by-step blueprint to reach the top of the defense industry. The SAIC CEO’s path was non-linear, stretching horizontally and vertically before reaching the top of the $4.4 billion defense tech giant....

New discovery reveals chimpanzees in Uganda use flying insects to tend their wounds

Animals respond to injury in many ways. So far, evidence for animals tending wounds with biologically active materials is rare. Yet, a recent study of an orangutan treating a wound with a medicinal plant provides a promising lead. Chimpanzees, for...

Afreximbank New President Elombi's Vision: Industrialisation, Trade, and Digital Expansion

(Business in Cameroon) - Dr George Elombi, a Cameroonian economist and long-serving executive of Afreximbank, has been sworn in as the fourth President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Egypt based institutions. The investiture...

Nigerian Newspapers: Top Stories For Today (27/10/25)

1 Read the full details on our digital edition when you join our WhatsApp Communities here. Here are the major headlines for today: Hard Times Linked To Deepening Credit Crunch, Monetary Tightening Nigeria Risks $15bn Revenue Shortfall As US Crude...

Overthrowing government: Full list of African countries that fell to military rule after coup plot

Military coups have reshaped the political landscape across Africa, with seven countries falling under army control since August 2020 From Mali to Niger, transitional governments led by generals have replaced elected leaders, often promising...

Palm trees in Africa are in decline: these botanists made a plan to do something about it

Fred Stauffer, Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève (CJBG); Doudjo Noufou Ouattara, Nangui Abrogoua University, and Kifouli Adéoti, University d’Abomey-Calavi de Bénin Palm trees grace the landscape across Africa, thriving in environments...

Middle East headwinds

In the October issue of Hydrocarbon Engineering, Nancy D. Yamaguchi, Contributing Editor, explores the market turbulence across the global oil and gas industry, considering the effects for major producers and refiners in the Middle East. Last year...

Complex Life May Have Evolved Multiple Times

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini embedded in a small slab of black shale. To El...

Depression and creative destruction

Source: JPM In effect, the major economies remain in what I call a Long Depression that started after the Great Recession of 2008-9. In the last 17 years, economic expansion (as measured by real GDP GDP Gross Domestic Product Gross Domestic...

New Afreximbank boss unveils 7-point plan to transform Africa

Afreximbank will promote and drive value addition and strategic mineral processing as part of a seven-point plan to transform the continent, its new president, George Elombi, said. Afreximbank will promote and drive value addition and strategic...

Tinubu’s New Appointments And The Weight Of Expectation

President Bola Tinubu has once again shown that he isn’t afraid to shake the table. In a move that took even insiders by surprise, he announced sweeping changes in the hierarchy of the Armed Forces, replacing all the Service Chiefs, except the...