Africa

_South Africa’s new largest rhino keeper, Wicus Diedericks

South Africa’s Rhino-Keeper Turns to Government for Legal Rhino Horn Trade

By Emmanuel KoroUzbekistan, 24 November 2025 South Africa’s new largest rhino keeper, Wicus Diedericks, has taken his fight for legal rhino horn trade onto a national platform, using the courts to argue that rhino conservation…

25 November 2025

Duras AI Wins 2025 Orange Summer Challenge as Innovation Takes Centre Stage

Duras AI Wins 2025 Orange Summer Challenge as Innovation Takes Centre Stage

A ground-breaking wildlife-protection technology has taken top honours at this year’s Orange Summer Challenge (OSC), with Duras AI emerging as the 2025 overall winner after beating 180 competing entrants in one of Botswana’s most competitive…

24 November 2025

Mubarak reroutes road trip

Marburg outbreak alters Mubarak’s tour route

by Adekunle Owolabi Kampala, Uganda – The Trans Africa Tourism and Unity Campaign led by former Ghanaian legislator Ras Mubarak has redirected its 163 day visa free Africa road journey after Ethiopia recorded its first outbreak of…

24 November 2025

Mrs Clare Musonda, a Program Manager at the SADC Parliamentary Forum. Photos: Moses Magadza, SADC PF.

SADC PF calls for renewed regional action to end child marriage

By Moses Magadza The SADC Parliamentary Forum has urged governments, traditional leaders and development partners across the region to intensify efforts to end child marriage, saying that the practice is a violation of human rights…

21 November 2025

Dr Christopher Kalila

SADC PF public lecture inspires calls for action against child marriage

By Moses Magadza in Zambia LUSAKA – Participants at the inaugural public lecture honouring the late Chief Theresa Kachindamoto of Malawi have called for stronger collaboration, greater community engagement, and intensified sensitisation efforts to end…

20 November 2025

Freelance photojournalist Thomo Nkgadima

Court Overturns Protection Order Against Journalist as CFE Warns of Legal Harassment Trend

Praktiseer, South Africa — 19 November 2025 A magistrates’ court in Praktiseer has set aside a protection order against freelance journalist Thomo Nkgadima, in a ruling hailed by the Campaign for Free Expression (CFE) as…

20 November 2025

PANEL: From left, Ms Lynn Chinene, Legal expert, Dr Chipo Mushota Nkhata, Gender and development specialist, Ms Mundia Situmbeko and Civil society representative, Ms Womba Wanki in a panel discussion.

First Chief Kachindamoto lecture ignites regional call to end child marriage

By Moses Magadza LUSAKA, ZAMBIA – A panel discussion following the inaugural public lecture honouring the late Chief Theresa Kachindamoto of Malawi has stirred reflection, debate, and renewed urgency for coordinated regional action to eradicate…

19 November 2025

A Pan-Africanist Reckoning: Deciphering US Imperialism’s Assault on Nigeria

By Mafa Kwanisai Mafa The recent pronouncement by the former US President, threatening military intervention in Nigeria under the pretext of a “Christian genocide,” is not a deviation from established imperial doctrine; it is a…

15 November 2025

Ambassador Abdelmalek Tigharghar and Minister Moeti Mohwasa toast to the good health and prosperity of Algeria and Botswana

Algeria Marks 71 Years of Liberation with Call for Justice and Solidarity

Cynthia Thanda On the warm evening of 13 November 2025, diplomats, heads of international organisations, government officials, and distinguished guests gathered at the Official Residence of the Ambassador of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria…

15 November 2025

Zambian lawmakers, representatives of civil society organisations, University of Zambia students and others pose for a souvenir photo during a public lecture in honour of the late Chief Theresa Kachindamoto of Malawi on Monday in Zambia. Photos: National Assembly of Zambia, CARE International Zambia

Call to emulate late Chief Kachindamoto’s leadership to end child marriage

By Moses Magadza in Lusaka, Zambia The first of a series of public lectures in honour of Chief Theresa Kachindamoto of Malawi took place on Monday in Zambia, with Zambian lawmaker Dr Christopher Kalila urging…

14 November 2025

President Brahim Ghali calls for accelerating the decolonisation process in Western Sahara, Africa’s last colony

Bir Lehlou (Sahrawi Republic), September 7, 2026 (SPS) – President of the Republic, Secretary-General of the Polisario Front, Mr Brahim Ghali, sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, informing him of the latest…

3 October 2026

Nigeria's Bola Tinubu met South Africa's Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa in New York

AFRICA’S $3.4 TRILLION DREAM IS BLEEDING

By Fortune Madondo The diplomatic tension between Nigeria and South Africa is killing Pan-African solidarity. As the continent’s two economic powerhouses, their friction stalls consensus, disrupts trade, and bleeds the $3.4 trillion dream. It exposes…

1 October 2026

Benjamin Netanyahu

FROM UNGA WALKOUT TO PITCH CONTROVERSY

By Fortune Madondo In 72 hours, the same state was confronted in two theatres. On September 24, 2026, at the 81st UN General Assembly, an estimated 75 to 77 delegates walked out as Prime Minister…

1 October 2026

Orange Botswana CEO Nene Maiga and TEMCO Chairman Sailas Temwa sealed the deal

Orange Botswana, TEMCO Sign Deal to Drive Digital Healthcare Project

GABORONE – Orange Botswana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Extraordinary Medical Company (TEMCO), positioning the telecommunications firm as the preferred connectivity provider for a major healthcare development planned for the Gaborone…

30 September 2026

Vivo Energy Opens 85th Shell Service Station in Mmopane

GABORONE, September 25, 2026 – Vivo Energy Botswana has expanded its national retail network with the opening of the Shell Mmopane service station, bringing the total number of Shell-branded stations in the country to 85.…

30 September 2026

Xi Jinping at 18th BRICS summit in New Dehli, India

Cementing the foundation for BRICS cooperation and bolstering the strength of the Global South

Statement by H.E. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, at Session II of the 18th BRICS Summit, New Delhi, September 13, 2026. Your Excellency Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Colleagues, I thank Prime…

28 September 2026