24/7 Africa News Coverage
October 29, 2025
TECH SPACE
Global race for rare earths comes to Kenya's Mrima Hill



Kwale, Kenya (AFP) Oct 26, 2025
Division and suspicion have gripped five villages near Kenya's coast as global powers from the United States to China eye a forest that is rich in rare earths - minerals vital to high-tech and low-carbon industries. The US government under President Donald Trump has made securing critical minerals central to its diplomacy in Africa, including through a peace deal in the resource-rich Democratic Republic of Congo this year. Mrima Hill - a forest of around 390 acres near Kenya's Indian Ocean c ... read more

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AFRICA NEWS
Mali ruler fires commanders after battlefield setbacks
Bamako (AFP) Oct 22, 2025
Mali's military ruler fired three senior commanders in the armed forces, a cabinet meeting report showed Wednesday, with a source blaming battlefield failings in the campaign against jihadists. ... more
ABOUT US
Guinea baboons implement social structure when distributing meat
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 27, 2025
Researchers from the German Primate Center have revealed that Guinea baboons regulate the transfer of meat through established social dynamics closely paralleling human hunter-gatherer communities. ... more
DEMOCRACY
Ouattara basks in I.Coast landslide but succession question looms
Abidjan (AFP) Oct 29, 2025
Alassane Ouattara begins his fourth term as Ivory Coast's president with his grip on the west African nation seemingly stronger than ever after winning re-election with a crushing 89.77 percent. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
AU condemns atrocities, 'war crimes' in Sudan's El-Fasher
Addis Ababa (AFP) Oct 28, 2025
The African Union chairman condemned on Tuesday alleged "atrocities" and reported "war crimes" in Sudan's strategic hub of El-Fasher and called for an immediate halt to fighting. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Sudanese army cedes Darfur to paramilitary group amid fears of mass killings
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 28, 2025
More than two years after the start of Sudan's civil war, the nation's military has ceded nearly all of Darfur to a paramilitary group in an effort to prevent more death and destruction there. ... more
TECTONICS
Shifting landscapes shaped Madagascar's unique biodiversity
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 27, 2025
A team of researchers at ETH Zurich has discovered that Madagascar's dramatic topography and exceptional biodiversity can be traced to a pair of ancient rifting events separated by nearly 80 million ... more
AFRICA NEWS
El-Fasher's fall to RSF risks new Sudan split: analysts
Port Sudan, Sudan (AFP) Oct 27, 2025
Paramilitary forces' claimed capture of El-Fasher, a city in Sudan's Darfur, could mark a turning point in the country's two-year war and stoke fears the country could again be split a decade after losing South Sudan in 2011, analysts warn. ... more
OIL AND GAS
NGOs accuse TotalEnergies of holding Mozambique 'hostage' on gas project
Johannesburg Oct 27, 2025
Mozambican and international NGOs on Monday accused TotalEnergies of holding Mozambique "hostage" over the French fossil fuel giant's demand of "ultra-favourable" conditions to restart its gas project in the country's north. ... more

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FROTH AND BUBBLE
Tunisian city on general strike over factory pollution
Gabes, Tunisia (AFP) Oct 23, 2025
Workers in the southern Tunisian city of Gabes launched a general strike on Tuesday following weeks of protest over a chemical factory residents blame for a spike in serious health issues. ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Nigerian NGO slams Turkish decision to keep rescued baby gorilla
Lagos (AFP) Oct 25, 2025
Turkey's decision to keep an African baby gorilla rescued from trafficking defies logic, a Nigerian conservation NGO that was preparing to receive it for onward repatriation, said Saturday. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Five things to know about Ivory Coast as it goes to polls
Paris (AFP) Oct 25, 2025
The Ivory Coast, the world's top cocoa producer and a centre of growth and stability in west Africa, goes to the polls on Saturday with President Alassane Ouattara expected to win a fourth term. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Nigeria sacks top brass after denying coup plot
Abuja (AFP) Oct 24, 2025
The Nigerian government announced on Friday a major shake-up of its top military commanders, replacing the chief of defence staff as well as those of the army, navy and air force. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Top Nigerian environmentalist sees little coming out of COP30
Lagos (AFP) Oct 24, 2025
Nnimmo Bassey, a prominent figure in the decades-long environmental struggles in Africa's largest oil-producing country, will next month attend yet another UN climate summit, this time in Brazil. ... more
WIND DAILY
S.Africa seeks to save birds from wind turbine risks
Swellendam, South Africa (AFP) Oct 23, 2025
Powerful gusts shook an observation post perched on a hill at a wind farm in South Africa as two monitors scanned the landscape through binoculars. ... more
TECHNOLOGY NEWS


UAV NEWS
Drone attack hits Khartoum airport area ahead of reopening
Khartoum (AFP) Oct 21, 2025
A drone attack struck an area near an international airport in Sudan's capital on Tuesday, witnesses said, one day before the army-backed government was due to reopen the facility for domestic flights for the first time in over two years. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Two Burkinabe press editors freed a week after abduction
Abidjan (AFP) Oct 21, 2025
Senior Burkinabe journalists Lamine Traore and Abdou Zoure have been released a week after their abduction by intelligence agents, one of their outlets and an associate told AFP Tuesday. ... more
UAV NEWS
Drone attack hits Khartoum airport area ahead of reopening: eyewitnesses
Khartoum (AFP) Oct 21, 2025
A drone attack struck the vicinity of Khartoum International Airport early Tuesday, one day before Sudanese authorities were due to reopen the facility for domestic flights for the first time in over two years. ... more
PILLAGING PIRATES
French navy shoots drug-smuggling go-fast boat
Brest, France (AFP) Oct 21, 2025
The French navy opened fire on a go-fast boat in the Atlantic to immobilise it, arrest its crew and seize 2.4 tonnes of cocaine on board worth $150 million, authorities said on Tuesday. ... more
OIL AND GAS
Nigerian monarch takes on oil giant in search of environmental justice
Lagos (AFP) Oct 21, 2025
Growing up in southern Nigeria during the 1970s, Bubaraye Dakolo would easily catch 20 kilograms of fish within minutes. These days, a fisherman casts nets all night, only to bring back just about three kilograms. ... more
SUPERPOWERS
Pope Leo visits 'school of peace' sailing the Mediterranean
Ostia, Italy (AFP) Oct 18, 2025
Arm in arm, young people of different faiths perform the dabke, an Arabic folk dance, in the Italian port of Ostia, elated by a visit from Pope Leo XIV. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Army colonel set to be sworn in as Madagascar president
Antananarivo, Madagascar (AFP) Oct 17, 2025
Madagascar was set Friday to swear in an army colonel as president, just days after a military power grab that sent President Andry Rajoelina fleeing and raised international alarm about a new coup on the island. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Nigeria denies officers arrested over coup plot
Abuja (AFP) Oct 18, 2025
Nigerian authorities on Saturday denied that more than a dozen officers had been arrested over a coup plot, pushing back on local media reports. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Dozens arrested in Tunisia anti-pollution protests; Suspect Albanian waste shipment sampled for analysis
Tunis (AFP) Oct 18, 2025
Police in Gabes, Tunisia have arrested dozens of people in demonstrations against a chemical factory which locals blame for pollution and a range of health issues, a local campaign group and a lawyer said Saturday. ... more
TECH SPACE
In Simandou mountains, Guinea prepares to cash in on iron ore
Simandou Mountain Range, Guinee (AFP) Oct 17, 2025
At the foot of the Simandou mountains in southeast Guinea's lush tropical forest, thousands of workers, trucks and excavators are digging up the hills. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Crowds flock for an audience with Madagascar's new military leader
Antananarivo, Madagascar (AFP) Oct 16, 2025
A disparate crowd of politicians, businessmen, activists and citizens gathered at a Madagascar military barracks Thursday in hopes of an audience with the island's new strongman, Colonel Michael Randrianirina. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
African Data Drive launches to guide sustainable development across the continent
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 17, 2025
The Future Ecosystems for Africa Programme (FEFA) at Wits University, working with Oppenheimer Generations Research and Conservation, has launched the African Data Drive (ADD) - an interactive mappi ... more
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WATER WORLD
Rain in the Sahara? UIC researchers predict a wetter future for the desert
Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 16, 2025
The Sahara Desert is one of the driest areas in the world. It gets just 3 inches of precipitation per year - one-tenth of the amount of Chicago's rain, sleet and snow. But by the second half o ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Burkina frees three journalists, two others held
Abidjan (AFP) Oct 15, 2025
Three Burkinabe journalists arrested earlier this week were released Wednesday, while intelligence agents still hold two others, their media outlets told AFP. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
'Deadly poison': Ageing fertiliser factory stifles Tunisian town
Gabes, Tunisia (AFP) Oct 16, 2025
Ikram Aioua has seen her 12-year-old son rushed to the hospital three times in the past weeks for gas poisoning. ... more
FROTH AND BUBBLE
Thousands rally for closure of Tunisia factory blamed for health issues
Gabes, Tunisia Oct 15, 2025
Several thousand people rallied in southern Tunisia on Wednesday, calling for the closure of an ageing chemicals factory which locals have blamed for a host of poisonings and health issues. ... more
AFRICA NEWS
Murdered Kenyan's niece calls for UK ex-soldier's extradition
London (AFP) Oct 14, 2025
The niece of a young Kenyan woman allegedly murdered by a British soldier more than a decade ago urged the UK government Tuesday to extradite the suspect as soon as possible. ... more
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