AFRICA DAILY24/7 AFRICA NEWS COVERAGE
Friday, October 2, 2026
AfricaDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)

Drone strikes on dormitory, shelter kill 10 in Sudan's El-Obeid

Drone attacks on a university dormitory and a centre sheltering displaced families in Sudan's central city of El-Obeid killed at least 10 people this week, a Sudanese rights group and a medical source said on Friday.

Read brief
1
2
3
4
AfricaDaily Oct 01, 2026 (AFP)
Kenyan island paradise fears damage from mega-refinery

Tourism or industry? Environment or oil? The picturesque Kenyan island of Lamu, a favourite of celebrities, faces a tough trade-of...

AfricaDaily Sep 30, 2026 (AFP)
Dangote's $16bn Kenya refinery 'new chapter' for Africa

Africa's richest man was set to break ground on a new $16-billion mega-refinery in Kenya on Wednesday, saying it marked a "new cha...

AfricaDaily Sep 29, 2026 (AFP)
G.Bissau urges calm after reports of unrest among troops

Guinea-Bissau authorities urged calm Tuesday after reports of unrest within the presidential guard, a day after former leader Umar...

PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Battle in Yemen's Taiz kills scores of combatants: sources to AFP

Yemen's Houthis and Saudi-backed forces fought over an area near a waterway crucial to global energy flows, killing 80 combatants ...

Network Briefing - Cross-Domain Headlines
DarwinDaily Latin America campaigners unveil model 'ecocide' law Petrobras discovers more oil off Brazil's Amazon coast After hottest summer, weeds turn historic Belgian canals green
RoboDaily Trump expected to name intel chief Clayton as AI czar: reports Amazon vows $1 bn for data center towns, decries 'myths' Effective Altruism: the philosophy behind Silicon Valley's AI fears
SinoDaily China a more positive influence than US in Latin America: poll Novartis in $575 mn deal with China's Abogen for RNA drugs US arrests man over alleged smuggling of $300 million worth of computer servers to China
PolicyDaily Tanker attacked in Strait of Hormuz: UK maritime agency Yemen hunger crisis could become 'absolutely devastating': UN China widens military footprint with Laos air base
FiscalDaily Iraq says gets US exemption for Iranian flights to and from holy city Asian stocks hit as oil spike fans rate hike bets, eyes on US jobs Asian tech firms stand out on mixed day for stocks
DisasterDay Thai Airways sacks CEO after floods flight chaos: reports New islands appear after Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano erupts Mystery over UK airbase scare as police find petrol not explosives
IndoDaily Nepal's grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead Rescuers pull nine bodies from landslide in flood-hit Myanmar Myanmar airstrike death toll hits 50 as families gather bodies
BeyondLEO Four-member crew docks at International Space Station Seoul says no decision on Alaska gas investment announced by Trump Trump unveils $200 bn in US energy investments by South Korea
SeedDaily UN worried about impact of latest Lebanon war on agriculture Bulgaria's battery boom pays off as drought hits power plants Pakistan confirms Afghan strikes after resident says Kandahar hit
Latest Briefs
AfricaDaily ENVIRONMENT Sep 29, 2026 (AFP)
Africa will be mostly self-sufficient in fuel by 2030: Dangote to AFP

Nigerian oil tycoon Aliko Dangote told AFP on Tuesday that Africa would largely supply its own refined fuel needs by 2030 as he prepared to launch a $16 billion refinery on the Ken...

AfricaDaily MILITARY Sep 29, 2026 (AFP)
Mali army, Russian paramilitaries committed 'war crimes': Amnesty

Members of Mali's armed forces and the Russian paramilitary Wagner group committed war crimes including murder and torture of civilians during joint operations, Amnesty Internation...

AfricaDaily ENVIRONMENT Sep 29, 2026 (AFP)
Top gold producer Burkina Faso opens first refinery

Burkina Faso opened its first gold refinery on Monday, pushing ahead with plans to better organise the commercialisation of the precious metal in one of the continent's top produce...

AfricaDaily MILITARY Sep 28, 2026 (AFP)
Sudan rejects Ethiopia's rebel support claims

Sudan's military has rejected allegations made by Ethiopia's army commander that Khartoum is backing armed groups fighting its troops in the country's north, calling the accusation...

DarwinDaily ENVIRONMENT Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
US Supreme Court to hear high-stakes climate case

The US Supreme Court hears a climate case Monday that could upend dozens of lawsuits aimed at making polluters pay for their role in global warming and allegedly deceiving the publ...

DarwinDaily ENVIRONMENT Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Sea levels to rise in California as coastal wave surges up west coast

Sea levels in California are set to rise by as much as a foot (30 centimeters) in the coming days as an enormous wave washes up the US West Coast.

Archive Highlights
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
Network Domain Collections
Space & Science
Quantum Decoherence Can Lock Cosmological Fields Into False Vacuums
SkyNightly
Michigan State University Gets 20 Million Dollars to Build Diamond Semiconductor Facility for Space Applications
NanoDaily
NASA announces new missions for Boeing Starliner spacecraft
BeyondLEO
JWST Finds Ammonia and Puzzling Chill in Giant Exoplanet's Atmosphere
SkyNightly
Silicon Solar Cells Could Cut Satellite Power Costs by Up to 90 Percent
NanoDaily
Earth & Energy
World's tallest wind turbine in Germany reaches full height
WindDaily
Justice Alito steps aside from major US climate case
OilGasDaily
France puts out largest wildfire since 1949
ForestDaily
Torrential rains flood towns in western Libya
AfricaDaily
Standard Cameras Modified to Measure Solar Cell Quantum Efficiency
SolarCell
Tech & Industry
Lebanon PM says scale of war recovery beyond state's capacity
PolicyDaily
Anthropic's Dario Amodei: AI's most visible CEO and enigma
RoboDaily
Latvia election expected to keep EU course as Russia looms
RussoDaily
Asian stocks mixed as positive US data offset by elevated oil, bond yields
FiscalDaily
In Nepal's flood zone, teachers mourn students who never returned
DisasterDay
Wire Feed
PolicyDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Taiwan receives its first US-made F-16V fighter jets

Taiwan received its first F-16V fighter jets made by the United States on Friday, as the island democracy upgr...

DarwinDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
World powers gather in Pacific to chart climate battle

World powers are flying delegates to the Pacific to haggle over the fight against global warming, and to see t...

SinoDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Rights group, US lawmakers condemn first Starbucks stores in China's Xinjiang

An advocacy group and US lawmakers criticised Starbucks for opening its first cafes in China's Xinjiang, where...

DarwinDaily Oct 02, 2026 (AFP)
Return of swarming moth spectacle has Australia in a flutter

Moth swarms so thick they can blot out the stars are fluttering across Australia, heralding a migratory specta...