Year: 2026

Economic Ripples from Iran War Hit Africa: Oil Prices Surge Above $100/Barrel, Threatening Inflation, Food Security, and Investment Across Southern & East Africa

The escalating conflict in the Middle East — particularly the direct U.S.-Israel military campaign against Iran that intensified in late 2025 and continued

Cocaine Trafficking Routes Increasingly Pass Through West Africa to Europe: Report Warns of Growing Role as a Transit Hub Amid Sahel Instability

West Africa has quietly but rapidly emerged as one of the world’s most important cocaine transit corridors to Europe. A major new report released in early

Mozambique Devastated by Worst Floods in Decades: Nearly 700,000 Affected as ‘The Water Took Everything’ – Climate Change Turns Rainy Season into Catastrophe

In early 2026, Mozambique was plunged into one of its most severe humanitarian crises in generations. Weeks of relentless torrential rains, swelling rivers

Kidnappings of Foreigners Soar in Sahel: 2025 Marked as One of the Worst Years on Record for Abductions in Africa’s Lawless Heartland

The vast, arid expanses of West Africa’s Sahel region — stretching across Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, and into neighboring states — have long been synonymou

RSF Consolidates Grip on North Darfur: Rapid Support Forces Push Deeper into Sudan’s West Amid Drone Barrages on Army Positions in Kordofan and Blue Nile

As Sudan’s civil war enters its fourth year in 2026, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have solidified their dominance in the western region of D

JNIM’s Revenge Blitz: Al-Qaeda Affiliate Unleashes Deadly Region-Wide Offensive Across Central Sahel After Senior Commander Defects to Islamic State Rivals

In February 2026, the jihadist landscape of the Central Sahel exploded once again. Following the defection of a high-ranking commander to the rival Islamic

DRC’s Sky War Escalates: Record Aerial Strikes Hammer M23 Rebels Around Rubaya’s Coltan Riches as Drones Redefine Eastern Congo’s Battlefields

In February 2026, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s armed forces (FARDC) unleashed the highest number of air and drone strikes ever recorded in a single m

Cobra Freed: Eritrean Satirical Cartoonist Biniam Solomon Released After 15 Years in Brutal Detention Without Charge

In a rare glimmer of hope from one of Africa’s most repressive regimes, Eritrean satirical cartoonist Biniam Solomon — known to generations as “Cobra” — ha

Tillabéri: The Sahel’s Deadliest Jihadist Frontline – Nearly 1,300 Killed in Niger’s Western Hellscape as IS and JNIM Terror Rages

In less than a decade, the Tillabéri region in western Niger has become the bloody epicenter of Africa’s most lethal jihadist conflict. Straddling porous b