Category: Africa
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🇿🇦 Stilfontein: The Miners Trapped Underground and the Rescue That Came Too Late
A deadly confrontation in Stilfontein exposed the human cost of South Africa’s illegal gold-mining economy, as hundreds of miners became trapped underground during a government crackdown. Survivors recount hunger, fear and a desperate struggle for rescue—raising difficult questions about mining, poverty, criminal networks and the future of Africa’s mineral wealth.
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🇬🇭 The Burial of Kojo: Gold, Betrayal and the Ghosts Beneath Ghana
Film: The Burial of KojoYear: 2018Country: GhanaDirector: Blitz BazawuleGenre: Drama / Magical RealismLanguage: English and AkanReview: Panafrican.email There are films that tell a story, and then there are films that create a world. The Burial of Kojo belongs to the second category. Blitz Bazawule’s 2018 Ghanaian film is an intimate story about family, betrayal, memory…
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🇿🇦 South Africa Records 43 Suspected Political Killings Ahead of Local Elections
South Africa has recorded 45 politically linked attacks and at least 43 deaths through September 2026, according to GI-TOC data reported by Africanews, as the country approaches its November 4 local government elections.
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🍁 Mountain Province Gives Up 49% Gahcho Kué Stake as Diamond-Market Pressure Deepens
Mountain Province Diamonds is transferring its 49% stake in Canada’s Gahcho Kué diamond mine to De Beers as part of a restructuring aimed at eliminating mine-related liabilities, stabilizing its finances and securing new funding amid prolonged weakness in natural-diamond prices.
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🌍 Red, Black and Green Over America: U.S. Cities That Have Raised the Pan-African Flag
Across the United States, cities and public institutions have raised the Pan-African flag to recognize Black history, African heritage, culture, and the African diaspora. From Tracy and Long Beach to Richmond, Hayward, San José, Chula Vista, and Ferndale, these ceremonies have placed the red, black, and green flag in American civic spaces.
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🇬🇭 🇷🇺 Ghana and Russia Look to Expand Trade, Energy, Technology and Education Cooperation
Ghana and Russia are seeking to expand bilateral cooperation beyond traditional diplomacy, with trade, investment, nuclear energy, agriculture, mining, education and digital technology emerging as key areas for deeper engagement.
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🇸🇴 Five Swedish Politicians of Somali Origin Enter the Riksdag After 2026 Election
Five politicians of Somali origin have entered Sweden’s 349-member Riksdag following the September 2026 election. Representing the Green Party and Left Party across several constituencies, their election marks a notable development in Somali representation in Swedish national politics.
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🇧🇫 Burkina Faso Rewrites the Classroom: A New Curriculum for History, Culture and National Identity
Burkina Faso is undertaking a sweeping transformation of its education system, revising curricula and history teaching while expanding national-language instruction, endogenous knowledge, civic education, vocational training and locally produced textbooks. The reform could reach more than 2 million learners through the 2026–2029 REPAIR program, while a growing domestic printing sector aims to give Burkina Faso…
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🇬🇭 Africa’s Organised Crime Index 2025: 23 Countries Face High Criminality and Weak Resilience
The 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index finds that organised crime has expanded across the continent since 2019 while resilience has weakened. Twenty-three African countries face the combination of high criminality and low resilience, with financial crime, trafficking, resource crime, counterfeit goods and arms trafficking among the continent’s most pervasive criminal markets.
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🇪🇹 Oromo Fighters and Ethiopia’s Expanding Conflict: OLA Joins Wider Armed Alliance as Fighting Intensifies
Ethiopia’s Oromo Liberation Army has joined a new alliance of seven armed groups opposing the federal government as fighting intensifies in Tigray, Afar and other regions. The development connects the long-running Oromia conflict to Ethiopia’s broader security crisis, while renewed violence, displacement and human-rights concerns continue to affect civilians.