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STATEMENT: 8 African Nations Commit to 100% Sustainable Ocean Management
YAOUNDÉ (July 11, 2025) – Yesterday, eight African nations — Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Republic of Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia and Nigeria — adopted the Yaoundé Declaration, committing to sustainably manage 100% of ocean areas...

Milagrosa Ada Micha: The woman who revolutionized the media in Equatorial Guinea
Micha this year celebrates a decade of transformation, energy, resolve, determination and vigour to push the narrative associated with Equatorial Guinea. HARARE –All across Africa it is a general understand among scholar, academics and the media...
African Civil Society Unites in Malabo to Advance Reparations Agenda
The African Union’s Civil Society Forum and Interregional Dialogue opened at Malabo’s Sipopo International Conference Centre, placing reparations for historical injustices at the forefront of continental discourse. Running from July 7 alongside...

Téte António in Malabo to participate in the session of the Executive Council of the African Union
According to a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, seen by VerAngola, the Angolan leader arrived in the capital of Equatorial Guinea this Wednesday. At this session – to be held on the 10th and 11th of this month at the Sipopo...

Africa News Live Updates: Two South African engineers released from Equatorial Guinea after two years in detention
Africa News Live Updates: Welcome to our live blog covering the latest from across Africa. Follow real-time updates on political transitions, security and peacekeeping operations, regional integration efforts, economic innovation, climate impacts,...

Liberian Business Climate Poised for Growth as Trade Fair Initiative on the way
The Zoom Network Inc, prominent Liberian-owned enterprise is in discussion with the Government of Liberia to launch a large scale trade fair aimed at energizing the country’s business landscape. This move comes as part of a broader economic...

Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa...
A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world's people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991...

Climate change has doubled the world’s heatwaves: how Africa is affected
A global review of extreme heat has found that between May 2024 and May 2025, nearly half the world’s people (49% or 4 billion) suffered through an extra 30 days of temperatures that were hotter than those experienced 90% of the time between 1991...

Recycling e-waste an elusive dream
THOUSANDS of tonnes of hazardous plastic and electronic waste (e-waste) is routinely dumped on the African shores in countries like Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Angola and Mozambique, before trickling further inland into some of...
Africa Heritage Fund Launches Continental Infrastructure Campaign
Leaders and investors convened in Malabo this weekend to advance the Africa Heritage Fund for Infrastructure (AHFI) and its “Operation One Dollar a Day” initiative. The proposal aims to mobilize 50 million Africans and global supporters to...

African Leaders to Convene in Malabo to Accelerate Continental Integration
Top African policymakers and business leaders will gather in Equatorial Guinea’s capital next month for a high-level summit aimed at advancing economic mobility and regional connectivity. The Malabo Leaders’ Breakfast, scheduled for July 13 under...

ECOSOCC: Civil Society Shaping a Reparative Future for Africa
Advertisements On July 7, 2025, the Civil Society Forum of the African Union’s Economic, Social, and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) and the 2025 Interregional Dialogue of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) commenced at the Sipopo International...

IGAD rallies African unity at AU mid-year summit, champions Agenda 2063 vision
Workneh Gebeyehu (PhD) IGAD Executive Secretary. [Courtesy] The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) is playing a central role in advancing Africa’s integration and development agenda as the continent prepares for the 7th African...

Are anti-corruption measures a pipe dream for African countries?
African Anti-Corruption Day is observed on 11 July annually to commemorate the adoption of the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combatting Corruption in 2003. Corruption remains a major obstacle to economic development and continues to...

Africa’s CSOs demand action on reparations
Civil society leaders have called for action on reparations for Africa, urging justice, accountability, and compensation. This took place at the African Union’s Economic, Social, and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) Civil Society Forum, held in...

Dangote Refinery Hopes to Process 100% Nigerian Crude By Year End
•Foundation to contribute to climate fund Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) expects Africa’s biggest refinery to rely totally on Nigerian crude by the end of the year, a move that would replace hundreds of thousands of...

Trump meets presidents of 5 African nations in bid to boost trade
July 9 (UPI) -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday met the presidents of five African nations -- Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Gabon -- in what the White House describes as a push to deepen trade, including that involving...

Flanking tactics
Don’t look now, but if we’re not careful, we could find ourselves legally outflanked over the West Philippine Sea. In a move widely reported abroad on May 30 but which merited just minor, bottom-page treatment in the “World” pages of two local...

E.Guinea launches ICJ case against France over Paris mansion
Equatorial Guinea launched a case against France at the top United Nations court on Friday, the latest salvo in a long-running legal battle over a swanky Paris mansion confiscated by French authorities. The west African nation asked the...

World AFP E.Guinea launches ICJ case against France over Paris mansion
Equatorial Guinea launched a case against France at the top United Nations court on Friday, the latest salvo in a long-running legal battle over a swanky Paris mansion confiscated by French authorities. The west African nation asked the...