Charles Onyango-Obbo

Beijing is set to become “super-aged” by 2035. Africa is heading the other way: median age about 19, and by 2050 sub-Saharan Africa’s working-age population will outnumber India’s. That’s a workforce the world will need, if we invest now in jobs, skills and education. #Africa #Youth

A young pilot flew a commercial jet alongside her father as captain for the first time – while her mother worked in the cabin crew on the same flight. 22-year-old Zoë took to the skies with both her parents aboard the Dutch airline KLM flying out of Amsterdam.

Belgian police have raided several properties in the country belonging to family members of DR Congo's President Félix Tshisekedi, as part of an investigation into suspected personal enrichment from the country’s mining sector.

Top 10 African countries that received the most U.S. foreign aid in 2025 1. Ethiopia -$920 million 2. Dr Congo - $750M 3. Nigeria - $730M 4. Sudan - $709M 5. Kenya - $655M 6. Mozambique - $584M 7. Uganda - $513M 8. South Sudan - $507M 9. Somalia - $498M 10. Tanzania - $480M

Man’s miraculous catch saves child after balcony fall in Egypt. The kid first hit a washing line, giving his saviour a split-second more to save him from hitting the ground.

This 2,800-year-old palace discovered in Ethiopia may have been one of the world’s very first “skyscrapers”

Morocco's King Mohammed VI appoints Marrakesh mayor Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri as the country's FIRST WOMAN PRIME MINISTER after her party won last week's parliamentary elections.

US sells ex-Gambian dictator Yahya Jammeh’s $3.5m mansion and returns $2.5m to victims of his 22-year rule.

South Africa’s legislative capital and cool city Cape Town has the talent to rival London, Milan and Copenhagen as a global design capital. What it lacks is the machinery around it.

More than 180 writers, including literary giants, sign letter renewing calls for information on 12 Eritrean authors since 2001 crackdown on free speech by strongman Isaias Afwerki. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

Why have five African countries - Ghana, Kenya, DRC, Mali and Zimbabwe - that entered the 1990s with similarly weak democratic institutions ended up on such different paths?

East Africa’s sin capital: How Uganda's strongman Museveni built a nation on the politics of pleasure.

Africa's plan for an 8,000Km wall of trees against the Sahara kept dying in the ground for years, and the approach that finally worked came from farmers in Niger - who regrew 200 million trees without planting a single one!

Strong El Niño could supercharge East African rains from October and displace 750,000 to 3 million people by year-end in Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan and Uganda—worse than 2023’s 2 million-plus. Worst case: about 60% in Somalia, 33% in Kenya.

More than 80 people die on boat after nearly a month adrift. The vessel, which left The Gambia almost a month before with 128 people on board and was destined for the Canary Islands, was adrift in the Atlantic for 26 days before rescuers found it.

Girls made up 55% of the 472 registered adoptions Kenya in 2025, reversing the earlier boy-preference pattern. Commentators linked it to inheritance worries over adopted sons, and past legal barriers for single women adopting boys.

Why do many young Africans love Donald Trump? A new survey reveals a preference for the U.S. president’s transactional approach.

Huawei just bid to build Egypt’s AI data centers with its top chips. Washington is now racing to put together a competing U.S. offer with Nvidia, AMD and Microsoft. Egypt becomes the latest front in the U.S.–China fight over who supplies the world’s AI infrastructure.

Briton Ethel Caterham, world’s oldest person, celebrates 117 years. She attributes her longevity to a “nonconfrontational” attitude in life; never arguing, while rarely compromising.

French energy supermajor TotalEnergies switches on Africa’s largest renewable energy/storage plant. The 400GW plant in South Africa’s Northern Cape can power 200,000 houses.

Space discovery shows that the Egyptian pyramids were built using ingenious method. This is the problem with the truth, it spoils the fun. So aliens had nothing to do with it, after all?

Immigrants have long eased labour shortages on farms & factories in Italy. But churches also need foreign-born priests. There are now, about 1,130 African priests who oversee Italian churches - approx 4% of Italy’s clergy, not including more junior church positions.

Arranged vs. free-choice marriages: Which are most loving? Researchers say 50/50, challenging Western “loveless” view of arranged.

Why the Chinese yuan could soon be Africa’s most important trading currency, as an increasing number of the continent’s banks deepen their integration with China’s payment network.

A joint report by Odipo Dev and Amnesty International Kenya says there 453 protest events across Kenya in the first six months of 2026, marking a 29% increase compared to the same period in 2025. Kenyans!!!

South Africa wants Malawi, Nigeria and Ethiopia to refund the costs of repatriating their citizens who were fleeing xenophobic attacks. It’s like charging the victim for the ambulance to hospital after you ran them over.

South Africa is now the world's largest citrus exporter. Fresh citrus export values range between $1.8 billion and $2.0+ billion annually, more than it now earns from diamonds or wine (hovering around $1.2Bn to $1.5Bn in recent years).

950,000 Ghanaians exited multi-faceted poverty; rate dropped 24.9% to 21.9% (Q3 2024-25). Ghana now Africa’s 8th-largest economy. Unemployment also fell. Seychelles has the lowest rate in Africa, affecting 0.9% of the population.

Israel to allow international force into Gaza under Trump ceasefire plan. Force would include 200 members from “FRIENDLY countries such as Uganda and Morocco” deploying in areas that are NOT UNDER ISRAELI CONTROL⁉️

Africa facing $10-$20 billion economic hit from “super” El Niño, and mass migration trigger from hard-hit areas, African Development Bank's top climate expert warns.

Researchers explored Lake Malawi, Africa’s second deepest lakes – and found an unexpected creature lurking in its depths.

The 2030 FIFA World Cup will be cost-hosted by Morocco, Spain and Portugal, but Morocco’s 115,000-seat Grand Stade Hassan II will be the largest stadium of them all. It will also be the world's largest football stadium.

Cows, Botswana’s brown diamonds, sparkle in the new economy.