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Iron-rich mountains in the Guinea Highlands that daunted Sidiki Kone as a young geologist turned out to hold one of the biggest ore deposits on the planet.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 4, 2025
Huge new mine in Guinea with Chinese backing set to upend world iron ore market
The Simandou deposit is the world’s largest untapped seam of iron ore, with estimated reserves of at least 3 billion tons.
Displaced Sudanese who fled El-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces rest in the camp of Um Yanqur, on the southwestern edge of Tawila, in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on Monday.
WORLD
Nov 4, 2025
Hunger monitor confirms famine in Darfur's al-Fashir and one other city
The finding is the first time the U.N.-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has determined that the cities are in famine.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after arriving on Air Force One in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday. Trump on Saturday threatened Nigeria with potential military action and said the United States might cut off aid, accusing the West African country’s government of failing to protect Christians.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 2, 2025
Trump threatens U.S. military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians
Trump's post on Nigeria came a day after adding it back to a list of nations that the U.S. says have violated religious freedom.
Sudanese Rapid Support Forces reportedly detain a fighter known as Abu Lulu (left) in al-Fashir, in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region in this image released Thursday.
WORLD
Nov 1, 2025
Hundreds said shot or disappeared after Sudanese city falls to paramilitaries
Fighters riding camels rounded up a couple of hundred men near the Sudanese city of al-Fashir over the weekend and brought them to a reservoir, shouting racial slurs before starting to shoot, according to a man who said he was among them.
An infant at a camp for displaced people who fled from El Fasher to Tawila, Sudan, on Monday. Fears mounted in Sudan three days after paramilitaries seized the key city of El Fasher, amid reports of mass atrocities and the killing of five Red Crescent volunteers in Kordofan.
WORLD
Oct 30, 2025
WHO condemns reported 'horrific' mass killing in Sudanese hospital
"All attacks on health care must stop immediately and unconditionally," said the U.N. health agency's chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Internally displaced women wait to collect aid at a displacement camp in Gadaref, Sudan.
WORLD
Oct 28, 2025
Sudan paramilitary unit overruns major Darfur city as war rages on
The fighting in El-Fasher is the latest twist in a civil war that’s raged for more than 30 months despite repeated international attempts to broker a ceasefire.
King Bubaraye Dakolo of the Ekpetiama Kingdom in Bayelsa State, southern Nigeria, poses for a photograph in Lagos on Oct. 13.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Oct 22, 2025
'What is the value of a human life?' In Nigeria, oil giant Shell may find out.
Bubaraye Dakolo, the monarch of Ekpetiama in Nigeria, is suing a global oil giant over one of the largest corporate environmental liabilities in history.
Military forces joined protesters gathered in Madagascar's capital during a nationwide youth-led demonstration that led to the ouster of President Andry Rajoelina, in Antananarivo, Madagascar, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 15, 2025
Madagascar's military takes power; fleeing president impeached
The youth-led protests began over water and power shortages but quickly escalated into a wider movement against Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina.
Remittance inflows to low-income countries have boosted welfare, reduced poverty and strengthened economic resilience, but the Trump administration’s 1% tax on the transactions threatens to undermine these critical benefits.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2025
Trump’s beggar-the-poor remittance tax
America is now the world’s top remittance-sending country, with at least 134 recipient countries in 2021, the most recent year with reliable bilateral data.
Fatimata Madou shows a photo of Mohamat, her 9-month-old child who died of malaria.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 3, 2025
Babies' deaths in Cameroon show how U.S. aid cuts curtail malaria fight
Upon taking office in January, U.S. President Donald Trump paused all foreign aid, including the President's Malaria Initiative, launched in 2005 by George W. Bush.
Bangladeshis celebrate in Dhaka on Aug. 5, the first anniversary of student-led protests that ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2025
What Western media call insurrection at home, they call revolution abroad
Western media have perfected a seductive but dangerous narrative: the romanticized tale of youth-led “revolutions” toppling supposedly repressive, graft-ridden governments abroad.
The “Africa Hometown Initiative,” announced by the Japan International Cooperation Agency at an African development conference in Yokohama in August, sought to foster exchanges that would help bridge four municipalities in Japan with four countries in Africa.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 25, 2025
JICA scraps Africa ‘hometown’ agreement after migration mixup
Persistent online misinformation about the plan being a ploy to ease immigration from Africa led to the initiative being canceled.
A family of displaced Sudanese at a displacement camp in Al Dabba, Sudan, on Sept. 6
WORLD / Politics
Sep 22, 2025
In Sudan, 'never again' has proved untrue, UNHCR chief says
After the bloody civil war in Sudan's Darfur region 20 years ago, the world said "never again." And yet it is happening again, U.N. refugees chief Filippo Grandi says.
A resident navigates a flooded road in Masiphumelele, Cape Town, South Africa, on May 20. Climate change impacts Africa the most of any continent despite it contributing less than 10% to global carbon emissions, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
WORLD
Sep 18, 2025
Military spending eats into Africa's climate finance
Climate change impacts Africa the most of any continent despite it contributing less than 10% to global carbon emissions, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba meets with Mozambique President Daniel Chapo during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD 9) in Yokohama on Aug. 22.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 14, 2025
JICA's Africa 'hometown' project may be renamed
The renaming is being considered after false information about the project spread on social media, claiming it would lead to an increase in the number of immigrants.
A nation made wealthy by the discovery of diamonds in 1967, Botswana is now facing an economic crisis.
BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2025
Lab-grown gems are robbing Botswana of its diamond riches
A diamond-market crisis has turned the finding of the gems into an affliction and a cautionary tale of what can happen to an economy that becomes overly reliant on one commodity.
A massive landslide in Sudan's western Darfur region has flattened an entire mountain village and killed more than 1,000 people, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army group said, leaving only one survivor.
WORLD
Sep 3, 2025
Landslide wipes out Sudan village, killing hundreds
Heavy rain triggered the disaster, flattening the village of Tarasin in the remote Jebel Marra range, with the death toll estimated at anywhere from 300 to over 1,000.
Reni Folawiyo, founder of the Alara concept store, inside Alara in Lagos on Aug. 20
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 2, 2025
Nigerian designer pushes 'Afro-lux' onto the global fashion scene
West African design is having a moment, the founder of a fashion and design concept store in Lagos said, but it's not enough.
First Lady Yoshiko Ishiba (center, in white and blue dress) hosts an event on Japanese culture with the first ladies of African leaders on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Aug 27, 2025
Confusion over Japan’s ‘hometown’ plan overshadows African development event
Social media and news have focused more on the misinformation that Japan is accepting a large number of immigrants from Africa.
Containers at a dock at the Port of Cape Town in Cape Town in 2024. China’s exports to Africa so far in 2025 are more than in the whole of 2020 and on track to exceed $200 billion for the first time.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 27, 2025
China is pouring exports into Africa faster than anywhere else
China’s exports to Africa so far in 2025 are more than in the whole of 2020 and on track to exceed $200 billion for the first time.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
What would a ‘backup capital’ look like for Japan?
The Japan Innovation Party has long sought to get Osaka designated as Japan's backup capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

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