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December 10, 2025

Rogers Launches Full Satellite Service with Major App Support in Canada

Rogers Satellite Takes Cellular Starlink Live in Canada With Major App Support What happens when you’re hiking in the Canadian wilderness and your phone loses signal? For years, that...

December 9, 2025
Mali, Sahel

Sahel Alliance Boosts Security Cooperation with Radio Communication Deal.

Sahel Alliance Strengthens Cooperation Amid Rising Security Challenges and Regional Instability The Sahel region, a vast expanse grappling with escalating violent extremism and political upheaval, just witnessed a crucial...

December 9, 2025
Business

Africa’s AI Banks and $10 Billion Airport Signal New Growth and Discipline.

Africa’s Reckoning: From $60M AI Banks to a $10B Ethiopian Airport, Growth Confronts Discipline Billions of dollars are pouring into African innovation right now, but there’s a catch. The...

December 9, 2025
Nigeria, Trending News, West Africa

Security Forces Rescue 24 Abducted Schoolgirls in Kebbi Amid Ongoing Challenges.

Security Forces Rescue 24 Abducted Schoolgirls in Kebbi Amid Ongoing Challenges In a heartwarming development for northwest Nigeria, 24 schoolgirls abducted from a boarding school near the Sokoto-Kebbi border...

December 9, 2025
Burkina Faso, Sahel

Burkina Faso Achieves Debt Repayment Amid Rising Security Tensions.

Burkina Faso Navigates a High-Stakes Balancing Act: Fiscal Strength Meets Escalating Security Threats In a year of sharp contrasts, Burkina Faso has found itself firmly in the spotlight, demonstrating...

December 8, 2025
Niger, Sahel

Benin Coup Attempt Foiled with Nigerian Military Support Amid West Africa Unrest.

Benin Coup Attempt Foiled: A Glimpse into West Africa’s Shifting Sands Sunday brought a sharp jolt to West Africa as Benin’s government announced it had decisively thwarted a coup...

December 8, 2025
Mali, Sahel

Sahel Security and Political Dynamics Shift Amid Rising Threats and Alliances.

Sahel’s Shifting Sands: Alliances, Threats, and a Precarious Path Forward The Sahel, a vast and vibrant region spanning nations like Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad, finds itself at...

December 8, 2025
Business

Africa’s Startup Funding Surges to One Billion but Markets Unevenly Grow.

Africa’s Startup Boom Hits $1 Billion, But Growth Isn’t Equal African startups just crossed a major threshold, pulling in more than one billion dollars from investors between January and...

December 8, 2025
Nigeria, Trending News, West Africa

Security Forces Rescue 24 Schoolgirls Abducted in Kebbi Nigeria.

Security Forces Successfully Rescue 24 Schoolgirls Abducted in Kebbi, Nigeria There’s a collective sigh of relief across Nigeria’s northwest today. Why? Twenty-four schoolgirls, kidnapped from Government Girls’ Day Secondary...

December 7, 2025
Niger, Sahel

Nigeria Leads Innovation Growth Amid Africa’s Crises and Agricultural Goals.

Africa’s Crossroads: Innovation Blooms in Nigeria, Ghana Cultivates Future Amid Sudan’s Dire Conflict Africa truly stands at a pivotal moment, doesn’t it? On one hand, you’ve got nations like...