Kampala, Uganda – President Yoweri Museveni has won a seventh term in office, securing 71.65% of the vote, according to the Electoral Commission. His main challenger, Bobi Wine (Robert Kyagulanyi), received 24.72%, based on official results. The election, held on January 15, was marked by a nationwide internet blackout, technical delays at polling stations, and […]
As global economic fault lines widen, Africa faces a pivotal moment. Long relegated to the margins of global value chains—exporting raw materials and importing finished goods—African economies have endured a trade pattern heavily skewed in favour of the Global North. This pattern has not only limited economic diversification but has also curtailed job creation, deepened
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For more than half a century, the nations once labeled the Third World have been told a reassuring story: integrate into global markets, welcome foreign capital, liberalize trade, and prosperity will follow. Yet from Lagos to La Paz, from Dhaka to Lusaka, the lived reality has been stubbornly different. Growth arrives, but sovereignty recedes; exports
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By the middle of the twentieth century, Africa’s political landscape appeared to change overnight. New flags were raised, constitutions drafted, and presidents sworn in. Less visible, yet far more profound, was another revolution—the gradual dethronement of traditional authority. Across the continent, kings, chiefs, and councils of elders who had governed communities for centuries found themselves
Canada has agreed to remove its 100 percent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in return for reduced Chinese duties on Canadian agricultural products, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced after bilateral talks in Beijing. The deal signals a notable shift from United States trade policy as Ottawa moves to reset and stabilize relations with China. Speaking
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President Donald Trump’s determination to bring Greenland under U.S. control has triggered a sharp diplomatic confrontation with Denmark and the Greenlandic government, raising fears of a serious rupture in transatlantic relations. Speaking on Friday, Trump reiterated that the United States “needs” Greenland for strategic and security reasons and said he was considering the use of
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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has paid glowing tribute to Chief Bisi Akande, elder statesman, former governor of Osun State and founding national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), as he marks his 87th birthday on January 16, 2026. In a statement released on Thursday, the President described Chief Akande as a central figure in
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Nigerians sending money to family, paying school fees, or settling business bills can breathe easier. The Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Taiwo Oyedele, has made it clear that the government does not charge Value Added Tax on the actual money people transfer. What attracts VAT, he explained, is only
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Africa has the potential to reshape global trade and bolster economic resilience, if it moves beyond commodity dependence toward value-added production and deeper integration into global markets, according to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization. Delivering the 2025 Mattei Lecture at the World Bank’s Africa Growth and Opportunity–Research in Action (AGORA) Conference in
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For decades, global power has often been framed as unipolar, with the United States at its apex. Yet this simplification obscures the real dynamics of the post–World War II order. The world has always been multipolar in material capabilities, with industrial giants, regional powers, and emerging economies, but it became structurally unipolar in monetary, financial,
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