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Tobe Nwigwe Delivers New Single “Perfection” Feat. Flavour and C.S. Armstrong From Forthcoming Album The Bridge

Grammy-nominated artist, filmmaker, and cultural visionary Tobe Nwigwe unveils the second chapter of The Bridge with “Perfection,” featuring Nigerian music icon Flavour, soul singer C.S. Armstrong, and producer Tierce “Kizzo.” Following the release of “All or Nothing” featuring Labrinth, “Perfection” continues the rollout of Tobe’s forthcoming album The Bridge, arriving August 21 via Human Re []

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Cairo’s Diagnostics Bet: How a $1.45 Million Round Signals Where African Healthtech Is Headed

Money doesn’t always follow the loudest sector. Sometimes it follows the one quietly solving a problem nobody wants to talk about until they’re the patient. Reme-D, a healthtech company out of Egypt building diagnostic solutions, just closed a pre-Series A round worth 1.45 million, led by Anara Impact Capital. Global Innovation Fund and Africa Health []

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Africa’s $43 Billion Countdown: Nine Economies, One Tariff Deadline

The clock is ticking louder than most boardrooms would like to admit. On July 31, a pause on US reciprocal tariffs runs out, and nine African economies are staring down a deadline that could reshape what they sell to America and at what cost. South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Angola, Kenya, and []

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The Quiet Coup: How East African Banks Overtook South Africa’s

For twenty years, if you wanted the gold standard of African banking, you looked south. That assumption is now being quietly dismantled, and the numbers doing the dismantling are coming out of Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar es Salaam. East Africa’s banking sector is now posting stronger industry returns than South Africa’s — a shift significant []

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Why Nigeria Just Joined a Club Full of Oil’s Biggest Skeptics

There’s something almost contrarian about an OPEC heavyweight walking into the International Energy Agency’s tent, given that the IEA has spent years as the institutional voice pushing the world toward the energy transition that OPEC members have every reason to be wary of. Nigeria did it anyway, becoming the first OPEC member to join the []

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Oil Slides as Tehran and Washington Edge Toward the Table — And Africa’s Producers Are Watching Closely

Every barrel of Brent crude carries a little bit of geopolitics in its price tag these days, and this week that price tag got slightly lighter. Brent slipped toward 88 a barrel, pulling back from five-week highs, on growing signs that the US and Iran might be inching back toward negotiations after a stretch of []

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Morocco Hosts Wafcon for Third Straight Time

The delayed 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) will finally begin on July 26 in Morocco, with the North African country hosting the tournament for a third consecutive time. Now featuring an expanded 16-team format with 34 matches, the competition doubles as World Cup qualification, with all four semi-finalists automatically securing spots at the []

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Lesotho Emerges as Southern Africa’s Ski Destination

Lesotho, Africa’s coldest country thanks to its high mountain elevation, has become an unlikely winter tourism hotspot as thousands of visitors from southern Africa flock to its slopes each year. Its high-altitude Afriski Mountain Resort, sitting over 10,000 feet up in the Maluti Mountains, is sub-Saharan Africa’s only fully operational ski destination. It offers many []

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Botswana Accuses Russia of Deceptive Recruitment Campaign

Botswana has become the latest African nation to accuse Russia of deceptively recruiting its citizens to fight in the war against Ukraine, joining a growing list of countries raising similar alarms. The country’s foreign ministry said Batswana nationals were misled with promises of jobs and financial rewards, only to be forced into combat once in []

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IMF Says AI Could Boost Africa’s Economy by 4%

A new International Monetary Fund report finds that artificial intelligence could expand Sub-Saharan Africa’s economy by about 4 over the next ten years, but only if the region urgently tackles gaps in electricity, internet access, and digital skills. Without resolving these bottlenecks, the IMF warns, growth from AI adoption could shrink to a negligible 0.2, []

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