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Paul Kagame closed Umushyikirano with a question Africa still lives with: why are we the poorest people on the richest c...
11/09/2026

Paul Kagame closed Umushyikirano with a question Africa still lives with: why are we the poorest people on the richest continent?

His answer was blunt. Governance. Not term limits. Not another lecture from outside.

“African leaders need to do better. All of us,” he said. “We need to show we can make things happen without depending on what outsiders deny or give us.”

That was the point. A man can serve one term, leave a mess, and get praised for walking away. Another can stay and still fail the people. The calendar is not the crisis. How we run the house is.

He said the noise around Rwanda’s referendum was a distraction. If citizens are the heart of democracy, their choice should not be treated as foolish the moment it upsets foreign opinion.

The wealth is here. The poverty is not an accident of the soil. It is what happens when African power does not work for African people. ( This was in 2015 )

Burkina Faso’s leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has publicly congratulated U.S. President Donald Trump for cracking down ...
11/09/2026

Burkina Faso’s leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has publicly congratulated U.S. President Donald Trump for cracking down on the practice of some Africans traveling to the United States to give birth so their children can obtain American citizenship, according to AES INFO, citing the state news agency AIB.

Traoré, the interim president of Burkina Faso and current president of the Alliance of Sahel States, said:

“I congratulate Donald Trump, who has put an end to the practices of certain Africans consisting of having their wives give birth in the United States in order to obtain American nationality for their children.”

The remarks, reported Friday by AES INFO with official photographs of Traoré at a public ceremony, come as Washington has tightened rules against so-called birth tourism traveling on a visitor visa primarily to deliver a child on U.S. soil. The Trump administration has used visa screening, embassy crackdowns and new executive measures after the Supreme Court earlier this year blocked a broader attempt to end birthright citizenship for children of people in the country illegally or only temporarily.

U.S. missions in Africa have already warned that visas can be refused if the main purpose of travel appears to be giving birth in America. An American embassy in West Africa said this year it had dismantled a birth-tourism network involving more than 100 foreign nationals using fraudulent documents and “fixers.”

Traoré’s comments stand out because relations between Ouagadougou and Washington have often been tense, including reciprocal visa restrictions after Burkina Faso was added to a U.S. travel-ban list.

In the same remarks, Traoré also announced a domestic industrial target:

“If it pleases God, by the end of the year we will build a shoe manufacturing factory.”

The pledge fits his government’s push to process more raw materials at home. This week he inaugurated TEXFORCES-BF, a state-financed textile complex near Bobo-Dioulasso meant to turn Burkinabè cotton into uniforms, T-shirts and socks instead of exporting the fiber and importing finished clothes. Traoré has framed that plant as a “message” of sovereignty, not just a factory.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made 15 September a public holiday every year. The gazette calls it Munhumutapa Day, af...
11/09/2026

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made 15 September a public holiday every year. The gazette calls it Munhumutapa Day, after the old Mutapa empire title. The date is also the president’s birthday. He turns 84 next week.

Statutory Instrument 148 of 2026, issued under the Public Holidays and Prohibition of Business Act, says 15 September “every year henceforth” is a holiday. No new heritage budget came with the notice. The name is history. The date is personal.

ZANU-PF youth have marked that day since 2018. This year it becomes official. First national observance is planned in Mvurwi. Critics, including Nelson Chamisa, say the country is watching birthdays become state ritual as under Mugabe. The government frames it as heritage.

The holiday lands months after a constitutional change that stretched the presidential term and pushed elections to 2030.

Offices will close. Informal traders will lose a day’s trade. The calendar now carries the president’s date.

President Cyril Ramaphosa told the BRICS Business Forum that Africa cannot keep shipping out the minerals that will powe...
11/09/2026

President Cyril Ramaphosa told the BRICS Business Forum that Africa cannot keep shipping out the minerals that will power the next wave of industry while the factories stay somewhere else.

Speaking in India on Friday, ahead of the 18th BRICS Summit, he said developing countries have spent too long at the bottom of the value chain: raw commodities out, finished goods back in. He warned BRICS not to copy that pattern inside the bloc.

His line was blunt: change where the money goes, or the map of value will not change. Investment, he said, should go into manufacturing, beneficiation, industrial technology, energy, infrastructure and logistics plants on the ground, not just buyers at the port.

South Africa is using the summit to push intra-BRICS trade, industrialisation and African infrastructure tied to the AfCFTA. Ramaphosa is also courting Indian capital in pharmaceuticals, infrastructure, critical minerals and EV batteries.

The argument is old. The audience is new. Whether BRICS money follows the speech is the test.

Nigeria’s National Assembly has suspended all official visits to South Africa. Lawmakers, committees and staff are also ...
11/09/2026

Nigeria’s National Assembly has suspended all official visits to South Africa. Lawmakers, committees and staff are also barred from South African-hosted legislative events conferences, seminars, exchanges, even virtual ones until further notice.

Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker Abbas Tajudeen took the decision after reports of recurring xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African nationals. The statement cites killings, injuries, displacement, and people forced to abandon homes and businesses. Appeals to South African authorities, they say, have not stopped it.

The ban lands days before the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference opens in Cape Town on 13 September. Nigeria’s parliament will not be there.

Nigerian officials have previously said 98 Nigerians have been kll3d in mob and hate-related attacks in South Africa since 2022.

This is a boycott, not a solution. It is Abuja saying the visits stop until the violence does.

NAMIBIA: The United States wanted health data and biological specimens tied to continued HIV support. Windhoek refused. ...
11/09/2026

NAMIBIA: The United States wanted health data and biological specimens tied to continued HIV support. Windhoek refused. Officials say the draft terms clash with Namibian law, the right to privacy, and sovereignty over the country’s own biological resources.

Washington has put more than $1.1 billion into Namibia’s HIV response since 2003 through PEPFAR. In recent years that has meant about $45 million a year. After the impasse, the two governments announced a phase-out: one more year of funding in 2027, then a shift to “technical cooperation.” Namibia says it will look for other money to keep programmes standing.

The official line from both sides is that Namibia beat global HIV targets and can now carry more of the load. The other line is simpler: aid that demands your patients’ data and your samples is not partnership. It is a price.

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah’s office has been clear. Namibia is a sovereign state. Sensitive health information is not a bargaining chip.

Africa has heard this offer before. Take the money. Hand over the blood, the sequences, the files. Namibia just answered in public.

The samples stay. The data stays. The bill for dignity just came due.

BURKINA FASO: Captain Ibrahim Traoré just opened a new lecture hall complex at Nazi-Boni University. - This is not a rib...
11/09/2026

BURKINA FASO: Captain Ibrahim Traoré just opened a new lecture hall complex at Nazi-Boni University. - This is not a ribbon and a speech. It is 1,200 seats in the main amphitheater, four smaller halls of 210 seats each, and six labs built for real practical work. Offices, meeting rooms, and cameras sit upstairs. Students who used to fight for space now have a place that looks like the future was supposed to look.

The project sits under IPEQ the Presidential Initiative for Quality Education for All. This building is one of a first wave of 12 going up across Burkina Faso. Forty complexes are planned in total. The furniture, officials say, came from local artisans. Sovereignty here is not only guns and cotton. It is classrooms.

Bobo got the keys today. Other campuses are next.

Africa does not lack young people. It has lacked rooms worthy of them. Today, Burkina Faso put one more of those rooms on the ground.

Happy New Year, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 - While the rest of the world is still in 2026, Ethiopia has just walked into 2019.Today is...
11/09/2026

Happy New Year, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 - While the rest of the world is still in 2026, Ethiopia has just walked into 2019.

Today is Enkutatash. Meskerem 1. The rains are easing, the yellow adey abeba are out, and the year has turned.

Our calendar is older, slower, and stubborn. Thirteen months. Seven or eight years behind the Gregorian one. That is not a mistake. That is us.

The name means “gift of jewels” the story of the Queen of Sheba coming home and being welcomed with treasure. Families will eat, churches will fill, girls will go singing with flowers, and people will say Melkam Addis Amet like they mean it.

Africa does not always keep the same clock as everyone else. Sometimes that is the point.

Welcome to 2019, Ethiopia.
The year is yours.

Namibia’s president said it straight. - We are not beggars. - President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told the Namibia Public-P...
10/09/2026

Namibia’s president said it straight. - We are not beggars. - President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah told the Namibia Public-Private Forum in Windhoek:

“We cannot be beggars in the international community when we have abundant resources. We must have the leverage and even bring them to the point where they beg us. It is possible; it depends on how you approach it.”

No apology. No begging bowl. Negotiate from strength.

Africa is not empty. Minerals. Energy. Land. Youth. The wealth is here. The problem has been walking into the room already small.

Her point is simple. Own the resources. Set the terms. Make them come to you.

SOUTH SUDAN: President Salva Kiir has appointed his son, Maj. Gen. Atem Salva Kiir, to lead the Tiger Division, the elit...
10/09/2026

SOUTH SUDAN: President Salva Kiir has appointed his son, Maj. Gen. Atem Salva Kiir, to lead the Tiger Division, the elite unit that protects him.

The army confirmed the move on 9 September. Atem took over from Maj. Gen. Deng Madhang and will also keep command of Special Forces for now, according to army spokesman Col. Garang Ateny Alier.

The Tiger Division guards the president and other senior officials. It also operates around Juba. Whoever runs it sits very close to power.

Atem is 36. He was promoted to major general last week. Before this, he led Special Forces in the National Security Service. He joined the security services in 2012.

The army says the appointment went through normal channels and was based on merit. “It has nothing to do with him being the president’s son,” Ateny said. The family says he has taken the job and denied earlier reports that he turned it down.

Elections are due in December. Kiir, 74, has been president since independence in 2011. The Tiger Division has changed commanders several times in recent years.

The army called the reshuffle a move to tighten command of key units.

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