In the days leading up to Christmas 2025, social media feeds across Africa and beyond were filled with videos of people hauling bags, household items, and personal belongings toward wooden ships built inland in Ghana....

A lavish funeral in southern Nigeria has ignited a fierce debate about wealth, faith, and inequality after a prominent religious leader buried his mother in a $105,000 gold-plated casket. The event, captured on video and...

TL;DR A Namibian politician named Adolf Hitler Uunona is poised to win yet another local election. Despite his unsettling name, which he inherited and has repeatedly distanced himself from, he remains a popular and longstanding...

A massive ash plume from Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcanic eruption, which occurred for the first time in thousands of years, is now drifting toward northwest India. Meteorological agencies have confirmed that high-altitude winds are steering...

Who was Mariam Cisse, and why was she targeted? Mariam Cisse, a 20-year-old TikToker from Tonka in northern Mali’s Timbuktu region, was abducted and publicly executed by suspected jihadists after being accused of supporting the...

Story highlights A new ocean is slowly forming on Africa’s east coast. The split could eventually divide the continent into two landmasses. The process mirrors how the Atlantic Ocean formed millions of years ago. A...

What triggered the renewed debate over the African king’s UAE visit? A resurfaced video of an African monarch arriving in Abu Dhabi with 15 wives, 30 children, and 100 servants has reignited global debate on...

A priceless 3,000-year-old bracelet belonging to ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Amenemope has been stolen from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum and shockingly melted down for gold, sparking national outrage. Theft from Egypt’s oldest museum Tourism and Antiquities Minister...

South Africa’s Constitutional Court has struck down a decades-old restriction on surnames, ruling that men can now legally adopt the surnames of their wives. The court found parts of the Births and Deaths Registration Act...

Quick Summary A Kenyan man’s claim to be Elon Musk’s 40-year-old son has been widely debunked. The math doesn’t add up; Elon Musk would have been just 14 at the time of birth. The viral...