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President Bola Tinubu

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President Bola Tinubu

Under the “America First Global Health Strategy”, many African countries have signed bilateral agreements to receive health financing in exchange for access to biological data and pathogen specimens. Photo: AFP

China-Africa relations

Washington lines up health deals as US and China vie for access to Africa

Signatories must guarantee that genetic sequence data and samples from potential outbreaks are shared with the US within 5 days of detection.

30 Dec 2025 - 4:07PMvideocam

Donald Trump

Trump says he ordered Nigeria strike delay to ‘give a Christmas present’

27 Dec 2025 - 7:39AM

Africa

US launches strike on Islamic State targets in Nigeria, Trump says

26 Dec 2025 - 4:39PM

Africa

Nigeria says ‘spat’ with Trump over killing of Christians ‘largely resolved’

However, Nigeria remains on Washington’s list of countries of ‘particular concern’ regarding alleged religious freedom violations.

22 Dec 2025 - 10:45PM

US President Donald Trump makes an announcement about lowering the cost of drug prices at the White House last week. Photo: Reuters

Africa

Nigeria secures release of 130 children abducted from Catholic school

Presidential spokesman confirms ‘none left in captivity’ after an operation frees students taken by gunmen in November.

22 Dec 2025 - 2:14PM

China-Africa relations

Chinese workers return to Africa as lucrative job opportunities beckon

Large-scale, China-backed projects entice contract workers to take up posts in some African nations, while political instability keeps others away.

21 Dec 2025 - 8:00PMvideocam

China-Africa relations

‘Concrete symbols’: China-built Ecowas HQ latest infrastructure gift to Africa

Beijing’s strategy to project influence through gifting prestigious presidential palaces and parliamentary buildings labelled ‘unique’.

13 Dec 2025 - 5:53PMvideocam

Chinese ambassador to Nigeria Yu Dunhai with Dr Omar Touray, president of the Ecowas Commission, in Abuja on December 4. Du visited the US$32 million China-built Ecowas headquarters in the Nigerian capital.
Photo: X/YDunhai

China technology

Opinion | Why the Global South is embracing Chinese AI

The US champions AI as an autonomous agent, a content creator. China exports a vision of AI as a digital nervous system for the real economy.

10 Dec 2025 - 10:26AMvideocam

Africa

Opinion | How China can help Africa build human capital

To truly harness their potential, countries across the continent seeking to industrialise must develop education and infrastructure in tandem.

9 Dec 2025 - 5:47PMvideocam

Africa

Benin hunts leader behind short-lived coup that left casualties on both sides

Authorities in the west African country confirm arrests were made and hostages released, but apparent coup leader remained at large.

9 Dec 2025 - 3:47PM

Soldiers patrol in Cotonou, Benin, after the country’s armed forces thwarted an attempted coup against the government. Photo: Reuters

China-Africa relations

Why Chinese firms are taking operational risks on African projects

Public-private partnerships or PPP model for African infrastructure tipped to grow as ‘bankable’ projects can attract global finance.

8 Dec 2025 - 12:00PMvideocam

Chinese state-owned firms have broken ground on a 233km, US$1.3 billion highway in Kenya. Its leadership says the PPP model will solve Kenya’s infrastructure funding challenges amid its debt overhang. Photo: Reuters

United Nations

Nigeria’s government secures release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren

The fate of dozens of other pupils and staff remains unclear as the country buckles under a wave of mass abductions.

8 Dec 2025 - 2:33PM

Africa

Nigeria declares national emergency after mass kidnappings

Hundreds of people, mostly children, have been abducted in a week.

27 Nov 2025 - 12:58PM

Africa

Dozens kidnapped from Catholic school in Nigeria escape captors

Hundreds of children and staff remain held by gunmen amid a spate of school attacks in the West African country.

24 Nov 2025 - 1:46PM

A classroom at St Mary’s school, where gunmen abducted more than 300 students and staff. Photo: AFP

Africa

315 kidnapped in Nigeria school attacks as security crisis deepens

Gunmen attacked a school in Niger state on Friday after abducting 25 girls from a Kebbi state secondary school on Monday.

23 Nov 2025 - 10:22AM

Empty bunk beds and scattered belongings are seen inside a student dormitory at St Mary’s Catholic School on Saturday. Photo: Bulus Dauwa Yohanna/Christian Association of Nigeria/AFP

Africa

Gunmen kidnap students from Nigerian Catholic school, second attack in a week

The attacks come weeks after US President Trump threatened military action over what he said were targeted killings of Nigeria’s Christians.

21 Nov 2025 - 6:33PM

Africa

1 girl escapes Nigeria mass abduction of 25 students from a high school

The student fled through a forest after gunmen attacked a high school dormitory.

18 Nov 2025 - 7:50PM

Africa

Gunmen kidnap 25 schoolgirls in Nigeria region grappling with banditry

The early morning raid came a decade after the Chibok abduction that sparked the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

18 Nov 2025 - 4:07PM

Police said the schoolgirls were taken from their dorms on Monday. Photo: AP

Africa

Trump’s threat of US military action clashes with Nigeria’s reality

Nigeria’s president denies his country is religiously intolerant after Trump claimed Christians are being killed in ‘large numbers’.

4 Nov 2025 - 4:32PM

Africa

Nigeria urges meeting with Trump after US president’s military action threat

Trump had said he was designating Nigeria a ‘country of particular concern’ because of worries about the safety of Christians there.

3 Nov 2025 - 1:25AM

Donald Trump

Trump threatens military action in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’

Nigeria’s leader Bola Ahmed earlier pushed back against the US president’s claim that his country’s Christians face an ‘existential threat’.

2 Nov 2025 - 10:56AM

US President Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Thursday. Photo: Reuters

Trade

Opinion | Africa is where Hong Kong’s ‘go global’ campaign should begin

The new GoGlobal Task Force should spur efforts to tap opportunities in emerging markets. Africa, where China already has a considerable presence, is a natural choice.

28 Oct 2025 - 11:16AM

Kenya Railways attendants talk next to a train along the Standard Gauge Railway line constructed by the China Road and Bridge Corporation and financed by the Chinese government in Ongata Rongai, Kenya, on October 16, 2019. China’s extensive investment and trade presence in Africa has driven industrial growth and enhanced connectivity across the continent. Photo: Reuters

Africa

World’s oldest president, 92, could extend rule as Cameroon heads to polls

Paul Biya, who spends most of his time in Europe, came to power in the Central African country in 1982 and has ruled since then.

12 Oct 2025 - 8:34PM

China-Africa relations

China’s ‘health silk road’ in Africa gets a boost with insulin, pharma projects

Move to manufacture insulin locally is set against forecast of nearly 55 million Type 2 diabetes cases in sub-Saharan Africa by 2045.

11 Oct 2025 - 2:00PMvideocam

US-China trade war

Trump team presses unlikely buyers to snap up US soybeans

Since China stopped buying US soybeans, Donald Trump is pushing countries like India to boost purchases while weighing a multi-billion-dollar farm bailout.

7 Oct 2025 - 4:03AMvideocam

A farmer handles soybeans from a field in the US state of Indiana. Photo: AP

China exports

China’s cleantech creating ‘new global energy system’ as exports soar: report

Demand for clean technology is ‘skyrocketing’, especially in Global South, as China drives creation of cheaper solutions, report says.

6 Oct 2025 - 3:30PM

China’s exports of clean technology have soared in recent years, as the cost of wind turbines, solar panels, lithium batteries and other solutions continues to fall. Photo: Xinhua

China-Africa relations

China targets Gen Z, millennials in new strategy to build its brand in Africa

Kenyan social media stars showcase China’s striking scenery, culture, history and cuisine in glitzy new promotional campaign.

5 Oct 2025 - 6:50PMvideocam

Indonesia

Netherlands to return ‘Java Man’ fossils to Indonesia in historic move

The move will see the skull cap and other remains of the first-ever Homo erectus found returned, after they were looted during Dutch colonial era.

26 Sep 2025 - 6:17PM

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Nigeria

Washington lines up health deals as US and China vie for access to Africa

Signatories must guarantee that genetic sequence data and samples from potential outbreaks are shared with the US within 5 days of detection.

Trump says he ordered Nigeria strike delay to ‘give a Christmas present’

US launches strike on Islamic State targets in Nigeria, Trump says

Nigeria says ‘spat’ with Trump over killing of Christians ‘largely resolved’

However, Nigeria remains on Washington’s list of countries of ‘particular concern’ regarding alleged religious freedom violations.

Nigeria secures release of 130 children abducted from Catholic school

Presidential spokesman confirms ‘none left in captivity’ after an operation frees students taken by gunmen in November.

Chinese workers return to Africa as lucrative job opportunities beckon

Large-scale, China-backed projects entice contract workers to take up posts in some African nations, while political instability keeps others away.

‘Concrete symbols’: China-built Ecowas HQ latest infrastructure gift to Africa

Beijing’s strategy to project influence through gifting prestigious presidential palaces and parliamentary buildings labelled ‘unique’.

.css-1m2rp1p{color:#34b8b5;}Opinion | Why the Global South is embracing Chinese AI

The US champions AI as an autonomous agent, a content creator. China exports a vision of AI as a digital nervous system for the real economy.

Opinion | How China can help Africa build human capital

To truly harness their potential, countries across the continent seeking to industrialise must develop education and infrastructure in tandem.

Benin hunts leader behind short-lived coup that left casualties on both sides

Authorities in the west African country confirm arrests were made and hostages released, but apparent coup leader remained at large.

Why Chinese firms are taking operational risks on African projects

Public-private partnerships or PPP model for African infrastructure tipped to grow as ‘bankable’ projects can attract global finance.

Nigeria’s government secures release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren

The fate of dozens of other pupils and staff remains unclear as the country buckles under a wave of mass abductions.

Nigeria declares national emergency after mass kidnappings

Hundreds of people, mostly children, have been abducted in a week.

Dozens kidnapped from Catholic school in Nigeria escape captors

Hundreds of children and staff remain held by gunmen amid a spate of school attacks in the West African country.

315 kidnapped in Nigeria school attacks as security crisis deepens

Gunmen attacked a school in Niger state on Friday after abducting 25 girls from a Kebbi state secondary school on Monday.

Gunmen kidnap students from Nigerian Catholic school, second attack in a week

The attacks come weeks after US President Trump threatened military action over what he said were targeted killings of Nigeria’s Christians.

1 girl escapes Nigeria mass abduction of 25 students from a high school

The student fled through a forest after gunmen attacked a high school dormitory.

Gunmen kidnap 25 schoolgirls in Nigeria region grappling with banditry

The early morning raid came a decade after the Chibok abduction that sparked the global #BringBackOurGirls campaign.

Trump’s threat of US military action clashes with Nigeria’s reality

Nigeria’s president denies his country is religiously intolerant after Trump claimed Christians are being killed in ‘large numbers’.

Nigeria urges meeting with Trump after US president’s military action threat

Trump had said he was designating Nigeria a ‘country of particular concern’ because of worries about the safety of Christians there.

Trump threatens military action in Nigeria over ‘killing of Christians’

Nigeria’s leader Bola Ahmed earlier pushed back against the US president’s claim that his country’s Christians face an ‘existential threat’.

Opinion | Africa is where Hong Kong’s ‘go global’ campaign should begin

The new GoGlobal Task Force should spur efforts to tap opportunities in emerging markets. Africa, where China already has a considerable presence, is a natural choice.

World’s oldest president, 92, could extend rule as Cameroon heads to polls

Paul Biya, who spends most of his time in Europe, came to power in the Central African country in 1982 and has ruled since then.

China’s ‘health silk road’ in Africa gets a boost with insulin, pharma projects

Move to manufacture insulin locally is set against forecast of nearly 55 million Type 2 diabetes cases in sub-Saharan Africa by 2045.

Trump team presses unlikely buyers to snap up US soybeans

Since China stopped buying US soybeans, Donald Trump is pushing countries like India to boost purchases while weighing a multi-billion-dollar farm bailout.

China’s cleantech creating ‘new global energy system’ as exports soar: report

Demand for clean technology is ‘skyrocketing’, especially in Global South, as China drives creation of cheaper solutions, report says.

China targets Gen Z, millennials in new strategy to build its brand in Africa

Kenyan social media stars showcase China’s striking scenery, culture, history and cuisine in glitzy new promotional campaign.

Netherlands to return ‘Java Man’ fossils to Indonesia in historic move

The move will see the skull cap and other remains of the first-ever Homo erectus found returned, after they were looted during Dutch colonial era.

Opinion | Why the Global South is embracing Chinese AI