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A man waves a flag from a car window featuring a map of Morocco that includes the Western Sahara in Casablanca, Morocco, on Oct. 31, 2025.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 8, 2026
What the end of U.N. peacekeeping in Western Sahara means
Western Sahara is largely controlled by Morocco but has been claimed for decades by the Algeria-backed Polisario Front.
People walk through traffic along a street in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, on Oct. 14.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 5, 2026
Nigeria’s ‘godfathers’ pull the strings ahead of elections
The Nigerian political scene is dominated by a caste of competing kingmakers stretching all the way to the very top.
The registration desks at the African Growth and Opportunity Act forum in Johannesburg on Nov. 3, 2023
WORLD / Politics
Nov 3, 2026
South Africa and Rwanda lose access to U.S.’ AGOA trade pact
The pact gives duty-free access to the world’s largest economy for more than 1,800 products and has boosted trade between the U.S. and the region.
Congolese medical workers carry the coffin containing the body of a doctor who died at an Ebola treatment center after contracting the virus, during her burial in Bunia, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 3, 2026
The world’s perilous Ebola complacency
Global leaders must fund the Africa-led regional response today, or risk paying a higher price in human lives and economic devastation tomorrow.
IOC President Kirsty Coventry (rear, third from left) visits the Youth Olympic Village in Diamniadio, Senegal, on Thursday ahead of the 2026 Dakar Youth Olympics.
OLYMPICS
Oct 30, 2026
Africa making Olympic debut with 2026 Dakar Youth Games
Senegal is the first African country to host an Olympic sporting event.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with President of the Presidential Council of Libya at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 28, 2026
Putin courts Africa leaders at Moscow summit to expand influence
The continent has taken on greater strategic importance for Russia since its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
United Arab Emirates diplomat Lana Nusseibeh at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Tuesday
WORLD / Politics
Oct 28, 2026
Rights monitors raise concerns over UAE diplomat’s bid for next U.N. boss
Pushback against Lana Nusseibeh, the UAE’s former ambassador to the U.N., has gathered steam since her late entry into the race last week.
Travelers stand next to a banner displayed near a health screening station at Murtala Muhammed International Airport following reports of an Ebola case in Nigeria, in Lagos on Thursday.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 23, 2026
Africa faces ‘complex’ Ebola outbreak after spread to Nigeria, WHO warns
Nigeria, the continent’s most populous nation, is the fourth African country affected by the outbreak.
Ferrari driver Lewis Hamilton speaks during a news conference ahead of the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, on Thursday.
MORE SPORTS / Auto Racing
Oct 23, 2026
Lewis Hamilton hints at extending career in order to realize ‘dream’ of racing in Africa
The Ferrari driver will be 42 in January and has a contract for 2027. Fernando Alonso, the oldest active F1 driver, is 45 and recently signed up for another season.
A circus group performs during the Second Africa Climate Summit in Addis Ababa in September 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2026
JICA and the World Bank should put the poor first
Poor people are vulnerable to everything — disease, hunger, broken infrastructure and economic shocks. The question is will climate policy help them.
The government-affiliated Japan Foundation holds an anime song concert in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, in January.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2026
Japan works to promote soft power diplomacy using manga and anime
The government plans to actively use popular manga and anime works to gain more fans of Japan in Global South emerging and developing countries.
Benin's Sessi D'Almeida (left) vies for the ball against Argentina's Lionel Messi during a friendly in Buenos Aires on Tuesday.
SOCCER
Oct 9, 2026
African friendlies against Argentina often marred by chaos and disorganization
Smaller African teams generally rely on agencies to manage their away fixtures and don’t necessarily make any profit from the games.
A worker visits a patient in an isolation unit at an Ebola treatment center in Monigi, Congo, in June.
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2026
Ebola spreads ‘like wildfire’ as health workers battle exhaustion
The widening footprint of hot spots is straining a humanitarian response weakened by major aid cuts.
A billboard featuring Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio, current chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, is displayed during the 69th ECOWAS Summit in Freetown in July.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2026
Africa’s common currency-in-waiting
ECOWAS is now pursuing a phased approach, in which only countries that meet the convergence criteria will participate in the initial 2027 rollout.
A team of volunteer medical workers carry away the body of a truck driver who collapsed and died in Marabo, Congo, on Aug. 22.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 29, 2026
Ebola is hollowing out basic healthcare as Congo’s outbreak surpasses 8,000 cases
Use of seven essential health services has fallen 42% in four major Ebola hotspots in Ituri province, the outbreak’s epicenter, according to ACAPS.
A resident inspects his damaged home in Khartoum on Sept. 20 following the return of displaced Sudanese to the capital.
WORLD
Sep 28, 2026
Power cuts and rubble: Millions come home to find Sudan’s capital unlivable
Once a major African capital that was home to more than 8 million people, Khartoum is a shell of its former self.
A global tanker shortage, worsened by war, underinvestment and shifting trade routes, has sent freight rates soaring and reshaped oil flows worldwide.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2026
The next inflation shock: $1 million-a-day oil tankers
The world’s VLCC fleet is relatively small, with about 925 tankers controlled by a handful of shipping tycoons.
The Colossi of Memnon in Luxor, Egypt. Authorities in Egypt are looking to combine medical and traditional tourism to allow international patients to receive advanced healthcare while enjoying cultural and entertainment attractions.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 21, 2026
Luxor is at the heart of Egypt’s medical tourism push
Egypt’s authorities aim to compete with more-established destinations in providing services from major surgical procedures to dentistry and cosmetics.
Djibouti Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf (left) shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing in February 2019.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 18, 2026
China’s Djibouti base upgrades should boost monitoring reach, report says
The facilities would provide China with “a much more robust picture of the operating environment in the region,” the report said.
Congolese medical workers carry children as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, in Ituri province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on June 9.
WORLD
Sep 14, 2026
Congo’s worst-ever Ebola epidemic passes 7,000 cases
Authorities suggested the spread of the disease may already have peaked, despite the virus having been confirmed in a seventh province recently.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Japan works to shield Takaichi from any Xi snub at China summit
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the Prime Minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4.
Magnitude 5.7 quake injures dozens in central Japan
A magnitude-5.7 earthquake with its epicenter in Shizuoka Prefecture struck central Japan early Sunday, injuring dozens, shattering windows and disrupting train services, with no tsunami warning issued.
Private high schools remain out of reach for many despite tuition-free policy, survey finds
A survey showed that many families with children attending private high schools are struggling to pay expenses other than tuition.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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