All of Africa Today - August 3, 2026
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Critical Minerals - the Hidden Resources Powering the Clean Energy Future
UN News
Why are critical minerals suddenly at the centre of global politics? Read more »
Africa's Energy Crossroads: What Namibia's Rise and South Africa's Debate Mean for the Continent [guest column]
allAfrica
Africa stands at one of the most consequential moments in its modern economic history. Read more »
Africa's AI Moment - How the Continent Can Quantum Leap into the Future—Today [guest column]
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often described as the next industrial revolution. That description is already outdated. AI is rapidly becoming the infrastructure upon which future… Read more »
Cotton to Cloth - The Story Africa Has Always Needed to Tell [editorial]
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Africa grows more than half of the world's finest long-staple cotton. It earns less than three percent of what that cotton is eventually worth. This is not a trade problem. It is a… Read more »
Africa's Top Cocoa Producers Pledge Fairer Prices for Farmers
RFI
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire - Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, the world's two largest cocoa producers, have signed a joint declaration pledging closer cooperation on pricing, local… Read more »
Grooming Africa's Next Set of Unicorns - Tinubu's Big Agenda for Health Tech [opinion]
Premium Times
Nigeria enters this transition with considerable advantages. It has Africa's largest population, one of the continent's largest healthcare markets, a rapidly expanding digital… Read more »
Rwanda Signed the AU Convention but Prevention Must Begin Before Abuse Becomes Normal
New Times
Rwanda's signing of the African Union Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls - becoming the ninth AU member state to join the landmark treaty - is an important… Read more »
Africa Shaped the Global 2030 Development Agenda. How It Can Influence What Comes Next [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
All United Nations member states adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015. They cover poverty, health, education, inequality, climate change, peace and other… Read more »
Climate Change is Now an Immediate Threat to HIV Control
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Evidence is growing that the people most affected by HIV are also the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Read more »
Commonwealth Games - Nigeria Finishes 7th With 24 Medals, Emerges Africa's Best
Vanguard
Team Nigeria wrapped up its campaign at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with an impressive seventh-place finish on the final medals table, collecting 24 medals across… Read more »
Africa's Capital Markets Are Opening Up Again
Independent (Kampala)
Africa's multilateral lender, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), secured its largest bond issuance on record after raising $1.5 billion from international investors, marking… Read more »
AHEFT Prize Launched to Recognise African Universities Leading Higher Education Transformation [interview]
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As Africa grapples with shrinking international development funding and rising pressure to create jobs for its rapidly growing youth population, the Mastercard Foundation is making… Read more »
After Accra, Africa's Health Sovereignty Needs Receipts [analysis]
African Arguments
Dr William Nii Ayitey Menson, Director of Health Financing for Africa at the ONE Campaign, argues that Africa's health sovereignty will only become real when summit pledges… Read more »
When a Story of Homecoming Is Filmed in a Homeland Still Awaiting Return [analysis]
African Arguments
I am from Dakhla, on the Atlantic coast of Western Sahara. For thirteen years, I have been unable to return safely because of my human-rights advocacy, my defence of the Sahrawi… Read more »
