Sahar Ragab Iran’s Minister of Education, Ali Reza Kazemi, announced that approximately 1,200 schools were severely damaged during the war involving the United States and Israel, with many requiring complete demolition and reconstruction. Kazemi stated that the majority of the affected schools have already been rebuilt and students have returned, …
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rising diesel prices linked to the Iran war are adding urgency to a shift already underway across Africa to move cellphone towers off fossil fuels and onto solar power. Diesel, which powers the majority of Africa’s roughly 500,000 telecommunications towers, has become more expensive and sometimes harder to secure in …
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Some military officers in Mali worked with jihadis and separatists who recently launched their biggest round of attacks in over a decade in the conflict-battered country, authorities said late Friday. The separatist fighters, meanwhile, said earlier in the day that they captured a strategic military camp in the northern town …
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A China policy giving Africa’s biggest economies tariff-free access to its market for the next two years came into effect Friday while its economic rival the United States seeks to impose new import taxes under President Donald Trump’s push for protectionism. The China deal covers Africa’s 20 largest economies, …
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A funeral was held Thursday for Mali ‘s former defense minister, Gen. Sadio Camara, a key architect of the military government’s security partnership with Russia. Camara was killed during last weekend’s coordinated militant attack in the West African nation, the largest in over a decade. His death, and the major setback …
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CAIRO (AP) — A boat carrying 33 Sudanese migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea near the eastern Libyan town of Tobruk, leaving at least 17 people dead and nine others missing, U.N. officials said Thursday. Only seven of the people on board survived the shipwreck, the U.N. refugee agency said …
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Khaled Abdulgader noticed children using an unusual object as a football and tried to stop them. He grabbed it, and it exploded in his hand. He lost two fingers, and shrapnel sliced into his chest. In a hospital for a checkup after last year’s blast, he …
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Iran Introduces Credit-Based Shopping Plan Amid Rising Prices and Inflation Fears Media outlets in Iran have reported that the government has approved a new economic plan allowing citizens to purchase essential goods on credit, with government subsidies serving as a guarantee for repayment. The move comes as authorities attempt to …
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The HelloSafe Prosperity Index 2026 ranks Africa’s most prosperous nations, with Seychelles taking a clear lead at 98.09, followed by Mauritius (77.09) and Algeria (54.24). The HelloSafe Prosperity Index 2026 ranks Africa’s most prosperous nations using a 0–100 scale based on GDP (PPP), GNI, HDI, income distribution, and poverty levels. …
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South Sudan (AP) — Displaced people who took refuge from conflict in an isolated South Sudan village were denied lifesaving aid by the government even as deaths there mounted, eyewitnesses and aid groups said. The Associated Press spoke with people who fled to the swamp-encircled community of Nyatim in recent weeks. They described having …
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موقع وجه أفريقيا موقع وجه أفريقيا هو موقع مهتم بمتابعة التطورات في القارة الأفريقية