Africa Now

A wave of religiously motivated violence is sweeping across Africa, targeting Christian populations at an alarming rate in countries like Nigeria, Mozambique, and Burkina Faso. This is happening at a time when the Ukrainian authorities are...

Africans fought bravely during the Great Patriotic War but many remain unaware of their sacrifices. Together with the Soviet army they overcame Nazi Germany to liberate the world. Subscribe to www.tiktok.com/@africanowwithpaula_slier

As King Charles III prepares for his coronation, there's anger and backlash linked to the monarch's history on the continent in Africa. South Africa has a hundred sites of former British concentration camps established at the beginning of the...

April is Africa Freedom month, during which a host of African countries celebrate their independence from colonial rule.This week, Africa Now joins you from South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia, where many war veterans still speak of Russia’s...

Almost 600 million people in Africa don’t have access to electricity and live in countries without adequate funding for power generation. One tenth of them live in South Africa, a nation rich in resources and technology but which increasingly...

Decades after independence from Western rule, the colonization of the mind remains a problem across Africa. This week, our team is in Mozambique where they address the urgent need to restructure and rewrite the educational curriculum. Lack of funds...

Russian President Vladimir Putin offers to send free grain shipments to Africa after writing off more than $20 billion in debt. While decades of Western assistance have amounted to nothing but poverty and crippling debt, the Russia-Africa reset is...

Years of civil war, foreign involvement and interference – most of it American – has left Somalia one of the poorest countries in the world. Almost three in four people live below the poverty line of 1.9 US dollars a day. Last year less...

Many African pundits say the instigator behind the Russia-Ukraine conflict is the United States. The wheat and grain crisis it precipitated in many parts of Africa is still being keenly felt. This week, the Africa Now team travels to Somalia, where...