South China Morning Post - Africa

World leaders began arriving on Wednesday to start formal discussions at the United Nations climate change conference in Turkey, hoping to agree on concrete actions to curb global warming after a year of deadly floods, heatwaves and other climate-related disasters. But what can and will be accomplished at the 11-day Conference of the Parties, called Cop31, remains to be seen. Pa...

Cholera has killed more than 3,000 people worldwide since the start of the year, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, insisting its goal of cutting global cases by 90 percent by 2030 remained in reach. The disease killed nearly 7,900 people in 2025, making it “the deadliest year for cholera since 1999”, according to Lorenzo Pezzoli, WHO lead for epidemic-prone bacteria...

Africa is seeing a potentially historic transformation in its economic relationship with China. After two decades in which Chinese engagement was primarily associated with infrastructure construction, resource extraction and commodity trade, a new phase is emerging. Chinese companies are increasingly establishing manufacturing operations on the continent, bringing capital, techn...

China is making it easier for African countries to pay for Chinese-led infrastructure projects in yuan, but weak banking rules, high debt levels and historical dependence on the US dollar and euro continue to limit broader adoption of the currency, an Egypt-based political scientist said in an analysis released on Monday. Beijing had been expanding its financial influence across...

A Rwandan man jailed in the United States for lying about his involvement in the 1994 genocide has been deported to his home country, the state prosecutor said on Monday. The Rwandan genocide began in April 1994, and over approximately 100 days some 800,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis, were murdered. Jean Leonard Teganya, 55, was convicted in April 2019 of two counts of immig...