https://sagire.online/topic/africa/ Rolling analysis and coverage of geopolitics, energy, security and supply chains. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:48:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/a7ec2144/https://sagire.online/wire/a7ec2144/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:22:00 -0300Nearly 164 million Africans are estimated to be facing acute food insecurity, according to the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. Conflict remains the primary driver of acute food insecurity on the continent: roughly 134 million people, or 80% of those falling under this classification in Africa, including all of those in famine, are in countries experiencing conflict. Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Sudan and Ethiopia account for 60% of the people who are acutely food insecure on the continent.AfricaConflictGlobal healthEconomy https://sagire.online/wire/cf2bef37/https://sagire.online/wire/cf2bef37/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:21:00 -0300The World Health Organization’s (WHO) director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described the cholera outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as the country’s worst in decades. According to Tedros, in a Sputnik text republished by Nampa, more than 60,000 cases and 1,800 deaths from cholera have been reported in the country this year. WHO counts 1,800 cholera deaths in the country in 2026.Democratic Republic of the CongoAfricaGlobal health https://sagire.online/wire/606ed20f/https://sagire.online/wire/606ed20f/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:21:00 -0300Drone attacks across Sudan have killed at least 14 civilians and injured several others, while strikes on electricity infrastructure have triggered widespread power cuts and disrupted clean water supplies. The latest attacks killed eight people in Um Dibo, in El Sunut locality, West Kordofan, on Monday evening, and wounded three. On Tuesday, at least four people were killed and more than 10 injured when a drone struck a fuel station in the central market in El Abbasiya Tagali, South Kordofan. Fifteen substations have been targeted since early October, according to Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese rights group. The Merowe Dam, with a capacity of 1,250 megawatts, is now the last major source of electricity in the country, providing more than 70% of Sudan’s electricity, according to an employee of the Electricity Holding Company. The Arab League condemned repeated attacks it attributed to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on energy facilities in Khartoum, El Gezira, Sennar, El Gedaref, River Nile and Red Sea states.SudanAfricaDronesCritical infrastructureConflict https://sagire.online/wire/79253343/https://sagire.online/wire/79253343/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:22:00 -0300Sub-Saharan Africa's liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports are set to grow nearly 175% to 98 billion cubic meters in 2034 from 35.7 billion in 2024, according to Fitch, as buyers flee the Strait of Hormuz. The African Energy Chamber projects about US$ 40 billion a year in exploration and production investment through 2030, lifting the continent's hydrocarbon output to 12.5 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. In Mozambique, TotalEnergies' US$ 20 billion LNG project, with capacity of 13.1 million tonnes per year, resumed construction in January after the end of a four-and-a-half-year force majeure and is about 45% complete.MozambiqueAfricaEnergyStrait of HormuzThe Gulf https://sagire.online/wire/b5f37e67/https://sagire.online/wire/b5f37e67/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:24:00 -0300About 1,800 industrial facilities have been damaged in Sudan’s war, including 650 factories completely destroyed, according to the country’s Ministry of Industry. A sweets factory in Khartoum has resumed production but is operating at 40% of its previous capacity, and its owner, Mansour Gaily, estimates losses at $1 million. Reopening is hampered by electricity shortages, a damaged transport network and rising import costs, as well as the destruction or looting of raw materials and equipment.SudanWar economyAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/1a7cde11/https://sagire.online/wire/1a7cde11/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:24:00 -0300South Africans voted on Wednesday in local elections that will decide who leads the country’s eight main city municipalities as well as its 44 district and 205 local councils, a contest expected to be a tough test for the African National Congress (ANC). A record 29.2 million people are registered to vote at 23,696 voting stations, according to the Electoral Commission of South Africa, and more than 1.4 million special votes were cast on Monday and Tuesday. Polls showed the ANC getting less than a third of the vote, down from 45.6% at the last municipal elections, in 2021, and 40.2% in 2024’s national elections. In total, 546 political parties were vying for votes, and final results are expected on Sunday. The outcome is expected to shape the race to succeed Cyril Ramaphosa as ANC leader at the party’s conference in December 2027.South AfricaElectionsAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/5613d446/https://sagire.online/wire/5613d446/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:23:00 -0300The World Health Organization (WHO) approved clinical trials for two new Ebola vaccines on Wednesday, as an outbreak in Africa has killed more than 5,300 people. The candidates are ChAdOx1 BDBV, developed by the University of Oxford with the Serum Institute of India, and Moderna’s mRNA-1469, both designed specifically for the Bundibugyo virus. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the trial that began last month with the Ervebo vaccine does not cover the Bundibugyo virus and that the agency’s expert groups now recommend adding the two candidates to the study. The National Institute for Biomedical Research of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) leads the trial, backed by partners including WHO. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Monday that the epidemic had killed more than 5,300 people, the majority in the DRC, with 10,444 confirmed cases and a fatality rate above 50 percent.United NationsGlobal healthDemocratic Republic of the CongoAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/9c76c92d/https://sagire.online/wire/9c76c92d/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:22:00 -0300The World Health Organization (WHO) approved clinical trials for two new Ebola vaccines as part of the effort to control an outbreak that has killed more than 5,300 people in Africa. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the two candidates are ChAdOx1 BDBV, developed by the University of Oxford with the Serum Institute of India, and Moderna's mRNA-1469, developed specifically for the Bundibugyo virus. The National Institute of Biomedical Research of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is leading the trial, with support from partners including WHO; in October a trial had already begun with the Ervebo vaccine, approved for Ebola virus but not for Bundibugyo. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday that the epidemic had killed more than 5,300 people, the vast majority in the DRC, with 10,444 confirmed cases and a fatality rate above 50%.United NationsGlobal healthAfricaDemocratic Republic of the Congo https://sagire.online/wire/510e3fc8/https://sagire.online/wire/510e3fc8/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:21:00 -0300According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), thousands of people are displaced in the city of Debre Berhan, in the Amhara region, and in Shire, in northwestern Tigray. UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said families who had recently returned to the district of Diabo, in northwestern Tigray, were forced to flee again because of renewed military activities. OCHA and humanitarian partners are preparing to scale up assistance, but insecurity is restricting movement along the roads connecting Gonder with Debark and Metema, in Amhara. Fighting in the country's north, in Tigray, Amhara and Afar, resumed in late September, nearly four years after the November 2022 Pretoria Agreement ended the two-year war between federal forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported civilian deaths, including children and a newborn, in attacks in northern Ethiopia and said the region's health system is approaching collapse.EthiopiaConflictAfricaGlobal health https://sagire.online/wire/40547d84/https://sagire.online/wire/40547d84/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:23:00 -0300Aliko Dangote on Wednesday broke ground for a planned fuel storage site in Namibia, which will serve as a fuel distribution hub in southern Africa, in an OilPrice report based on Bloomberg’s reporting. The project, expected to cost $2.5 billion, includes a fuel depot outside the main port of Walvis Bay and a 1,700-kilometer pipeline to bring fuels to Botswana and South Africa, and potentially to other countries. “We want to heavily invest so that most of the landlocked countries will be able to access petroleum products at a cheaper price,” Dangote said at the event. The initial public offering of a minority stake in Dangote’s refinery could raise as much as $2.1 billion if the company exercises its greenshoe option.NigeriaEnergySouth AfricaAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/9d17585e/https://sagire.online/wire/9d17585e/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:22:00 -0300Recent discoveries of methamphetamine laboratories in Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Mozambique have fueled concerns that Africa is becoming a significant production hub for synthetic drugs. In Nigeria, an operation in Ogun State led to the arrest of 10 suspects, including three Mexican nationals whom the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said had been brought into the country to help manufacture the drug. The agency’s chairman, Mohamed Buba Marwa, said officers seized more than 2.4 metric tons of methamphetamine, precursor chemicals and other materials with an estimated international market value of about $363 million.NigeriaAfricaDrug trafficking https://sagire.online/wire/26c98962/https://sagire.online/wire/26c98962/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:22:00 -0300The African Group of Negotiators says the UN climate convention has no agenda item that provides space to discuss public financing and wants one created under Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement, the 2015 provision that obliges developed countries to provide financial resources to developing ones. The group’s chair, Nana Antwi-Boasiako Amoah, said wealthy countries are likely to oppose the adoption of the agenda because of that item. The summit, hosted by Türkiye with Australia leading the negotiations, opens on November 9 and runs to November 20.AfricaClimate https://sagire.online/wire/37e4db67/https://sagire.online/wire/37e4db67/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 08:24:00 -0300South Africans voted in local elections on Wednesday amid deep discontent over water outages, power cuts and crumbling infrastructure, with the African National Congress (ANC) on course for a bruising result. Polls show the ANC getting less than a third of the vote, down from 45.6% at the last municipal elections in 2021 and 40.2% in the 2024 national elections. Polling stations opened at 7:00 a.m. and closed at 9:00 p.m. local time (0500 and 1900 GMT). Parties are battling for control of major cities in a contest expected to offer a measure of the national mood before the next national polls.South AfricaElectionsAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/00daf1c8/https://sagire.online/wire/00daf1c8/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:23:00 -0300Denise Brown, the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator in Sudan, said that there has been an intense pattern of drone strikes over the past couple of weeks against civilian infrastructure, with sources of energy and fuel apparently systematically targeted. At a hospital just outside Khartoum, the power went out and stopped treatment for 25 patients who needed dialysis; the hospital has no generator and no solar panels. Hundreds of aid trucks are stuck for lack of fuel, and there are queues kilometers long for fuel in the capital. The World Food Programme has recorded seven hits on its convoys this year and 20 over the past two years. Brown said she did not know where the strikes originate and called for the message that they must stop to reach whoever needs to hear it.SudanUnited NationsDronesAfricaHealth https://sagire.online/wire/ccaaad13/https://sagire.online/wire/ccaaad13/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 01:23:00 -0300Ethiopia’s Media Authority announced on November 2 the indefinite suspension of the print and online licenses of the Reporter, the country’s last privately owned Amharic newspaper, accusing it of violating media laws and ethics and publishing content against the national interest; in October, undercover police detained journalists Samuel Getachew and Amanuel Gebremedhin, jailed for eight days, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a text republished by AllAfrica.EthiopiaPress freedomAfrica