The Kenyan court’s decision should be read well beyond Kenya. Across Africa, governments will need to negotiate such arrangements with greater care, more transparency and a firmer sense of constitutional discipline and national interest

African music megastars Tyla and Rema are scheduled to perform at the World Cup’s opening ceremony in Los Angeles. But while African music and soccer are welcome at the tournament, many African fans and journalists, it would seem, are not.  

As anti-immigrant tensions continue to simmer across South Africa, the South African Council of Churches has warned that no grievance, however legitimate, can justify violence and intimidation against foreign nationals.

Migration outcomes are largely determined by the quality of the systems into which migrants enter. When any one of the systems underperforms, the pressures become amplified. When several fail simultaneously, migration become politically explosive

For millions of fans, a familiar cloud of anxiety looms — not over tactics or form but over something far more basic: whether players will be paid what they are owed by their football federations

The lack of clarity about which foreigners must go has translated into the victimisation of some who are not targets, including South Africans who look like those who are unwelcome

Palestinian civilians are caught between “mass atrocities” of Israeli forces, settlers and Hamas’ brutal rule, a UN-mandated inquiry said.

This vital South African sector unexpectedly bled R29 billion in the first quarter of 2026, according to Stats SA.

This year’s Toyota Cup will feature two former Kaizer Chiefs attackers in Knowledge Musona and Khama Billiat.

After five days of police protection at the Mossel Bay Municipality Hall in the Western Cape, Primrose Sibanda finally made it to Zimbabwe unscathed amid xenophobic attacks.

Opposition parties are highlighting the massive gap between the government’s policy goals and its capacity to execute them as it tackles migration management

Crocodile River tragedy search continues as police divers battle hippo-filled waters while looking for a third missing student.

Another fine day out for a great bunch of guys, as the annual Armadillos fixture delivered everything you’d expect and more.

The 34-year-old FIFA referee was denied entry into the US after being deemed inadmissable by the authorities.

Heat risk is about more than temperature. A new Oxford study of 205 cities found that poverty, limited infrastructure and lack of access to cooling are key factors driving urban heat vulnerability, with most of the highest-risk cities in South and Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria’s increasingly close relationship with France marks a departure from six decades of foreign policy aimed at reducing French influence in West Africa. An increasingly close relationship with a power that has long sought to undermine Nigerian influence in West Africa will benefit only politically connected business elites.

South Africa has a structural unemployment problem that is not primarily caused by increased labour migration.

South Africa has no shortage of graduates. It does, however, have a shortage of technicians, artisans, engineers, coders and other skilled workers. That contradiction lies at the heart of what BMW South Africa chief executive Peter van Binsbergen sees as one of the country’s biggest economic challenges. “There is a need for technical skills In […]