Lula 40%, Flávio Bolsonaro 36% in the first round; runoff 47–45, a statistical tie. Veritá lands Saturday with 40,500 interviews.

2027 will be busier than 2026. Brazil is coming off a record 9.3 million international visitors in 2025 (+37% year on year) and 5.26 million in the first half of 2026, per Embratur – and the Women’s ...

Brazil's Lula is due to sign a ban on all online betting today, closing a licensed market where 25 million people lost US$7.1 billion last year.

Quickmart reported Sh50.4 billion in 2025 revenue and plans 10 to 15 new stores a year using internally generated cash, not ...

Rwanda is building Africa's first AI scaling hub, backed by up to US$17.5 million, to move artificial intelligence from ...

An insurance executive expects Nigeria motor insurance buyers to move from comprehensive to third-party cover as fuel and ...

The Volta Economic Forum in Ho, Ghana, moved from showcasing opportunities to executing projects, with early wins including a 500-acre sisal farm.

Ugandan pharmacists are urging a dedicated government fund for pharmaceutical research and local manufacturing to cut import ...

The Rwanda fodder scheme earmarks about US$68,000 for youth-run hydroponic fodder, against a national target to more than double daily milk output by 2029.

The Comoros UN speech on 24 September 2026 restated the claim to Mayotte and set out what a distant war costs an island that ...

The Somalia UN speech promised the first one-person-one-vote election since 1969, delivered by a president whose own mandate expired in May 2026.

The Seychelles UN speech on 23 September 2026 argued that small island states should not carry the economic cost of conflicts ...