Nigeria’s $20 billion Dangote Refinery, Africa’s biggest refinery that opened earlier this year, is now using the national currency, the Naira, instead of the U.S. dollar to buy crude oil from the state oil corporation.  This move follows a July ...

Mahatma Gandhi was born on this day back in 1869 and is widely hailed for his fight against British colonial rule in India. But while he’s remembered for fighting for the freedom of his people, the same can’t be said ...

There is this trending propaganda by some groups trying to twist history by asserting that Northern Emirs killed Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto. They even created a #FakeNews headline on a Newswatch front cover purporting to say that. ...

Gmail has become the latest instrument of tech giant Google to censor African Stream. On 1 October, the multinational US corporation locked us out of its Workspace application, causing us to lose access to two years of email messages and ...

To make sense of social-media giants Meta, TikTok and YouTube recently suspending African Stream and other alternative media outlets, Breakthrough News’ Eugene Puryear (@eugenepuryear) and Rania Khalek (@raniakhalek) spoke to Nigerian investigative journalist David Hundeyin (@davidhundeyin). However, at the time ...

The US state of Missouri executed Marcellus ‘Khaliifah’ Williams (1968-2024) on 24 September, despite mounting evidence casting doubt on his guilt and the victim’s family opposing the death sentence for Williams. Forensic evidence, including DNA found on the murder weapon, ...

Africans have denounced Western luxury fashion brands for exploiting the continent’s resources, craftsmanship, and cultural heritage, having not provided returns and credited the respective communities. Isa, a Hausa man residing in New York, took to TikTok to pat his lawyer ...