The contest to succeed António Guterres will influence how the United Nations responds to war, debt, climate shocks, human-rights abuses and shrinking development assistance.

New York is expanding legal protections for unaccompanied immigrant children as the city and state push back against expanding federal immigration enforcement. Governor Kathy Hochul announced $7.25 million in state funding for legal services, while Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Attorney General Letitia James outlined broader efforts to support immigrant communities amid an intensifying dispute with Washington.

NYC (GAB) — New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani invoked Nelson Mandela’s resistance to apartheid and support for Palestinian freedom as he urged political leaders and the public to extend solidarity to people confronting injustice today, even when doing so carries political or personal costs. Delivering a lecture at the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Global Leadership Forum in New York City, Mamdani argued that Mandela’s legacy should not be confined to museums, commemorati

NEW YORK (GAB) — The artificial intelligence investment boom still has years to run despite growing concerns over valuations, according to billionaire technology investor Philippe Laffont, who told a gathering of institutional investors that the current AI cycle is fundamentally different from the dot-com bubble that preceded the market crash of 2000. Speaking during the closing fireside chat of the Global Alts Conference at The Glasshouse in New York, one of the world's larg

Veteran short seller Jim Chanos used the stage at Global Alts New York to deliver a warning on some of Wall Street's hottest trades, arguing that investor enthusiasm surrounding artificial intelligence, data centers and the upcoming SpaceX IPO bears uncomfortable similarities to previous market bubbles.

As the United States races against China for dominance in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and advanced technology, Congressman Ro Khanna says immigrant communities, including the African diaspora, are becoming central to America’s future economic power. In an interview with Global Africa Brief, Khanna argued that African immigrants and diaspora professionals are no longer operating at the margins of the U.S. economy, but increasingly inside the industries shaping th

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The Ebola outbreak unfolding across Central Africa is accelerating faster than health officials initially feared, with Uganda confirming imported cases and the World Health Organization warning that the true scale of infections remains uncertain. Speaking before delegates at the World Health Assembly in Geneva on Tuesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the outbreak has reached more than 500 suspected infections and roughly 130 suspected deaths — f

Today, President Yoweri Museveni, 81, was sworn in for a seventh term in office, extending a rule that began in 1986 and now stretches toward four decades, cementing his place among Africa’s longest-serving leaders. The inauguration ceremony in Kampala, attended by regional leaders, military officials, diplomats, and ruling party supporters, featured elaborate state pageantry, military displays, and renewed promises of stability and economic transformation under Museveni’s le

Opinion: Uganda’s Protection of Sovereignty Bill 2026 is framed as a defence of national autonomy. In a post-colonial state, that instinct is understandable. But as constitutional lawyer Phillip Karugaba argued in his submission to Parliament on Friday, April 24, 2026, the Bill does something far more consequential: it reconfigures sovereignty itself, away from the people and toward the state. Article 1 of the Constitution is unambiguous: power belongs to the people, who exer

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court of the United States has issued a sweeping 6–3 decision that significantly narrows the scope of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a cornerstone provision long used to challenge racially discriminatory voting practices. In a 6–3 decision, the court’s conservative majority concluded that Louisiana’s congressional map, specifically the district represented by Democratic Rep. Cleo Fields, placed excessive emphasis on race in its design. Wr

New York — At Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, West Africa’s regional stock exchange, the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières (BRVM), made its most confident pitch to global investors, stating that returns are strong, growth is steady, and risks long associated with African markets are increasingly overstated. The event, known as BRVM Investment Days, brought senior policymakers, financiers, and investors from across the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) to N

African countries are attracting unprecedented attention from global investors, but much of the capital still isn’t arriving. At the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington last week, African finance ministers and development institutions pointed to renewed investor interest across infrastructure, energy, and technology. The World Bank announced expanded financing commitments, while the African Development Bank highlighted billions in co-financing aimed at crowding i

NEW YORK — The line between conviction and performance blurred Friday night beneath the vaulted ceiling of Gotham Hall, where former heads of state, dissidents, and American lawmakers gathered for the annual “Heroes of Democracy” gala hosted by the Renew Democracy Initiative . The evening carried the polish of a diplomatic summit and the urgency of a warning. Honorees included figures who have defined, and contested, the modern democratic order: the former U.S. national se