The far-right party’s historic election result has intensified concerns among people with migration backgrounds about security, belonging and the future of integration work, prompting migrant organisations, Jewish leaders and civil society groups nationwide to demand protection guarantees and a firm line from Germany’s democratic parties The Alternative for Germany (AfD) emerged as the clear winner of Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt state election, …

The UN just endorsed a map that shows Africa’s true size — fourteen times larger than Greenland, not the equal footing Mercator gave them. Collins Nweke* argues the real story isn’t cartography but coordinated African agency, and asks the harder question: correcting a projection is easy, but can Africa close the gap between its vast endowment and its actual power …

Plans to send some rejected asylum seekers to centres outside the EU are moving from political debate towards implementation. But serious questions remain over human rights, legal safeguards and Europe’s responsibility for people it wants to remove. Germany and four other EU countries are stepping up efforts to establish so-called “return hubs” in countries outside the European Union, with Rwanda …

Nigeria may be the country making headlines with its iDICE Skills-to-Jobs programme, but the story it tells belongs to the whole continent. From Nairobi to Dakar, Kigali to Johannesburg, Africa’s youth bulge is producing the same paradox: rising numbers of graduates and certificate-holders, and still too few pathways into real income, enterprise or productive work. Every African government wrestling with …

The United Nations General Assembly has overwhelmingly endorsed an African-led initiative to promote world maps that more accurately reflect the actual size of continents. For Africa, the campaign is about more than cartography: it challenges a visual representation that has shaped how generations have understood the continent’s place in the world. In a striking diplomatic victory for African states, the …

Saxony-Anhalt goes to the polls on Sunday with the AfD far ahead in the surveys. A strong result could have consequences well beyond the eastern German state – particularly for the national debate on migration and the future of Germany’s political centre. Saxony-Anhalt votes on 6 September 2026 in an election being watched closely across Germany. The far-right Alternative for …

September 2026 brings a mixture of new laws, EU rules and other regulatory changes that will affect everyday life in Germany. Some concern consumer protection and digital products, while others are relevant to employees, taxpayers and travellers. It is worth noting that not everything in this overview is technically a new law. For example, the increase in pay for temporary …

Kenyan nutritionist and social entrepreneur Wawira Njiru has been named the 2026 recipient of the German Africa Prize for turning school feeding into a model for food security, job creation and local economic development. Kenyan social innovator and nutritionist Wawira Njiru has been named the recipient of the 2026 German Africa Prize, one of Germany’s most prominent awards recognising outstanding …

Ghana says at least 62 of its citizens have been killed and 15 others remain missing after travelling to Russia and becoming involved in the war against Ukraine, prompting Accra to seek Moscow’s help in stopping what it calls the illegal recruitment of Ghanaian nationals. Ghana says 62 of its citizens have now been killed and 15 more remain missing …

Since 7 August, a temporary 25-metre open-air pool, the ‘Volksbad’, has stood outside Berlin’s Volksbühne theatre as part of an art installation by artistic director Matthias Lilienthal. Entry is free, but as at many public pools, the basin is reserved for particular groups on certain days. Each One Teach One (EOTO), a Berlin organisation supporting people of African descent, had …