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- technology
Analysis: Data Centres Have Become a Utility Planning Problem
Grid operators are now writing forecasts around a handful of very large customers.
Clara Hoffmann · 22 July 2026
- nigeria
Explainer: Why Nigeria's Electricity Problem Is a Financial Problem
Generation capacity is not the binding constraint. Metering, collections and transmission are. A guide to how the sector actually works.
Emeka Nwosu · 21 July 2026
- world
Analysis: Middle Powers Are Setting More of the Agenda
As the largest states deadlock, coalitions of medium-sized countries are doing the drafting.
Helena Marsh · 15 July 2026
- south america
Analysis: The Lithium Boom Has Reached Its Awkward Phase
Prices have fallen, projects have slowed, and producing countries are rewriting the terms.
Tomás Oliveira · 13 July 2026
- investigations
Investigation: How Emergency Procurement Rules Outlive the Emergency
Provisions designed for crises remain in force years later, and the paper trail thins where the spending grows.
Emeka Nwosu · 8 July 2026
- technology
Chinese AI Laboratory's Efficient Model Rattles Technology Stocks
DeepSeek's release prompted investors to question assumptions about the cost of frontier AI systems.
Mei-Lin Zhao · 27 January 2025
- world
Earthquakes Devastate Southern Turkey and Northern Syria
Two powerful tremors hours apart killed more than fifty thousand people and levelled entire districts.
Sarah Benali · 6 February 2023
- world
Powerful Earthquake Strikes Nepal
A magnitude 7.8 tremor destroyed villages across the Kathmandu valley and triggered an avalanche on Everest.
Helena Marsh · 25 April 2015
- nigeria
Muhammadu Buhari Wins Nigeria's Presidential Election
The opposition candidate defeated an incumbent president for the first time in the country's history, and the result was conceded peacefully.
Adaeze Okonkwo · 31 March 2015
- health
Ebola Outbreak in West Africa Declared an International Emergency
The World Health Organization invoked emergency powers as cases spread across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Daniel Mbeki · 8 August 2014
- nigeria
Nigeria Declares State of Emergency in Three Northeastern States
President Goodluck Jonathan ordered a military offensive in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa in response to escalating attacks.
Adaeze Okonkwo · 14 May 2013
- climate
Hurricane Sandy Floods New York and the New Jersey Shore
A vast storm surge inundated subway tunnels and coastal neighbourhoods, leaving millions without power.
James Whitfield · 29 October 2012
- world
Earthquake and Tsunami Strike Japan, Crippling Fukushima Nuclear Plant
A magnitude 9.0 quake off the Tohoku coast generated waves that overwhelmed sea defences and knocked out cooling at the Daiichi power station.
Helena Marsh · 11 March 2011
- world
Tunisia's President Flees as Protests Topple a 23-Year Government
Weeks of demonstrations that began with the self-immolation of a street vendor forced Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power.
Sarah Benali · 14 January 2011
- world
Catastrophic Earthquake Devastates Haiti
A magnitude 7.0 tremor struck near Port-au-Prince, flattening government buildings, hospitals and homes across the capital.
Tomás Oliveira · 12 January 2010