Addis Ababa — Africa has no drawback with concepts, however the wrestle is in how you can implement them, leaders stated at an inaugural discussion board convened to advertise motion on growth. Addressing the inaugural Africa Improvement Influence Discussion board (ADIF), Financial Fee for Africa (ECA) Government Secretary Intelligent Gatete emphasised that Africa should transfer…
Certainly one of Africa’s 10 representatives on the 2026 FIFA World Cup, South Africa, kicked off their marketing campaign on a poor be aware final evening, overwhelmed 2-0 by co-host Mexico inside iconic Azteca Stadium in Mexico Metropolis. In contrast to 16 years in the past when South Africa hosted the Mundial and had been…
From healthcare and ladies’s empowerment to tradition, enterprise and world mobility, Optiva Capital Companions is redefining company affect in Africa, writes Chiemelie Ezeobi Within the evolving story of African enterprise, a brand new class of establishments is rising, firms that measure success not solely by monetary efficiency, however by the depth of their affect on…
Elevate Africa has introduced the graduation of functions for the 2026 version of the Threads of Africa Vogue Movie Prize, a pan-African initiative geared toward preserving and selling endangered African textiles, clothes and conventional trend methods via storytelling and movie. The organisation stated the competitors seeks to encourage creatives throughout Africa and the diaspora to…
ZIMBABWE’s Training 5.0 philosophy is underneath assessment by the African Union (AU) as Harare prepares to host Africa Expertise Week 2026 from October 12 to 16 this yr. AU Commissioner for Training, Science, Know-how and Innovation, Gaspard Banyankimbona, is within the capital Harare for the high-level talks. Minister of Expertise Audit and Growth Jenfan Muswere…
Dar es Salaam — THE FIFA World Cup is lastly upon us. THE largest sporting spectacle on the planet has arrived with all of the pomp, ceremony, and extra fashionable soccer can manufacture. Forty-eight nations, three host nations, sixteen cities, 104 matches, 1000’s of journalists, hundreds of thousands of travelling supporters and an estimated 4…
The Gambia has develop into the primary African nation to ratify the African Union Conference on Ending Violence Towards Ladies and Women, marking a significant milestone within the nation’s efforts to advance girls’s rights and strengthen protections in opposition to gender-based violence. The historic ratification passed off on Wednesday, 10 June 2026, after members of…
Geneva — Barham Salih, the UN Excessive Commissioner for Refugees, launched the company’s flagship International Developments Report as we speak, which reveals world compelled displacement has decreased for the primary time in a decade whereas remaining unacceptably excessive. In 2025, 5.4 million individuals escaped violence and persecution by fleeing to different international locations. However the…
Kampala — Youngsters aged lower than 5 years face virtually thrice the chance of sickness from unsafe meals than older youngsters and adults, in keeping with new estimates launched by the World Well being Group (WHO). Regardless of being simply 9% of the worldwide inhabitants, younger youngsters undergo from almost one-third of all instances of…
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Commerce Unions (ZCTU) has blamed neighboring South Africa’s (SA) delicate stance on Zimbabwe’s political disaster for the continued migration disaster. The remarks come on the again of escalating xenophobic assaults in SA within the latest previous. This week media stories indicated that greater than 3,000 Malawians, together with tons of of…