London & Dar es Salaam — Shifra Ainomugisha from Uganda is the 2026 Commonwealth Younger Particular person of the 12 months. Her award was introduced on the 2026 Commonwealth Youth Awards ceremony in London, the place she was additionally named the Africa Regional Winner. Earlier than anybody known as her an innovator, earlier than synthetic…
Abuja — Nigeria is poised to imagine a uncommon place of affect in world local weather governance as former federal lawmaker and principal sponsor of the Local weather Change Act 2021, Hon. Sam Onuigbo, prepares to turn into President of GLOBE Worldwide, a strong cross-party alliance of legislators driving local weather laws throughout continents. The…
ASUS Enterprise South Africa just lately hosted an government breakfast occasion, Human Benefit: Main Enterprise within the Age of AI, bringing collectively mid-market enterprise leaders and decision-makers from throughout the hospitality, retail, healthcare, authorized, fintech, logistics, insurance coverage and automotive sectors. Hosted at The Edge at Knightsbridge in Johannesburg, the occasion centered on the rising…
The Ambassador of the Individuals’s Republic of China to Nigeria, Yu Dunhai, has assured that the zero-tariff coverage for African merchandise into the Chinese language markets introduced by President Xi Jinping in February will change into efficient from Could 1, 2026. The envoy stated this whereas delivering his handle in the course of the official…
Johannesburg – APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), the pan-African communications consultancy integrating advisory, execution, and proprietary information distribution, has received gold within the Northern Africa class on the 2026 Africa SABRE Awards for its marketing campaign, GITEX Africa Morocco 2025: A Media-Fuelled Journey for Tech Excellence. Delivered for GITEX Africa, the marketing campaign generated greater than 3,600…
Sebastián Marset, the Uruguayan nationwide recognized by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration as considered one of its 5 highest-priority fugitives worldwide, was arrested in a pre-dawn raid in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, on Friday and transferred the identical day to US custody, ending a three-year manhunt that had embarrassed regulation enforcement businesses…
Blu Label Limitless Group will submit an enormous primary earnings loss for the six months to end-November 2025, pushed virtually fully by a R5.2-billion accounting hit linked to its disposal of management in Cell C – however the firm is eager to attract consideration to what it says is a much more significant image of…
MINISTERS of Overseas Affairs and East African Neighborhood Affairs have expressed deep concern over the deteriorating peace and safety in Japanese Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) the place armed conflicts have exacerbated humanitarian crises. The ministers who gathered for a three-day retreat in Zanzibar highlighted the crucial of a political course of because the pathway…
Low-cost service Jambojet launched flights between Mombasa and Zanzibar on July 1. The flights function on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, utilizing an 82-seat De Havilland Sprint 8-400 plane. The flights have been initially introduced on the East African Regional Tourism Expo in Nairobi final November. “Mombasa performs a big function in our community, contributing…
The large occasion within the contemporary producer annual calendar is quick approaching: the annual Southern Africa Convention organized by the Worldwide Contemporary Produce Affiliation (IFPA) the place everybody up and down the contemporary produce worth chain meets up. Other than networking with friends and potential collaborators, the convention on 6 August 2024 in Cape City…