Africa: Global Gains in Tuberculosis Response Endangered By Funding Challenges

Africa: Global Gains in Tuberculosis Response Endangered By Funding Challenges

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest infectious killers, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 million people last year, according to the WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2025, released today. Despite measurable progress in diagnosis, treatment and innovation, persistent challenges in funding and equitable access to care threaten to reverse hard-won…

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Discovery Bank taps Luno as crypto becomes mainstream

Discovery Bank taps Luno as crypto becomes mainstream

Hylton Kallner, CEO of Discovery Bank. Discovery Bank today unveiled new offerings, including the integration of crypto-currencies into the digital bank’s mobile app. Under a partnership with Luno, Discovery Bank will add crypto trading in over 50 crypto assets from December. Hylton Kallner, CEO of Discovery Bank, says: “The financial world is evolving fast, and…

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East Africa: Forging East Africa’s Digital Transformation for Industries, Through Business Ecosystem

East Africa: Forging East Africa’s Digital Transformation for Industries, Through Business Ecosystem

IN East Africa, we’re experiencing an exciting period of business growth driven, in part, by digital transformation and its myriad of benefits such as mobile-driven financial inclusion, smarter agriculture and industrial manufacturing, critical infrastructure, data centres, to name but a few. Similarly, digital transformation is creating opportunities for our channel partners who include system integrators…

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East Africa: Forging East Africa’s Digital Transformation for Industries, Through Business Ecosystem

Africa: Journalists Must Not Be a Target

Since the beginning of 2025, at least six journalists and media workers have been killed in relation to their work in Sudan, according to IFJ data. The RSF paramilitary group has been involved in all these killings, whether through indiscriminate shelling or targeted attacks. In total, at least 13 journalists and media workers have lost…

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