Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, “Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.” This wisdom from President Julius Nyerere in 1967 resonates today more than ever. For our continent, autonomy and sovereignty are not abstract ideals, they are the foundation that must be built on true solidarity and true unity. We have seen what…
Some 2.2 billion people worldwide still lack access to safely managed drinking water services, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) – an increasingly urgent challenge as demand for safer access to the vital resource grows. Currently underway in Stockholm from 24 to 28 August, the 35th World Water Week meeting highlights the crucial link…
A German court on Tuesday convicted a 16-year-old boy of supporting a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Austria last year. The Syrian national, whom prosecutors have identified only as Mohammad A. in line with German privacy rules, was convicted of preparing a serious act of violence and supporting a terrorist act of…
Henry Adams, Country Manager, InterSystems South Africa. (Image: InterSystems) South Africa stands at a critical point in its healthcare evolution. While the vision of a comprehensive digital health record for every citizen is appealing, the reality is more complex and far more achievable if we approach it with honesty and pragmatism. Over the past decade,…
Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, former Chief of Staff to late President Muhammadu Buhari, on Monday saidt over 1,000 insurgent groups are currently operating within the African continent, majority of whom he said were deadly. Gambari, therefore, called on the African leaders to strengthen Defence industries and own its technologies in order to address the threats, saying…
The Minister of Health, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, has expressed confidence that Ghana is on the right path to becoming one of the leading producers of pharmaceuticals in Africa. He made the statement at a meeting with local pharmaceutical companies on Monday, August 25, 2025, in Accra. The meeting brought together key players in the industry…
Israel has launched hundreds of strikes across Syria following the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime last December. Six Syrian army officers have been killed in Israeli drone strikes south of Damascus, Syria’s state-run El Ekhbariya TV reported, a day after Syria condemned a new Israeli “military incursion” outside the capital. Israeli drones targeted Syrian…
Nick Argyros, chief operating officer, and Francois Schreuder, CEO, Phonetik AI Phonetik AI, a South African start-up building large language models that create subtitles, closed captions and narration, is helping the visually and audio impaired get more information from the video content they consume. Speaking to TechCentral at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg last week,…
Lusaka — Ministers of Health, partners, and global health leaders convening on the sidelines of the Seventy Fifth WHO Regional Committee for Africa (RC75) have issued an urgent call to accelerate Africa’s malaria response amid a “perfect storm” of challenges threatening to erode hard-won gains. Despite major progress, including a 16% reduction in malaria incidence…
More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that progress towards universal coverage was moving nowhere near quickly enough. The UN’s health and children’s agencies said a full one in four people globally were without access to safely-managed drinking water last year, with over…
