Vehicle-to-grid EVs could slash electricity, driving costs

Vehicle-to-grid EVs could slash electricity, driving costs

Vehicle-to-grid helps balance grid demand, supports renewables and can generate income. (Image created using GenAI via ChatGPT) A new study suggests that widespread adoption of vehicle-to-anything (V2X) electric vehicles (EVs) could double as home energy assets, helping South African households save on fuel and electricity. The research shows that combining EVs with rooftop solar not…

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Africa: Trump Signs Law Reauthorizing Agoa Trade Program Through 2026

Africa: Trump Signs Law Reauthorizing Agoa Trade Program Through 2026

Nairobi — President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation reauthorizing the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), extending the trade preference programme through December 31, 2026, with retroactive effect to September 30, 2025. The move restores certainty for eligible sub-Saharan African countries and US importers after the programme lapsed at the end of September…

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Africa: Trump Signs Law Reauthorizing Agoa Trade Program Through 2026

Africa: AUC Chairperson Today Received the Letters of Credentials of H.E. Mr. Adylbek Tultemirov, Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan

H.E Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the AU Commission, today received the Letters of Credentials of the Ambassador of Kyrgyz Republic to Ethiopia & the AU, H.E Adylbek Tultemirov. He welcomed Kyrgyzstan’s growing engagement with the African Union and its interest in strengthening cooperation, including through dialogue within broader multilateral frameworks such as the Shanghai…

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Estonia’s digital ID lesson for South Africa

Estonia’s digital ID lesson for South Africa

Digital identity has become economic infrastructure across the globe. For South Africa, which could begin rolling out its own digital IDs for citizens later this year, whether they drive inclusion or exclusion will depend on design, governance and cyber resilience. The core difference between smart IDs, which are currently replacing the green ID book, and…

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Africa: Trump Signs Law Reauthorizing Agoa Trade Program Through 2026

Africa: Preventive Cholera Vaccination Resumes As Global Supply Reaches Critical Milestone

Global cholera vaccine supply has now increased to a level sufficient to allow the resumption of life-saving preventive campaigns for the first time in over three years, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced today. Mozambique is the first country to restart preventive vaccination, following the halt in 2022 caused…

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Africa: Trump Signs Law Reauthorizing Agoa Trade Program Through 2026

Africa: Africom Expands Counterterrorism Push As U.S. Pursues Converged Security and Economic Agenda

Nairobi — The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) says it is intensifying cooperation with African partners to confront a growing terrorist threat, increasingly linking security efforts with economic development and long-term regional stability. Speaking during a digital press briefing, AFRICOM Commander Gen. Dagvin R.M. Anderson said militant groups affiliated with ISIS and al-Qaida continue to…

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