Africa’s premier information integrity summit to take place in Nairobi in October 2026 NAIROBI, 3 August 2026. The fifth edition of the Africa Facts Summit will take place on 21 and 22 October 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya. It brings together fact-checkers, journalists, researchers, technologists, policymakers and civil society actors at a critical moment for information…
Honda took a major step toward commercializing solid-state battery technology by entering a strategic partnership with US battery developer QuantumScape. The collaboration follows Honda’s decision to cancel the North American launches of three planned electric vehicles, the Honda 0 SUV, Honda 0 Saloon, and Acura RSX, a setback that contributed to the automaker’s first annual…
The group stage draw for the CAF Women’s Champions League | COSAFA Qualifier Botswana 2026 will take place in Gaborone on Tuesday, 3 August at 11h00 CAT (09h00 GMT) and will be broadcast live on CAF TV and COSAFA’s YouTube channel. The eight competing teams will learn their fate as they vie for a place…
When South Africans prepare to emigrate, the focus is usually on the visible milestones: securing visas, booking flights, choosing schools and packing up a home. Yet one of the most important parts of the journey is often left until the last minute: planning your financial emigration. For anyone considering financial emigration in South Africa, knowing…
Music group says it is ‘proud’ to have made ‘impromptu expression’ of support for Palestine by unfurling flag during concert. Published On 3 Aug 20263 Aug 2026 British trip-hop band Massive Attack has said its members were detained by police in Singapore after a concert last week, during which a Palestinian flag was unfurled on…
Dr William Nii Ayitey Menson, Director of Health Financing for Africa at the ONE Campaign, argues that Africa’s health sovereignty will only become real when summit pledges translate into budget releases, functioning services and public accountability. At the African Union’s Extraordinary Summit on Health in Accra, I kept having one uncomfortable thought: I have heard…
South Africans are embracing AI tax bots this filing season, even as trust in AI versus that of tax professionals cools in the US.
For much of the past two years, debate around the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) has centred on risks. Exporters worry about rising compliance costs. Cooperatives fear the burden of collecting geolocation data from thousands of smallholder farmers. Policymakers question whether the regulation shifts the cost of environmental protection onto producing countries. These concerns are…
Thomas Trutschel | Photothek | Getty Images U.S. support for Japanese efforts to bolster the country’s struggling currency has offered a sharp bounce for the yen in recent sessions, strengthening some 5% before paring gains on Monday. The coordinated intervention has lifted the yen to 157 to the dollar, down from just above 163, which…
Cairo — Africa’s multilateral lender, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), secured its largest bond issuance on record after raising $1.5 billion from international investors, marking its return to the US dollar public debt market for the first time in nearly five years. The Cairo-based lender priced a dual-tranche senior unsecured Eurobond, attracting strong demand from investors…
