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Funmi Ogundare Seplat Energy Plc has been named the official Theme Partner for the Education Session at the 2026 Africa Social Impact Summit (ASIS), as part of efforts to address Africa’s widening education access gap and strengthen youth employability across the continent. Under the partnership, Seplat Energy will spearhead strategic discussions on education financing, access…
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a joint continental preparedness and response plan on the ongoing Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus. The plan aims to raise US$ 518 million to support African countries together with partners to prepare for, rapidly detect…
President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that South Africa will dispatch envoys across the African continent and to other parts of the world, as government intensifies diplomatic efforts to address migration challenges facing the country. The announcement came during a media briefing at the Union Buildings on Thursday following official talks between President Ramaphosa and Kenyan…
Nigeria is planning to repatriate more than 1,000 of its nationals from South Africa as anti-immigrant tensions rise in the country, long a destination for documented and undocumented African workers. The move by Abuja comes after Ghana recently repatriated hundreds of its citizens from South Africa in response to a wave of protests and violence…
African governments must avoid replacing one dependency with another while building more accountable, fit-for-purpose security systems. Given slow economic growth, a large youth bulge and destabilising external engagement such as from Russia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Africa is set to become more unstable in the next few years. Both the Armed Conflict Location…
Artificial intelligence is no longer an experimental technology operating on the margins of business. Across industries, AI systems are rapidly becoming part of daily operations, transforming productivity, automating workflows, and reshaping how companies approach growth, labor, and decision-making. For executives and investors, the debate has largely shifted from whether AI matters to how quickly it…
June 5, 1981, is widely recognised as the day the world first became aware of what would later be known as HIV/Aids. On that date, the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a brief report describing five previously healthy young men in Los Angeles who had developed a rare form of…
MICRO and nano plastics penetrated seafoods are escalating health and ecological risks to Africa’s oceans with the continent’s exposure potentially double the global rate, a UNESCO-linked NGO, Youth Orientation for Development (YOD) has warned. At the launch of the National Ocean Microplastics Monitoring Initiative (NOMMI) Emmanuel Ejiogu, President YOD, said Africa’s marine ecosystems face mounting…
ABUJA – The Federal Government has presented the Africa Quality Mark (AQM) certification to 131 companies for 220 made-in-Nigeria products, reiterating its commitment to supporting industrial expansion and export growth. This forms part of efforts to strengthen the competitiveness of Nigerian goods in regional and continental markets under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)…
A major survey of Angola’s remote Lisima plateau has uncovered species unknown to science, including new dragonflies, grasshoppers, moths and butterflies, confirming the highlands as one of Africa’s most exciting biodiversity frontiers. High on Angola’s eastern plateau, in Moxico Province, lies one of Africa’s great almost-unknown treasures: the Angolan Highlands Water Tower. It’s a vast…
