A fifth birthday should be unremarkable. For too many African families, it is not. An estimated 4.9 million children died before reaching the age of five in 2024, and nearly six in ten of those deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. Most were preventable with interventions we already know how to deliver. In Nigeria, the latest…
The Department of Social Development seeks to appoint a service provider to render a hosted call centre service for its Gender-Based Violence Command Centre. (Image source: iStock) With school holidays and Heritage Day providing interruptions to the working week, National Treasury’s eTenders Portal delivers a quiet week. Despite the low volume of tenders, the hardware…
As the Democratic Republic of the Congo responds to the Ebola outbreak in Ituri, there are growing concerns about people living with HIV missing their regular care and treatment. Fear of Ebola, insecurity and pressure on health services are making it harder for some patients to reach health facilities. For people living with HIV, missing…
Once a year, leaders from across the globe meet face-to-face at the UN General Assembly, and Al Jazeera’s journalists were there covering daily developments. Here’s a look at what it was like behind the scenes of the coverage you saw online and on TV. Published On 29 Sep 202629 Sep 2026 Share Inside Al Jazeera’s…
World Patient Safety Day 2026 · 17 September 2026 Joseph Rukelibuga experienced a stroke at his home in Kigali. His wife took him to the nearest referral hospital soon after his symptoms began. Like many stroke patients, however, his diagnosis still took several hours, narrowing the treatment options available to him. Today, Joseph is the…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Two months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of open-source AI platform Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still working to understand the full scope of its rogue agent activity, two people briefed on the matter have said. The latest example came on Friday when OpenAI said its agents had leaked…
Nairobi — Commencement address by At the 48th Commencement Ceremony of the United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa) on September 26, 2026 The Chair of the Board of Trustees, Ms. Julia Slocombe; Members of the Board of Trustees; The Chancellor, Ambassador Dennis Awori; The Chair of the University Council, Mr. Paul Kasimu; Members of the University Council;…
The NBA season hasn’t even started and the Philadelphia 76ers’ signing of LeBron James is already paying off. The 76ers will help open the NBA regular season on Oct. 20 with a game against the reigning champion New York Knicks. From a new jersey patch sponsorship to ticket and merchandise sales, the LeBron economy has…
Ugandan scientist Dr Matthias Magoola, the founder of Dei BioPharma, has been named among the 100 most influential people in Africa. He received the honour at a ceremony in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on Friday. His company is building one of the region’s largest medicine and vaccine plants. The organisers said he was recognised for…
Incognito Software Systems, a leading global provider of service orchestration, device management, and network intelligence solutions, today introduced NEXA, an AI-driven network intelligence and automation platform that enables broadband service providers to turn operational data into action. NEXA unifies network, device, service, and subscriber data in a single intelligence layer, delivering real-time and predictive insights…
