Ten blocks away from the United Nations General Assembly, U.S. diplomats quietly kickstarted the expansion of the Abraham Accords from the 43rd floor of a midtown Manhattan office tower. On Thursday morning, State Department officials participated in the first official meeting of the Abraham Accords countries — the United States, Israel, the United Arab Emirates,…
Ethiopia and Djibouti have described Dangote Group’s $660 million Damarjog-Dewele Oil Terminal and Pipeline Project as a strategic investment expected to strengthen energy security, improve regional trade and deepen economic integration in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Djibouti President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh have commended Dangote Group‘s $660 million Damarjog-Dewele Oil…
Growthpoint Properties is bringing a new meaning to “lease in a day” with the November launch of SmartLease, a digital platform designed to simplify commercial property leasing. Source: Supplied. Lauren Turner, Head: Corporate Affairs at Growthpoint Properties. Unveiled at the Africa PropTech Forum 2026 during the African Property Investment Summit in Cape Town, SmartLease replaces…
For African governments, the significance of China’s humanoid-robotics programme is not that robots may one day appear on African battlefields. It is a diagnostic case of how a dual-use technology can move from commercial deployment to military relevance faster than the institutions responsible for assessing and governing it can adapt. Africa’s stake is therefore not…
New Delhi, India – An unprecedented power struggle has erupted at the top of one of India’s largest conglomerates, pitting the board of its holding company Tata Sons against its majority shareholder Tata Trusts. Last week, Tata Sons extended Chairman N Chandrasekaran’s term and said it would consider publicly listing the holding company, flying in…
Kenyan President William Ruto told the General Assembly on Wednesday that the sovereign equality the UN proclaims is contradicted by its own structures, urging Member States to reform the Security Council and an international financial system “built for another age”. Addressing the General Debate, Mr. Ruto said Kenya spoke “not from despair in this institution,…
Ayman Essam, Chief Officer: External Affairs, Vodacom Group. Africa’s most overlooked energy resource may be energy efficiency. As the continent races to expand generation capacity and works to connect millions more people to reliable electricity, we also need to extract more value from every unit of energy we already produce. Vodacom’s recent decarbonisation report highlights…
Bandung, Indonesia — The chairs are still there. More than seven decades after Asian and African leaders gathered in Bandung to challenge colonialism and demand a greater voice for newly independent nations, visitors can still sit where delegates sat in 1955. The flags remain. So do photographs, furniture and some of the equipment used by…
Oracle logo is screened on a mobile phone for illustration photo. Krakow, Poland on July 13th, 2026. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of Oracle Corp Japan surged more than 7% Friday after the company reported record fiscal first-quarter sales and profits, as its cloud business posted…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has once again put an uncomfortable truth before the world: Africa remains the only continent without permanent representation on the United Nations Security Council. The imbalance is difficult to miss. The Council still revolves around five permanent members — China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States — a…
