Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, demonstrating that progress is possible. However, the improvements remain fragile, unevenly distributed and insufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 (SOFI 2026) report, released on Tuesday by five United Nations…
The number of hungry people around the world is falling. According to the latest United Nations State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report, an estimated 645 million people faced hunger in 2025, 14 million fewer than in 2024 and 43 million fewer than 2022. Yet hundreds of millions continue to face acute…
From drugs to arms to poaching, unmarked boats sustain a criminal economy threatening coastal livelihoods and security. In October 2025, a major maritime operation in the high seas revealed the evolving sophistication of organised crime along East Africa’s Swahili Coast. Acting on a tip-off, the Kenyan Navy intercepted the MV Mashallah, an unregistered ‘fishing’ dhow,…
Debby Lawson, founder and COO of Fastizers, speaking during launch of the company’s Nibit brand. One Saturday in 2010, Gbola Lawson was knocking on the doors of small brick-and-mortar stores in Lagos – Nigeria’s megacity of roughly seventeen million people – trying to persuade shopkeepers to place cookies on their shelves. Although he held a…
Prakriti Singh, regional executive vice president for core payments at Mastercard Mastercard will not disclose what it earns when a transaction settles in stablecoins rather than over its card rails, and it will not predict whether AI shopping agents will grow or shrink the volumes moving across its network. What it will say – repeatedly…
The decades-old dispute over the Orange River boundary between Namibia and South Africa remains unresolved after the two countries failed to conclude the matter during the fourth Namibia-South Africa Binational Commission in Pretoria, South Africa, on Friday. The dispute centres on where the international boundary lies. Namibia argues the border should run through the middle…
Nebius stock surged on Tuesday after Nvidia disclosed a 9.3% stake in the neocloud. The Amsterdam-based company has emerged as one of Europe’s leading neoclouds providing AI compute, and has inked multiple deals with tech giants in 2026 amid massive infrastructure spending. Shares of Nebius were up 7% in premarket trading. The company has been…
Dar es Salaam — TANZANIA has emphasized the importance of strengthening cooperation among African countries to ensure the safe use of nuclear technology, particularly in non-medical applications, in order to enhance the contribution of the technology to social and economic development. The position was expressed by the Director General of the Tanzania Commission for Science…
Forge Academy Northern campus training facility. Education and training lab Forge Academy Group has formed a strategic partnership with Project Dream SA. In a statement, the group says they will establish a framework for the implementation of programmes focused on skills development, enterprise development, socio-economic development and fourth industrial revolution readiness. In addition, the organisations…
A Global Witness investigation finds evidence that First Quantum Minerals and its associates have run a decades-long covert influence campaign over Zambia’s democracy, bankrolling President Hichilema, with revenues diverted away from the copper-rich nation’s indebted economy and its people PDF: How a Canadian mining giant infiltrated Zambia’s democracy Download Resource Follow us on WhatsApp |…
