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…
Bamba Lo, co-founder and CEO of PAPS Interview with Bamba LoCO-FOUNDER AND CEO, PAPS Lives in: Dakar, Senegal Bamba Lo founded logistics company PAPS after observing that while businesses in Dakar could successfully sell products, inadequate delivery infrastructure meant those goods frequently failed to reach buyers. To solve this local delivery gap, he started the…
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…
Midrand, South Africa — President William Ruto has challenged African businesses and entrepreneurs to stop looking overseas for markets and begin trading more aggressively in Africa. The President noted that Africa’s market is increasingly becoming the next biggest frontier for trade and investment, and innovation in the world. Addressing a joint Kenya-South Africa Business Forum…
Climate change is making southern Africa hotter. While much attention has focused on climate impacts like droughts, floods and food insecurity, another crisis is unfolding quietly inside classrooms. Research has shown that some schools are becoming dangerously hot places for children to develop, learn and play. Hot classrooms can affect concentration, memory, behaviour and academic…
