The Liquidity and Sustainability Facility (LSF) is pleased to welcome the launch of the L&G LSF African Government Bond (USD) UCITS ETF, developed by Legal & General Asset Management (L&G), it is the first of its kind available in Europe. Building the Foundations: From Index to Investable Product Since its establishment, the LSF has worked…
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe — New chickpea seed research and production have become the new frontier of climate resilience in southern Africa as farmers battle failing cereal production. Farmers in Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique are benefiting from a new chickpea variety which researchers say requires lower nitrogen fertiliser at a time such agriculture inputs have become the…
Johannesburg — “Intellectually, xenophobia is not being contested, instead people are looking for scapegoats.” South Africa’s Afrophobic anti-migrant protest movement has vowed to keep marching until every undocumented migrant has left the country, despite the campaign’s impact on the economy and the country’s standing across the continent. The March and March movement set 30 June…
Africa’s global role is constantly evolving. Demographically, Africa is poised to occupy a dominant position in the world over the coming decades. By 2050, Africa’s share of the global population will have grown from its current 19 percent to 28 percent, reaching nearly 2.8 billion people. This growth will be concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa due…
Young Africans must harness innovation, entrepreneurship and technology to drive the continent’s transformation instead of waiting for governments and development partners to solve their challenges, youth leaders have said. The call was made during the opening of the 2026 Billi Now Now (BNN) Youth Summit in Kampala, which brought together hundreds of youth leaders, entrepreneurs,…
Addis Ababa — Ethiopia will host the 76th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa (RC76) in Addis Ababa from August 24 to 28, 2026. The session will be organized in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa. According to a post on WHO African Region Pages, the summit will…
South Africa will not align with either Washington or Beijing in artificial intelligence, Communications Minister Solly Malatsi says. Malatsi rejected the central premise of a Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report, The Great Divide: How the US and China Are Splitting the AI World, which argued that the window for middle-income nations to hedge between competing…
Addis Ababa — Ethiopia is well positioned to become Africa’s future energy hub by harnessing its vast renewable energy resources, extensive hydropower expertise, and expanding regional electricity interconnections, Minister of Water and Energy Habtamu Itefa said. In an exclusive interview with ENA, the minister said Ethiopia has an estimated 60 gigawatts of hydropower generation potential,…
As Ethiopia’s National Dialogue seeks to chart a path toward peace, it faces an immense task. The Dialogue aims to address some of the country’s most difficult political, historical, institutional, social, and peacebuilding questions. Yet its success may ultimately depend on confronting a more basic question: why do Ethiopia’s major conflicts keep returning? A problem…
If you thought Kenya’s Group A was the real “Group of Death” at WAFCON 2026, think again. Group C, featuring Nigeria, Zambia, Malawi, and Egypt, just delivered a final-day plot twist so chaotic, so confusing, and so mathematically dramatic that it left fans, pundits, and even the players themselves utterly baffled. Wednesday night marked the…
