Lusaka — African health minister have pledged renewed action to end all forms of polio and safeguard the gains of eradication that have seen millions of children across the region saved from the devastation of poliovirus. Gathering in two high-level sessions during the Seventy-fifth sessions of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa…
Arusha — A key highlight of the Session is the Conference on “Enhancing Women’s Engagement with the Procedures of the African Court” to be held from 3-4 September 2025 at the Seat of the Court in Arusha, United Republic of Tanzania. The Conference will bring together Counsel on the Court’s Roster, Bar Associations and Law…
Last year, African Originals secured $2m in funding to support its ambitions to expand the business in Kenya and beyond Nairobi, Kenya | AGENCIES | When Alexandra Chappate, CEO and founder of Kenya-based craft beverage producer African Originals, started working in Africa’s drinks industry in 2015, she was struck by the huge unmet demand for…
Lusaka — African health ministers and partners are calling for increased investment in integrated health services to address the growing burden of severe noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), particularly those affecting women and underserved populations across the region. At a high-level side event during the Seventy-fifth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa, delegates emphasized the…
Lusaka — Across the African continent, fragile health systems are often the first to falter when crisis strikes, with profound impacts on lives and, livelihoods and health, and often times causing long-term socio-economic disruptions. Renewing efforts to protect communities from the growing threat of health emergencies, health ministers meeting for the Seventy-fifth session of the…
Across Africa, women have less access to the internet than men. In Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania only 15%-28% of women own smartphones. Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo is a feminist political economist and director of the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender and Class at the University of Johannesburg. She researches gender inequality in digital…
·Canvasses permanent CDS forum to tackle terrorism, cybercrime, transnational crimes ·Explains why African nations must invest in cyber defence, AI President Bola Tinubu has canvassed the need for a regime of collective action and cooperation among African nations to effectively combat terrorism, cybercrime, transnational crimes, and other forms of insecurity on the continent. Follow us…
The choice before us is stark. Either we allow distrust to deepen, normalising xenophobia as state policy, or we confront it now with courage and clarity. South Africa is drifting into dangerous territory. The latest GovDem Survey of the Inclusive Society Institute (ISI) has laid bare a truth we can no longer ignore, namely that…
Lusaka — African health ministers today adopted a crucial regional strategy to strengthen and fully integrate rehabilitation services into public health systems across the region by 2035. More than 210 million Africans require rehabilitation, which is a set of health services for people with conditions such as developmental disorders, road traffic and unintentional injuries, or…
Nick Argyros, chief operating officer, and Francois Schreuder, CEO, Phonetik AI Phonetik AI, a South African start-up building large language models that create subtitles, closed captions and narration, is helping the visually and audio impaired get more information from the video content they consume. Speaking to TechCentral at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg last week,…
