Egypt head coach Hossam Hassan believes his side’s experience against African opposition has prepared them well for Friday’s FIFA World Cup Round of 32 meeting with Australia. The Pharaohs face the Socceroos looking to extend their unbeaten run in the tournament after progressing from Group G with a draw against Belgium, victory over New Zealand…
Namibian international, Peter Shalulile has officially brought his time at Mamelodi Sundowns to an end, closing a successful six-year spell that saw him establish himself as one of the leading forwards in African club football. The lethal goal poacher leaves the African champions after scoring 136 goals in all competitions and helping the club win…
Google Play today launched its first Indie Games Fund, committing $1 million to support rising, innovative game studios from across 32 countries in Africa to scale their games and reach a global audience. The fund provides equity-free capital, technical support, and expert mentorship empowering African game developers with the skills and resources they need to…
Bangui — new World Bank report released today calls for urgent structural reforms in the public finance sector and the mobilization of domestic resources in the Central African Republic (CAR) to consolidate macroeconomic stability and support human development, boost growth, and create the conditions for job creation. Entitled “Strengthening the Transparency, Sustainability and Efficiency of…
Current credit ratings may disadvantage the continent, but wouldn’t an African agency amount to Africa ‘marking its own homework’? Can Africa itself correct the bias it says the Big Three credit rating agencies display in grading African sovereigns? The African Union (AU) and other voices on the continent believe this bias gives African countries unfairly…
Dr Anino Emuwa PARTNER CONTENT: Africa’s Business Heroes By Dr Anino Emuwa Over the past six years as a judge for Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH), I have witnessed first-hand one of the most important shifts taking place across the continent: the evolution of African entrepreneurship itself. The change is not simply in the number of…
United Nations — As the United Nations held its first-ever Peacebuilding Week (June 22-26), UN officials and developmental partners gathered at Egypt’s Permanent Mission on June 23 to hold a dialogue on the main question that emerged from the 2025 Peacebuilding Architecture Review (PBAR): “How can global commitments to peacebuilding translate into tangible results on…
One of South Africa’s most senior police officers has survived an attempted assassination in Johannesburg, police say. Suspended deputy crime intelligence boss Maj-Gen Feroz Khan was shot on Sunday evening as he was driving home and has since been rushed to hospital for emergency surgery, local media say. The shooting comes just days before Khan…
It is the first time that 90% of the African National Teams qualified from the Group Stage of the FIFA World Cup. The President of the Confédération Africaine de Football (“CAF”), Dr Patrice Motsepe congratulates the Nine (9) African National Teams that qualified to the FIFA World Cup 2026™, Round of 32. It is the…
Karin Hone, CISO at Barloworld; Celia Mantshiyane, CISO at RMB; Justin Williams, head of group information security at MTN Group; and Pepkor’s Duncan Rae. (Photograph by Strike a Pose) South Africa-based chief information security officers (CISOs) have laid out their top cyber security concerns, with third-party risk (60%) front and centre. This is one of…
