Water scarcity in Africa is a crisis, and the GERD conflict shows why mutually beneficial cooperation agreements are vital. Ethiopia officially inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile river in the week of September when the country hosted the second African Climate Summit. The occasion was one of great celebration, national…
Altron’s Bongani Andy Mabaso Altron announced today the successful deployment of South Africa’s first operational artificial intelligence factory, powered by Nvidia AI infrastructure, including Nvidia-accelerated computing and Nvidia AI enterprise software. This platform delivers comprehensive AI infrastructure, tools, training and support while maintaining data sovereignty and regulatory compliance. The platform is currently live with five…
Nearly four million people across Africa’s vast semi-arid Sahel region have been uprooted by a volatile mix of conflict, hunger and climate change, the UN warned on Friday, describing an unfolding protection and survival crisis that is pushing families to flee repeatedly. The figure represents a two-thirds increase in displacement over the past five years,…
Black, Indian and mixed-race South Africans built their own sporting world during apartheid, defying segregation with parallel clubs and competitions. Archivists in Johannesburg are now working to save that history. The archives in the basement of Wits University are a real maze – but Ajit Gandabhai knows exactly where he is going. “There are a…
Dakar, Senegal, 10 October 2025 – To mark the International Day of the Girl, over 100 girls from West and Central Africa came together in Dakar for the West and Central Africa Girls’ Summit. Their message to presidents, policymakers, and the rest of the world is clear: “We want to be taken into account when our…
Despite repeated government commitments to accelerate South Africa’s transition to new energy vehicles (NEVs), there has been very little tangible progress in terms of incentives and regulations, according to industry leaders. Last year, at South African Auto Week, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that government was working to finalise comprehensive NEV policy guidelines and that it…
The country has a growing shortage of detectives Despite a much higher violent crime rate, South Africa has fewer police per 100,000 people than the US, UK, France, Italy and China. But we do have a higher police per person ratio than developing countries like Kenya, India and Nigeria. We also have more police per…
The author, Seacom’s Nic Breytenbach When it comes to digital infrastructure in Africa, few things are more pressing than the need for faster, more resilient and more direct connectivity between the continent’s east and west coasts. As things stand today, if a submarine cable is cut north of Mombasa, data traffic must travel all the…
Addis Ababa — Developing policies and ambitious reforms in taxation and public financial management is not sufficient by itself as the real impacts depend on effective implementation, institutional capacity, and sustainable political commitment of the African continent, Revenues Minister Aynalem Nigussie underscored today. Opening the 11th Africa Think Tank Summit in Addis Ababa, she noted…
As global aid to Africa’s education sector faces a steep decline, Human Capital Africa (HCA), the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), the Aliko Dangote Foundation, and the African Philanthropy Forum, yesterday, unveiled coalitions to tackle the continent’s worsening learning crisis. They include; the African CEOs’ Coalition for Foundational Learning and the Africa Philanthropy Coalition for…
