Africa: Credit and Credibility – Rating Agency Errors Come With a Cost

Africa: Credit and Credibility – Rating Agency Errors Come With a Cost

The rating agency S&P Global’s Africa Credit Rating Trends 2025 reviews the past year’s rating activities and analyses the continent’s prospects for 2026. It is an important document because it interprets underlying drivers of creditworthiness. It shapes how global investors and policymakers understand risk, opportunity and reform dynamics across the continent. But the document had…

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New CEO appointed at Technology Innovation Agency

New CEO appointed at Technology Innovation Agency

Dr Titus Mathe, the new CEO of the Technology Innovation Agency. (Image: Supplied) The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) has appointed Dr Titus Mathe as its new chief executive officer (CEO), effective 1 April. Mathe replaces Ismail Abdoola, who held the CEO role in an acting capacity. In a statement, the agency says it looks forward…

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Africa: Credit and Credibility – Rating Agency Errors Come With a Cost

Africa: UN Weather Agency Warns of Record ‘Climate Imbalance’ As Planetary Warming Accelerates

All-time high greenhouse gas concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere continue to drive heat records on land and sea, with long-lasting consequences for humanity, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Monday. Hot on the heels of a scorching decade, the UN’s weather agency has said that the planet’s climate is “more out of balance than at…

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Africa: Acoziborole Winthrop, Developed by DNDi and Sanofi, receives European Medicines Agency positive opinion as Three-tablet, Single-Dose Treatment For Most Common Form of Sleeping Sickness

Africa: Acoziborole Winthrop, Developed by DNDi and Sanofi, receives European Medicines Agency positive opinion as Three-tablet, Single-Dose Treatment For Most Common Form of Sleeping Sickness

Kinshasa / Paris / Geneva / Amsterdam — • Recommendation based on Phase II/III study demonstrating up to 96 per cent success rates at 18 months across both early and advanced stages of T.b. gambiense, the most common form of sleeping sickness • The therapy, given as a single dose of three tablets, could offer a simpler…

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Former FCC chairs urge agency to repeal policy invoked by Trump administration

Former FCC chairs urge agency to repeal policy invoked by Trump administration

A bipartisan group of former Federal Communications Commission leaders has petitioned the agency to repeal the policy the Trump administration invoked in discussions surrounding Jimmy Kimmel at ABC and in the investigation of “60 Minutes” at CBS. The group — which includes five Republican and two Democratic former FCC commissioners, as well as several former…

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