Could a Cloud Architecture Assessment save your business?

Could a Cloud Architecture Assessment save your business?

Get a human-led deep dive into your AWS environment. Modern cloud environments evolve rapidly. Teams change, priorities shift and documentation often falls by the wayside. That’s how many businesses end up with messy, undocumented AWS estates – and no idea what’s running, how it’s configured or what it’s costing them. “Clients often come to us…

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Africa: Afrishela Fund’s Alternative Credit Assessment – Another Promising Approach to Narrowing the Gender Financing Gap

Africa: Afrishela Fund’s Alternative Credit Assessment – Another Promising Approach to Narrowing the Gender Financing Gap

Insights from the World Bank GROW Expo Despite women contributing nearly 40% of Africa’s GDP, they receive less than 7% of private equity and venture capital funding–and only a fraction of that reaches women-led SMEs. At the recent World Bank’s GROW Expo in Uganda, the Graça Machel Trust’s Afrishela Fund challenged this disparity with a…

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Africa: Afrishela Fund’s Alternative Credit Assessment – Another Promising Approach to Narrowing the Gender Financing Gap

Africa: Robust Policies for Better Public Services in Africa – the 2025 Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (Cpia) Report in 6 Charts

Since 2006, The World Bank’s annual Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Report has been a guide for countries, policymakers, and investors, identifying key trends and best practices that support effective public service delivery and foster a more resilient and prosperous future for Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The CPIA is an annual diagnostic tool for SSA…

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Trump’s strikes on Iran set back nuclear program by months, initial intel assessment finds

Trump’s strikes on Iran set back nuclear program by months, initial intel assessment finds

An initial classified assessment found the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities set back Tehran’s nuclear program by a matter of months, according to three sources familiar with its contents. The assessment, produced by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s military intelligence wing, said the strikes caused the entrances to two nuclear enrichment facilities, including…

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Africa: Afrishela Fund’s Alternative Credit Assessment – Another Promising Approach to Narrowing the Gender Financing Gap

Africa: The African Union Conducts a Pre-Election Assessment in Tanzania in Preparation for the October 2025 Vote

The African Union deployed a pre-election assessment mission (PAM) to the Republic of Tanzania, from 11-21 June 2025. The objective of the PAM was to consider the state of preparedness for the forthcoming October 2025 presidential and legislative elections by institutions and stakeholders; assess and encourage women’s political participation; and examine the political context within…

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