Africa’s agricultural leaders, policymakers, and youth innovators have opened the Africa Food Systems Forum 2025 (AFSF) with a message that the continent must move from fragmented progress to systemic transformation, if it is to achieve food security and prosperity. The call was made as AGRA launched its inaugural Africa Food Systems Report (AFSR 2025), which…
Lusaka, Zambia — At the 75th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa, Ministers of Health and high-level delegates converged to reaffirm their commitment to the health and well-being of women, children, and adolescents. As part of the documents presented, the Ministers considered the technical document AFR/RC75/5 on Accelerating Progress in the Health and…
Lusaka — Progress against malaria in the African region has significantly slowed down, with cases declining by just 5% since 2015 and mortality by 16%, far short of the 75% reduction target that was to be achieved by 2025. Without intensified efforts, the region risks missing the 2030 targets under the Global Technical Strategy for…
Letter sent on behalf of more than 500 OHCHR workers says failure to describe the war as a ‘genocide’ undermines the global rights protection system. Published On 28 Aug 202528 Aug 2025 Hundreds of United Nations staff have made an appeal to the body’s human rights chief Volker Turk to publicly describe the war in…
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…
Vodacom announced on Thursday that it has made South Africa’s first “native” voice call on a 5G test network. Known as Voice over New Radio (VoNR), this technology allows voice calls to be carried directly over the 5G network, which has previously been used only for data. Vodacom says it plans to introduce VoNR to…
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty discussed in a phone call on Thursday 7/8/2025 with Kenya’s Prime Cabinet Secretary and Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Musalia Mudavadi, recent regional developments in East Africa. According to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, the two ministers affirmed their commitment to ongoing coordination in regional and international fora to…
Vodacom on Thursday said it has placed South Africa’s first “native” voice call on 5G – known as Voice over New Radio, or VoNR – using a test network. The technology could soon be introduced in Vodacom’s live network for consumers to use, the telecommunications operator said in a statement, without providing a timeline. It’s…
ITWeb contributor Phillip de Wet. The villain of the moment is the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), which really, deeply, and utterly screwed it up. But at heart, the Please Call Me saga is the fault of lawyers, or rather the two pig-headed clients, Vodacom and Nkosana Makate, who should have stopped listening to those…
NGOs report limited resources for consumer education and pesticide testing, which they believe hinders effective enforcement of pesticide limits. They also perceive a governmental reluctance to implement significant changes. The African Centre for Biodiversity (Acbio) released a compilation of the past two decades of research on pesticide use in South Africa on 21 July 2025,…
