NewsFeed At an Islamic centre in Washington DC, World Cup watch parties are giving many worshippers far from home a place to cheer on African and Muslim teams pursuing football history. Published On 30 Jun 202630 Jun 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
The ribbon cutting ceremony at Afrizan’s new contact centre. Afrizan People Intelligence BPO has opened a new contact centre in Cape Town, expanding its national footprint and creating employment opportunities for hundreds of young South Africans. The launch marks the next phase in the company’s rapid growth trajectory and strengthens its position as a high-performance…
Twenty-seven African countries, including Ghana, have benefited from specialised oncology training under a partnership between the Merck Foundation and the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC). The initiative, which is aimed at strengthening cancer care and addressing the shortage of oncology specialists across the continent, has so far awarded 141 scholarships to doctors, nurses and other healthcare…
The issue of migration featured prominently during the opening of the 19th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth Africa Region (CSPOC Africa), currently underway at Emperors Palace in Ekurhuleni. The conference has brought together representatives from more than 50 African countries, including Speakers, Presiding Officers and heads of provincial legislatures, to deliberate…
Dar es Salaam — Tanzania’s hosting of the Airfield Ground Lighting (AGL) Inspection and Audit Training has drawn attention from aviation stakeholders, who see the event as a sign of the country’s growing role in advancing technical expertise and safety standards within Africa’s aviation industry. The five-day programme, being held in Dar es Salaam under…
The Knowledge Center of the Secretariat of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is strengthening the skills of national experts in tobacco taxation. Praia, Cape Verde. With the aim of creating a learning platform to facilitate the exchange of experiences between countries and partners, gather lessons learnt, and support the development of future strategies…
Topco Media has successfully concluded the Sentech Africa Tech Week Conference 2026, held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) on 12–13 May 2026. Bringing together government leaders, regulators, investors, enterprise decision-makers, innovators, and technology providers from across the continent, the conference once again reinforced its position as Africa’s leading executive platform focused on…
Now is the time to place housing at the heart of sustainable development. That was the message delivered on Monday by UN Secretary General António Guterres to participants at a global forum on urban sustainability under way this week in Baku. His video address set the tone for the 13th session of the World Urban…
A plan by US-listed Equinix to build two data centres in Cape Town should not be approved without full disclosure of its water, power and environmental impact, a formal objection lodged with city planners shows. The Housing Assembly (HA), a social movement representing more than 20 communities in the Western Cape of South Africa, and…
Zubair Mukhtar Chowgale, director of sales engineering at Securonix. Traditional security teams are dealing with too many alerts and not enough time or people to handle them. At the same time, attackers are moving faster using AI, and boards expect clear evidence that security efforts are making a real difference to the business. This was…
