Conversations around health progress in Africa usually focus on lives saved. And rightly so. Across the continent, people are living longer than they did a generation ago. Advances in prevention, treatment and public health have reduced deaths from many major diseases and improved survival for millions. But there is another side to this success story…
Kampala — Several winners basked in the limelight and glory as the 8th edition of the City Tyres East Africa Badminton Challenge concluded on Sunday at Lugogo Arena. It brought together different age categories, professionals, schools, corporates, nationalities and officials together. Kruthum Nalumansi and Reagan Michael Nsubuga were the professionals’ category winners and walked away…
Vodacom and the University of Johannesburg, in collaboration with AWS, have extended their AI partnership through the AI for Africa Hackathon Challenge. More than 150 University of Johannesburg (UJ) students developed AI-driven solutions to real-world problems at the AI for Africa Hackathon Challenge, held recently at Vodacom World in Johannesburg. The hackathon forms part of…
Gqeberha-based Cape Recife High School won Samsung’s 2026 Solve for Tomorrow challenge. Special education needs school Cape Recife High School in Gqeberha (formerly Port Elizabeth) is overall winner of this year’s Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition. The finale was hosted in Pretoria on Friday, following prototype presentations the previous day. Cape Recife High School emerged…
Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg has officially revealed the Meta VR Glasses at the company’s annual Connect event, targeting a Q2 2027 commercial release. Priced at $1,300, the device adopts a lightweight, sunglasses-style form factor paired with a tethered external compute and battery pod. The architecture aims to deliver high-end spatial computing capabilities similar…
Miss World South Africa, Romanda Hombir, has won the 2026 Miss World Africa Head-to-Head Challenge. She delivered a standout performance at the Head-to-Head (H2H) Challenge held in Nha Trang, Vietnam. She beat out the continental Top 5, which included Nigeria’s Soye Karibi George, Kenya’s Trizah Muhenje Akala, Zambia’s Dr Adah Mushibi, and Eritrea’s Snit Habteab…
Mombasa — “We wanted honest answers, but many adults thought we were too young to ask the questions.” Young people are often at the centre of debates about their bodies, relationships, sexuality and health, yet their own experiences can be treated as secondary to the views of adults making decisions on their behalf. For years,…
In a RootsToFoods Capital Series interview, Frannie Léautier argues that Africa ’ s financing constraint is not simply a shortage of money, but a shortage of investable pipelines, risk-sharing instruments and market infrastructure. Speaking on the RootsToFoods Capital Series podcast, Frannie Léautier pointed to Africa Finance Corporation ’ s 2025 estimate that the continent held…
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — HIV activists confronted U.S. officials before the official start of the AIDS 2026 conference over sweeping changes to Washington’s global HIV strategy, accusing the Trump administration of creating a public health emergency through funding cuts, while the United States defended a new financing model that it says will build more sustainable,…
In education, asset ownership, and access to technological and financial resources, the urban-rural divide compounds the gender gap. Key findings Across 38 African countries, women trail men in educational attainment: 54% of women have secondary or post-secondary education, compared to 62% of men. Women are also more likely than men to have no formal education…
