Africa: Global Funding Cuts Could Force 6 Million More Children Out of School in the Coming Year – Unicef

Africa: Global Funding Cuts Could Force 6 Million More Children Out of School in the Coming Year – Unicef

New York — Education funding faces US$3.2 billion decline by 2026, placing millions of children’s futures at risk As global education funding faces steep cuts, an estimated 6 million additional children could be out of school by the end of 2026, around one-third of them in humanitarian settings, UNICEF warned in a new analysis released…

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Ready or not – quantum computing is coming

Ready or not – quantum computing is coming

Bruce Busansky, app platform specialist for sub-Saharan Africa at Red Hat. Quantum computing, open source, agentic AI and innovation are key to strategies being developed to future-proof organisations, according to Bruce Busansky, app platform specialist for sub-Saharan Africa at Red Hat. Speaking at the Red Hat Technology Innovation event hosted in Johannesburg this week, Busansky…

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Africa: When Life-Saving Treatment Disappears – the Coming Crisis in Child Malnutrition

Africa: When Life-Saving Treatment Disappears – the Coming Crisis in Child Malnutrition

New York — On July 1st, USAID officially shuts down and transfers operations to the U.S. State Department. Amid growing uncertainty about the future of U.S. foreign assistance structures and funding, supply chains that deliver life-saving treatment to malnourished children worldwide have broken down, triggering a global nutrition crisis. We are witnessing the dismantling of…

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