Africa: Niger’s Service Delivery Shift – Reduced Stockouts, Faster Financing, and Improved Staffing

Africa: Niger’s Service Delivery Shift – Reduced Stockouts, Faster Financing, and Improved Staffing

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Essential medicine shortages in Niger’s Maradi region have dropped significantly, with stockout days declining from 16 in 2022 to 5 in 2025, improving children’s health outcomes. The Public Sector Management for Resilience and Service Delivery Program links funding to real results, ensuring clinics and schools receive much-needed supplies. Transparent, incentive-driven deployment policies help…

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Big milestone for KineticSkunk: AWS Well-Architected Partner status strengthens compliant cloud delivery

Big milestone for KineticSkunk: AWS Well-Architected Partner status strengthens compliant cloud delivery

For KineticSkunk, the recognition is more than a badge. KineticSkunk has reached a major milestone in its cloud journey, becoming an authorised AWS Well-Architected Partner; a recognition that strengthens its ability to help organisations assess workloads, reduce risk and build stronger cloud environments aligned to AWS best practices. As cloud environments become more complex, businesses…

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Prosus divests €270 million stake in Delivery Hero to Uber

Prosus divests €270 million stake in Delivery Hero to Uber

Prosus, the Naspers-controlled technology investment giant, has sold a 4.5% stake in the German food delivery platform Delivery Hero to Uber Technologies. The transaction, valued at approximately €270 million, represents a strategic move to satisfy regulatory requirements set by the European Commission. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: Apple smart glasses! Under the…

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The hard parts of AI solution delivery: Security, compliance and architecture

The hard parts of AI solution delivery: Security, compliance and architecture

Jonathan Leibbrandt, Senior Solutions Architect, TrueMark. Artificial intelligence has captured the imagination of businesses worldwide, but building real-world AI applications is far more complex than simply plugging in a model. That’s because the difficult parts of getting it done are unsexy and frequently overlooked. That’s according to Cape Town-based TrueMark Senior Solutions Architect Jonathan Leibbrandt,…

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Africa: Niger’s Service Delivery Shift – Reduced Stockouts, Faster Financing, and Improved Staffing

Africa: Inadequate Access and Corruption Mark Public Service Delivery for Many Africans

Half find it difficult to obtain health care, identity documents, and police assistance. Key findings On average across 38 countries, public services dominate Africans’ agenda for needed government action. Health tops the list of citizens’ concerns, and education, infrastructure/roads, water supply, crime/security, and electricity all rank in the top 10. Africans are dissatisfied with the…

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Africa: Niger’s Service Delivery Shift – Reduced Stockouts, Faster Financing, and Improved Staffing

Africa: Home Affairs Under-Capacitation Severely Undermines Service Delivery Across South Africa

The Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs has expressed serious concern over severe understaffing at Department of Home Affairs (DHA) offices in Limpopo and Mpumalanga, warning that the situation is directly undermining service delivery. The committee met with provincial leadership from both provinces to receive an update on operations and service delivery challenges. “It is unacceptable…

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