Africa: How Can African Schools Support Children’s Mental Health? Research Shows What Works and What Doesn’t

Africa: How Can African Schools Support Children’s Mental Health? Research Shows What Works and What Doesn’t

Schools are often among the first places where emotional and behavioural difficulties become visible. Learners may start missing classes, withdrawing from friends or struggling academically. Schools are strategically positioned for mental health intervention because of their centrality in the lives of children and adolescents. They are an important entry point for mental health responsive action…

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Africa’s Food Problem Doesn’t End at the Farm

Africa’s Food Problem Doesn’t End at the Farm

Walk through Nairobi’s Kangemi Market, Mile 12 Market in Lagos or Makola Market in Accra, and you will see stalls filled with fresh produce. Yet behind this abundance lies a difficult reality. Farmers struggle to earn enough from what they grow, traders lose produce before it reaches consumers, and many families cannot afford a nutritious…

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Africa: How Can African Schools Support Children’s Mental Health? Research Shows What Works and What Doesn’t

Africa: We Worried Ai Would Make Things Up, We Should Also Worry When It Doesn’t

We’ve spent the past few years worrying about AI inventing facts, quotes or events. But what happens when AI isn’t making things up at all, but accurately repeating information somebody deliberately put there for it to find? Ask ChatGPT: “What’s the best smartwatch?” Or something more consequential: “How should I invest my retirement savings?” Within…

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Secure doesn’t always mean compliant

Secure doesn’t always mean compliant

Cyber security defends the systems, cyber compliance proves it. An organisation can have every control in place and still fail an audit. The firewall is running, the laptops are patched, staff have sat through the training and the penetration test came back clean. Then a regulator asks for the written policy, the date it was…

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Why Success Doesn’t Always Build Confidence

Why Success Doesn’t Always Build Confidence

Successful entrepreneurs can build exceptional businesses while continuing to struggle with self-doubt, overthinking and the need to prove themselves. Success is supposed to make us more confident. Yet for many entrepreneurs, the bigger their business becomes, the greater the pressure, uncertainty and expectation, and the more there is to lose. Additionally, business success does not…

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ICASA doesn’t want to regulate based on rumours

ICASA doesn’t want to regulate based on rumours

ICASA chairperson Mothibi Ramusi. (Image source: ICASA) The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) wants to ensure its regulations are evidence-based, says chairperson Mothibi Ramusi. This, amid the fresh round of scrutiny of the long-running issue of the cost to communicate in the country; costs which Ramusi said have not declined with the envisaged…

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The stuff that doesn’t fit on the quote

The stuff that doesn’t fit on the quote

Every week or so, an e-mail lands in my inbox that says more or less the same thing. Somebody’s forwarded me a price from another IT company, and underneath it, one line: “Can you beat this?” Fair question. It’s the only question that seems to make sense, because from where you’re standing all of us…

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China doesn’t need to de-throne the dollar to win global currency war

China doesn’t need to de-throne the dollar to win global currency war

Renminbi and US dollar banknotes are captured in Fuyang City, Anhui Province, China, on March 1, 2026. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Every June, policymakers, regulators, bankers, investors, and financial executives gather in Shanghai for the Lujiazui Forum, China‘s premier financial policy conference. If Davos is where global…

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