Adrian Gore, Discovery group CEO. Financial services firm Discovery is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to drive efficiency as well as transform risk and engagement. This emerged when the JSE-listed company today presented its annual financial results for the year ended 30 June. Headline earnings and normalised headline earnings both increased by 30%, to R9 625…
A year after mpox was declared a continental health threat, Africa’s response has shown encouraging momentum. An interim analysis of a new study by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) reveals strong public engagement, with above-average vaccine acceptance across all surveyed countries and firm trust in health information shared via television,…
Today in Yokohama, Japan, the AUC Chairperson H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf had a constructive engagement with H.E. Dr. Akihiko Tanaka, President of @jica_direct_en on the sidelines of the #TICAD9 Summit. He commended JICA’s strategic partnership with the AU & its investments in Africa’s key economic & social sectors. The Chairperson & Dr. Tanaka reaffirmed their…
Monrovia — Despite democratic backsliding and declining political freedom in some countries across the region, Africans demonstrate more “favourable engagement” with governance compared to other parts of the world. This is the finding from Afrobarometer’s 2025 flagship report African Insights 2025: Citizen Engagement, Citizen Power: Africans Claim the Promise of Democracy which assessed citizen participation…
Corporate streaming is on the rise. As enterprises pivot towards more distributed workforces and digitised operations, the need for dynamic, scalable communication tools has never been greater. One solution is rapidly gaining ground: corporate streaming. Centrax Digital, a South Africa-based growth and solutions partner, is enabling enterprises across the continent to take advantage of this…
