Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Across the continent, GDP has risen on the back of more workers, more capital and a commodity super-cycle, rather than through genuine gains in productivity and innovation. Too little labour has moved out of subsistence agriculture into higher-productivity manufacturing and modern services. As the recent Africa Business Forum in Addis Ababa…
There are moments when a forum stops being a gathering and becomes a mirror. The Lomé Peace and Security Forum (11-12 October 2025) did exactly that–a quiet reframing of African peace and security through the lens of technological power. It exposed a shift African policymakers still treat as peripheral: the future of peace will be…
When most investors look at frontier markets, they do so from a distance – placing small bets through funds managed by others. At DP World, as a leading global logistics provider, our strategy tells a very different story: making long-term infrastructure investments over decades, and in ways that transform economies and shift patterns of trade….
Eric van der Merwe, Group CFO, 4Sight (left) and Tertius Zitzke, Group CEO, 4Sight. Reported results for the first six months of the 2026 financial year (FY26) ending 31 August 2025 paint a positive picture for 4Sight Holdings, showing a sustained rise in revenue, which increased by 6.8% to R578.7 million, up from R542.0 million…
Morgan Goddard, partner and software development lead at iqbusiness. (Image: iqbusiness) Since the advent of the internet, the way we’ve used technology has been defined by what we could see and touch. From the clunky text-heavy websites of the early 2000s to the sleek, app-driven design era of the 2010s, the interface itself was the…
Space technologies are no longer a distant frontier but a critical foundation for daily life and global development, the UN Deputy Secretary-General said on Wednesday. Addressing delegates at a UN forum on peaceful uses of outer space, Amina Mohammed urged greater international cooperation as the world becomes increasingly reliant on satellites for everything from disaster…
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…
