Africa: Bridging the Capital Gap – Strategic Public-Private Partnerships Invest in Young Agri-Entrepreneurs

Africa: Bridging the Capital Gap – Strategic Public-Private Partnerships Invest in Young Agri-Entrepreneurs

Nairobi — The global aid system is crumbling amidst chronic underinvestment in rural areas, posing a systemic threat to food systems everywhere. With 1.3 billion young people in the world today – the largest generation in history, and nearly half of them living in rural areas – investing in their entrepreneurial potential is key. Speaking…

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AI scaling gap slows Africa’s digital transformation

AI scaling gap slows Africa’s digital transformation

Africa’s CEOs are optimistic but slow to scale artificial intelligence. (Image created using GenAI via ChatGPT) African CEOs continue to trail their global counterparts in deploying artificial intelligence (AI) across business functions, as they remain stuck in experimental AI phases, finding it difficult to scale initiatives into enterprise-wide deployments. This is one of the key…

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SA tech graduates arrive in jobs unprepared as skills gap widens

SA tech graduates arrive in jobs unprepared as skills gap widens

South African companies are paying to train newly hired tech graduates because universities are not supplying the digital skills employers need. As employers continue to shift hiring towards proven skills and certifications, pressure is mounting on education and training providers to respond faster. That’s according to industry experts, including Hloni Mokenela, MD of Africa Analysis…

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Closing trust gap is foundation of digital transformation

Closing trust gap is foundation of digital transformation

Junaid Hussain, head of digital services support at Ricoh South Africa. South African companies are accelerating their digital transformation. For medium to large businesses, digital transformation offers huge gains in efficiency and competitiveness, but it also brings new risks. Every move to the cloud, automation rollout or AI deployment expands the attack surface for cyber…

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Africa: Bridging the Capital Gap – Strategic Public-Private Partnerships Invest in Young Agri-Entrepreneurs

Africa: Experts Expose Critical Gap in Global Sustainable Development Agenda

A new report from the  Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)  and the  NYU Center for Environmental and Animal Protection (CEAP)  warns that the current  UN Sustainable Development Goals  (SDGs) systematically neglect animal welfare and health — a gap undermining progress on human health, environmental protection and social equity. Despite growing international support for a  One Health…

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Africa: Bridging the Capital Gap – Strategic Public-Private Partnerships Invest in Young Agri-Entrepreneurs

Africa: World Risks Reversing HIV Progress As Children Continue to Face Treatment Gap

Children and adolescents living with HIV-AIDS continue to be left behind in access to early diagnosis, life-saving treatment and care, as shrinking funding threatens to increase their risks and reverse decades of progress, Unicef warned ahead of World AIDS Day. A recently published Unicef-UNAIDS modelling shows that, if programme coverage falls by half, an additional…

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Africa: Fast Facts – World Risks Reversing HIV Progress As Children Continue to Face Treatment Gap – Unicef

Africa: Fast Facts – World Risks Reversing HIV Progress As Children Continue to Face Treatment Gap – Unicef

New York — Children and adolescents living with HIV continue to be left behind in access to early diagnosis, life-saving treatment, and care, as shrinking funding threatens to increase their risks and reverse decades of progress, UNICEF warned today ahead of World AIDS Day. A recently published UNICEF-UNAIDS modelling shows that, if programme coverage falls…

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