Africa Needs 0bn Annually to Bridge Infrastructure Gap – ATTID

Africa Needs $170bn Annually to Bridge Infrastructure Gap – ATTID

The Africa Think Tank for Infrastructure Development (ATTID) has projected that the continent requires between $130 billion and $170 billion annually to meet its infrastructure needs and drive sustainable development across sectors such as energy, transport, water, sanitation, and urban systems. This was disclosed during a press conference in Lagos ahead of a major infrastructure-focused…

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Africa Needs 0bn Annually to Bridge Infrastructure Gap – ATTID

Africa to Tackle Water Investment Gap At Summit

The upcoming African Union-AIP Water Investment Summit 2025 will serve as a critical platform to translate political commitment into concrete investment in Africa’s water and sanitation sector. Held under the banner of South Africa’s G20 Presidency, the summit, which is set to take place in Cape Town from 13 – 15 August, aligns with the…

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Africa Needs 0bn Annually to Bridge Infrastructure Gap – ATTID

Africa: Afrishela Fund’s Alternative Credit Assessment – Another Promising Approach to Narrowing the Gender Financing Gap

Insights from the World Bank GROW Expo Despite women contributing nearly 40% of Africa’s GDP, they receive less than 7% of private equity and venture capital funding–and only a fraction of that reaches women-led SMEs. At the recent World Bank’s GROW Expo in Uganda, the Graça Machel Trust’s Afrishela Fund challenged this disparity with a…

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Africa: Fight to End Aids – ‘This Is Not Just a Funding Gap – It’s a Ticking Time Bomb’

Africa: Fight to End Aids – ‘This Is Not Just a Funding Gap – It’s a Ticking Time Bomb’

Devastating funding cuts from international donors are hitting countries hardest affected by HIV — but many are showing remarkable resilience and determination to keep progress alive. The 2025 Global AIDS Update released on Thursday by UNAIDS – the global body’s agency fighting AIDS and HIV infection – warns that a historic funding crisis now threatens…

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Bridging the SQL expertise gap

Bridging the SQL expertise gap

If you have ever been woken up by a 3am database outage (or worse, a security breach tied to an overlooked SQL patch), you are not alone. SQL Server is the backbone of many business-critical applications. However, as deployments span on-premises, cloud and edge environments, maintaining everything securely, optimally and compliantly is a growing challenge….

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Africa Needs 0bn Annually to Bridge Infrastructure Gap – ATTID

Africa: A Growing Gap Between Principle and Implementation – 20 Years of Responsibility to Protect

United Nations — United Nations member states this week reiterated their commitment to the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity–at a time when world powers are failing to meet these obligations. On the 20th anniversary of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, the UN held a Plenary Meeting to discuss…

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Africa Needs 0bn Annually to Bridge Infrastructure Gap – ATTID

Africa’s Trade Finance Gap Tops U.S.$420b

Abuja, Nigeria — Africa’s persistent trade finance gap–now estimated at over $420 billion–poses a critical threat to the continent’s industrial ambitions, job creation, and sustainable economic transformation. But the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) is proposing a comprehensive solution to close this gap and build a more sovereign, resilient, and inclusive African financial ecosystem. The Bank’s…

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Africa Needs 0bn Annually to Bridge Infrastructure Gap – ATTID

Africa: The Global Mental Health Crisis Surges Amid $200 Billion Funding Gap

United Nations — Although access to mental health and psychosocial support services is considered a fundamental human right by the United Nations (UN), hundreds of millions of people experience limited or inadequate access to mental health and psychosocial support services. On June 6, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO)…

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