Companies need to implement AI usage policies. AI adoption has outpaced governance. While tools like ChatGPT and Copilot have become part of daily business life, more than half of organisations still lack a policy to manage the risks they create. A late 2024 survey found only 44% of executives said their company had a generative…
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe — Global biodiversity is disappearing at breakneck speed and, in the process, threatening the future of humanity. The loss is not a future threat but a present crisis that Dr. Luthando Dziba, the new Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), believes can be tackled with science-based policy…
Mogadishu, Somalia – Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Tuesday officially opened the 2nd East African Community Cooperation Conference (EACON2025) in Mogadishu, marking another milestone in the country’s growing role within the East African bloc. In his keynote address, President Mohamud highlighted Somalia’s historic legacy as a hub of trade and seafaring along the Indian…
Here are the key events from day 1,320 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Published On 5 Oct 20255 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Here is how things stand on Monday, October 6, 2025: Fighting A Russian attack killed a family of four, including a 15-year-old girl, in the village…
After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, US President Donald Trump said the leaders were “close” to achieving peace in the Middle East. “At the very least, at a minimum very, very close,” Trump said during a joint news conference at the White House. He outlined his new 20-point plan to end…
Here are the key events on day 1,306 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Published On 22 Sep 202522 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Here is how things stand on Monday, September 22: Fighting A Ukrainian drone attack killed three people and injured 16 near the town of Foros on…
Global efforts to fight three of the world’s most harmful and widespread infectious diseases—AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria—are now under threat due to dramatic cuts in global health financing, warns Doctors Without Borders (MSF). In January, the United States—previously the largest funder of global health programs—announced a suspension and review of all international aid. Since then,…
Governments, academia and other stakeholders must “double down on delivering reparatory justice” for people from the African diaspora, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Wednesday. Doing so is key to dismantling systemic racism that is rooted in legacies of slavery and colonialism, it said. Actions include formal apologies, truth-seeking,…
A high-level international peer review of Liberia’s Education Management Information System (EMIS), led by the African Union Commission, through its Pan African Institute for Education for Development (AU-IPED), under the Global Partnership for Education’s Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX), a joint endeavour with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, concluded today. The exercise,…
Here are the key events on day 1,282 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Published On 29 Aug 202529 Aug 2025 Here is how things stand on Friday, August 29: Fighting Russian missiles and drones ripped through apartment blocks in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday, killing at least 23 people, including four children, authorities said,…
