Africa: Record African Champions Egypt Desperate to Make a Mark On the Global Stage

Africa: 131 Nigerian Companies Earn Africa Quality Mark in Major Trade Boost

ABUJA – The Federal Government has presented the Africa Quality Mark (AQM) certification to 131 companies for 220 made-in-Nigeria products, reiterating its commitment to supporting industrial expansion and export growth. This forms part of efforts to strengthen the competitiveness of Nigerian goods in regional and continental markets under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)…

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Africa: Record African Champions Egypt Desperate to Make a Mark On the Global Stage

Africa’s Non-Bank Capital Pools Cross $2 Trillion Mark

Africa’s domestic capital base has reached a scale that now exceeds external financing flows over the past decade, marking a turning point in how the continent funds its growth and industrialisation, according to the Africa Finance Corporation’s (AFC) State of Africa’s Infrastructure Report 2026. The report finds that cumulative external flows to Africa totalled approximately…

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Africa: Record African Champions Egypt Desperate to Make a Mark On the Global Stage

Africa: WHO Calls for Action – ‘Together for Health. Stand With Science.’ to Mark World Health Day

The World Health Organization (WHO) today calls on people everywhere to renew their commitment to working together and supporting science as the twin engines driving better health, under the World Health Day 2026 theme: “Together for health. Stand with science.” The campaign marks the anniversary of WHO’s founding on 7 April 1948, launching a year-long…

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Africa: Record African Champions Egypt Desperate to Make a Mark On the Global Stage

Africa: Inadequate Access and Corruption Mark Public Service Delivery for Many Africans

Half find it difficult to obtain health care, identity documents, and police assistance. Key findings On average across 38 countries, public services dominate Africans’ agenda for needed government action. Health tops the list of citizens’ concerns, and education, infrastructure/roads, water supply, crime/security, and electricity all rank in the top 10. Africans are dissatisfied with the…

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LLMs mark the real AI tipping point

LLMs mark the real AI tipping point

Vukosi Sambo, CEO at STM Healthcare. Large language models (LLMs), not automation, represent the true inflection point in artificial intelligence (AI). This is according to Vukosi Sambo, CEO at STM Healthcare, who says language-centric AI has fundamentally changed how intelligence is accessed and applied. He was one of the keynote speakers at the ITWeb Data…

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