Africa: UBA Crosses N33.2trn Asset Mark As Pan-African Footprint Expands

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: UBA Crosses N33.2trn Asset Mark As Pan-African Footprint Expands

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: UBA Crosses N33.2trn Asset Mark As Pan-African Footprint Expands

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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Mark Walker leaves IDC for T4i

Mark Walker leaves IDC for T4i

Mark Walker to pursue interests in a new tech-focused consultancy called T4i. Following a tenure of 30 years at market research and analysis firm IDC, Mark Walker, the company’s former VP of data and analytics for the Middle East, Türkiye and Africa, and MD of IDC South Africa, has left the company. He told ITWeb…

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