Participants at one of GirlCode’s hackathon events. GirlCode has opened registration for its Pan-African Hackathon 2026, with events taking place in Botswana and SA (15-16 August), East Africa including Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda (5-6 September) and Ghana (11-12 September). Now in its 12th year, the hackathon is organised in partnership with Absa Group, Truecaller, MTN, SAP…
In Accra this June, the reparations debate moved from remembrance towards political architecture. Over three days, Ghana hosted the High-Level Consultative Conference on the “Next Steps” to the landmark United Nations resolution on the trafficking of enslaved Africans. The venues told their own story: technical deliberations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a high-level session…
Applications have opened for GirlCode’s 2026 Pan-African Hackathon, which will take place across six African countries between August and September. The programme will also introduce female technology founders as participants for the first time, alongside aspiring coders. Source: Supplied Now in its 12th year, the hackathon is designed to give young women practical experience in…
The Gauteng Provincial Legislature (GPL), working alongside the South African Parliament, opened the week-long summit at Emperors Palace in Kempton Park on Youth Day, 16 June 2026, drawing presiding officers and parliamentary delegations from across the continent into a single room to confront a shared question: How does Africa build political stability strong enough to…
The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, welcomes the successful conclusion of the elections of the President and Members of the Bureau of the Pan-African Parliament, held in Midrand, Republic of South Africa. He extends warm congratulations to H.E. Fateh Boutbig on his election as President, as well as to the…
Representing the Chairperson of the African Union (AU), H.E. Évariste Ndayishimiye, President of Burundi, the Chairperson of the AU Commission, H.E. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, chaired & oversaw the opening of the Extraordinary Session, & swearing in of the members of the Seventh Legislature of the Pan-African Parliament in Midrand this morning. The Chairperson underscored that…
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc has crossed the N33.2 trillion total assets threshold in 2025, underlining the bank’s pan-African scale and sustained growth momentum. The Bank’s audited financial results for the year ended December 31, 2025, showed that total assets grew 9.4 per cent to N33.2 trillion up from N30.3 trillion at the end…
In September 2025, MTN Group, in partnership with the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and the African Editors Forum (TAEF), launched the MTN Pan-African Media Innovation Programme (MIP) at MTN Group Headquarters in Johannesburg. The launch marked the expansion of a proven national initiative in Nigeria into a continent-wide platform aimed at strengthening the future of…
Earlier this week, the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic’s Story School in Morocco, in conjunction with the French-African Foundation, announced 30 laureates selected for the first edition of KESSA, The Young Panafrican Storytellers Programme. The selection process, conducted by an international jury composed of personalities from the media, cultural industries and creative leadership, resulted in a…
Africa’s electric mobility leader and battery swapping pioneer, Spiro has announced the raising of $50 million in debt funding from Afreximbank and two new investors Nithio and Africa Go Green Fund managed by Cygnum Capital. The new funding follows Spiro’s landmark $100 million investment in October 2025, which became Africa’s largest-ever electric mobility investment. The…
