Global football body Fifa is branding the World Cup 2026 – and global football in general – as a celebration of inclusivity and diversity. It’s presented as a harbinger of peace and hope, and even somehow a saviour of African migrants who drown while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea. The humanitarian posturing should not…
Rolfo | Moment | Getty Images This summer, mega artist Harry Styles will take the stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City for an exclusive 30-show residency – his only planned stop in the country and a show that’s garnered intense attention since its announcement. Despite her best efforts, Shira Elfassy won’t be…
Public procurement reform rarely makes headlines. But when a single digital system begins to demonstrably reduce costs, shorten timelines, and open up contracting opportunities to a wider pool of businesses–all within three years–it is worth examining how it happened and what others can learn from it. Tanzania’s Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) has done exactly…
The ongoing insecurity in the Middle East, where a large proportion of the world’s oil and gas is extracted, is forcing many countries to focus on how they can ensure access to cheap and reliable energy supplies primarily through the use of renewable power sources. Why it matters: Some 20 per cent of the world’s…
The author, Absa’s Lindelani Ramukumba Rewind just a few years and large language models and generative AI were barely on the public radar. Yet the technology has already evolved into its next iteration: agentic AI, a new breed of systems that are semi- or fully autonomous and able to reason and act on their own….
Nearly two-thirds of South African consumers have used artificial intelligence to assist with shopping-related tasks, according to new survey data from Visa that points to a rapid shift in how locals interact with digital payment technologies. The Visa Spending Shift Survey, conducted by Morning Consult among a thousand South African adults in October 2025, found…
STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Horn of Africa has the largest concentration of livestock keepers in the world, as many as 7 million of them in Kenya. World Bank funding is fostering private sector opportunities that make pastoralism and livestock keeping a safer and more viable investment. Kenya’s thriving farming sectors could help university graduate and school…
The formal launch of Live54+ marks a significant development in the maturation of Africa’s creative industries from culturally influential but structurally fragmented enterprises into a consolidated, investment-grade platform. Headquartered in Nairobi with coordination hubs in Dubai and Mauritius, the group unifies several established East and West African creative businesses under a single multinational holding framework,…
Addis Ababa — On the margins of the African Union Summit, Namibia, through its Mission in Addis Ababa, co-convened a high-level Presidential Fireside Conversation under the theme “Beyond Barriers: Women Leaders Reshaping African Governance.” The dialogue on February 13th brought together continental institutions, global partners, and Africa’s current and former female Heads of State to…
Kampala — Africa’s digital economy is beginning to recast the continent’s electricity landscape, with data centres emerging alongside households, factories and mines as a significant new source of power demand. What was once a largely traditional power market is increasingly being shaped by the infrastructure that underpins cloud computing, mobile services and digital finance. The…
