Nairobi, Kenya — Across the Kenya-Tanzania rangelands, communities have long understood a reality that the global community is increasingly recognising: healthy rangelands support livelihoods, wildlife, water resources and local economies. They are among Africa’s most important natural assets and a foundation for resilience in a changing climate. That lesson is especially relevant today. As East…
Shana Maré, Territory Manager at Hitachi Vantara. Trusted, quality data and resilient data infrastructure are the foundations of financial services innovation in the AI era. The future of banking will be defined by an institution’s ability to transform data into a strategic asset while maintaining resilience, compliance and customer trust. This is according to Shana…
As the leaders gather in Kigali, Rwanda, for the African Food Systems Forum (AFSF), discussions about how to invest in resilient food systems will take place against a backdrop of geopolitical instability. Sierra Leone and Norway will join African and other leading representatives of governments, business, investors, and civil society to discuss a crucial topic:…
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — For pastoralists in Arvaikheer — a village in Mongolia’s dry central plains — rain can determine whether there is enough grass for cattle to roam, whether waterholes are replenished and whether families make it through another dry season. But as climate change makes rainfall increasingly unpredictable, even a wet season…
The SolarWinds World Tour team in Johannesburg. SolarWinds has embedded agentic AI into its IT infrastructure management, monitoring and observability tools to move end-users towards greater operational resilience built on trust. This emerged at the Johannesburg leg of the SolarWinds World Tour this week. The World Tour, held in cities around the world, brings together…
The Republic of South Africa formally assumed the Chairship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Council of Ministers on 12 August 2026 in Durban, South Africa, from August 2026 to August 2027, following its tenure as Interim Chair since November 2025 Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa, Honourable…
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced it has acquired JetStream Software, a leader in VMware disaster recovery and migration. Enterprise customers continue to rely on VMware for many of their most critical applications. As organizations evaluate cloud adoption, they often seek ways to transition workloads while minimizing cost, complexity, and operational…
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe — New chickpea seed research and production have become the new frontier of climate resilience in southern Africa as farmers battle failing cereal production. Farmers in Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique are benefiting from a new chickpea variety which researchers say requires lower nitrogen fertiliser at a time such agriculture inputs have become the…
The renewed conflict in the Middle East has once again placed geopolitical risk firmly back on the global agenda and through it all, the resilience shown by the South African economy has been impressive in relation to most economies, with the rand holding up far better than it has during past global shocks. This resilience…
Ashok Marimuthu, Strategic Consultant at AvePoint. Business resilience has evolved far beyond traditional backup and disaster recovery. As organisations become increasingly dependent on cloud services, SaaS applications and AI-powered technologies, the ability to restore data alone is no longer enough. Today’s organisations need to rapidly restore critical business operations, protect against cyber threats and maintain…
