Africa: ECA Urges Adoption of Nuclear Energy in Africa’s Power Sector

Southern Africa: Report Exposes Hidden Crisis in Southern Africa’s Public Health Sector

A new report released by WomenLift Health lays bare a critical but often overlooked barrier to resilient health systems in Southern Africa: a persistent leadership gap for women in the public health sector, despite decades of progressive gender equality policies. Based on a comprehensive stakeholder analysis across ten countries including Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi,…

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Ramaphosa backs Malatsi’s BEE reforms for ICT sector

Ramaphosa backs Malatsi’s BEE reforms for ICT sector

President Cyril Ramaphosa President Cyril Ramaphosa has voiced his support for the process undertaken by communications minister Solly Malatsi to introduce equity equivalent investment programmes (EEIPs) in the ICT sector. Malatsi in May published a draft policy directive, which he intends issuing to Icasa, urging the communications regulator to investigate how EEIPs, which are already…

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Africa: ECA Urges Adoption of Nuclear Energy in Africa’s Power Sector

Africa: USA-Africa Private Sector Collaboration Game Changer – AUC Chairperson

Addis Ababa, — At the USA-Africa Summit 2025 in Luanda, African Union Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf said the AU views U.S.-Africa private sector collaboration as a game changer in the quest for shared prosperity. African presidents, heads of state, ministers, and senior USA and African government officials and business leaders are attending the summit…

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Africa: ECA Urges Adoption of Nuclear Energy in Africa’s Power Sector

Africa: Report Exposes Hidden Crisis in Southern Africa’s Public Health Sector – Gender Equality on Paper, Patriarchy in Practice

A new report released by WomenLift Health lays bare a critical but often overlooked barrier to resilient health systems in Southern Africa: a persistent leadership gap for women in the public health sector, despite decades of progressive gender equality policies. Based on a comprehensive stakeholder analysis across ten countries including Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi,…

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Africa: ECA Urges Adoption of Nuclear Energy in Africa’s Power Sector

Africa: Time to Rethink Health Financing – It’s Not Just a Public Sector Concern

By Hatice Beton, Roberto Durán-Fernández, Dennis Ostwald and Rifat Atun As G7 leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations wrapped up their summit in Kananaskis June 16, a critical issue was absent from the agenda: the future of global health financing. Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, trade conflicts and cuts to development aid, health has been sidelined…

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Cape Town to fill gaps in e-hailing, meter-taxi sector

Cape Town to fill gaps in e-hailing, meter-taxi sector

There is a need for 6 600 legal e-hailing and metered taxi operators in the Cape Town metropolitan area. Cape Town’s urban mobility directorate, in collaboration with the Western Cape government’s provincial regulatory entity (PRE), has initiated a two-phased process to support e-hailing and metered taxi operators. This, says the city, is to meet the…

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