Africa: We Ask Congress to Step Up NOW before Toppling Investments from Tanzania to Togo to Haiti

Africa: We Ask Congress to Step Up NOW before Toppling Investments from Tanzania to Togo to Haiti

Washington, DC — The global trade landscape is full of competing countdown clocks that are quietly challenging U.S. competitiveness as they tick down. In the chaos of today’s trade environment, it’s difficult for American business owners and legislators to know what to address first. But there are two trade agreements whose ringing alarms can no…

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Africa: Liberia Takes Key Step Toward Data-Driven Education Planning

Africa: Liberia Takes Key Step Toward Data-Driven Education Planning

A high-level international peer review of Liberia’s Education Management Information System (EMIS), led by the African Union Commission, through its Pan African Institute for Education for Development (AU-IPED), under the Global Partnership for Education’s Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX), a joint endeavour with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, concluded today. The exercise,…

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South Africa a step closer to getting a national payments utility

South Africa a step closer to getting a national payments utility

The Competition Commission has recommended that the Competition Tribunal approve the South African Reserve Bank’s proposed acquisition control of BankservAfrica – and has done so without attaching any conditions. The transaction will see the central bank take sole ownership of the payments clearing house, which plays a critical role in processing interbank transactions. BankservAfrica is…

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Africa: Liberia Takes Key Step Toward Data-Driven Education Planning

Africa: Ministerial Malaria Champions Step Up Malaria Fight With New Commitments and Accountability Scorecard

Lusaka — Ministers of Health, partners, and global health leaders convening on the sidelines of the Seventy Fifth WHO Regional Committee for Africa (RC75) have issued an urgent call to accelerate Africa’s malaria response amid a “perfect storm” of challenges threatening to erode hard-won gains. Despite major progress, including a 16% reduction in malaria incidence…

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Cell C a step closer to possible JSE listing

Cell C a step closer to possible JSE listing

The Competition Tribunal has given the green light to a transaction that should help advance a proposed plan to list Cell C on the JSE. The regulator on Thursday said it has given its blessing, without conditions, to a transaction that will see Cell C buying back its contract customer base from its largest shareholder,…

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Standard Bank CEO Sim Tshabalala to step down in 2027

Standard Bank CEO Sim Tshabalala to step down in 2027

Standard Bank Group CEO Sim Tshabalala. Luc Gnago/Reuters Standard Bank Group said on Thursday that its CEO, Sim Tshabalala, would retire towards the end of 2027 in line with its leadership succession planning. The announcement comes after the bank reviewed its retirement age for executives and decided to increase the normal age from 60 to…

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Africa: Liberia Takes Key Step Toward Data-Driven Education Planning

Africa: First Malaria Treatment for Babies Is a Major Step to Ending the Disease in Africa – Biochemist

The first malaria treatment for babies and very young children of 2 months up to 5 years was approved for use by Swiss agency for therapeutic products, Swissmedic, in early July 2025. Until now, babies and very young children have been treated with medicines formulated for older children. The Conversation Africa asked Fortunate Mokoena, about…

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Africa: Countries Must Urgently Step Up to Transform their HIV Responses Amid An International Funding Crisis That Risks Millions of Lives

Africa: Countries Must Urgently Step Up to Transform their HIV Responses Amid An International Funding Crisis That Risks Millions of Lives

GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG – UNAIDS today launched its 2025 Global AIDS Update, AIDS, Crisis and the Power to Transform, which shows that a historic funding crisis is threatening to unravel decades of progress unless countries can make radical shifts to HIV programming and funding. The report highlights the impact that the sudden, large-scale funding cuts from international donors are…

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Africa: Liberia Takes Key Step Toward Data-Driven Education Planning

Africa: The Sevilla Commitment – a Vital Step to Rebuild Trust in Global Cooperation

Civil society organisations have welcomed the consensus reached at the landmark sustainable development conference concluding this Thursday in Seville, while cautioning that real progress will depend on sustained action. Activists, many from the Global South, attending the talks in Spain, are calling for greater leadership and commitment from wealthier nations to help address long-standing structural…

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