West Africa Takes Historic Step Toward Lassa Fever Vaccine Access With Launch of First End-to-End Roadmap

West Africa Takes Historic Step Toward Lassa Fever Vaccine Access With Launch of First End-to-End Roadmap

West Africa has today, 3rd February 2026, marked a major milestone in regional health security with the official launch of the Lassa Fever End-to-End (E2E) Access Roadmap for West Africa, a first-of-its-kind, regionally-led framework designed to ensure equitable access to safe and effective Lassa fever vaccines once they become available. The roadmap was developed with…

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USAASA withdraws draft manual after it skips a step

USAASA withdraws draft manual after it skips a step

The draft manual of the Universal Service and Access Fund has been withdrawn. The Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA) has swiftly withdrawn its recently-published draft Universal Service and Access Fund (USAF) manual. The move, according to USAASA, is to align the draft manual with the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies…

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Spotify founder and CEO to step down

Spotify founder and CEO to step down

Daniel Ek on stage in 2024. Laure Andrillon/Reuters Spotify founder-CEO Daniel Ek will step down to become executive chairman in January, the Swedish streaming company said on Tuesday as it named long-time executives Gustav Soderstrom and Alex Norstrom as co-CEOs. The leadership change comes as Spotify expands into podcasts and audiobooks amid questions over how…

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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: A Team, a Dream, a Nation Rewarded – Mozambique Step Into History

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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