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Africa: 2025 TikTok Awards Sub-Saharan Africa – Nigerian Creators, Shallipopi, Steal Show

eriinfo.com1 week ago09 mins

Under the theme “New Era, New Icons,” TikTok celebrated the creators, performers and emerging talents whose originality shaped digital culture in 2025. Nigeria’s presence was impossible to miss at the just-concluded 2025 TikTok Awards Sub-Saharan Africa, where several homegrown creators, including Northern food storyteller Raja’atu Muhammed Ibrahim (@diaryofanortherncook) and Abuja-based creator Brian Nwana (@briannwana), won…

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Africa: Ciza, Lord Kez, Thuli P, Dj Fif_laa and Thabsie Set to Perform At the Tiktok Awards for Sub-Saharan Africa

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago07 mins

TikTok is excited to unveil the musical powerhouses and creators bringing energy to the 2025 TikTok Awards Sub-Saharan Africa on 6th December. Guests, including the continent’s top content creators, brands, influential publishers, and leading journalists, are invited to an unforgettable evening of glamour. They can anticipate electrifying live performances from breakout artists whose music has…

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Africa: Tiktok Announces 2025 Sub-Saharan Africa Awards Nominees, Opens Voting Portal

eriinfo.com1 month ago06 mins

Voting for the 2025 Sub-Saharan Africa Awards is now open until 14 November 2025 (midnight CAT), allowing users to cast one vote per category each day. The 2025 TikTok Awards Sub-Saharan Africa are back to honour the creators, artistes, and trendsetters who’ve defined our feeds in 2025. The TikTok Awards are an annual celebration of…

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Africa: WHO and the European Union Launch Collaboration to Advance Digitized Health Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa

eriinfo.com2 months ago05 mins

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union (EU) announced today a new agreement to support the digital transformation of health systems and wider adoption of WHO’s Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN) in sub-Saharan Africa. This EU-WHO partnership will improve pandemic preparedness and accelerate progress towards better health and well-being for all. The…

Africa: ‘Half of Sub-Saharan African Children Still in Extreme Poverty’, Say World Bank, UNICEF

eriinfo.com3 months ago05 mins

A new report by the World Bank and UNICEF has revealed that despite global progress in reducing extreme child poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa has seen no improvement in the past decade, with more than half of children in the region still living below the poverty line. The report, ‘Child Poverty: Global, Regional and Select National Trends’,…

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Africa: Malawi Records Highest Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa

eriinfo.com3 months ago02 mins

Malawi’s headline inflation–the rate at which commodity prices change over time–has risen to 27.3 percent in July 2025, making it the highest in the sub-Saharan Africa region. According to a Market Intelligence Report issued by the Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM), the sharp increase is largely driven by soaring food prices, which rose by 31.6…

NEC XON Cyber named Palo Alto Networks’ sub-Saharan Africa Partner of the Year

eriinfo.com3 months ago06 mins

Justin Lee, regional sales director at Palo Alto Networks NEC XON Cyber has been named Palo Alto Networks’ sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Partner of the Year, recognising the company as the region’s top-performing partner for 2025. The award was presented at Palo Alto Networks’ recent annual partner gathering in Istanbul, Turkey. The SSA Partner of the…

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Africa: 20 Million More Children in Sub-Saharan Africa Now Receive Govt-Led School Meals – WFP Report

eriinfo.com3 months ago06 mins

DAKAR/JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI: Twenty million more children in Sub-Saharan Africa are now receiving school meals through government-led programmes than in 2022, according to the latest edition of the State of School Feeding Worldwide, a flagship global biennial report released today by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The African continent has seen the most significant rise…

Sophos, Phishield announce first-of-its-kind cyber security, insurance partnership for sub-Saharan Africa

eriinfo.com4 months ago07 mins

Pieter Nel, Sales Director – SADC for Sophos in South Africa. (Image: Supplied) Global cyber security leader Sophos has entered into a landmark partnership with Phishield, a specialist cyber insurance provider, to launch an integrated cyber protection and insurance solution across sub-Saharan Africa. The collaboration marks the first time in the region that proactive cyber…

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Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa – Community Radio Programmes Shut Down, Access to Information in Jeopardy After Voice of America Suspension

eriinfo.com5 months ago08 mins

Disrupted programming, journalists sacked from their jobs: the US government’s suspension of Voice of America (VOA), whose programmes were broadcast in all sub-Saharan African countries via over a thousand local partners, undermines access to reliable and diverse information. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns this major setback for the right to reliable information on the African…