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…
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…
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’,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Climate change has become a global issue and affects various regions at different levels. The hydro-climatic conditions and the natural fragility of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) make it prone to floods. The review was intended to comprehensively explore the determinants of floods in the continent and their effects on public health. The review revealed that the…
After almost two decades of substantial reductions in the global burden of malaria, progress has stagnated. Global scientific and policy leaders agree that to achieve malaria eradication, interventions must focus not only on preventing malaria disease but also on decreasing malaria transmission. Children younger than 5 years and pregnant women are at the highest risk…
