The U.S.-Africa Business Summit scheduled for July 26-29, 2026 in Mauritius July has been postponed. The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA). the Summit organizer, along with the Government of Mauritius, made the decision “out of an abundance of caution and in response to guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Mauritius Ministry of…
Funmi Ogundare Seplat Energy Plc has been named the official Theme Partner for the Education Session at the 2026 Africa Social Impact Summit (ASIS), as part of efforts to address Africa’s widening education access gap and strengthen youth employability across the continent. Under the partnership, Seplat Energy will spearhead strategic discussions on education financing, access…
Streaming live from the Johannesburg leg of the ITWeb Security Summit 2026, the ITWeb TV team will host interviews with around 30 keynote speakers, presenters and participants from various sessions on Tuesday, 2 June and Wednesday, 3 June. For those in the cyber security space who cannot attend the physical event, the stream will provide…
Nairobi – France came to Nairobi last week with a message it has been trying to land for years: that it wants to be Africa’s partner, not its patron. At the Africa Forward summit in May, Emmanuel Macron made that case again. Not everyone was convinced. On the second floor of the Kenyatta International Convention…
Luanda — Angola will host, from August 1st to 2nd, the Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) on Strengthening Mechanisms for Conflict Prevention and Resolution in Africa, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Téte António, announced on Tuesday in Luanda. This fact was reinforced during the celebrations of the…
Nairobi — Leaders from the private sector, NGOs and development organisations gathered in Nairobi for the Geopolitics of Sustainability in Africa Summit to discuss food security, climate transition and Africa’s economic resilience. The forum highlighted Africa’s push to move beyond raw material exports towards value-added manufacturing, resilient intra-African trade and sustainable economic transformation, amid concerns…
AI Everything Kenya X GITEX Kenya opened Tuesday, May 19, at the Sarit Expo Centre in Nairobi, anchoring a wider East African conversation about who will build, fund and regulate artificial intelligence across the region as governments, investors and technology firms converge to stake their claim in Africa’s digital future. Powered by the 45-year legacy…
As South Africa prepares to participate in the 2026 Copenhagen Climate Ministerial Summit, government says it will reaffirm its commitment to multilateralism as a key driver of implementation-based cooperation to tackle global environmental and climate challenges. This is the message that Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Willie Aucamp, will deliver to about 40…
MONROVIA — Auditor General P. Garswa Jackson, Sr. opens Monrovia to 26 of Africa’s top financial watchdogs Monday, as Liberia hosts the continent’s most high-stakes public audit gathering for the first time in the GAC’s history. The assembly, convened under the African Organization of English-speaking Supreme Audit Institutions, known as AFROSAI-E, runs Monday through Friday…
Lukas van der Merwe, Associate Director, Cyanre. Cyanre, a specialist DFIR firm, is proud to announce its participation at the ITWeb Security Summit 2026, where it will address one of the most critical gaps in modern cyber security: how organisations respond when defences inevitably fail. Taking place at the Century City Conference Centre in Cape…
