Only the smartest survive: LabourGenie.net Customer Day to tackle workforce chaos with smart tech, strategic thinking, survivor spirit

Only the smartest survive: LabourGenie.net Customer Day to tackle workforce chaos with smart tech, strategic thinking, survivor spirit

The event brings together WFM innovators, HR tech experts and operational leaders. In a rapidly shifting economic climate where businesses must outsmart disruption and outperform instability, LabourGenie.net is stepping up with an event designed to help South African companies not just survive – but thrive. The LabourGenie.net Customer Day, hosted in partnership with Deel Local…

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Africa: AU Urges Action to Tackle Africa’s Employment Crisis

Africa: AU Urges Action to Tackle Africa’s Employment Crisis

ADDIS ABABA The African Union (AU) has sounded the alarm over the continent’s persistent youth unemployment crisis and is calling for urgent, bold action to address the challenge through industrialization, innovation, and regional integration. The Third African Job Creation Forum, jointly organized by the African Union, the Government of Ethiopia and the African Continental Free…

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Africa: AU Urges Action to Tackle Africa’s Employment Crisis

Africa: Award Launches Gender Policy Program to Tackle Inequities in Africa’s Agrifood Systems

Nairobi — The African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) has launched a new initiative aimed at strengthening gender-responsive policymaking across the continent’s agrifood systems. Dubbed the Gender in Agrifood Systems Policies (GASP) Program, the initiative seeks to build the capacity of 50 mid-career women policy professionals from eight African countries–Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Kenya,…

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Verifiable messaging platform unveiled to tackle cyber threats in SA

Verifiable messaging platform unveiled to tackle cyber threats in SA

Fraser Edwards, co-founder and CEO of cheqd. Global B2B communications platform, VERA, has partnered with identity and credentials infrastructure provider, cheqd, to launch a secure, verifiable messaging platform for South African businesses, aimed at combating escalating cyber threats, particularly phishing and business e-mail compromise (BEC) attacks. Founded in 2024, VERA integrates advanced encryption, identity verification and role-based…

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Africa: AU Urges Action to Tackle Africa’s Employment Crisis

Africa: UK-Africa Clean Energy Partnerships Tackle Generator Reliance At London Climate Event

London, UK — UK and African innovators are ramping up efforts to replace fossil fuel generators with renewable energy solutions, as showcased at the ZE-Gen: Powering Productivity, Accelerating Investment event during London Climate Action Week. UK Special Representative for Climate, Rachel Kyte, highlighted the wide-ranging benefits of such partnerships, including economic growth, improved health, and…

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