Africa: CNN Highlights GERD Landmark Engineering Achievement Transforming Ethiopia’s Remote Valley Into Africa’s Largest Project

Africa: CNN Highlights GERD Landmark Engineering Achievement Transforming Ethiopia’s Remote Valley Into Africa’s Largest Project

Addis Ababa — The U.S.-based Cable News Network (CNN) has spotlighted Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as one of Africa’s most remarkable engineering achievements. The media company also portrayed the project as a symbol of the country’s broader economic transformation and infrastructure-driven development strategy. In a feature on its Connecting Africa program, CNN journalist…

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Africa: CNN Highlights GERD Landmark Engineering Achievement Transforming Ethiopia’s Remote Valley Into Africa’s Largest Project

Africa: 5 Innovations Transforming How WFP Delivers Food Assistance

Innovation underpins the World Food Programme’s work in tackling hunger. Here we look at five innovations making a real difference on the ground. From artificial intelligence to digital registration and blockchain, the World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling practical innovations to help us reach more people, more efficiently. As humanitarian needs continue to outpace resources,…

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Africa: CNN Highlights GERD Landmark Engineering Achievement Transforming Ethiopia’s Remote Valley Into Africa’s Largest Project

Africa: 47 Ghanaian Youth Recognised for Transforming Africa

Forty-seven young Ghanaians from various sectors of the economy have been honoured at this year’s Africa Youth Leadership Awards (AFLA) for their transformational leadership and contributions to the growth and development of the African continent. The awardees were recognised in categories including Youth Activist Innovator of the Year, Overall Humanitarian Impact Leader of the Year,…

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Lessons for SA: How advanced communications are transforming global port operations

Lessons for SA: How advanced communications are transforming global port operations

Digital radio networks can play a critical role in enabling more efficient, resilient and scalable port operations. South Africa’s ports remain under significant pressure as ageing infrastructure, equipment constraints and ongoing congestion disrupt the efficient flow of goods through key trade corridors. Delays in vessel turnaround times, rail and logistics bottlenecks between ports and inland…

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Transforming patient care with a unified health record

Transforming patient care with a unified health record

Janice Naidoo, Founder, Medi Diary. Patient health records across both the public and private healthcare sector still often rely on physical folders locked in facility filing rooms, not in a patient’s hand or on a secure digital platform. When patients move between clinics, provinces, specialists and healthcare facilities, their records don’t follow, forcing each new…

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Vibe coding is transforming development

Vibe coding is transforming development

Obsidian Systems’ Bennie Kahler-Venter Vibe coding’s transformative impact on developer productivity is having adverse consequences for the open-source ecosystem, potentially exposing enterprises reliant on open-source software to risk. A paper from the Central European University (CEU) in January found that vibe coding – driven by AI coding assistants such as Claude Code, Cursor and Lovable…

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