ATU Images | The Image Bank | Getty Images Sugar is getting a lot less sweet for buyers. Sugar prices surged 21.5% in August, marking its strongest monthly gain since October 2010, when it rose 24%. The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization Food Price Index also rose in August amid broad-based increases, led by…
MTN South Africa CEO Ferdi Moolman MTN has been putting 90 million prepaid Sim cards into the South African market every year, and estimates the industry as a whole is pushing between 200 million and 300 million a year into a country of about 65 million people, adults and children. The astonishing figures came from…
Every year, an estimated 6,000 to 24,000 people are killed by lightning across the world, and many more are injured. Obviously, there is a wide range in these numbers, and that’s due to the fact that these estimates are built on limited and incomplete information. I’m a lightning researcher at the University of North Dakota….
In2IT Network Partner of the Year. In2IT Technologies, which positions itself as a global leader in IT services and consulting, has been recognised as Huawei’s Network Partner of the Year at Huawei South Africa Connect 2026, held in Johannesburg on 23 July 2026. Huawei South Africa Connect 2026 convened business executives, technology leaders and public…
How we made it in Africa II: Real stories of entrepreneurs turning opportunity into profit has been shortlisted for the Business Council for Africa (BCA) African Business Book of the Year Awards 2026. The book is available here. The annual competition celebrates the most compelling business writing examining and shaping Africa’s economic imagination – from…
Global hunger declined for the third consecutive year in 2025, but Africa has emerged as the epicentre of the world’s food crisis, with the continent now accounting for the highest number of hungry people globally, a new United Nations report has revealed. The 2026 edition of “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the…
How we made it in Africa II: Real stories of entrepreneurs turning opportunity into profit, the latest book by Jaco Maritz, has been recognised at the 2026 BCA African Business Book of the Year Award, taking the second runner-up prize at a ceremony held at the Institute of Directors in London on Friday, 3 July…
Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, demonstrating that progress is possible. However, the improvements remain fragile, unevenly distributed and insufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 (SOFI 2026) report, released on Tuesday by five United Nations…
A U.S.-Iran dual citizen who was trapped in Iran on allegations of espionage and collaborating with a hostile state has departed the country, CBS News learned Wednesday. The woman, Dena Karari, had been unable to leave Iran since December 2024 due to “bogus charges,” her attorney, Jared Genser, wrote on social media. Genser announced late…
US President Donald Trump made more than $1bn (£750m) last year from business dealings in cryptocurrency, according to his mandatory financial report for 2025. In a 927-page disclosure, he reported $635m in royalties from a Trump meme coin that has plunged in value since he launched it days before taking office. He also reported over…
