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Africa: PAC Holdings Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary – 20 Years Strong – Igniting Africa’s Future

eriinfo.com3 days ago07 mins

PanAfrican Capital Holdings Limited (“PAC Holdings”), a diversified proprietary investment group with a two-decade track record of investing in businesses and opportunities across Africa, is marking its 20th anniversary with a renewed commitment to unlocking value, strengthening partnerships and contributing to the continent’s economic future. The milestone was commemorated through a Media Parley that brought…

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Africa’s Food Systems – Twenty-Three Years After Maputo, What Has Changed?

eriinfo.com5 days ago022 mins

In July 2003, African leaders gathered in Maputo and made an important collective commitment. Agriculture would no longer be treated as a neglected sector of African development. Under the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, commonly known as CAADP, governments pledged to allocate at least 10 per cent of national budgetary resources to agriculture and rural…

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Africa: Wathint’ Abafazi 70 Years On

eriinfo.com5 days ago010 mins

The year 2026 marks the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March against extending the dompas to the black women of South Africa. Every August, the commemoration of Women’s Month highlights the inheritances and unfinished legacies of women’s anti-apartheid resistance. This Women’s Month, it is timely to reflect on the legacies of women’s activism in…

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Africa: Twenty Years After Kofi Annan’s Prophecy, Africa Must Answer One Question Whether We Delivered

eriinfo.com5 days ago019 mins

This week, once again, the leaders of a continent are gathered in Kigali Rwanda. We convene at the Africa Food Systems Forum, and this year is unlike any other. It is not simply another summit. It is a reckoning. Twenty years ago, in Addis Ababa, a Ghanaian diplomat who had spent his life inside the…

Teraco’s electricity consumption triples in four years

eriinfo.com6 days ago06 mins

A portion of the rapidly expanding Teraco data centre complex in Isando, east of Johannesburg Teraco consumed 399.3GWh of electricity in 2025, more than three times what it used in 2021, according to the data centre operator’s latest sustainability report. Its ability to keep that growth from placing additional demand on South Africa’s coal-heavy grid…

R36.8-billion in irregular spending from prior years

eriinfo.com1 week ago08 mins

Eskom group chief financial officer Calib Cassim Eskom reported R4.9-billion of irregular expenditure for the year to 31 March 2026, less than half the restated figure for the year before. But read further into the auditor’s report and a different number appears. During the year, Eskom confirmed irregular expenditure of R36.8-billion relating to prior years….

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Africa: 60 Years After Colonialism, Africa Eyes for a Mindset Reset

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago07 mins

African countries have different independence anniversary dates. However, for most countries, more than six decades have now passed since colonial administrations ended. That raises an uncomfortable question: more than 60 years after colonialism, why do so many African countries still struggle with the basics of development; reliable public services, quality education, decent healthcare, productive economies,…

Africa: Five Years On From First Vaccine, Fight Against Malaria Sees Progress in Africa

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago06 mins

On World Mosquito Day, attention remains focused on the devastating impact of the disease in Africa. The continent accounts for 95 per cent of malaria-related deaths worldwide. Five years after the roll-out of the first malaria vaccine, it is beginning to deliver measurable results – although significant challenges remain. The RTS,S vaccine marked a turning…

Africa: Twenty Years After Probo Koala, Africa Still Grapples With ‘Waste Colonialism’

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago010 mins

Twenty years after toxic waste from the cargo ship Probo Koala was dumped across Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire, the disaster remains an open wound for many victims and a symbol of wealthy countries sending unwanted waste to Africa. On 19 August 2006, more than 500 tonnes of harmful substances unloaded from the ship were dumped…

Storm Lala: Hawaii braces for potential first direct hit by a hurricane in 34 years

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago02 mins

Hawaii is bracing for what could be its first direct hit from a hurricane since 1992, as category one storm Lala churns off its coast. Packing 75mph (120km/h) winds, Lala gained hurricane strength on Saturday. In a worst-case scenario, it could dump up to 25in (63cm) of rain on Big Island and produce a 3ft…