WHX Nairobi 2025 calls for innovation, investment, and inclusive leadership in healthcare

Dr. Joel Gondi when he opened WHX Nairobi and WHX Labs 2025 expo at KICC, Nairobi Africa’s premier healthcare and laboratory science event, WHX Nairobi and WHX Labs Nairobi, was held at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), setting...

Kigali Plant Boosts Africa’s Vaccine Self-Reliance

Backed by fresh European financing, BioNTech’s Kigali facility is emerging as the cornerstone of Africa’s mRNA vaccine ecosystem, bridging the gap between ambition and large-scale production. A new European financial backing of BioNTech’s mRNA...

Egypt's transportation sector: An ambitious path to global trade and logistics leadership

Egypt’s transportation sector lies at the core of the nation’s ambitious vision to become a global trade and logistics hub. With a strategic position bridging Europe, Asia, and Africa and anchored by the Suez Canal, Egypt is investing heavily in...

Trump mulls asking Israel to free Palestinian leader Barghouti

President Donald Trump is suggesting he could call on Israel to release imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, the most popular and potentially unifying Palestinian leader, as the United States aims to fill a leadership vacuum in postwar Gaza....

80 Years On, Africa On The Periphery, Marginalized, Not Seen...

Introduction 24 October is celebrated as the United Nations (UN) Day, an annual commemorative day, reflecting the official creation of the United Nations (UN) on the 24th of October 1945. Thus, this year, 2025, (UN) turns 80. It is a day meant for...

world What to expect from Southeast Asian leaders' summit as Trump attends

KUALA LUMPUR - Leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations and their dialogue partners, including US President Donald Trump, will meet in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur from Oct 26 to 28 and are expected to tackle issues...

United States(US) Ambassador designate vowes to persuade South Africa to ‘reduce’ strong ties with China, drop International Court of Justice(ICJ) case against Israel.

By Bongiwe Dlamini MBABANE:The United States’ ambassador-designate to South Africa, Brent Bozell III, has warned that Washington sees Pretoria as drifting into China’s orbit-and vowed to challenge what he described as South Africa’s “geostrategic...

How medical tourism undermines African healthcare

The death of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga in a private Indian hospital highlights a troubling pattern across Africa: leaders seeking medical care abroad while their citizens face crumbling health systems. Odinga, a...

Osinbajo, Sanusi, Otti, others set for high-level leadership dialogue in Abuja

Former Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) and the Emir of Kano, His Highness Muhammadu Sanusi II, will headline a major national leadership conference scheduled to take place in Abuja on Tuesday. The event, organised by the Oxford Global...

Political leaders, diplomats mourn Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings 

Accra, Oct. 24, GNA – Tributes have poured in following the passing of former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings on Thursday, October 23, 2025. Government officials, diplomats, political figures, institutions, and personalities from the arts...

From context to action: Investigating illicit gold trafficking and conflict dynamics in West Africa

Reporting on illicit economies and instability helps communities understand the root causes of conflict. This webinar series is organized in the context of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime’s (GI-TOC) project “Support to...

Senate seeks stricter compliance, transparency in public procurement

The senate has called for greater transparency and strict compliance with established procedures in Nigeria’s public procurement process. The upper legislative chamber, through its committee on public procurement, said procurement in the country...

Trump’s Ambassador Pick, Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib, Faced GOP Backlash Over Antisemitic Posts During Senate Hearing

(JTA) After Amer Ghalib became the most prominent Muslim politician in the country to endorse Donald Trump for president last year, he did so on pro-Palestinian grounds. And he was rewarded with a plum position: the administration’s ambassadorship...

Celebrate African Queerness at Johannesburg Pride 2025

As Pride Month 2025 draws to a close, culminating in the Johannesburg Pride March on Saturday, Kaye Ally, founder and director of the Pride of Africa Foundation, hopes Pride will send a clear message that queer Africans are visible, proud, and...

Swiss Government: Nigerian Women Still Face Major Barriers To Leadership, Inclusion In Governance A National Necessity

The Swiss Government has lamented that Nigerian women continue to face significant barriers to leadership and participation in governance. It said there are currently only seven female ministers in Nigeria’s federal cabinet of about 48 persons,...

Senate moves to address crisis in downstream oil sector

The Senate has expressed concern over the persistent challenges plaguing Nigeria’s downstream petroleum sector and has resolved to undertake a comprehensive investigation aimed at restoring efficiency, transparency, and industrial harmony....

Effie Awards South Africa Announces 2025 Winners

Effie Awards South Africa has unveiled the 2025 winners at The Venue, Melrose Arch, in a spotlight-soaked celebration of ideas that deliver real business results. The programme recorded 44% year-on-year growth in entries, with 26 trophies awarded...

Cele: South Africa is under siege when it comes to this drug

CAPE TOWN - Former police minister, Bheki Cele, says in 1994, during his training at Scotland Yard, he was told South Africa would be a playground of drugs and gangsters. This is exactly what the country is witnessing now, Cele says. He told...

Unpacking C&I sector issues in South Africa

Top of mind for the C&I sector in South Africa at the moment has shifted from power outages to burning topic such as grid access, grid connections and policy development around Eskom’s unbundling. “…What happens with the unbundling, who is...

South Africa’s new high-grade gold project secures $6m in fresh investment

Theta Gold Mines has raised an additional US$6 million (A$9.3 million) to accelerate construction of its flagship TGME gold project in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province, signalling renewed investor confidence in the country’s gold mining revival....