Africa’s children: 20 years on, what happened to the millennium babies?

Twenty years ago, the Guardian featured 10 newborn babies in countries across Africa, describing their births, their families and the environments they had been born into. We followed these babies at five-year intervals up to 2015 – the date the...

Using an Anti-KKK Law to End a Black-Only Scholarship

The Pacific Legal Foundation is known for filing lawsuits to end affirmative action in public education. In July, the conservative nonprofit law firm took its fight to the University of California, San Diego, targeting a scholarship for Black...

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...

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...

Vision 2050 to take centre stage during this year’s Tanzania Startup Week

Dar es Salaam. More than 2,000 startup founders, investors, policymakers and innovation leaders are expected to converge in Dar es Salaam from December 1 to 5, for the 2025 edition of Tanzania Startup Week, as the country positions itself at the...

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...

ACHPR 85th Session Opens with Calls for Stronger Human Rights Commitment in Africa

- Advertisement - By Alieu Jallow The 85th Ordinary Session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) is underway at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre in Banjul. The week-long gathering brings...

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...

Programme update for WomenIN Festival 2025

The WomenIN Festival 2025, in partnership with FNB, is thrilled to announce its updated programme. With only three weeks until the event, attendees are encouraged to secure their tickets now to join this transformative celebration of women’s...

Adolescent girls in West, Central Africa face severe challenges — UNICEF

West and Central Africa continue to grapple with some of the world's most severe challenges for adolescent girls including limited access to education and health services, pervasive gender-based violence, early marriage and discriminatory social...

From fragmentation to integration: Advancing inclusive interoperable digital identity systems for Africa

By Dr David ALEMZERO Digital identity is conceptualized as an assemblage of electronic characteristics that distinctly delineate an individual in the online realm. The verification of one’s identity is imperative for gaining access to various...

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...

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...

Africa’s emerging AI landscape: What’s happening and what’s next

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic concept; it is the engine quietly, and sometimes loudly, reshaping how we live, work, and think. From healthcare and banking to education and manufacturing, AI is redefining possibilities...

Chapel Hill Denham Group CEO, Bolaji Balogun, wins 2024/2025 Zik Prize in Professional Leadership

Bolaji Balogun The Founder/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Chapel Hill Denham Group, Mr. Bolaji Balogun, has beaten other nominees to bag the 2024/2025 Zik Prize in Professional Leadership. According to the Advisory Board of the Public Policy...

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....

Hubtel’s Daniel Frimpong calls for unified financial systems to drive Africa’s Economic Integration

Across Africa, the story of digital transformation is being rewritten by our very own people. The MOBEX Africa Tech Conference 2025 brought together industry leaders, regulators, and entrepreneurs shaping the continent’s next chapter of growth...

General : Anwar Calls For Renewed Commitment To Dialogue, Peace And Multilateralism At East Asia Summit

By Mohd Khairi Idham Amran, Ahmad Aidi Syukri Hamzah and Kuvineshwaren Nedunjelian KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 27 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has called on East Asia Summit (EAS) leaders to renew their shared purpose and reaffirm...

Why Nigeria Isn’t On IMF List Of Fastest-Growing African Economies – Obi

Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has decried Nigeria’s absence from the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) list of Africa’s fastest-growing economies. The IMF recently listed Benin Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia,...