Africa's push to accelerate sustainable agricultural mechanization gained fresh momentum in early February 2026, as Tanzania's Prime Minister Mwigulu Nchemba launched the country's National Agricultur…
The Africa Business Convention 2026, held on 3 and 4 February at the Lagos Continental Hotel, brought together an unprecedented gathering of policymakers, business leaders, investors, innovators, and …
Africa's Green Economy Summit (AGES) 2026 opened in Cape Town in late February with the Climate, Carbon and Nature Financing Academy, a multi-day intensive programme designed to translate ambitious cl…
Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director General of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), is leading the most ambitious health sovereignty campaign in the continent's history, rallying …
One of Africa's most strategically significant infrastructure projects broke ground in early 2026 as construction began on the Lobito Corridor railway extension, a one-billion-dollar greenfield invest…
Mozambique's network of marine protected areas, covering nearly 10 percent of its vast Indian Ocean coastline, is demonstrating measurable recovery in coral reef ecosystems and fish populations that h…
Morocco's extraordinary craft heritage — encompassing ceramics, leather, textiles, metalwork, woodcarving, and carpet-weaving traditions that span centuries — is successfully modernising for global ma…
The International Monetary Fund has raised its economic growth forecast for Sub-Saharan Africa to 4.5 percent for 2025, citing improving commodity revenues, easing inflation, and a wave of infrastruct…
Nigeria has achieved a historic agricultural milestone, producing sufficient domestic rice to meet national demand for the first time in modern history — eliminating what was previously a $2 billion a…
Ghana's government has announced a landmark policy that will eliminate tuition fees for students enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programmes at all public universities, be…
South Africa has established itself as Africa's space power, operating the continent's most sophisticated satellite programme and hosting world-class radio astronomy infrastructure that is attracting …
Ethiopia's evolving federal system is delivering greater regional autonomy in practice, with newly empowered regional states developing distinctive policy approaches to economic development, education…