The Nairobi AI Forum 2026, convened on 9 and 10 February at a gathering that drew more than 500 participants from Africa, Europe, and the G7, has emerged as a defining moment for the continent's ar…
The African Union has urged member states to strengthen cross-border agricultural cooperation as prolonged droughts and erratic rainfall continue to strain food production across the continent.…
Senegal has completed a landmark constitutional reform process that devolves significant powers to regional and municipal authorities, fundamentally reshaping the relationship between the state and…
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 infrastr…
Ghana's national telemedicine programme has transformed healthcare access for millions of citizens living in rural and peri-urban communities, deploying digital health solutions that connect patien…
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 billio…
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 attracti…
Ethiopia's evolving federal system is delivering greater regional autonomy in practice, with newly empowered regional states developing distinctive policy approaches to economic development, educat…
Africa has secured co-hosting rights for a future FIFA World Cup, a continental celebration decades in the making that will bring the world's most watched sporting event to the continent with the y…
Ghana's network of coding academies and technology training centres has become a continental reference point for digital skills development, producing a generation of engineers and software develop…
A digital education revolution is reshaping learning across the African continent, with satellite-delivered, mobile-based, and AI-assisted distance learning platforms breaking down the geographic b…
Dar es Salaam has inaugurated the third and final phase of its Bus Rapid Transit system, completing a network that now carries over one million passengers daily and has reduced average cross-city j…