Kenya, Aug 12 – Kenya is set to host a digital trade congress to discuss ways of easing barriers to cross-border commerce, including fragmented regulations, payment systems, logistics challenges, cybersecurity and gaps in digital trust
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Kwangu Liwewe AgyeiKwangu Liwewe Agyei is Africa Editor at New Lines magazine August 12, 2026 Share
Johannesburg, South Africa – Seventy years ago, Sophie Williams-de Bruyn was 18 when she joined about 20,000 women marching to the Union Buildings, the seat of South Africa’s apartheid government, to protest against the extension of the pass laws to Black women.
What is the past? It may seem a simple question to answer, but it is more complex than we might think at first. As science, politics, technologies and ways of thinking change, so does our understanding of what went before.
For decades, global efforts towards the eradication of malaria, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, have focused essentially on West and Central Africa, where the disease is most endemic.
South Africa commemorates on Sunday 70 years since the Women’s March of 1956, when around 20,000 women of all races marched to the administrative capital, Pretoria, to protest apartheid laws forcing Black women to carry passes that restricted their movement. It was a powerful moment in the fight against white minority rule
Africa’s future food security is being shaped not only in farmers’ fields, but also in laboratories, breeding programs, and data science classrooms where a new generation of scientists is acquiring the knowledge needed to breed the climate-smart, nutritious, and high-yielding crops of tomorrow.
When I interviewed a man I will call Charles as part of my research on classical music and abuse in South Africa, he shared a poem with me. He’d written it when he was studying music at university in South Africa.
The rocky peaks of Mt Kenya with glaciers in view. East Africa’s iconic glaciers are disappearing fast, with Mt Kenya, Kilimanjaro and the Rwenzori Mountains facing a future without permanent ice. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
PalmPay, one of Africa’s fastest-growing digital payments companies, is considering a listing in Hong Kong after reaching a valuation of more than $1 billion, positioning the company to become one of the continent’s few fintech unicorns to test public markets following the slowdown in global startup funding.
