Impassable roads, crater-like potholes, burst water pipes, mountains of trash, and grinding poverty are part of everyday life in South Africa’s communities. So too are unemployment, hunger, and crime.
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Greater investment in sustainable production, including healthier soils and climate-resilient seed systems, is key to strengthening Africa’s food systems, while finance and markets are important in helping farmers adopt new practices and withstand shocks, African agricultural experts say.
For years, satellite imagery has offered a window into one of the world’s most important conservation landscapes.
LIBREVILLE/LOS ANGELES –Africa is facing one of the world’s great energy windfalls. The continent holds roughly 125 billion barrels of confirmed oil reserves and more than 620 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, implying vast additional deposits still waiting to be discovered. At the same time, some 600 million Africans have no electricity at home,…
Africa’s fintech champions are preparing for a landmark moment. By the end of 2026, as many as four of the continent’s largest digital financial services companies could be publicly traded. Yet only one of them is listing at home.
Across Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya, organizations are expanding their use of cloud infrastructure, artificial intelligence, digital services, and connected operations. But more technology does not automatically create stronger security operations; many security teams are not short on data, but rather on time, context, and specialist capacity.
Nine of its ten teams advanced from the group stage, a 90 percent success rate that exceeded Europe’s 81 percent and far outpaced Asia’s 11 percent. The result demonstrated that Africa is competitive on the field.
One of the principal arteries of world trade has been chronically blocked for almost six months. Maritime traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has been reduced to a bare minimum since the first US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran at the end of February. Cargo ships have at times been fired on by Iranian forces; at others,…
South Africa’s Constitutional Court has blocked Shell-led exploration along the country’s Wild Coast, adding another legal setback to an offshore sector already struggling to keep pace with neighboring Namibia.
After a five-year long legal battle, the Constitutional Court of South Africa has blocked Shell and local partner Impact Africa’s permit to explore for oil and gas off the country’s East Coast, in a landmark victory for local communities and civil society.
