Across Sub-Saharan Africa, small-scale farmers are already changing how they grow crops, manage water, raise livestock and diversify incomes in response to drought, erratic rainfall and rising temperatures. The more troubling finding from a new systematic review is that many of these adaptations can improve food security, yet the institutions needed to spread them remain…
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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.
South Africa’s governing coalition is facing one of its biggest tests yet after the Democratic Alliance (DA), the second-largest party in the Government of National Unity (GNU), asked the High Court to strike down the country’s controversial Expropriation Act, the same legislation that fuelled a diplomatic dispute with U.S. President Donald Trump and intensified concerns…
