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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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…
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…
Private security officers stand guard at the entrance of the VinFast electric vehicle plant in Thoothukudi, in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on Aug. 4, 2025
South Africa and Nigeria have agreed to rebuild trust and de-escalate diplomatic tensions after weeks of anti-migrant protests, xenophobic rhetoric and security concerns strained relations between Africa’s two largest economies.
Ghana has approved a 5 billion cedi ($430 million) allocation to finance gold purchases as the country deepens its strategy of building bullion reserves to strengthen its foreign exchange position. However, the latest move also marks a significant shift in who bears the financial risk.
East Africa’s largest independent media company has resumed operations in Uganda after the country’s military chief, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, President Yoweri Museveni’s son and widely seen as his political heir, lifted a weeks-long shutdown that had silenced some of the country’s biggest newspapers, television stations and radio outlets.
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