[Mastercard Foundation] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Last week, over 100 AI engineers and data scientists graduated from the Sustainable Access to Finance to Enable Entrepreneurship (SAFEE) program, a partnership between Kifiya Financial Technology and the Mastercard Foundation.
[Mastercard Foundation] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Over 300 young people, government representatives, entrepreneurs, key partners and stakeholders in the apiculture and sericulture value chains gathered in Addis Ababa on March 24 for a youth learning summit and to recognise the
[New Times] If the United Nations were human, turning eighty this year, it might be pictured teetering on a frayed armchair, a lukewarm cup of tea forgotten beside it. Glasses perched on its nose, it would thumb through a worn copy of its own charter--pages creased from decades
Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo says he could have turned to a life of crime in Botswana had it not been for sport.
Timothy Omotoso was accused of raping several of his congregants in a trial that gripped the country.
[This Day] Imagine an Africa where economic growth and development are driven by Africans themselves, where innovation and empowerment are the catalysts for transformation.
President Mohamed Bazoum has been under house arrest since the 2023 military takeover.
[InfoWire] After U.S. President Donald Trump decisively cut financial aid to African countries, the European Union had an opportunity to expand its economic influence in the region. However, Europe is choosing a different path, and it appears that it may be time for African
President Tinubu restructures the NNPC, a company which has long struggled with corruption allegations.
[allAfrica] Women and girls will suffer devastating consequences from the USAID funding freeze
The Americans are among 37 people sentenced to death last September by a military court.
[New Times] Health minister Dr Sabin Nsanzimana on Tuesday, April 1, officiated the launch of TKMD Rwanda's auto-disable syringe manufacturing facility in Rwamagana District.
[IPS] United Nations -- The Trump administration's ground-rules are dangerously clear--and devastating.
[WFP] The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service is saving lives in places like Madagascar, Haiti and the Central African Republic - even as a funding shortfall bites
[allAfrica] Niger Frees Dozens Detained After Coup Including Former Top Officials
[State Department] Office of the SpokespersonApril 1, 2025
[UN News] Policymakers, researchers, the private sector and other stakeholders are meeting in Zambia's capital, Lusaka, over the next three days to chart a path toward sustainable development and resilience for the world's Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
[The Conversation Africa] Coconut trees are iconic plants found across the world's tropical regions. They're called "nature's supermarket" or the "tree of life" in several cultures because every part of the coconut tree is used. Its leaves can be used to thatch homes, its heart
[The Conversation Africa] More than five years since COVID was declared a pandemic, we're still facing the regular emergence of new variants of the virus, SARS-CoV-2.