March 2, 2026 AFRIXCANS are increasingly online, but awareness and practice of digital safety remain low, an Afrobarometer telephone survey across seven African countries has found. Most adults in these countries access the internet frequently, but many remain unfamiliar with digital security measures and practice them inconsistently if at all, the survey shows. On average […]
February 17, 2026 LAW ministers from Commonwealth countries have agreed to focus on new measures aimed at strengthening legal protections for people amid growing democratic, economic and climate pressures. The commitments, set out in an outcome statement issued last weekend, followed three days of discussions in Fiji among ministers, with input from diverse stakeholders, including […]
January 27, 2026 AS Africa’s climate ambitions collide with tightening fiscal realities, attention is shifting from commitments to delivery. While governments across the continent have adopted climate and development strategies, turning these plans into bankable, investable projects remains a critical challenge. According to the Africa Climate Finance Tracking Report 2025, current climate finance flows meet […]
January 27, 2026 EDUCATION ranks third among the most important problems that Africans think require urgent government attention, up from sixth place in 2021/2023, the latest Afrobarometer Pan-Africa Profile reveals. The new report, based on 50,961 interviews conducted during Afrobarometer’s Round 10 surveys across 38 African countries in 2024/2025, shows that only half of citizens […]
December 9, 2025 VODACOM Tanzania has launched a sweeping expansion of its mobile money service, introducing M-Pesa Global Payment, a platform that allows Tanzanians to make seamless digital payments to merchants across the world. The service, unveiled in partnership with other mobile money companies, enables users to tap and pay globally using a tokenised M-Pesa […]
December 9, 2025 THE Africa Investment Forum (AIF) convened its first-ever “Mission 300 Day”, bringing together African governments, investors and development partners to accelerate plans to connect 300 million people to electricity by 2030. The event, held on the sidelines of the AIF 2025 Market Days this week, was co-hosted by the World Bank Group […]
August 22, 2005 THE International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) have strongly condemned new sanctions imposed by the US on four senior ICC officials, calling the move a direct attack on international justice and judicial independence. On August 20, the US State Department announced sanctions against two ICC judges — […]
August 13, 2025 YOUNG Africans lag behind their elders when it comes to political and civic participation, except for protest, according to a new Afrobarometer flagship report. Based on 53,444 face-to-face interviews, the largest generational disparity is in voting, where the youth (aged 18-35) trail their elders by a striking 18 percentage points. Youth are […]
August 13, 2025 THE African Development Bank (AfDB) is supporting Artificial Intelligence training to help speed up the implementation of the continent-wide development blueprint, Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. The training is part of broader efforts to enhance institutional and human capacity across the continent. Through its Joint Secretariat Support Office, the AfDB provided […]
June 20, 2025 THE Trump administration is to vet the social media accounts of applicants who apply for visas to study at institutions of higher learning, receive vocational training or take part in exchange programmes in America as US embassies around the world resume issuing such visas. The diplomatic missions will ask student visa applicants […]