However, power shortages and outdated power grids have become significant obstacles to the continent’s economic progress.

By Joyce OjanjiEvery dollar invested in drought resilience could avert up to ten times as much in future losses, says the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its Global ...

TikTok has announced a new commitment to upskill and train 3,000 content creators across Sub-Saharan Africa, through its ...

The Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) is a cornerstone of global infectious disease prevention. In 2024, WHO celebrated the 50th anniversary of this initiative.1 Since its inception in 1974, ...

The world has made unprecedented progress in vaccinating children against life-threatening diseases since WHO established the ...

Global efforts to protect children against diseases like measles, polio and tuberculosis have stalled since 2010, leaving ...

The economic costs of drought could rise by more than one-third in the next 10 years without urgent reforms to water policies ...

G: By the end of 2024, the country had reached 290 million 5G subscriptions, representing 24% of mobile connections. 5G ...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, is providing two loans totalling €370 million (US$429.37 million) to support the subsidiaries of Maroc ...

Recent data from CEIC indicates that the number of tobacco smokers in Malawi is decreasing. According to the data, by 2023, an estimated 11.2 percent of adult Malawians were smoking tobacco, with a ...

Although symbolically visible in some places across the continent, Turkey’s presence remains a work in progress.