Disney kicks off biggest festive campaign to date: Spark Joy This Holiday Unique and exciting fashion showcase featuring local retailers features a surprise appearance by Mickey Mouse Award-winning filmmaker and lifelong Disney fan Taika Waititi creates enchanting original short highlighting what makes the holidays special. Brand-new retail offerings including Moana 2 product supporting the release of the brand new animated adventure Disney Africa (www.Disney.co.za) today kicked off Spark Joy This […]

 Financial pressures in South Africa and across Africa have led to a surge in demand for cheaper products, creating a lucrative market for counterfeiters. This has even extended to electrical goods which have infiltrated between 40% to 80% (http://apo-opa.co/3YTloKH) of markets on the continent, posing a potentially lethal risk to millions of consumers. At best, they simply might not operate, but in the worst case, these products may result in […]

 RegTech Africa (www.RegTechAfrica.org) is proud to announce the inaugural WIRE 50 Event, a prestigious celebration honouring 50 women driving innovation, leadership, and impact in the fields of regulatory technology (RegTech), compliance, policy, and related disciplines across Africa and beyond. This event will be part of the International Women’s Day (IWD) 2025 celebrations, reflecting the year's IWD theme: "Accelerate Action." The WIRE 50 (Women in RegTech Excellence) honorees have demonstrated outstanding […]

 Africa Tech Festival (www.AfricaTechFestival.com) 2024 wrapped up last week, marking the most successful edition in the event’s 27-year history. Organised by Informa Tech, the event is Africa’s most extensive showcase of enterprise tech innovation, bringing together influential founders, business leaders, policymakers, investors, and startups. Building on the momentum of the event's first two days, the final day kicked off with an opening address by Alderman James Vos, Mayoral Committee Member for […]

 U.S. Government Agencies DFC and USAID Partner with Opportunity Bank to Launch the First-Ever U.S. Lending Program to Refugees and Host Communities in Africa. Kampala, Uganda — The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the U.S. government’s development finance agency, has signed an agreement with Opportunity Bank Uganda Ltd that will enable an increase in lending to refugee businesses and Ugandan host communities by up to $9 million (33 billion […]

 The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has formally urged the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) to reassess and lift the Level 3 travel advisory (“Reconsider Travel”) issued for Rwanda on October 7, 2024, due to the Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak. In a letter addressed to Hon. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of […]

 African Export-Import Bank (“Afreximbank” or the “Group”) (www.Afreximbank.com) has released the consolidated financial statements of the Bank and its subsidiaries, for the nine months ended 30 September 2024 (9M’2024). The Group delivered a solid performance, closing the third quarter in a strong financial position, evidenced by its healthy liquidity levels, better asset quality, and robust capital adequacy levels. The Group’s profitability for the nine-month (“9M”) reporting period met expectations and […]

 Approximately one in six war-wounded patients treated at the Bashair Teaching Hospital in south Khartoum since January 2024 have been under the age of 15, medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today. Many suffered gunshot, blast and shrapnel wounds. Doctors are also concerned about the spike in children arriving at the hospital severely malnourished. MSF teams working alongside hospital staff have treated more than 4,214 patients for trauma injuries […]

 The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) and the Systematic Observations Financing Facility (SOFF), a United Nations Multi-Partner Trust Fund, today signed a letter of intent to strengthen collaboration on the provision of early warning systems in the continent’s most vulnerable countries. The agreement, signed on the margins of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 29) in Baku, […]