South Africa’s new rollover regime will protect unused data, voice, and SMS bundles from January 2027, but only if they remain more than 7 days. That leaves daily and weekly buyers, including many low-income users, outside the automatic safeguard.
African ministers have adopted the Luanda Declaration, setting 2027 and 2028 deadlines for financing mechanisms and national blue-economy plans. The agreement links fisheries, ports, trade, conservation and jobs to a costed continental roadmap through 2030.
TotalEnergies is buying Shell’s 4 GW European onshore renewables business while selling KKR half of a separate 1.2 GW portfolio, valued at €1.8 billion. The paired transactions add development options and release capital from more mature assets.
Kenyan-Rwandan eWAKA has placed 13th in MobilityX Africa’s 2026 ranking of 50 mobility companies assessed from more than 250 applicants. Its 1,200-plus electric vehicles have supported more than 1.1 million deliveries across Kenya and Rwanda.
KCB Foundation and its partners have launched a nine-month programme to give 30,000 Kenyan dairy farmers usable digital transaction histories. The project will work through 60 cooperatives and producer organisations across three regions.
South Africa’s new rollover regime will protect unused data, voice, and SMS bundles from January 2027, but only if they remain more than 7 days. That leaves daily and weekly buyers, including many low-income users, outside the automatic safeguard.
A US State Department presentation at AIDS 2026 displayed a map that mislabelled every African country. The image, which Reuters reported carried an artificial-intelligence watermark, was corrected only after screenshots spread online.
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is expanding without a licensed vaccine or approved specific treatment. Containment depends on early reporting, safe care and cooperation with contact tracers.
Mosquito-borne diseases are reaching new places as heat, rainfall shifts, urbanisation and travel reshape transmission. The warning is global, but Africa already carries the overwhelming share of malaria illness and death.
MTN Ghana has rejected allegations that its mobile money business used Clydestone Ghana’s intellectual property without authorisation or compensation. The dispute dates back to work Clydestone says it performed in 2007.
Nigeria’s Public Complaints Commission has asked the Federal Capital Territory’s transport authorities to address complaints involving ride-hailing platforms. Drivers cite low fares, high commissions and arbitrary account deactivations.
CMS Consequence Metrics proposes five lenses for judging African progress: value retention, knowledge transfer, custodianship, consequence literacy and civic agency.
A comparative study covering 2000-2025 links lethal policing with weak rule of law, militarisation and institutional impunity across contrasting political systems. The evidence is constrained by uneven availability of global data.
A survey of 182 LASUSTECH architecture students found weak ratings for studio design and indoor environmental quality, while 78.1% said poor conditions increased stress.
A study of 89 Indonesian companies finds sustainability reporting is positively associated with market value, but current profitability does not explain the connection.
Nigeria’s latest VAT circular leaves the 7.5% rate in place; however, it rewrites the operational questions that determine liability: where a supply occurs, when tax becomes chargeable, what value is taxed and which input costs can be credited.
Africa’s ESG challenge is no longer a shortage of commitments. It is the difficulty of turning global standards into measurable action across markets shaped by uneven regulation, informal supply chains and scarce transition finance.
Africa is attracting increasing investment in clean energy, climate finance and sustainable development; however, one critical resource remains in short supply: skilled people.
Sugar-sweetened beverage sales increased in all nine African countries studied between 2010 and 2024, with per-capita growth reaching 173.8% in Cameroon and 119.1% in Nigeria.
Africa holds about 30% of global critical-mineral reserves, yet the strategic contest is increasingly about processing, finance and durable partnerships rather than deposits alone.
When an energy project fails, silence rarely contains the problem. It allows rumours, fear and conflicting accounts to define it.
US venture capital set eye-catching records in the first half of 2026, but the recovery remains unusually narrow. PitchBook and NVCA data show that AI, billion-dollar rounds and established fund managers are absorbing most of the capital, leaving smaller companies and emerging managers to navigate a market where headline value and broad liquidity tell different stories.
Africa’s energy transition is often framed as a financing challenge. While capital remains essential, it cannot compensate for weak governance, poor stakeholder engagement or businesses that fail to earn public trust. ESG is no longer a corporate buzzword; it is becoming a strategic advantage for African energy companies seeking to attract investment and deliver sustainable growth.
Deloitte's Bridging the Climate Finance Gap report (January 2026) flags a critical figure: $472 billion, the maximum annual sum Article 6-enabled, harmonised carbon markets could deliver by 2035.
The WEF's June 2026 report identifies five tailwinds and five headwinds shaping the Regenerative Blue Economy. For Africa, the message is urgent: today's choices could unlock trillion-dollar regenerative industries, or entrench decline for ecosystems supporting hundreds of millions.
Over 600 million Africans live in cities facing rising temperatures, rapid urbanisation, and strained electricity grids. Growing demand for cooling is driving a surge in individual air conditioners, worsening peak-load stress, urban heat islands, and household energy costs.
Africa’s climate and development story is still too often framed elsewhere, through crisis, compliance and risk, while African evidence, innovators and communities remain supporting characters.
Global business has not retreated from sustainability: 92% of leaders expect competitive advantage, while 89% maintained or increased climate-related investment.
The Future Action Summit (FAS) Thailand 2025, organized by the global youth-led organization Echo Change, is a four-day international summit distinct from the UN's "Summit of the Future" that convened in September 2024. FAS Thailand is specifically designed as a launchpad for youth-led action, driving tangible progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
New York City hosts the UNGA High-Level Week and Global Goals Week, bringing together world leaders, civil society, business, academia, and youth with a unified focus on accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and fostering a more sustainable future.
ICSD 2025 brings together global experts to align research, policy, and practice around key SDGs. Focused on interdisciplinary solutions, with emphasis on education and capacity and building for sustainable progress by 2030.
The largest global climate convening of the year, aligning with UNGA 80 and Global Goals Week to accelerate climate solutions through over 900 events; with an am of shifting climate discourse from problem awareness to practical implementation, emphasising economic opportunity, innovation, and cross-sector collaboration.
A quadrennial global gathering of conservation leaders, policy‑makers, Indigenous Peoples, and innovators, convening to shape the global nature agenda through bold themes, science, equity, and collective action.
A premier annual gathering in Berlin, bringing together global leaders across politics, science, business, and civil society to shape the future of health under the theme “Taking Responsibility for Health in a Fragmenting World.”
A dynamic one-day festival uniting global innovators and leaders in Vienna to showcase and accelerate climate‑tech solutions—from startups to researchers—culminating in the Climate Launchpad 2025 Global Grand Final.
Bringing together Africa’s sustainability ecosystem. This hybrid gathering is tailored for policymakers, investors, corporate leaders, and NGOs, focusing on ESG frameworks, climate finance, and sustainable innovation to drive Africa’s green transition.
Summary and evidence-based insights into corporate, government, and organisational sustainability disclosures across Africa, highlighting achievements, uncovering gaps, and spotlight opportunities for progress.
