TFF returns in grand style, showcasing Tanzania’s fashion evolution

The Tanzania Fashion Festival (TFF) returns on Saturday, October 18, bringing together designers, models, and style enthusiasts under one roof at the elegant Delta by Marriott in Dar es Salaam. Marking the eighth edition, the evening is a...

South African Amapiano star Vigro Deep, Lil Maina to headline Beneath the Baobabs Festival

Beneath the Baobabs Festival has announced its first wave of performers for this year’s New Year’s Eve celebration, promising a diverse mix of sounds and global talent as it marks over a decade of music and culture in Kilifi. The festival, now one...

“I Would Rather Settle In Other African Countries Than Return To Nigeria” — Abroad Life

The Nigerian experience is physical, emotional, and sometimes international. No one knows it better than our features on #TheAbroadLife, a series where we detail and explore Nigerian experiences while living abroad. Ken (49) left Nigeria almost...

Perri is King at Forty Under 40 South Africa

Faith and Fear has announced that its co-founder and executional lead, Perri King, has been named a 2025 Forty Under 40 Award winner, a prestigious national honour celebrating South Africa’s most outstanding emerging leaders under the age of 40....

Sterling Bank ignites Africa’s green growth agenda with ‘Agriculture Summit Africa 2025’

Africa’s agricultural rebirth gathers momentum as Agriculture Summit Africa (ASA) 2025, the continent’s foremost platform for advancing sustainable and inclusive agricultural transformation, returns under the bold theme ‘Survival of the Greenest:...

Launch your career with dentsu South Africa

[PRESS OFFICE] Dentsu South Africa, one of the country’s leading integrated advertising and media agencies, is proud to announce the launch of its 2026 paid internship programme. This opportunity is now open to recent graduates and part-time...

Namibia can grow economy at 5% per annum

STAFF WRITER Chief Executive Officer of the Namibia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NCCI) and vice-chairperson of the Namibia Public–Private Partnership, Titus Nampala has said its possible for Namibia to grow its economy by 5% per annum. He...

Climate Challenges and Innovations in African Maize Farming Enhance Food Security

Corn remains the main crop on the African continent, but drought and climate change have put the region’s food security under serious pressure. The average maize yield in Africa is about 2.1 t/ha, significantly lower than global figures. Many...

NETSCOUT: Northern Africa’s telecom sector faces surge in sophisticated DDoS attacks

NETSCOUT SYSTEMS has released its latest global threat intelligence report revealing how DDoS hits are intensifying across North Africa. The findings highlight that telecommunications providers – both wired and wireless – were the primary targets...

Africa’s air links are poor: can the G20 push for more direct flights to improve tourism and trade?

In Africa, less than one in five continental airline routes are direct. Air connections are decided by factors like trade levels, diplomatic relations, and whether there’s enough demand to make a route financially worthwhile. Because there are so...

Internet blackout deepens tensions after disputed election in Cameroon

Internet connectivity across Cameroon has been severely disrupted, leaving millions of users offline amid growing political tension following the country’s disputed presidential election earlier this month. The outage began on Wednesday and has...

Nigeria’s entertainment sector grows 11.2%, outpaces Kenya, South Africa

Nigeria has recorded the fastest growth in Africa’s entertainment and media industry, according to PwC’s Africa Entertainment and Media Outlook 2025–2029 report. The report revealed that Nigeria grew by 11.2 per cent in 2024, ahead of Kenya at 7.1...

CAMEROONIANS MUST RISE AND DEFEND THEIR VOTES

A stolen election, dressed in constitutional formality, is broad daylight robbery sanctified by cowards. “These are the times that try men’s souls.” When Thomas Paine wrote those immortal words in the winter of revolution during the American war...

AFRICA/LIBYA - Resignation of vicar apostolic of Tripoli

Why African agriculture is central to solving world hunger and climate issues ?

African agriculture has the potential to advance up to 50% of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), yet the sector remains severely underfunded, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in collaboration with...

Young South Africans face financial struggles: saving feels like a distant dream

As the cost of living in South Africa continues to rise, young South Africans are grappling with a financial reality that feels more constraining than ever before. With youth unemployment soaring to an alarming 62.4% among those aged 18 to 24, the...

From policy to action: How Kigali became ground zero for Africa’s connectivity revolution

Public urged to verify online deals through ScamAlert.Africa

Online scams continue to rise across Zimbabwe and the African continent AS online scams continue to rise across Zimbabwe and the African continent, a new digital initiative ScamAlert.Africa has been launched to help citizens identify, report and...

Tanzanian family gives police deadline to reveal whereabouts of Chadema deputy chairperson John Heche

Tarime. The family of John Heche, the Mainland Deputy Chairperson of the opposition party Chadema, has given the police until tomorrow, Friday, October 24, 2025, to reveal his whereabouts, failing which they will begin searching for him themselves...

Youth-led movements reshaping Africa’s democracy, says Toyin Falola

Toyin Falola, a renowned professor of history, says youth-led movements are among the most transformative forces shaping Africa’s democracy and development. Falola, who holds the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker chair in the humanities at the...