Business leaders, innovators meet at SAP Innovation Day in Lagos
LAGOS, Nigeria, September 18th, 2025-/ West African business leaders, technology partners and SAP experts met in Lagos this week to explore a bold new vision for business to thrive in an increasingly competitive technology environment. Shiraz Khota, Managing Director: Emerging Africa at SAP, said: “Organisations across the region are leveraging the latest technologies to build […]
Huawei named a Leader in the Gartner ® Magic Quadrant TM for Enterprise Storage Platforms, 2025
SHENZHEN, China, September 18, 2025 /African Media Agency (AMA)/ – The internationally renowned analyst firm Gartner® has released the “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Storage Platforms, 2025.” Huawei has been placed in the Leaders Quadrant, the only non–North American vendor to do so. Huawei Data Storage named a Leader in the Magic Quadrant Huawei Data Storage […]
Cape Town To Host Global Summit On Gender Equality In Agri-Food And Water Systems
● Join over 500 scientists, researchers, and changemakers uniting to drive real solutions for gender equality in food, land and water systems. ● A call to co-create solutions that accelerate gender equality in agri-food and water systems. Register before 26 September 2025. CGIAR, through the Accelerator on Gender Equality and Inclusion, the International Water Management […]
Africa Re-Union Debuts At FNB Art Joburg: Africa Turns The Map, The Table And The Story
The Africa Re-Union, a landmark artistic initiative, was unveiled at the FNB Art Joburg on 04 September 2025, transforming the fair into a stage of reclamation and imagination, where art became manifesto and memory became movement. It reverses the context of the infamous 1884 Berlin Conference— where Africa was carved and divided without consent — by […]
African Voices Of Science Launches To Strengthen Continent’s Role In Global Health Research And Innovation
Today marks the official launch of the second edition of the African Voices of Science (AVoS), a continental initiative led by Speak Up Africa, dedicated to strengthening Africa’s voice and role in global health research, development, and innovation (RD&I). For decades, Africa has been portrayed as a passive recipient of solutions designed elsewhere. This narrative […]
Shared Interest Launches A New Partnership To Close South Africa’s Gender Financing Gap
Shared Interest has announced a new phase of its work in South Africa aimed at closing the gender financing gap by unlocking capital for women-led businesses in the housing and agriculture space. The initiative is being rolled out in partnership with the DG Murray Trust (DGMT) and uMaStandi, a property financing company that supports township […]
Standard Bank To Host 5th SA SOC Investment Summit In Dubai – Connecting Gulf Capital With African Infrastructure Plans
South Africa’s ability to deliver on its ambitious infrastructure vision in the coming years will depend heavily on securing long-term domestic and foreign investment partnerships. With the National Development Plan setting a target to raise infrastructure investment from less than 20% of GDP to at least 30% by 2030 – which translates to more than […]
African Agriculture Holds Key To Global Sustainable Development
Strengthening African agriculture is one of the most powerful levers for advancing global development, according to a new report by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in collaboration with the Paris Peace Forum. The ‘African Agriculture Is the Key to Global Sustainable Development’ report shows that improving productivity in the sector could help achieve between 30% and 50% […]
Africa’s Flags: Symbols of Struggle, Unity, and Change
Flags across Africa are more than symbols—they are powerful narratives of anti-colonial resistance, independence, and regional unity. In Bamako, Malians recently raised the new flag of the Alliance of Sahel States, which features a baobab tree and stars for Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The flag’s green links back to Ethiopia’s historic tricolor, which inspired Pan-Africanism […]
ECOWAS Chair Signals Rapprochement in Historic Burkina Faso Visit
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has made a surprise visit to Burkina Faso, becoming the first ECOWAS leader to engage directly with a member of the breakaway Alliance of Sahel States (AES). Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso—the three members of the AES—formally withdrew from ECOWAS earlier this year to create the alliance. During his visit, […]
