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SanlamAllianz Re celebrates excellence and innovation at SAZRe Synapse 2025

SanlamAllianz Re (SAZ Re) (www.SanlamAllianzRe.com), one of Africa’s leading reinsurance providers operating across more than 45 countries, successfully hosted SAZRe Synapse 2025: a three-day event that brought together thought leaders, industry experts, and changemakers to explore the forces shaping Africa’s future. Synapse: A Platform for Inspiration, Disruption, and Connection More ....

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South Africa: Minister Zikalala prioritises delayed payment of contractors​

Public Works and Infrastructure Minister, Sihle Zikalala, has vowed to intensify operation pay-on-time and urgently put an end to failure to pay service providers in the construction industry within 30 days. Minister Zikalala was speaking at the National Stakeholder Forum convened by the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) which is ....

Capacity building key to overcoming challenges in women’s political participation

Traditionally, across South Sudan, women and girls have been disproportionately affected by conflict. Add to this, cultural norms, such as early or forced marriages, and there is a significant gap in attaining equal rights for women. As this young nation approaches its first post-independence elections, the need for more women ....

Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah Repatriates Distressed Filipino-Sudanese Family

The Philippine Consulate General in Jeddah organized the repatriation flight of Ms. Fairodz Mohammad and her three children after successfully obtaining the necessary travel documents for Ms. Fairodz and her children. The family left Jeddah, Saudi Arabia via Emirates Airlines flight EK802 in the morning of 6 December 2023. They ....

Rising threats: Cybercriminals unleash 411,000 malicious files daily in 2023

Kaspersky’s (www.Kaspersky.co.za) detection systems discovered an average of 411,000 malicious files every day, which is an increase of nearly 3% in 2023 compared to the previous year. Particular types of threats also escalated: experts observed a marked surge of 53% in attacks involving malicious Microsoft Office and other types of ....

São Tomé and Príncipe: African Development Bank Group extends $17.4 million to support public finance and energy sector reforms

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved $17.4 million in grants for Sao Tome and Príncipe to shore up the national budget and enhance public service delivery as part of the economic response to support public finance and energy sector reforms following several external ....

Burundi: African Development Bank signs two grant agreements to improve water supply and boost climate change resilience

In Bujumbura, on 21 November 2023, the Government of Burundi and the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) signed two grant agreements totalling $13.15 million to implement Phase 1 of the Water Sector and Climate Resilience Building Support Programme (PASEREC-Phase1). Burundian Minister of Finance, Budget and Economic Planning, Audace Niyonzima, and the ....

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