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Public Health

The global health system can build back better after US aid cuts – here’s how

Jonathan E. Cohen 8 Aug 2025

Source: Reuters.

Finance

Bessent no-show, Brics tensions set to cast shadow over Durban G20 meeting

Colleen Goko and Kopano Gumbi 15 Jul 2025

Image credit: Nadezhda Moryak on Pexels

HIV/AIDS

Funding crisis threatens progress in fight against HIV/Aids

11 Jul 2025

Image credit: Anna from Pixabay

Malaria

Codix Bio to produce HIV, malaria test kits amid USAid cutbacks

Ben Ezeamalu 20 Jun 2025

Breaking the HIV bottleneck: Why sub-Saharan Africa must lead the way

HIV/AIDS

Breaking the HIV bottleneck: Why sub-Saharan Africa must lead the way

Bertie Jacobs, Issued by North-West University (NWU) 12 Jun 2025

Africa's future in food security relies on cooling infrastructure

Supply Chain

Africa's future in food security relies on cooling infrastructure

Samuel Jacobs 16 May 2025

Source: © UNESCO
This year, World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, will focus on the profound influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on journalism and media under the theme: Reporting in the Brave New World – The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Press Freedom and the Media

Media Freedom

World Press Freedom Day 2025: The impact of AI on media and press freedom

2 May 2025

Healthcare

Africa’s healthcare funding crisis: 3 strategies to manage deadly diseases

Francisca Mutap 24 Apr 2025

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

African credit ratings can absorb aid cuts and trade strains, Fitch says

10 Apr 2025

From the decline of development aid to the rise of a reformed social sector

Markets & Investment

From the decline of development aid to the rise of a reformed social sector

Issued by Next Generation 27 Mar 2025

Source: Reuters.

HIV/AIDS

Kenya HIV patients live in fear as US aid freeze strands drugs in warehouse

Aaron Ross, Tim Cocks and Vivianne Wandera 13 Mar 2025

Financial Services

Trump's USAID freeze boosts local nurse-led clinics in South African townships

11 Mar 2025

Source: Reuters. Young residents carry water home after filling up a bottle at a community filling station in the informal settlement of Kanana after individuals died from cholera in Hammanskraal, South Africa, 24 May, 2023.

Finance

Former African presidents demand action as debt crisis reaches historic levels

Katja Hamilton 27 Feb 2025

Lesetja Kganyago, Governor of the South African Reserve Bank speaks during an interview on the sidelines of the G20 Finance Ministers meeting at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa, 25 February 2025. Reuters/Nic Bothma

Climate Change

No-shows, aid cuts mar G20 meet on global poverty

Kopano Gumbi and Andy Bruce 27 Feb 2025

Source: © The Chiswick Calendar The BBC has announced a new way of working internationally by grouping the world into six distinct areas. To fund these positions, leadership roles in London will close.

Media

BBC's new model to fight misinformation and serve regional audiences

27 Feb 2025

Source: Pexels.

Healthcare

Africa relies too heavily on foreign aid for health – 4 ways to fix this

Francisca Mutapi 25 Feb 2025

Source: Reuters.

HIV/AIDS

Trump's aid cuts stop South African HIV vaccine trials in their tracks

Catherine Schenck 19 Feb 2025

Media Freedom

Trump’s foreign aid freeze disrupts global journalism

19 Feb 2025

Markets & Investment

Expropriation – what it means for your finances

Warren Wilkinson 13 Feb 2025

Financial Services

South Africa, Trump and the EWC

Issued by Aluma Capital 4 Feb 2025

Economy

"Trump’s aid review is a win for Africa"

NJ Ayuk 6 Feb 2025

Laurent Muschel, HERA Director General, and Jean Kaseya, Africa CDC Director General, stand near mpox vaccines as first batches arrive at N'Djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 5 September 2024. Reuters/Justin Makangara/File Photo

Health & Social Welfare

Africa's top health official presses US to resume health aid

Jennifer Rigby 6 Feb 2025

#MiningIndaba: Minerals Council says Trump funding freeze won’t affect mine HIV treatment

Health & Safety

#MiningIndaba: Minerals Council says Trump funding freeze won’t affect mine HIV treatment

Lindsey Schutters 5 Feb 2025

HIV/AIDS

‘I’m breaching my Hippocratic oath’ – Trump’s foreign aid freeze halts key HIV programmes

29 Jan 2025

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Climate Change

SA calls on US to reconsider withdrawal from Paris Agreement

24 Jan 2025

In the 2000s activists across the world campaigned for antiretroviral treatment to be made available to people with HIV. One of the consequences of this was PEPFAR, the United States government’s foreign aid HIV programme. Since 2003 it has saved millions of lives. But now its future is unclear. Photo from the Treatment Action Campaign’s march for HIV treatment in Cape Town on 14 February 2003. (photographer unknown)

CSI & Philanthropy

Trump’s sudden suspension of foreign aid puts millions of lives in Africa at risk

Liezl Human 23 Jan 2025

Doja Cat, Post Malone, and Rauw Alejandro to headline 2024 Global Citizen Fest in NYC's Central Park

Music

Doja Cat, Post Malone, and Rauw Alejandro to headline 2024 Global Citizen Fest in NYC's Central Park

Issued by OnPoint PR 19 Jun 2024

Social Media

US Senate approves bill to pressure TikTok sale

24 Apr 2024

AEC: 'African nations must reject promises of aid and handouts to abandon their oil and gas as COP28 wraps up'

Energy

African Energy Chamber is an outspoken advocate for African oil and gas

NJ Ayuk 10 Dec 2023

Source: © 123rf Sue Blaine, Flow Communications, says ethical storytelling avoids harmful narratives and stereotyping and shows all people, wherever they are, as being capable and innovative

Publishing

5 considerations for ethical storytelling

Sue Blaine 17 Nov 2023

More talent joins Global Citizen's 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Events

More talent joins Global Citizen's 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Issued by OnPoint PR 8 Jun 2023

Ugandan human rights lawyer and activist leads fellow activists to file a petition challenging the signing of the new Anti-homosexuality law by President Yoweri Museveni, at the constitution court in Kampala, Uganda, 29 May 2023. Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa

Legislation & Regulation

Uganda enacts harsh anti-LGBTQ law including death penalty

Reuters 30 May 2023

Source: Supplied. Harry Scherzer, chief executive officer of Future Forex.

Banking

The great forex ripoff: how banks win twice on every foreign-currency transaction

Harry Scherzer 24 May 2023

Global Citizen announces 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Events

Global Citizen announces 'Power Our Planet: Live in Paris'

Issued by OnPoint PR 24 May 2023

South Africa faces a hydrogen skills crisis

Skills Development

South Africa faces a hydrogen skills crisis

Yershen Pillay 20 Dec 2022

Global Citizen launches a new campaign: End Extreme Poverty Now - Our Future Can't Wait

Inclusion, Empowerment & Social Justice

Global Citizen launches a new campaign: End Extreme Poverty Now - Our Future Can't Wait

Issued by OnPoint PR 30 Mar 2022

Africans call on global community to honour commitment to 'just, inclusive' energy transition

Energy

Africans call on global community to honour commitment to 'just, inclusive' energy transition

NJ Ayuk 25 Oct 2021

A coal beacon hill mine in Tete. Joshua Kirshner, Author provided

Mining

Mozambique's fossil fuel drive is entrenching poverty and conflict

Joshua Kirshner, Daniela Salite & Matthew Cotton 3 Aug 2021

NJ Ayuk, Africa Energy Chamber executive chairman

Sustainability

Net zero? Not for Africa. Not yet.

NJ Ayuk 28 May 2021

International aid to Africa needs an overhaul. Tips on what needs to change

CSI & Philanthropy

International aid to Africa needs an overhaul. Tips on what needs to change

Tigist Mekonnen Melesse 18 May 2021

NJ Ayuk, executive chairman, African Energy Chamber

Coal, Oil & Gas

Greenpeace and Western anti-Africa energy groups take the wrong approach

NJ Ayuk 19 Apr 2021

A teacher holds a child as young women learn business skills at Centre D'Apprentissage Feminin (C.A.FE.) in Bamako, Mali, Africa in June 2018. The school is funded by the Canadian NGO Education internationale, a co-operative offering exchange and development services in education. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Sean Kilpatrick

NGO, NPO & Social Enterprise

Covid-19 is stifling NGO efforts to promote gender equality when it's most needed

Andrea Paras 11 Dec 2020

Energy resources can spark Africa's economic growth

Coal, Oil & Gas

Energy resources can spark Africa's economic growth

NJ Ayuk 4 Nov 2020

Professor Justine Davies

Covid-19

Covid-19 and the need for whole health systems in sub-Saharan Africa

Justine Davies 30 Apr 2020

China: Rise of a new philanthropic power

CSI & Philanthropy

China: Rise of a new philanthropic power

Fabrice Jaumont and Charles Sellen 10 Feb 2020

Overcoming the leadership deficit in Africa

Education & Skills Development

Overcoming the leadership deficit in Africa

Hatim Eltayeb 29 Jan 2020

On the sidelines of the FT Africa Summit, President Cyril Ramaphosa met former Prime Minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair at the Claridge's in London.

Markets & Investment

Get more bang for your buck by investing in Africa

15 Oct 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty.

Media

Donor-funded journalism is on the rise in Africa: why it needs closer scrutiny

12 Jul 2019

Image source: Gallo/Getty Images.

Marketing & Media

The African narrative: For Africans, by Africans

Yaw Dwomoh 30 May 2019