AFRICA

  From Bidi Bidi in Uganda to Dollo Ado in Ethiopia, refugee families are proving that economic opportunity can be as important as humanitarian assistance   NEWS ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | When Viola fled South Sudan with her one-year-old daughter, survival was her only concern. The journey to Uganda’s Bidi …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mogo, East Africa’s leading asset financier, has financed more than 500,000 smartphones across the region in just 14 months, underscoring growing demand for affordable digital credit and flexible payment plans that are helping consumers cope with rising economic pressures, it said on June …

  African governments are shifting carbon markets from fragmented project systems into state-controlled infrastructure that defines how environmental assets are measured, verified, and monetized.   SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | African governments are increasingly shifting from fragmented carbon projects to state-controlled systems that determine how environmental assets are measured, …

  African electricity systems are moving beyond state-owned utility models as governments increasingly rely on private capital to build new generation, storage, and grid infrastructure. This is creating more diversified power markets while redefining the role of utilities across the continent.   SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | African electricity …

KINSHASA, DRC | Xinhua | At the Kigonze camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Bunia, the capital of Ituri Province in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the daily struggle against Ebola begins with something as basic as water. Since early morning, Furha Jeannette, a displaced mother …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The African Public Relations Association (APRA) has signed a communications skilling memorandum of understanding with Node Group aimed at training 10,000 communication professionals across Africa over the next five years, in what the association describes as its largest free professional development initiative to date. …

KIGALI | Xinhua | Rwanda’s Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Yusuf Murangwa has unveiled the national budget for the fiscal year 2026/27 beginning on July 1, with estimated resources projected at nearly 7.8 trillion Rwandan francs (about 5.3 billion U.S. dollars), prioritizing agriculture, jobs, and economic stability. Presenting the …

  ECOTRUST Leads First Learning Series;  shares practical solutions to biodiversity loss and climate change.   Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | The African CSOs Biodiversity Alliance (ACBA) has launched the ACBA Biodiversity Academy (ABA), a new learning platform that will bring together biodiversity practitioners, community leaders, researchers and conservation …

  The fragile logistics corridor via Gulf states that connects African patients with critical Indian pharmaceuticals has been thrown into disarray with the Strait of Hormuz closed   NEWS ANALYSIS | AGENCIES | India has often been called the “pharmacy of the Global South,” and, for African countries, public health …

  ANALYSIS | KATRINE L WALLACE | As public health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo work to rein in a growing outbreak of a rare Ebola virus, other countries are establishing protocols for keeping their own populations safe. As of May 27, 2026, Congo has reported more than …