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Intelligent Systems, Fragile States: What AI and Blockchain Demand of Africa’s Peace and Security
On Thursday last week, I joined a fireside chat on the main stage at the Africa Blockchain Festival 2026 in Nairobi, moderated by Nicole Jamu, to talk about continental regulatory harmonization. The session title said it all: One Market, Fifty-Four Rulebooks. The festival theme, “Capital, Code, and Continuity: Building Africa’s Permanent Digital Economy,” is the…
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Kenya, Tanzania and Congo corridors to drive East Africa trade growth by 2035
Kenya-DRC and Tanzania-DRC Corridors have been identified as the key links that will drive East Africa trade. Within the Southern Africa region, higher integration will drive its share of total intra-Africa exports to a third by 2035. The MENA Region and the Middle East-East Africa corridors will also be substantial, with combined trade volume expected…
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Nigeria launches national cancer biobank network in push to close precision medicine gap
The National Cancer Biobank Network (NCBN) will initially recruit and catalogue 10,000 cancer biospecimens, with ambitions to scale to 100,000 samples by 2028. The next phase will focus on capacity building within the eight federal hospitals, harmonisation of biobanking procedures, roll out of common data and quality standards. Nigeria has begun implementing a nationally coordinated…
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Who is teaching young people to manage money?
Source: The Daily Monitor
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Source: The Daily Monitor
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Monetary policy’s dilemma
Source: The Daily Monitor
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Equity Bank lines up green loans, leasing for hotel energy upgrades
Minister of State for Energy and Mineral Development Phiona Nyamutoro has urged Uganda’s hospitality industry to treat clean energy as a business investment, as the government launched a national programme to cut hotels’ energy costs.
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PRAU@50: PR practitioners urged to prove their value
JINJA – Public relations practitioners in Uganda need stronger professional skills and better ways of measuring the results of their work, according to a report launched on Wednesday at the opening of the Public Relations Association of Uganda’s (PRAU) 50th anniversary conference.
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African CEOs confident on growth but lag behind on AI, KPMG survey finds
Most African business leaders are confident about growth, but few believe their companies are keeping up with artificial intelligence (AI), according to a survey by professional services firm KPMG.
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Uganda, Somalia sign labour deal to protect more than 20,000 Ugandan workers
Uganda and Somalia have signed a labour agreement that sets out new protections for Ugandans working in Somalia, including written contracts, wages paid into personal bank accounts, and employer-funded travel and insurance.
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