Category: Key developments

Africa faces a $150B yearly infrastructure gap. Explore the causes, climate-finance shortfall, and opportunities for investment across key sectors.

The U.S. retail giant Walmart has officially opened its first store under the Walmart name in South Africa, marking a major step in its African expansion.

Meta has completed the core construction of 2Africa, the subsea cable system it calls the world’s longest open-access network.

A total of 30 startups have been shortlisted as finalists for the Latitude59 Kenya Pitch Competition, emerging from a field of 222 applications submitted from 27 different countries.

South Africa’s pan-African operator Vodacom Group has announced a major new agreement with Starlink, the satellite broadband service developed by SpaceX, to bring high-performance internet connectivity across the African continent, including to underserved rural regions.

The launch of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) was honoured this week in Mombasa, Kenya, during the 7th Biennial Scientific Conference on Medical Products Regulation in Africa (SCoMRA VII).

Tech giant Google has announced a landmark collaboration with Africa-focussed infrastructure company Cassava Technologies, aimed at making artificial intelligence tools more affordable and accessible across the continent — a region widely regarded as the youngest and fastest-growing digital market in the world.

Sierra Leone has taken a major step toward transforming its agricultural sector and attracting large-scale investment through the inaugural Sierra Leone Agrifood Investor Summit — the country’s largest gathering of agrifood investors to date.

The World Bank’s Africa’s Pulse (October 2025) forecasts real GDP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa at 3.8% in 2025, up from 3.5% in 2024.