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UN Climate Change News, 4 September 2025 – The Africa Climate Summit next week is an unmissable opportunity to send a clear global message, according to a powerful joint statement issued today by UN Climate Change and the Government of Ethiopia: “Africa is ready to supercharge climate action, but COP30 must ensure Africa is fully enabled

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Hey Zindians 👋 –  5 Sep 2025 We’ve got an exciting opportunity for startups in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Botswana, and South Africa! Together with Digital Africa, we’re looking for promising startups for the AI 4 Startups Program — a chance to boost your AI & data strategy with the help of Zindi’s amazing data science community. Here’s

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Casablanca, September 2, 2025 – The Casablanca Stock Exchange hosted a press conference on Tuesday to mark the official launch of the fifth edition of the Africa Financial Summit (AFIS), which will take place on November 3rd and 4th in Casablanca. This is the essential meeting point for key players in the African financial industry.

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27/08/2025 – Article – On 19 August 2025, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) officially launched the Africa Zero Hunger: United for Durable Solutions campaign — a bold, Africa-wide movement to change the way we respond to food insecurity.  Moderated by award-winning journalist Victoria Rubadiri, the virtual launch brought together policymakers, humanitarian leaders, grassroots innovators, and

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02 Sep, 2025 – On the same day maize prices in Nairobi hit a record high in mid-2024, truckloads of surplus grain sat unsold in Zambia. Farmers complained of rotting stocks while, just across borders, families queued for relief food. When Impact AI News visited  Bujumbura last October, we witnessed the price of sugar almost

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Kenya – 01 Sep, 2025 – When the wind sweeps across the barren plains of Loiyangalani in northern Kenya, it carries more than just the promise of relief from the desert heat—it fuels a revolution in clean energy that is reshaping the future of one of the continent’s most remote regions.  The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP), Africa’s largest wind farm with 365 turbines generating 310 megawatts

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Stories – 22 Aug 2025 – Just outside the city of Bobo-Dioulasso, where Burkina Faso’s lush southern expanses begin to give way to the sands of the Sahara Desert, is the Kodéni solar plant. Row after row of solar panels sit amid intermittent shrubs, channeling at their peak 38 megawatts of clean, inexpensive, electricity into Burkina Faso’s

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Nairobi, Kenya – Kenya-based medical oxygen provider Hewatele has raised $10.5 million in funding from AfricInvest’s Transform Health Fund (THF) to construct a large-scale liquid oxygen (LOX) facility aimed at addressing critical oxygen shortages across East Africa. The investment will finance the development of a Cryogenic Medical Liquid Oxygen Air Separation Unit at Tatu Industrial

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22 Aug, 2025 – On any given weekday back in the 1980s, the Oregun By-Pass in Ikeja would be a beehive of industrial activities. Trucks rumbled in and out of sprawling warehouses, even as the air carried with it the busy clatter of machinery. Shift workers streamed through factory gates that never seemed to close.

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News Release – August 6, 2025, St. Paul, Minnesota: Inogen Alliance announces sponsorship of the 1st Africa Global ESG & Sustainability Reporting Summit in Ghana, 1 – 2 September, organized by TSL Sustainability. The theme of the conference is sustainable growth: ESG reporting, EU taxonomy, and strategic pathways for developing economies.  It provides a roadmap for integrating

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12 August, 2025: Paratus Group today announces the launch of Paratus Connect2Care, an innovative initiative providing affordable, high-quality satellite internet to empower health centres and community centres in Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda and Zambia. Through Paratus Connect2Care, eligible institutions will gain access to 2TB of Priority Data, ensuring uninterrupted connectivity. Powered by Starlink’s

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Nairobi, Kenya, 11th August 2025– Africa, with its vibrant youth, including over 116 million under 35 in East Africa alone, is a continent of immense potential. Yet, the leadership of young people, especially Girls and Young Women (GYW), remains undervalued. Girls and Young Women are actively addressing global issues such as climate change, digital inequality,

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Expert Panel unveils strategies to embrace and scale finance toward Africa’s agrifood sector for growth, food security, and resilience KIGALI, August 7, 2025 – Unlocking new and innovative sources of financing will be critical to meeting Africa’s agrifood system transformation ambitions and deploying interventions across interconnected sectors such as energy, trade, infrastructure, and transport, amid

Africa, 7 August 2025: Airtel Africa Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Airtel Africa plc, today announced the launch of its ‘Tech For Her’ Program’, targeting young women across Zambia, Uganda, and Kenya. The initiative, to be delivered in partnership with Tertiary DNS, is a five -week intensive online program that aims to equip participants with

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, July 11, 2025 – The Government of Barbados and global data science platform Zindi officially launched two cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) challenges at the 2025 AI for Good Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, as part of their year-long partnership to accelerate digital transformation and foster AI innovation across the island nation. Unveiled during the

Press Release – London / Dubai / Nairobi — July 2025 — Ubuntu Tribe (UTribe), a Web3-native fintech company, today announced the expansion of its flagship product, GIFT Gold, a fully regulated, gold-backed digital token. This milestone follows the company’s official registration as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) in Europe, positioning UTribe among a select

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In the parched expanse of North Horr, Marsabit County, where the horizon glimmers with heatwaves and the rivers have long since run dry, survival hinges on one resource: water. Yet, for thousands of families, that resource has become a mirage—vanishing in the wake of climate shocks, persistent droughts, and failing boreholes. Women and girls’ queue

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Press Release – July 24, 2025 – The world’s highest court has just delivered a landmark Advisory Opinion on the obligations of States in the face of the climate emergency. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision delivers historic protections that strengthen the responsibilities of States under international law beyond the Paris Agreement, with several key

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In the sun-scorched expanse of North Horr, a remote corner of Kenya located 727 kilometres north of Nairobi, where temperatures routinely soar past 40 degrees Celsius and the land cracks under an unforgiving sun, a quiet revolution is taking shape.  At Tiigo Primary School in Marsabit County, artificial intelligence is silently offering farmers, herders, and

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