Category: Africa News

The 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) will be held in Beijing from September 4 to 6. Under this particular cooperation framework, China and African countries are expected to deepen exchanges in multiple major areas. In light of this special occasion, GDToday is conducting exclusive interviews with African delegates, shedding light on…

By Staff Reporter The inaugural Global African Hydrogen Summit is set to take place from 3 – 5 September 2024 in Windhoek, Namibia, bringing together policymakers, leaders, innovators, and stakeholders from around Africa and across the globe to explore and harness Africa’s vast green hydrogen potential. The Summit will support strategies to meet energy demand…

Story by Staff Reporter THE Alliance of African Multilateral Financial Institutions (AAMFI) held the third meeting of its Governing Council on the margins of the African Union Mid-Year Coordination Meeting, held in Accra, Ghana on July 20. It welcomed the endorsement of the Alliance by the African Union (AU) Ministers of Finance and Central Bank…

By Staff Reporter South Africa is set to host the international meeting for Astronomers in the first week of August that will see more than 2,000 professional astronomers from 82 countries gather in Cape Town, South Africa for the world’s largest international meeting of astronomers. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly 2024 will take place…

Story by Staff Reporter NAMIBIA and Botswana have tied a knot of strong cooperation , after woes of deaths caused by the trigger happy BDF soldiers who have been killing innocent Namibians , along the Chobe ,Linyanti and Kwando Rivers. This was realised at the follow-up joint visit by the Foreign Affairs Minister of Botswana,…

By Staff Reporter OVER forty (40) immigration and border control officials from 11 Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states have received advanced customer service training to improve the experience of tourists visiting Southern Africa. In a significant move to enhance tourism services across the SADC region, a pioneering Train the Trainer Tourism Customer Service…

Story by PRNewswire Huawei has announced a new plan to train an additional 150,000 talents in Sub-Saharan Africa over the next three years. The plan comes on top of the ICT leader’s initial goal to equip over 100,000 people in the region with digital skills by 2025. Huawei has already exceeded its initial goal by…

South Africa’s card payments market is forecast to grow by 11.4% in 2024 to reach ZAR2.3 trillion ($125 billion), supported by a constant consumer shift towards non-cash payments, according to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company. GlobalData’s Payment Cards Analytics reveals that card payment value in South Africa registered a growth of 13.4% in 2023,…

THE National Assembly (NA) of South Africa has elected Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa as the president -elect of the Republic of South Africa during its first sitting of the 7th Parliament on Friday. He has been re-elected to serve a second term as the President. “In terms of the Constitution, the National Assembly must, at its…