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NSF Acting CEO joins Deputy Minister Dube-Ncube and Director-General Sishi in backing Team South Africa. Twenty-nine young South Africans are flying the national flag in Shanghai this week as they take on some of the world's best young skilled professionals at the 48th WorldSkills International Competition, taking place from 22 to 27 September 2026. Team South Africa is competing in 27 skills categories, including Mechatronics, Aircraft Maintenance, Plumbing and Heating, Refrigeration, Construction and Water Technology, among other technical and vocational skills.…

Parliament is set to reestablish the Institute of Parliamentary Studies, with support from the German Legislature, to “broaden the minds” of members and staff, Speaker, Jacob Marksons Oboth has said. Speaker Oboth made the revelation while meeting the new German Ambassador to Uganda, H.E Sigrid Sommer, who paid a courtesy call on him at Parliament Building, on Tuesday, 22 September 2026. “We are restarting our Institute for Parliamentary Studies to train, expose and broaden the minds of our members and staff,” Oboth said. The IPS was first established in 2012 to provide specialized, in-house training to legislators, staff of Parliament and local governments.…

Landmark joint programme will connect trade finance and compliance expertise to advance intra-African trade. The Compliance Forum will explore how stronger, more coordinated frameworks can deepen African economic integration and facilitate international trade. The Trade Finance Seminar will bring together leading trade finance practitioners to explore solutions that can strengthen regional value chains, close Africa's trade finance gap and support AfCFTA implementation.…

The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has ordered stricter checks on imports into Free Trade Zones to curb illegal importation and other regulatory breaches.

Dangote Group has signed a deal worth more than $450 million with Engineers India Ltd. (EIL) to oversee the development of its planned 700,000-barrels-per-day greenfield refinery and petrochemical plant in Lamu, Kenya.

GRZ Bonds Market Trade Summary Report 21.09.2026 Download PDF

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The C64 movement had called for a day of protest against a planned constitutional change that could allow 63-year-old President Felix Tshisekedi to seek a third five-year term in office

Cellou Dalein Diallo says this prevented him from travelling to New York where he was due to hold meetings on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.

There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over a shop in Balogun Market when the owner returns from the moneylender. Consider a textile trader who has just closed the best season of her working life. The lace is moving, the Ankara is moving, the customers from Cotonou have come back, and for the […]