The Central African island country of São Tomé and Príncipe is hosting the second annual Ubuntu Awakening Summit from 7th to 14th August, 2025 at the University of São Tomé & Príncipe in São Tomé. The event is being organize by Umoja Generational Wealth (UGW), the global community for African and African Diaspora entrepreneurs, business owners and professionals.

GENEVA, Switzerland — South Africa, Uganda and Kenya topped the podium at this year’s Africa Barista Championship. But the real winner at this year’s Africa Barista Championship was African coffee culture itself.

PRETORIA, South Africa — The 2025 Basketball Africa League (BAL) (https://BAL.NBA.com) Playoffs and Finals, which will be held at the SunBet Arena in Pretoria, South Africa for the first time from Friday, June 6 – Saturday, June 14, will feature the top eight teams (https://apo-opa.co/4jvNMLd) from the three conference group phases that were held in Rabat, Morocco; Dakar, Senegal; and Kigali, Rwanda in April and May.

Stigma, fear, and insecurity means many cases go unreported, creating a hidden epidemic of sexual violence that should “shake us to our core”

The Cooperative Republic of Guyana and African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) have concluded a two-day roadshow to promote access to a US$1-billion oil services financing facility announced by the Bank in February this year during the Guyana Energy Conference. The roadshow which was held from 21 to 22 May in Georgetown, Guyana, brought together players in the oil and gas sector, finance sector and the government circles as it sought to encourage local participation in Guyana’s rapidly growing oil and gas sector.

Dutch sculptor Nelson Carrilho has been granted the commission to erect a permanent art structure in Central London, that will celebrate the Windrush generation, a community of economic migrants from the Caribbean who relocated to the U.K. after the Second World War ended in 1945.