The Directorate of Education is putting strategies in place to improve reading skills among learners, particularly those in lower grades. 

This call was made at the official launch of the National Readathon in Katima Mulilo. 

Africa's richest man, Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote, urged Africans to invest more of their capital at home and turn the continent's resources into finished products, telling Unstoppable Africa 2026 in New York that Africa must stop strengthening foreign economies at its own expense.

Namibia is advancing water diversification, purification, aquifer recharge and seawater desalination under its Sixth National Development Plan.

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah shared the country’s plans while appealing for urgent investment in Africa’s water infrastructure.

President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says Namibia’s green transition must respond to immediate youth employment needs while supporting industrial development.

Zambia has enacted a new law giving the government statutory authority to determine where former presidents and vice presidents are buried.

The law comes after the highly publicised dispute over the burial of former President Edgar Lungu, whose family wanted him buried in South Africa.