AGP Executive Report
Last update: an hour agoMalaria Mapping: A new Nature study says climate change will shift malaria risk across Africa—down in hotter West African areas (about 5% fewer cases in places like Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mali) but up in cooler southern and eastern regions, including Angola, Zambia and parts of South Africa, with coastal southern Africa potentially seeing up to a 20% rise by 2100. Cybersecurity: Interpol reports AI is driving a surge in African cybercrime, enabling faster, more scalable attacks and making fraud and extortion harder to detect; ransomware targeting healthcare, utilities and public portals is highlighted, including Zambia. Mobile Money Fraud Control (Zambia): ZICTA deactivated 43,500 SIM cards linked to mobile money scams between January and June 2026, securing K19.8m, after consumers reported scammers via *707#. Mining & Policy (Zambia): Zambia’s Speaker Sameer Suleman ordered a suspension of operations at Kangankunde Rare Earths Mine in Balaka after concerns it may be operating under the wrong licence category. Agritech & Youth: Eswatini’s youth agripreneur helped shape Africa’s first Youth in Agrifood Systems Performance Index (YAPI), measuring real access to land, finance, markets, tech and climate resilience. Tech & Industry (Zambia region): China’s first domestically built immersion DUV lithography tools are in mass production—an important self-reliance milestone, though performance still trails ASML.
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