Gebeya Inc., the pan-African Al technology company behind Dala Studio, and PROFF-IT Investment Group (Pty) Ltd, trading as VukaOS, today announced a strategic alliance to transform how African startups are conceived, built, and scaled.

The partnership integrates VukaOS, an Al-driven Ideation and Go-to-Market (GTM) engine, as a core module within Dala Studio, Africa’s all-in-one Al-powered creator platform. Together, they create a seamless “Plan-to-Build” workflow: entrepreneurs use VukaOS to validate ideas and develop strategies, then execute directly into Dala Studio to build apps, websites, games, comics, music, videos, and Al agents using natural language. No coding required.

 “This alliance closes the critical gap between business planning and technical execution,” said Amadou Daffe, CEO of Gebeya Inc. “African entrepreneurs no longer have to jump between tools or hire expensive developers to test their ideas. With VukaOS handling strategy and Dala Studio handling creation, founders can move from concept to launch faster than ever before.”

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, has warned that inequality is “eroding trust, deepening polarization, and destabilizing economies”, as governments and experts meet in Johannesburg to begin establishing an International Panel on Inequality, inspired by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The message will be broadcast at a meeting of the Panel’s founding committee in Johannesburg, attended by President Ramaphosa and representatives of the governments of Brazil, Spain, and Norway, alongside inequality experts including Nobel Economics Laureate Joseph Stiglitz.

The Panel was proposed in a report commissioned for South Africa’s G20 Presidency and authored by a committee of experts chaired by Professor Stiglitz. Their report warned of an “inequality emergency”, with one in four people worldwide regularly skipping meals, while billionaire wealth has reached the highest level in history.

At last year’s G20 Summit in Johannesburg, the leaders of Spain, Norway, and Brazil joined President Ramaphosa in supporting the initiative, alongside President of the European Council Antonio Costa. In February, the African Union unanimously passed a motion supporting the panel.

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has convened a five‑day Capacity‑Building and Technical Workshop aimed at advancing Ethiopia’s capital markets.

The workshop is jointly organized with the Ethiopian Capital Market Authority (ECMA), the Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX), FSD Ethiopia, and the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE). It brings together regulators, market institutions, financial‑sector actors, institutional investors, issuers, and development partners to support Ethiopia’s transition toward a capital market capable of mobilizing long‑term domestic finance for inclusive and sustainable development.

Opening the workshop, Sonia Essobmadje, Chief of the Finance and Domestic Resource Mobilization Section at ECA, emphasized the importance of moving from policy ambition to practical implementation.

“Capital markets are a key pillar for mobilizing long‑term finance. This workshop reflects ECA’s commitment to practical, evidence‑based support that helps countries move from framework‑building to delivery,” she said.

More than 840,000 people die each year from health conditions linked to psychosocial risks, such as long working hours, job insecurity, and workplace harassment, according to a new global report by the International Labour Organization (ILO). These work-related psychosocial risks are mainly associated with cardiovascular diseases and mental disorders, including suicide.

The report also finds that these risks account for nearly 45 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost annually, reflecting years of healthy life lost due to illness, disability, or premature death, and are estimated to result in economic losses equivalent to 1.37 per cent of global GDP each year.

The report, The psychosocial working environment: Global developments and pathways for action, highlights the growing impact of how work is designed, organized, and managed on workers’ safety and health. It warns that psychosocial risk factors—including long working hours, job insecurity, high demands with low control, and workplace bullying and harassment—can create harmful working environments if not properly addressed.