With the grid holding steady and major load shedding disruptions conspicuously absent, the air at Enlit Africa 2025 felt a bit thin and less urgent.

In the Eastern Cape, youth unemployment is nothing short of catastrophic. Young people here are not asking for handouts, they’re asking for opportunity.

Health workers have long relied on Body Mass Index to gauge whether people are within a healthy weight range. Now, top researchers have made the case for a new way to understand and diagnose obesity.