TVET for jobs and skills: YES-PACT (Mastercard Foundation/ACET) highlights TVET reforms across Ghana, Niger, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Uganda, including Ethiopia’s updated aid/TVET strategy and Uganda’s TVET Act with five-year trainer funding plus stronger AI, agriculture and STEM coordination. Culture with education: Namibia’s President urged young women in the Olufuko initiation programme to keep studying, saying culture and education should go together. Aquaculture investment: Namibia approved a 25-year extension for African Aquaculture Company’s Atlantic salmon project in Lüderitz Bay, aiming to ease financing and support jobs and export earnings. Farmers hit by heat: Uganda’s Lango farmers fear worse food insecurity as scorching temperatures and erratic rains disrupt planting and wilt crops. Cocoa living income push: Fairtrade Africa calls for stronger cocoa stakeholder collaboration, citing new living income reference prices (Ghana GH¢45.40/kg; Côte d’Ivoire 1,758 CFA/kg). Food supply pressure: Turkey is working on a new plan to restore safer Black Sea grain shipments, warning that disruptions are raising global food risks for vulnerable countries, including in Africa. Agriculture and incomes gap: AGRA reports Africa’s production gains aren’t translating into reliable farmer incomes, urging a shift toward value retention, resilience and shock-proof livelihoods.