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Dans le cadre de son plan stratégique 2021-2025, la transformation initiée post-Covid par JAMG (Jeune Afrique Media Group) porte ses fruits, avec une croissance solide soutenue par la progression des revenus digitaux et des revenus événementiels. Le chiffre d'affaires consolidé pour l'exercice 2024 passe le cap des 30M€ (30,03M€), en hausse de 6% par rapport à 2023.

Depuis deux ans, la transformation éditoriale des titres du Groupe (Jeune Afrique, The Africa Report et Africa Business) repose sur un choix assumé : privilégier la qualité à la quantité, en s'appuyant sur des rédactions renforcées par des analystes sectoriels, des data-journalistes et une équipe de fact-checking élargie.

Depuis sa création à Tunis en 1960, « Jeune Afrique Media Group » occupe une place centrale dans l'écosystème de l'information en Afrique. Son lectorat, majoritairement panafricain – sur le continent comme au sein des diasporas – constitue l'essentiel de son audience, et une large part des lecteurs africains consulte régulièrement les titres du Groupe : ‘Jeune Afrique', ‘The Africa Report', ‘Africa Business+', entre autres.
Le Groupe a toujours joué un rôle de passerelle vers l'international auprès des rédactions nationales en Afrique, renforçant ainsi les liens entre le continent et le reste du monde. Pionnier dans la digitalisation du secteur et dans le développement de formats éditoriaux premium, « Jeune Afrique Media Group » contribue également à valoriser les expertises locales et à renforcer la capacité des rédactions africaines à traiter les enjeux extranationaux avec des standards exigeants.
Le repositionnement de JAMG s'accompagne d'une dynamique commerciale soutenue, portée notamment par le développement du département abonnements. Ainsi, toutes publications confondues, le portefeuille B2B progresse de plus de 25%, avec un engouement croissant auprès des professionnels de la finance, du droit et de l'industrie.

La publication spécialisée ‘Africa Business+' enregistre une croissance à deux chiffres de ses abonnements corporate au premier semestre 2025, stimulée par ses classements sectoriels et ses suivis de deals, devenus des références pour les avocats d'affaires et les experts du secteur minier africain.

Le Groupe compte aujourd'hui 32.000 abonnés digitaux et réunit chaque mois plus de 3,2 millions de lecteurs en ligne dont près des deux tiers sont des cadres dirigeants d'entreprises panafricaines et internationales. L'innovation éditoriale et la digitalisation des titres ont profondément transformé la structure de revenus du pôle média : le digital représente désormais 40% du chiffre d'affaires.

Grâce au renforcement des synergies entre les rédactions du Groupe et son pôle événementiel, l'Africa CEO Forum et l'AFIS (Africa Financial Summit) se sont imposés comme des plateformes de dialogue incontournables pour les milieux d'affaires et politiques du continent. L'édition 2025 de l'Africa CEO Forum, organisée à Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire), a réuni près de 3.000 dirigeants. La dernière édition de l'AFIS, consacrée à la « souveraineté financière africaine », s'est tenue à Casablanca (Maroc) les 3 et 4 novembre. Après la finance et le secteur privé, JAMG a également lancé un nouveau programme événementiel, LEAD, qui vise à rassembler la nouvelle génération de hauts fonctionnaires africains autour de politiques publiques de classe mondiale.

« Nous avons fait le choix de concentrer, plutôt que d'élargir, le modèle qui a fait le succès de ‘Jeune Afrique' depuis sa création en 1960. Les performances en matière d'abonnements corporate, la progression de nos revenus digitaux et la fréquentation record de nos événements confirment la pertinence de cette stratégie. ‘Jeune Afrique' reste le journal de référence des décideurs africains et, plus généralement, de tous ceux pour qui le continent occupe une place prépondérante dans leurs activités », défend Amir Ben Yahmed, Directeur Général de Jeune Afrique Media Group.

Fondé à Tunis en 1960, Jeune Afrique Media Group est un groupe de médias panafricain basé à Paris. À travers ses différentes publications (‘Jeune Afrique', ‘The Africa Report' et ‘Africa Business+'), le groupe propose, en français et en anglais, une couverture de l'actualité africaine et internationale ainsi que des pistes de réflexion sur les enjeux politiques et économiques du continent.

Premier éditeur de presse panafricain en termes de diffusion et de lectorat, Jeune Afrique Media Group a également bâti une présence de premier plan dans l'événementiel avec la création de l'AFRICA CEO FORUM, de l'AFRICA FINANCIAL SUMMIT et de l'initiative LEAD.

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A family poses in front of their home rebuilt as part of the Sindh People’s Housing for Flood Affectees (SPHF). At COP30 the project was showcased for its significant successes in empowering women in the rehousing the families of the devastating 2022 floods. Credit: SPHF

By Cecilia Russell
BELÉM, Brazil, Dec 12 2025 (IPS)

By any comparison, the statistics for Sindh People’s Housing for Flood Affectees (SPHF) are phenomenal.

In 2022, photographs from the region showed people treading carefully through waist-deep water with their few belongings grasped firmly above their heads in an attempt to escape the flooding caused by 784 percent more than average monsoon rains.

Tents housed tens of thousands of families as they contemplated an uncertain future, with estimates of 15 million people displaced and more than 1,700 dead.

That’s where the story ends for many international survivors of floods and other climate-related disasters. They need to pick up the pieces themselves. The financing for adaptation and loss and damage is still “running on empty.”

And if there was to be clarity at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, the so-called ‘adaptation COP,’ countries that arrived with clear objectives of leaving the negotiations with a roadmap for adaptation that included grant-based adaptation finance and increased support left disappointed.

The final Mutirão Decision calls for efforts to triple adaptation finance by 2035 (compared to 2025 levels). While this reaffirms the previous Glasgow goal of doubling it by 2025, the new goal was a compromise because the deadline was pushed from 2030 to 2035.

Amy Giliam Thorp, writing for Africa-based think tank Power Shift Africa, summed up the opinion of many analysts who say, although the final decision refers to “efforts to at least triple adaptation finance,” the language is “politically evasive and obscures who is responsible.”

Flashback: A flooded village in Matiari, in the Sindh province of Pakistan. Credit: UNICEF/Asad Zaidi

Yet, COP30 provided an opportunity to showcase the best that adaptation finance, albeit as loans and not grant-based, can achieve.

Let’s get back to those statistics.

Speaking at a swelteringly hot and humid Pakistan hall at COP30 Khalid Mehmood Shaikh, CEO of SPHF, reeled off the achievements of the housing project—it is in the process of constructing 2.1 million multi-hazard-resistant houses, directly benefitting over 15 million people—more than the population of 154 countries.

Currently, the construction of 1.45 million houses is underway, with 650,000 already completed and an additional 50,000 each month.

Photos displayed at the COP side event, Women Leading Climate Action in Sindh through SPHF: The World’s Largest Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction Program, showed women and their families involved in various stages of building their new homes.

The pictures showcased construction methods that the Asian Development Bank (ADB) calls “multi-hazard resilient” architecture—high plinths to prevent floodwaters from entering homes, as well as windows and ventilation systems that improve air flow and reduce temperatures during heatwaves; the region sometimes experiences temperatures exceeding 45 °C. Additionally, there is a transition from kutcha, which uses natural local materials like mud, straw, and bamboo, to pucca, constructed with modern materials such as brick, cement, steel, and concrete.

Completed homes, colorfully decorated, stand as testimony to a project that creates both shelter and dignity.

Speakers at a COP30 side event, Women Leading Climate Action in Sindh through SPHF: The World’s Largest Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction Program. Credit: SPHF

The programme, fully managed by the private sector, began with a USD 500 million loan from the World Bank and PKR 50 billion (more than USD 178 million) from the Government of Sindh.

While this wasn’t enough to build the required 2.1 million houses, with a “robust system” of delivery with partners EY, KPMG, and PwC, and utilizing technology for monitoring, the SPHF was able to mobilize a further USD 2 billion from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), and additional support from the World Bank.

Apart from the loans, the project has benefitted women and those considered to be ‘unbanked,’ with 1.5 million bank accounts opened.

One of the achievements they list is the “largest residential asset transfer in the history of Pakistan,” benefitting women.

“About 800,000 women are direct beneficiaries, while the land title for each house is being awarded in women’s names—the largest residential asset transfer in the history of Pakistan,” Shaikh said. “This ensures that those most vulnerable to climate change, including women-headed households, widows, and elderly women, gain long-term security and financial inclusion, embedding justice and resilience into the recovery process.”

The manager of the Climate Change & Environment Division at the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), Daouda Ben Oumar Ndiaye, said the project reflected the bank’s focus on gender integration, especially for women, widows, and the elderly.

“The scale and transparency of SPHF set a new benchmark for climate adaptation projects worldwide. We are creating synergies in Pakistan, particularly in Sindh, with integrated health and women empowerment projects,” he said.

The director of Climate Change at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Noelle O’Brien, was impressed by SPHF’s transformative approach—especially as it linked financial inclusion and resilient infrastructure.

“SPHF demonstrates what true resilience in action looks like—placing women at the center of adaptation, finance, and governance. This is the kind of scalable, gender-responsive model the world needs.”
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Sindh People’s Housing for Flood Affectees ensures that those most vulnerable to climate change, including women-headed households, widows, and elderly women, gain long-term security and financial inclusion, embedding justice and resilience into the recovery process. — Khalid Mehmood Shaikh, CEO of SPHF

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