‘Africa has the potential to feed the world’
Maize crop in South Africa from ALEXIS DOUMBIA in Abidjan, Ivory Coast ABIDJAN – FINANCIAL institutions and researchers have pledged to work closely with African leaders to address rising hunger on the More...
Pandemic speeds up Nigeria digital revolution
Nigeria’s ‘Yahoo Boys’ from OKORO CHINEDU in Lagos, Nigeria LAGOS – AMID slowing economic activity, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a surge in e-commerce and accelerated digital More...
Ethiopian Airlines unscathed by COVID-19 devastation
Ethiopian Airlines from ADANE BIKILA in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ADDIS ABABA – ETHIOPIAN Airlines Group’s shift to focus on cargo transportation and aircraft maintenance businesses since the coronavirus (COVID-19) More...
MTN introduces disadvantaged scholars to new digital world
MTN SA Foundation General Manager, Kusile Mtunzi-Hairwadzi by AKANI CHAUKE JOHANNESBURG – AN investment of more than R1,249 million (US$86 579) will empower disabled tertiary students in the northern Limpopo More...
A story to be read with the lights off
Humphrey Kariuki: “Plan B stands for batteries”. Millions across Africa live without access to the grid. A businessman from Nairobi has a plan to change that, but first he wants you to turn off the lights. from HUMPHREY More...
Kenya, Nigeria, SA record increase in mobile threats
Kaspersky threat intelligence by DION HENRICK CAPE TOWN – CONSUMERS must remain vigilant in their online activities following revelations of a surge in cyber attacks in Africa’s biggest economies. Research More...
‘Racist’ banks sucked into ANC factional battles
Absa bank by SAVIOUS KWINIKA JOHANNESBURG – SOUTH African banks have come under pressure from unions following the financial institutions’ targeting of indigenous firm, Ayo Technologies. ABSA has cut ties More...
MTN retail channel drives inclusion and gender diversity
MTN SA Executive for Corporate Affairs, Jacqui O’Sullivan by TINTSWALO BALOYI JOHANNESBURG – SEVERAL former employees of the mobile network operator are now fully-fledged MTN store owners as the company’s More...
World leading data science institute expands to Africa
Explore Data Science Academy Chief Executive Officer, Shaun Dippnall by TINTSWALO BALOYI JOHANNESBURG – EXPLORE Data Science Academy (EDSA), South Africa’s world-leading data science training institute, More...
Energy chamber decries Total withdrawal from Mozambique
Total Garage from ARMANDO DOMINGOS in Maputo, Mozambique MAPUTO, (CAJ – THE African Energy Chamber (AEC) has denounced Total’s withdrawal from its operations in the terror-prone northern Mozambique. The More...