Africans can foster their own Technological Advancements if the Biden Administration and African Governments Prioritise Policy Creation to Drive Innovation
By Serge NTAMACK and Anna EKELEDO African Heads of State recently joined President Joe Biden in Washington to participate in the second United States-Africa Leaders’ Summit. President Biden said in a statement in July that he hoped to reinforce the US-Africa commitment to democracy, mitigate the impact of COVID, respond to the climate crisis and […]
Africa’s Fintech Industry is Coming of Age
In the face of political and economic challenges and a global pandemic, fintech on the continent is booming. Here’s what comes next. Between 2020 and 2021, the number of tech start-ups in Africa tripled to around 5,200 companies. Just under half of these are fintechs, which are making it their business to disrupt and augment traditional […]
Huawei Launches Smart PV Solutions For All Scenarios Of African Residential Market
Huawei has launched smart photovoltaic (PV) solutions for all scenarios of the African residential market at the Solar Power Africa Conference 2023 held in Cape Town, South Africa. At the press conference announcing the launch, Xia Hesheng, President of Huawei Digital Power Sub-Saharan Africa Region, said that Huawei was releasing three residential solutions: Power-M, LUNA, […]
RX Africa Launches The Inaugural Infosecurity Africa Event In 2023
Infosecurity Africa to be co-located with Africa Automation Technology Fair 2023, and Future Manufacturing Africa 2023 Globally, businesses lose about R 17 trillion to cybercrimes. Of those businesses, 219 million cybercrime-related emails emanated from South Africa in 2021 alone with Interpol’s Africa Cyberthreat Assessment Report stating that over 90% of businesses on the African continent […]
Invest In Africa Summit 16th -17th May 2023 Amsterdam, Netherlands
Amsterdam will host the biggest Africa focused trade and investment summit from 16th to 17th May 2023. Africa is recording fast economic growth. Evidence suggests that investors are positioning themselves to understand the opportunities across the African continent. Despite the opportunities, securing finance is a big hurdle for local entrepreneurs as well as foreign companies […]
Mehari Taddele Maru: “When You Speak Truth To Power, Clashes Are Inevitable”
While his people are in the throes of violence, Professor Mehari Taddele Maru helps young Africans envisage a better future for the African continent. This is the third war in Tigray in his lifetime. Mehari Taddele Maru narrates his story while waiting to board a train on the East Coast of the United States. In […]
As A Tigrayan, I Choose Peace Over War, Accountability Over Impunity
By Mehari Taddele Maru The outbreak of Ethiopia’s war on Tigray brought back deeply rooted childhood memories of the brutality of civil war in Tigray. But Mehari Taddele Maru is determined to use his horrendous childhood experiences for the greater good and contribute to pursuing justice to sustain peace. It has been almost three months […]
The AU’s Behind on Reaching Political, Economic and Cultural Goals Set Out in Agenda 2063
The annual Assembly of African Heads of State and Government offers an opportunity to consider these issues and decide how to resolve them. This year, the summit will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 18 to 19 February. There are four issues that have stalled progress in the pan-African agenda. These issues relate to […]
The Dirty Tricks Behind Kenya’s Elections
Israeli hackers allegedly hacked into the private conversation of two aides to Kenya’s President William Ruto during last year’s election, a new investigation has claimed. The investigation – carried out by a consortium of journalists and published in outlets including Israel’s Haaretz and The Guardian of the UK – claims that days before Kenya’s 2022 […]
A Number of African Countries have Surged in Global Rankings that Gauge Internet Speeds
By the end of 2022, seven African countries had moved up by more than five positions in the global ranking of median mobile internet download speeds. Seven others upped their fixed broadband speed rankings by a similar number of spots, according to Speedtest Global Index by Ookla, a global network intelligence and connectivity research firm. […]
