Liquid C2 and Google Cloud Partner to Bring Google’s Cloud and Security Technologies to Africa Businesses
Liquid C2 (https://LiquidC2.com/), a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a strategic partnership with Google Cloud in Africa. This collaboration aims to further enhance Liquid C2’s cloud and cyber security offerings, which can now be tailor-made to meet customer needs. The MOU between Liquid C2 […]
New Strategy Launched To Empower African Women Scientists And Boost Gender Equality In Agricultural Research And Policy
Five-year plan includes a focus on early-career female researchers, and renewed engagement with African policymakers at regional, sub-regional, and national levels. A new roadmap for delivering greater gender equality in agricultural research to make African food systems more equitable was launched today. African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) unveiled its next five-year strategy […]
London Internet Exchange (LINX) Nairobi Goes Live – The New Interconnection Hub for Kenya
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) (https://www.LINX.net/) have announced that their interconnection hub in Nairobi, Kenya is now live and ready for business. LINX Nairobi (https://apo-opa.co/3stuMbZ) is the new Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for East Africa, located out of three data centre locations across Kenya’s capital. The IXP has the vision to further enhance the countries […]
Mali: UN convoy concludes treacherous 350 kilometre journey
MINUSMA/Fred Fath – Peacekeepers serving with the UN Mission in Mali on a long-distance patrol between Gao and Ansongo New York, USA, 14 November 2023 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/-A convoy from the UN Mission in Mali arrived in the northeastern city of Gao on Tuesday night after a dangerous week-long journey, marking the departure of peacekeepers from the […]
Uganda: Rights Concerns Over License Plate Tracking
Surveillance System Jeopardizes Right to Privacy Uganda’s new surveillance system, which allows the government to track the real time location of all vehicles in the country, undermines privacy rights, and creates serious risks to the rights to freedom of association and expression, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should scrap the system. On November […]
Artists, activists call for Global Plastics Treaty to end the age of plastic
Thirteen celebrated activists, athletes and actors from around the world have appeared in a video calling to end the age of plastic. The 90-second video from Greenpeace International (www.Greenpeace.org) aims to set the tone as the Global Plastics Treaty negotiations (INC3) resume at the United Nations Environment Programme headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, […]
Rising Cyber Threats in October 2023: NJRat and AgentTesla Lead Alarming Surge in Global Malware Activity – African Government Institutions Targeted
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (https://www.CheckPoint.com/), a global leader in cybersecurity solutions, has released its Global Threat Index for October 2023, unveiling an alarming trend in cyber threats. The Remote Access Trojan (RAT) NJRat has dramatically risen from sixth to second place, with a particular focus on targeting government agencies and organizations in the Middle […]
Hopes for International Delegates in Kenya to Make Further Progress towards a Landmark Treaty to Fight Global Plastic Pollution
Addressing the first day of the talks in the capital, Nairobi, on Monday, Kenyan President William Ruto said that time is running out to reach a deal before the end of 2023, a deadline set in March of last year. The meeting is taking place at the headquarters of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) as […]
Protecting Africa’s Food Supply
For 15 years, plant DNA has been stored here in the permafrost of Spitsbergen Island in Norway’s Svalbard archipelago at minus 18 degrees Celsius (around zero Fahrenheit) — designed to protect the world’s food supply from a doomsday-like catastrophe and preserve it for future generations. There are now 1.2 million samples: Sorghum, wheat, beans, maize […]
At the End of 2022 Only 27% of African Routes Allowed Africans to Travel Visa-free
Regularising freer movement of people across African borders is one of the continent’s great developmental challenges. It is one of the flagship projects of the African Union’s Agenda 2063. But even if all African countries no longer required visas from Africans, this would not necessarily give the visitors a right to apply for jobs, establish […]
