Algeria named host of fourth Intra-African Trade Fair
Algeria has been selected to host the fourth Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2025) scheduled to take place in 2025, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Intra-African Trade Fair and former President of Nigeria, has announced. Speaking yesterday in Cairo during the Presidential Summit of the third Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF2023), Chief Obasanjo […]
MultiChoice Group: Resilient Operational Performance and Significant Progress in Expanding Service Offering
MultiChoice Group (MCG, or the group) (www.MultiChoice.com), Africa’s leading entertainment company, executed well on its operational objectives during the six months ended 30 September 2023 (1H FY24). Building on its track record of investing in technology to be ahead of the curve, and to accommodate shifts in consumer video consumption trends to support future growth, […]
Black Friday bargains or fraud traps: The risks of tap and go payments
Global contactless purchases are expected to more than quadruple (https://apo-opa.co/47Cd0Cl) between now and 2027. This significant growth will mainly be driven by payment-enabled mobile devices, such as smartphones and smartwatches. “As we approach 2024, it is clear that contactless payments are more than a trend; it has staying power,” says Anna Collard, SVP Content Strategy […]
Basketball Africa League and Afreximbank to Host BAL4HER Camp and Thought Leadership Discussions in Cairo
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) and Afreximbank (https://www.Afreximbank.com/), an official partner of the 2024 BAL season, will host an U23 “BAL4HER” basketball camp and a series of thought leadership discussions on the creative industries and sports business in Cairo, Egypt from Nov. 9-15 in conjunction with Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX), an Afreximbank initiative designed to […]
Kaspersky opens its first Transparency Center in the African region
As part of the Africa Cyber Defense Forum (ACDF), Kaspersky (www.Kaspersky.co.za) has today announced the opening of its first Transparency Center in the African region. The new center, located in Kigali, Rwanda, is opening as part of Kaspersky’s Global Transparency Initiative, established to highlight the reliability of the company’s solutions and advocate for greater transparency […]
Christine Namara Joins Flat6Labs as Partner for Africa Seed Fund: Expanding Flat6Labs’ Reach on the Continent
In a strategic move to strengthen its existing footprint in the vibrant African startup ecosystem, Flat6Labs (www.Flat6Labs.com), the leading seed venture capital firm in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, proudly welcomes Christine Namara as Partner for its Africa Seed Fund. With more than a decade of profound experience in private equity, startup […]
African voices unite to drive cervical cancer elimination across the continent through new civil society coalition – The African Cervical Health Alliance (ACHA)
The African Cervical Health Alliance (ACHA) has been launched to empower communities and increase access to prevention and control of cervical cancer in Africa by 2030 in line with global targets; the ACHA Secretariat is hosted by KILELE Health Association, with catalytic support from FIND (www.FINDdx.org). The launch of the African Cervical Health Alliance (ACHA) […]
SUDAN: Unconscionable surgical ban in Khartoum that puts hundreds of lives at-risk must be immediately reversed, says MSF
An unconscionable ban that is preventing life-saving surgical supplies from being transported to hospitals in RSF-controlled areas of Khartoum is putting the lives of hundreds of people – including women and children – at risk and must be immediately reversed, says the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Implemented since early September, and […]
Experts step up efforts to tackle diabetes trends in the African region
In June 2021, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Emmanuella Selasi Hormenoo, an 18-year-old Ghanian university student, was teetering on the brink of death. “The doctors initially thought that I might have COVID-19, but when they did the tests, they were always negative. During one of the blood transfusions I had to have, I […]
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Members of Parliament Pay Courtesy Call on Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio, who Congratulates and Wishes them Success
His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has welcomed and congratulated the new Members of Parliament, MPs, sworn in to represent Sierra Leone at the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Parliament in Abuja and wished them success. The four MPs, Hon. Veronica Kadie Sesay, from the Moyamba District, Hon. Saa Emerson Lamina, from […]
