Africa: Ahmed Temsah Named Draw Assistant for CAF Beach Soccer Afcon Senegal 2026 Final Draw
Former Egypt international Ahmed Temsah has been appointed as Draw Assistant for the CAF Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations Senegal 2026 Final Draw, which will take place at CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on Wednesday, 4 November 2026. The ceremony will take place at 16h00 Cairo time (14h00 GMT) and will be broadcast live…
Pick n Pay deploys OrderGrid AI platform for online efficiency gains
South African grocery retailer Pick n Pay is expanding its technology infrastructure by rolling out an AI-driven store operations platform from Canadian software firm OrderGrid to more than 720 supermarkets. The decision follows a successful pilot program that reduced average in-store picking times for online grocery orders by approximately 30%. Read: Amazon unveils new Alexa…
Africa: What Africa Brings to COP31, Not Just What It Needs
Every year before COP, the same question surfaces: what is the one thing Africa needs from this summit? Ahead of COP31, the answer emerging from a World Resources Institute Africa webinar was clear: Africa must move beyond asking what it can receive from global climate negotiations and focus on what it can bring. With geopolitical tensions, energy…
Blood banks hit by cyberattack in France days after European freezer hacks
A cyberattack on several blood banks tried to raise temperatures to extremely high levels but was thwarted before it could do any damage to blood products or samples, French authorities said. The incident comes after supermarkets in a number of European countries reported that their fridges and freezers warmed up after they were remotely taken…
Africa’s Leading Women Footballers Feature Prominently Among CAF Awards 2026 Nominees
Some of Africa’s leading women footballers, including former winners and emerging talents Marie Ngah Manga, Michaely Bihina and Monique Ngock, alongside established stars Temwa Chawinga, Thembi Kgatlana and Barbra Banda, feature prominently among the nominees for several women’s categories of the CAF Awards 2026 that were announced on Tuesday. The CAF Awards 2026 are to…
Rimini Street Awarded CANUT Third-Party Maintenance Framework Agreement
CANUT, the Digital and Telecommunications Purchasing Center, is a non-profit association under the French Law of 1901 dedicated to local authorities and social housing providers. All public institutions and private legal entities with a non-profit purpose can benefit from the framework agreements developed by CANUT: regions, departments, metropolitan authorities, municipalities, social housing providers, public establishments…
Africa: CAF Awards – Osimhen, Lookman Missing As Nigeria Gets Zero Nominations in Men’s Categories
No Nigerian player, goalkeeper, coach, club or national team features in any of the seven men’s categories announced by CAF. Nigeria has suffered a major setback at the 2026 Confederation of African Football (CAF) Awards, failing to secure a single nomination across all seven men’s categories unveiled by the continental football governing body on Wednesday….
Photos: Iran marks US embassy takeover with rallies against US, Israel | US-Israel war on Iran News
Published On 4 Nov 20264 Nov 2026 Iran marked the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the United States embassy in Tehran on Wednesday with mass rallies in the capital, as officials used the occasion to hail what they called US and Israeli “defeats” in recent elections and on the battlefield. On November 4, 1979,…
Africa Has Succeeded In Gaining Recognition For Its Climate Arguments – At Cop31, It Aims To Capitalize On The Transition Economy
Negotiators from the continent say the real contest at the UN climate talks is over money, minerals and who gets to profit from the energy transition. But before African negotiators can argue over climate finance at COP31, they must first fight for the right to discuss it. African negotiators will open COP31 in a dispute…
Africa’s mobile heavyweights take charge of the GSMA
Airtel Africa’s Gopal Vittal, Vodafone Group’s Margherita Della Valle and MTN Group’s Ralph Mupita The three people at the top of the GSMA, the global mobile industry body, all run operators with large African businesses. The GSMA’s board has re-elected Gopal Vittal as chair for a second term, which runs until December 2028. It also…
