President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for stronger economic and investment partnerships between South Africa and Japan, highlighting the opportunities in critical minerals, renewable energy, agriculture and advanced manufacturing. Addressing the South Africa-Japan Business Forum on the sidelines of the Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) Summit in Yokohama on Thursday, the President said the…
Intense Israeli military shelling and strikes reported east of Deir el-Balah and in Gaza City.
Carlos Jasso/Reuters Google has struck a six-year cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms worth more than US$10-billion, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. It would be the search giant’s second big agreement recently after one with OpenAI. Under the agreement, Meta will use Google Cloud’s servers, storage, networking and other services, the…
When the Taifa Stars step onto the pitch of Dar es Salaam’s Benjamin Mkapa Stadium, they will not just be facing Morocco — they will be facing history. Tanzania have already broken new ground by topping Group B at the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024, but Friday night’s quarter-final will test whether belief, home…
Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire encroaching on their home at some point between 2002 and 2021, new research shows. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire population of the European Union, and the number has been steadily rising – up 40% over those two decades. With intense, destructive fires often…
Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia Corp., speaks during a news conference in Taipei on May 21, 2025. I-hwa Cheng | Afp | Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Friday showered praise on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on a visit to Taiwan, saying that anybody looking to take a stake in the company…
Prosus and Naspers CEO Fabricio Bloisi. Naspers subsidiary Prosus doubled the number of artificial intelligence (AI) agents working alongside its employees in July, underscoring the company’s push to embed AI at the core of its operations. This update came from CEO Fabricio Bloisi in a letter to shareholders following the group’s annual general meeting (AGM),…
The Brazilian Presidency’s flagship conservation finance initiative for COP30 – the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) – must be supported by sponsor governments also introducing stronger rules to close loopholes that allow the financing of deforestation, Global Witness has warned. The Government of Brazil today released its latest plans for the $125 billion initiative, which…
The Sudan War series is a joint collaboration between the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation – Khartoum (CEDEJ-K), Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC) and African Arguments – Debating Ideas. Through a number of themes that explore the intersections of war, displacement, identities and capital, Sudanese researchers, many of whom are themselves displaced,…
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