September, 2025 - eriinfo

South Africa’s AI Diagnostics and hearX Foundation selected for Turn.io’s 2025 Chat for Health & AI Accelerator

eriinfo.com8 months ago011 mins

Two South African organisations have been selected to participate in Turn.io’s 2025 Chat for Health & AI Accelerator. Chosen from 400 international applications, AI Diagnostics and hearX Foundation are part of the 10 organisations that will scale AI‑enabled health services. Image supplied. The programme enables health organisations to scale AI-powered conversational services, expanding access to…

Africa: All of Africa Today – September 16, 2025

eriinfo.com8 months ago08 mins

Zambian Court Jails Two Men for Attempting to Kill President with Witchcraft A Zambian court sentenced Leonard Phiri from Zambia and Jasten Mabulesse Candunde from Mozambique to two years in prison for attempting to use witchcraft to kill President Hakainde Hichilema. The men were convicted under the Witchcraft Act after being arrested in December…

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African Journalists Condemn the Heightened and Relentless Deadly Attacks On Journalists in Gaza

eriinfo.com8 months ago05 mins

We mourn our fallen colleagues, we recognise the trauma carried by victim journalists and we send our heartfelt solidarity to the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), whose members continue to report in fear and grief. What we are seeing is not one kind of harm but a systematic pattern of violation with few parallels in recent…

US designates Colombia as failing to cooperate in the drug war for first time in nearly 30 years

eriinfo.com8 months ago010 mins

The Trump administration on Monday added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in almost 30 years, a stinging rebuke to a traditional U.S. ally that reflects a recent surge in cocaine production and fraying ties between the White House and the country’s leftist president….

Top ICT tenders: ICASA plans TV subscription inquiry

eriinfo.com8 months ago015 mins

ICASA wants to extend its almost decade-long focus on the state of competition in subscription TV broadcasting services. It’s another bumper week on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, with almost 700 new opportunities advertised. The ICT sector, however, will have to be content with looking to a handful of public sector organisations for this week’s most…

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Africa: UN Urges Africa to Build Integrated Food Corridors to Cut Post-Harvest Losses

eriinfo.com8 months ago03 mins

The United Nations (UN) has called upon the African continent to establish integrated food corridors to connect different African production areas to main national and regional markets, in an effort to reduce post-harvest losses and improve food systems across the continent. In a statement at the Annual Summit of the African Food Systems Forum, UN…

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Africa: Kredete Raises $22m to Expand Credit Platform for African Immigrants

eriinfo.com8 months ago04 mins

TLDR Kredete, a fintech focused on helping African immigrants build credit and access financial services, has raised $22 million in a Series A round The raise was led by AfricInvest through its Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund and Financial Inclusion Vehicle, with participation from Partech and Polymorphic Capital The company will use the capital to expand…

Suspect in Charlie Kirk’s murder linked to scene by DNA, FBI chief says | Crime News

eriinfo.com8 months ago08 mins

DNA evidence links the suspect in the assassination of conservative American activist Charlie Kirk last week to the scene of the crime, the director of the FBI has said. DNA from a towel and a screwdriver recovered from the crime scene both match Tyler Robinson, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Monday. Recommended Stories list…

The rise and fall of operating systems – a 45-year digital timelapse

eriinfo.com8 months ago07 mins

What would it look like to compress more than four decades of technological upheaval into a few minutes of animated bars jostling for dominance? At first glance, these are just numbers sliding across a screen; look deeper, and they tell the story of how we live, work and play with technology. This video, by Wolf…

Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 breaches 45,000 mark to hit a fresh high

eriinfo.com8 months ago02 mins

Vibrant neon signs and bright street lights glowing above the busy night traffic of taxis, double decker buses and pedestrians along Nathan Road in the crowded Tsim Sha Tsui district of Kowloon, Hong Kong, China. Fotovoyager | E+ | Getty Images Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 surpassed the 45,000 mark for the first time, leading gains…