Metacom Acquires Isenzo Broadcasting to Lead in Multimedia & Analytics

Metacom Acquires Isenzo Broadcasting to Lead in Multimedia & Analytics

The Metacom acquisition of Isenzo Broadcasting will strengthen its multimedia and analytics leadership — expanding capabilities and driving retail innovation across Africa. Metacom, Africa’s premier provider of managed ICT and IoT solutions and services for the retail, financial services and engineering sectors, has announced the strategic acquisition of Isenzo Broadcasting, effective 1 July 2025. This…

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Vitality’s Google-powered AI tool builds on Discovery Health’s PHP

Vitality’s Google-powered AI tool builds on Discovery Health’s PHP

Building on Discovery Health’s Personal Health Pathways (PHP), Vitality and Google have paired up to introduce Vitality AI. This new platform — which will combine Google Cloud’s advanced AI and data analytics with Vitality’s health statistics and behaviour-change expertise — looks set to revolutionise how we understand and manage our health. Georgia Lewis Anderson hosted…

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Africa: AU Declares Tanzania’s Election Flawed and Undemocratic

Africa: AU Declares Tanzania’s Election Flawed and Undemocratic

Nairobi — The African Union (AU) Election Observation Mission has concluded that Tanzania’s October 2025 General Election failed to comply with AU principles, normative frameworks, and international standards for democratic elections, citing legal, institutional, and procedural shortcomings that undermined the integrity of the process. In a Preliminary Statement released on Wednesday, the AU Mission–led by…

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Africa: AU Declares Tanzania’s Election Flawed and Undemocratic

Africa: AU Election Mission Calls On Tanzania to Implement Constitutional Reforms and Promote Inclusive Politics

The African Union Election Observation Mission (AUEOM) has called for urgent constitutional reforms and a more inclusive political environment in Tanzania following the country’s October 29 general elections, which the mission described as constrained by legal and institutional shortcomings. Led by former Botswana President Mokgweetsi E.K. Masisi, with support from Nigeria’s former Foreign Minister Geoffrey…

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Africa: AU Declares Tanzania’s Election Flawed and Undemocratic

Africa: Smart Aid Still Matters As Africa Ramps Up Domestic Health Financing

Nairobi — As donor funding for Africa’s flagship health programmes declines, African leaders are pushing for greater self-reliance anchored in domestic resource mobilisation, even as they stress that targeted external support remains critical. At the Africa Health Systems Forum hosted by Strathmore Business School’s PRISM Centre with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,…

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Pony.ai debut, Hong Kong, WeRide, AI stocks

Pony.ai debut, Hong Kong, WeRide, AI stocks

Hong Kong Skyline Nikada | E+ | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets rose Thursday, tracking Wall Street gains after AMD’s third-quarter earnings beat lifted artificial intelligence stocks. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 1.45%, while the Topix index climbed 1.11%. Japanese artificial intelligence-related companies rose: Advantest, which supplies testing equipment to Nvidia, was up 3.73%,…

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