Africa Has Seen This Before : Senegal’s Young Revolutionaries Now Face the Old African Curse

Africa Has Seen This Before : Senegal’s Young Revolutionaries Now Face the Old African Curse

Africa has seen this before. The revolutionary brothers who once shared prison cells, campaign stages, liberation trenches and political slogans eventually arrive at the same destination: the brutal crossroads of power. From Robert Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa in Zimbabwe, to Salva Kiir and Riek Machar in South Sudan, to the dramatic fallout between Julius Malema…

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Zoom stock surges 18% as corporate expansion and AI fuel growth

Zoom stock surges 18% as corporate expansion and AI fuel growth

Shares of Zoom Video Communications Inc. skyrocketed as much as 18% on Friday, marking the company’s largest intraday gain since September 2020. The stock rally followed a stronger-than-anticipated sales forecast, signalling that the videoconferencing pioneer is successfully convincing enterprise clients to pay for its broader ecosystem of workplace productivity tools. Read: Google says Gemini Omni…

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Cash-strapped South Africans turn to emergency airtime

Cash-strapped South Africans turn to emergency airtime

More South Africans are turning to emergency airtime to stay connected. (Image generated via ChatGPT) As South Africans battle relentless financial pressure, millions are increasingly turning to emergency airtime and data advances to stay connected. What was once marketed by mobile operators as a short-term convenience has now become a lifeline for cash-strapped consumers −…

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Serbian protesters clash with police amid massive anti-government rally in Belgrade

Serbian protesters clash with police amid massive anti-government rally in Belgrade

Clashes erupted between groups of protesters and riot police after a huge anti-government rally on Saturday in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, by tens of thousands of opponents of the country’s autocratic President Aleksandar Vucic While the rally at a central square in Belgrade passed peacefully, groups of young demonstrators later clashed with riot police, throwing flares, rocks…

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