George Osborn, author of “Power Play: Video Games, Politics and the Battle for Global Influence” told the BBC the setting was “likely to attract scrutiny” in the territory and pointed to previous games, such as Homefront, which depicted a unified Korea under northern control and which had received bans in South Korea.
Stefan Steinle, executive VP and head of global customer support at SAP. AI is reshaping enterprise support and changing how solution providers think and operate, says Stefan Steinle, executive VP and head of global customer support at SAP, who adds that support has evolved into a strategic driver of business value. Support in this context…
Freshly crowned African champions Mamelodi Sundowns showed off their TotalEnergies CAF Champions League trophy to thousands of adoring fans in a day-long trophy parade in the nation’s capital of Pretoria. The open-bus parade took place on Tuesday, kicking off at Sundowns traditional home Mamelodi before travelling to various Pretoria townships and the city centre where…
Nigeria’s growing influence in Africa’s technology and innovation ecosystem has received fresh global recognition as startups founded by Nigerians emerged strongly on Bloomberg’s latest list of 25 African Startups to Watch. The ranking, which highlights innovative startups solving critical challenges across the continent, underscored Nigeria’s expanding dominance in sectors such as fintech, artificial intelligence, health…
A Russian drone struck an apartment building in NATO-member Romania, its defense ministry said early Friday morning, wounding two people. “During the night of May 28-29, the Russian Federation resumed drone attacks on civilian and infrastructure targets in Ukraine, near the river border with Romania,” the ministry said. “One of these drones entered Romanian airspace,…
Most organisations put enormous effort and financial investment into workforce engagement. Town halls are professionally produced, leadership roadshows are carefully scripted, strategy launches are timed and rehearsed. More often than not, very little actually changes after these interactions. People walk back to their desks, open their laptops and carry on exactly as before. The problem…
The latest economic outlook report by the African Development Bank (AfDB) projects that the continent will grow at 4.2 per cent in 2026, slightly down from 4.4 per cent in 2025, before bouncing back to its growth trajectory in 2027. The downward revision for 2026 comes at the back of heightened geopolitical tensions and global…
As the news spread about the outbreak of Ebola in mid-May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report about pandemics. The title was: A World on the Edge: Priorities for a Pandemic-Resilient Future. The document was prepared by the WHO’s Global Preparedness Monitoring Board. It sets out why the world isn’t better prepared…
Iran’s decision to act on its long-promised threat to close the Strait of Hormuz has brought United States countermeasures in the form of a US naval blockade. Despite doubts over the legality, feasibility and efficacy of Iran’s initial move and flip-flops about the continuation of the closure, the immediate global impact, surging oil prices and…
Samsung has announced a collaborative research initiative with the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Diabetes Research Centre to investigate how wearable technology can assist patients on GLP-1 medications in managing muscle loss. The clinical study will leverage the Galaxy Watch 8, which launched last year, alongside the Samsung Health ecosystem. Researchers plan to evaluate the feasibility…
