New York — Storms, floods, and heatwaves most common climate hazards causing school closures, class suspensions, and other education interruptions More than 171 million students globally – or 1 in 10 – from pre-primary to upper secondary age had their schooling disrupted by climate hazards in 2025, according to a new analysis released by UNICEF…
Netflix marks 10 years and production partnerships in South Africa. Since making it local debut in 2016, Netflix productions have created over 8 000 direct and indirect jobs across South Africa. The global streaming giant also invested R2.4 billion in the local market, between 2016 and 2022. This was revealed at a press showcase in…
One of the suspected abductors of Standard Group Associate Editor Alex Kiprotich. PHOTO/UGC. By PATRICK MAYOYO The recent abduction of Standard Group associate editor Alex Kiprotich should not be dismissed as an isolated attack on one journalist. It should be viewed against a troubling backdrop of growing pressure on Kenya’s media and the shrinking space…
The renewed escalation in Yemen is no longer simply a Yemeni battlefield development. For Saudi Arabia, it is becoming a direct test of national security, economic resilience and the kingdom’s ability to prevent the wider regional war from spilling further across its borders. The latest Houthi attacks have demonstrated this clearly. Missiles and drones have…
The US was the only country that voted against a recent Africa-sponsored resolution at the UN. On Friday, the UN General Assembly voted to adopt a new world map that accurately depicts Africa’s size. Togo introduced the resolution. It sought to replace the age-old Mercator map with the Equal Earth projection, which is considered more…
MTN South Africa CEO Ferdi Moolman MTN South Africa is rebuilding the way it prices wholesale access for mobile virtual network operators and will now sell capacity more cheaply at deliberately lower quality, giving MVNOs a trade-off between price and performance they did not previously have. CEO Ferdi Moolman told TechCentral in an interview that…
Arusha — THE World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for Africa, Professor Mohamed Janabi, has urged African countries to take greater ownership of their health systems and move from conference commitments to concrete action in financing and strengthening primary healthcare. Prof Janabi said governments must lead health-sector development, while development partners align their support with…
The Clarity Act, which seeks to establish a U.S. federal framework for digital assets, is likely to pass given broad support from crypto firms, law-enforcement groups and several banks, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said. The legislation was ready to be supported by the Senate, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” on Thursday,…
Conservation scientist Lee White reflects on four decades spent creating Gabon’s national parks, tackling illegal logging and confronting the failures of global carbon markets. Climate change will trigger wars over water across much of Africa unless the continent protects the Congo Basin, warns former Gabonese environment minister Professor Lee White. White describes the Congo Basin…
Mandi Pietersen, Dariel Backups are, theoretically, designed to be the one clean thing left standing in a compromised estate. Experts no longer describe them as simple storage tasks but, rather, as a critical part of an organisation’s resilience strategy, determining how quickly, and safely, it can return to business after a cyber incident. But according…
