Moscow — President of the Republic Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday affirmed Algeria’s commitment to continuing efforts to bolster cooperation and partnership between Russia and African countries and take these relations to a higher level, based on mutual respect and equality. These efforts also seek to ensure a balanced and sustainable partnership that responds to Africa’s…
Just over a year after its acquisition by Amazon, wearable AI startup Bee has announced two hardware additions to its line-up: the Bee Frontier wearable and the Bee Eclipse phone-attached audio puck. The launches mark an expanded hardware strategy as Amazon scales its dedicated AI transcription and note-taking ecosystem. Read: Apple unveils 2026 iMac with…
The African Union is seeking to make democracy a continuous part of public life, with media, civic education and citizen participation central to the effort. A two-day Roundtable in Addis Ababa focused on turning that goal into practical action ahead of the continent’s 2026-2027 electoral cycle. The African Union Commission’s Department of Political Affairs, Peace…
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The Confédération Africaine de Football (“CAF”) Executive Committee (“EXCO”) today unanimously decided that the CAF Africa Cup of Nations (“AFCON”) will return to taking place every Two Years. The President of CAF Dr Patrice Motsepe announced at the CAF Strategy Conference in Cabo Verde which was held from 7-9 October 2026, that the CAF EXCO…
The Government Communications and Information System has informed users of a personal information breach. (Image source: iStock) The Government Communications and Information System (GCIS) has notified its users of a cyber security incident that may have impacted their personal information. An agency in the Presidency, the GCIS leads government communications, coordinating public messaging and strategic…
Alternativa Film Festival, the Global South film festival founded and supported by inDrive, has opened submissions for its first African edition. For its fourth edition, the festival welcomes feature films from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Short film submissions are open exclusively to filmmakers from Africa, the festival’s focus region for 2027. All entries must…
The DOJ has begun issuing subpoenas targeting Democratic officials allegedly connected to the effort to recruit Dan J Sullivan to be on the Alaska ballot, according to CBS News, the BBC’s US news partner. No charges had been filed as of Friday morning. Scott Kendall, an attorney who worked with Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski in…
LPG investment is Africa’s defining downstream opportunity over the next two decades. The window to act is open now. At the IEA’s first Summit on Clean Cooking in Africa in Paris in May 2024, Akinwumi Adesina, then African Development Bank President, recalled studying by smoky lamps and cooking fires, which he links to eyesight damage….
ACT CEO Nomvuyiso Batyi South Africa’s biggest mobile operators, through their industry body, will not back Icasa’s proposed biometric Sim checks and five-number cap in their current form, warning that the draft rules overlap with Rica, the existing Sim registration law, and could disrupt the industry’s own clean-up of the Sim market. The Association of…
