Published On 2 Jul 20262 Jul 2026 The administration of United States President Donald Trump is slashing commercial fishing regulations from coast to coast, including reopening New England waters to scallop fishing that was banned after overfishing. “We’re opening the Atlantic and the Pacific, and the American consumers are going to benefit from what we’re…
Prosus, the European-listed subsidiary of Naspers, has reported an 84% surge in full-year adjusted core profit. This milestone marks the first time the company’s consumer digital platforms have achieved simultaneous profitability across all operating regions. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: EV adoption in South Africa! The company’s digital services and e-commerce portfolio…
Dr Anino Emuwa PARTNER CONTENT: Africa’s Business Heroes By Dr Anino Emuwa Over the past six years as a judge for Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH), I have witnessed first-hand one of the most important shifts taking place across the continent: the evolution of African entrepreneurship itself. The change is not simply in the number of…
Paul Rabil, at the CNBC Boardroom Game Plan: The Ownership Game Panel, July 25, 2023. Jesse Grant | CNBC The Premier Lacrosse League wants to begin selling its teams to individual owners or groups by 2028 “or soon thereafter,” league co-founder Paul Rabil told CNBC. In the next decade, Rabil said, he wants the league…
Fireline won the Interledger Foundation and UCT Financial Innovation Hub Hackathon. The Interledger Foundation and the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Financial Innovation Hub hosted their third annual fintech hackathon recently at the Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking Afrika. The event drew 80 participants from six tertiary institutions – UCT, Eduvos, Sol Plaatje University,…
The fishing sector has for generations been dominated by men with women being pushed to household chores. Overall, women in the fishing sector make up over half of the workforce but their roles are limited to processing, small-scale fishing and net-mending and marketing of fisheries. The UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) estimates that globally…
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, has called on the African Union to place xenophobic attacks against Africans, particularly Nigerians in South Africa, high on its peace and security agenda, insisting that no African should feel unsafe anywhere on the continent. In a press statement on Wednesday signed by the ministry’s…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is throwing her support behind former Wayne County health director Abdul El-Sayed in the hotly contested Michigan Democratic Senate primary. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News subscription Get exclusive reporting, live Q&As and ad-free reading. The move, first reported by The New York Times, marks one of the progressive congresswoman’s most…
Visa has set out a suite of AI, tokenisation and stablecoin capabilities it says will help banks and merchants across Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Cemea) prepare for the next phase of commerce – one in which software agents increasingly shop and pay on people’s behalf. The announcement this week groups…
The World Bank has abandoned its target of directing 45 percent of its financing to projects that help tackle climate change, prompting warnings that poorer countries – especially in Africa – could receive less support to adapt to a warming world. The bank’s five-year Climate Change Action Plan expired on Tuesday. Last year it put…
