Africa: Should Wildlife Parks Be Fenced? We Studied 60 African Examples for an Answer

Africa: Should Wildlife Parks Be Fenced? We Studied 60 African Examples for an Answer

Fences are among conservation’s most controversial interventions. To some, they are essential for conserving wildlife, minimising encroachment, and preventing the type of conflict that happens when humans come into contact with wildlife. To others, fences represent exclusion. They break the landscape up into pieces, prevent wild animals from moving freely over long distances and create…

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Maidar Secure, Strike48 bring agentic AI to the SOC

Maidar Secure, Strike48 bring agentic AI to the SOC

Maidar Secure, a provider of managed security services and security operations centre (SOC) solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with Strike48, developer of what it describes as the industry’s only truly agentic security operations platform, allowing organisations to detect and respond to threats at machine speed. “This partnership represents a bold step forward in redefining…

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Africa: All of Africa Today – April 7, 2026

Africa: All of Africa Today – April 7, 2026

  Sudan Marks April 6 Anniversary with Renewed Calls for Civilian Rule Sudanese political parties and civil groups marked the seventh anniversary of the April 6 sit-in in Khartoum by renewing calls for an immediate end to the war and a return to civilian rule. The anniversary commemorates the mass protest that culminated in the…

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Digital twins: The system behind the system

Digital twins: The system behind the system

Tiny town: A digital twin is a gamified, 3D, virtual representation of a company’s asset. Around 30 years ago, the video game publisher, Maxis, released SimCity. As the name implies, the goal was to create and run a virtual city. From building roads to power plants, adding different housing zones and even constructing an underground…

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Africa: Should Wildlife Parks Be Fenced? We Studied 60 African Examples for an Answer

Africa: From Fiscal Burden to Job Engine – Ethiopia’s State-Owned Enterprise Transformation

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Beginning in 2019, the World Bank supported a comprehensive reform program that established Ethiopia’s first state-owned enterprises (SOEs) database, while strengthening oversight and updating the legal and governance framework. The SOEs have shifted from absorbing public funds to generating them, contributing a combined ETB 117 billion (approximately $720 million) to the national budget…

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