Gerald Langton, Business Development Manager at Canon South Africa, introduces Canon’s range of cameras and lenses to the media. Canon South Africa used its presence at Mediatech Africa 2026 to demonstrate how imaging technology is evolving to serve everyone from social media content creators to wildlife filmmakers and broadcasters, while highlighting the company’s long-term vision…
Can artificial intelligence benefit all of humanity – safely, fairly and without causing “catastrophic harm”? That is the question at the heart of a major UN summit opening in Geneva on Monday. Governments, tech companies, academics and civil society will spend two days at the Global Dialogue on AI Governance wrestling with how to regulate…
UN Sounds Alarm Over Escalating Sudan Conflict The United Nations has warned that Sudan’s war is at risk of escalating further as the strategic city of El Obeid comes under relentless drone attacks, leaving civilians trapped and deepening an already catastrophic humanitarian crisis. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said at least…
NewsFeed Huge crowds filled the streets of Tehran as the funeral procession for Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, began moving slowly through the capital. A week of ceremonies are taking place after Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli air attacks in February. Published On 6 Jul 20266 Jul 2026 Click here to share on…
Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Image: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi has hit back at parliament over the Starlink lobbying controversy, delivering a combative written rebuttal that names for the first time the facilitator of his only meeting with Elon Musk’s SpaceX – and pointedly cutting Tony Leon’s Resolve Communications out of the story. In a…
Across Africa, large-scale infrastructure projects are transforming economies at an unprecedented pace. Between 2010 and 2022, African ports captured an outsized share of global port investment – $13 billion, concentrated heavily in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Senegal, and Ghana. Ports, railways and energy systems are widely framed as the backbone of this growth:…
When people think of the world’s deadliest threats, armed conflicts usually come to mind first. Yet every year, organized crime quietly claims a comparable number of lives. Since 2000, the UN estimates that organized criminal groups have been linked to about 95,000 homicides annually. That figure is strikingly close to the average annual death toll…
This picture taken on March 26, 2026 shows an oil tanker unloading crude oil at a port in Yantai, in China’s eastern Shandong province. CN-STR | Afp | Getty Images Iran is likely to face challenges in clearing its oil inventories even after restrictions on its energy imports are lifted, as its biggest customer tweaks…
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), Europe’s highest court of appeal, has definitively upheld a record-setting €4.1 billion ($4.67 billion) antitrust fine against Google and its parent company, Alphabet. The ruling officially dismisses Google’s final appeal and solidifies the penalty originally levied in 2018 for anti-competitive practices surrounding its Android operating system….
Novastar Ventures and Google launched an Applied AI Lab for African startups and researchers building artificial intelligence tools in healthcare, agriculture and education. Applications opened on July 1. The lab is backed by Google’s AI Futures Fund and supported by Google DeepMind and Google Research. The first cohort will select between 5 and 10 startups…
