Vodacom Group bolsters the foundation’s board. (Image source: Highperform.ai) The Vodacom Foundation has established a new seven-member board, chaired by Dr Vera Songwe, to consolidate and strengthen its impact on the continent by 2030. Vodacom’s foundation brings together the eight foundations across the group’s footprint under one umbrella. The new board members bring expertise spanning…
Bandung — Indonesia’s state-owned aircraft manufacturer, PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI), is seeking to revive talks with Kenya over the supply of aircraft while offering to establish local maintenance capabilities and transfer technical skills to Kenyan companies. PTDI says it sees Kenya as a potential gateway to the wider African market, with the company particularly interested…
Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment. The release on Monday of Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform comes after companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google disclosed recent incidents in which their artificial intelligence models escaped their…
VP Shettima also justifies President Tinubu’s reforms in bilateral talks with the Queen of the Netherlands on deepening ties. Just before returning to Nigeria, the Vice President, Kashim Shettima, met with the Costa Rican candidate for the position of the United Nations Secretary-General, Rebeca Grynspan. During his interaction with Ms Grynspan, Mr Shettima said Nigeria…
GoTyme Bank has confirmed it has signed up to Catastrophe, the industry coalition campaigning against draft rules that would bar South African companies from making cross-border payments in cryptocurrency, saying the country’s regulatory framework should apply “consistent standards to equivalent financial activities, regardless of the technology used”. “This is not a position on whether crypto…
The Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) will bring together leading decision-makers, coaches and football experts in Cape Verde in October for a landmark Strategy Conference aimed at shaping the next phase of African football development. The three-day gathering will take place from 7 to 9 October 2026 in Santa Maria, Sal Island, and will be…
Before Cole was arrested, the FBI questioned Shauni Kerkhoff, a former Capitol Police officer who was suggested as a possible suspect by reporters for The Blaze, a right-wing website founded by Glenn Beck, based upon a “gait analysis.” The story was co-written by former Jan. 6 defendant Steve Baker, who pleaded guilty in November 2024…
Arusha — THE African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR) has handled 29 legal matters from across the continent, delivering six rulings and conducting 14 compliance reviews during its 82nd Ordinary Session, reinforcing member states’ accountability under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. The Court said the four-week session, held at its…
Guardrisk stresses that the exposure of the binder holder does not mean its own systems were breached. (Image source: iStock) Guardrisk has moved to distance itself from the MIP Holdings cyber breach, saying neither it nor parent company Momentum Group has any exposure to the technology provider. In a statement to ITWeb, the insurer says…
Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire, Algeria, Nigeria and Cameroon were among the continental heavyweights to make winning starts as the first matchday of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations PAMOJA 2027 qualifiers produced goals, comebacks and several away successes across Africa. Guinea-Bissau recorded one of the standout results by winning 2-0 away to co-hosts Tanzania, while…
