With a series of record highs and crushing sell-offs, 2025 has been a roller-coaster ride for bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, which is at risk of ending the year with its first annual decline since 2022. The world’s main stock benchmarks have also had a turbulent year, repeatedly hitting record peaks and then pulling back…
MS Tawa Bolarin, Director of Enterprise and Wholesale at Telecel Ghana, has called for a continuous exchange partnership between telecom operators and research institutions in developing solutions to close the continent’s digital inclusion gap. Speaking on a panel at the Future of Digital Countries (FDC) Africa Regional Summit in Accra on the topic, Bridging Research…
The draw for the 2026 World Cup was held in the USA recently. Forty-eight (48) countries are set to compete for the global biggest football showpiece trophy. The countries are divided into twelve (12) groups. The 2026 World cup is set to start on 11th June 2026 and finish on 19July 2026. Follow us on…
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Emerging technologies – especially AI – can bolster crime prevention within online gambling, says LexisNexis Risk Solutions. The explosive growth of South Africa’s online gambling and betting sector means increased opportunities for criminals, with expanding sports betting, new licences and booming digital payments open to exploitation if anti-money-laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism…
Africa’s Global Bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has once again, reaffirmed its leadership as one of the continent’s most innovative and resilient financial institutions, as the bank has, for the third time in five years, been named the African Bank of the year 2025 by the Banker.com. UBA also won the Best Bank…
Washington, DC — The AGOA Alliance, a coalition of U.S. and African business, policy, and trade leaders, today sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging a 2–5-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). The letter, addressed to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, Speaker Mike Johnson, and House…
Nvidia H100 chips inside a server room at the Yotta Data Services Pvt. data center, in Navi Mumbai, India, on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Dhiraj Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. authorities announced Tuesday that they have shut down yet another China-linked smuggling network that trafficked or attempted to traffic more than $160 million…
Black Rock Mining’s urgent application to the high court in Johannesburg to have Nkosana Makate’s funds from his settlement with former employer Vodacom frozen has been dismissed because Black Rock failed to prove its claim that Makate intends to “dissipate” the money. In a judgment handed down on 8 December, acting high court judge Don…
Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP speaking at the UNEA-7 meeting. PHOTO/UNEP. By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT [email protected] The most comprehensive assessment of the global environment ever undertaken has found that investing in a stable climate, healthy nature and land, and a pollution-free planet can deliver trillions in additional global GDP, avoid millions of deaths and lift…
