Africa: Burhan’s Dialogue Is Not a Path to Stability

Africa: Burhan’s Dialogue Is Not a Path to Stability

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has discovered dialogue again. After years of promises, a military coup, emergency rule, war rhetoric and political exclusion, Sudan’s army chief now says he wants a comprehensive dialogue inside the country to complete a civilian democratic transition. Al Jazeera reported proposals to drop death-penalty charges against opposition leaders and form a…

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Post Office wants out of rescue anyway

Post Office wants out of rescue anyway

The South African Post Office is trying to leave business rescue without a single committed private sector partner, without guaranteed government funding and with an unresolved statutory creditor claim that two funds are now using to oppose its exit. That was the picture that emerged on Tuesday when the Post Office, its business rescue practitioners…

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Zambia elections: Hakainde Hichilema re-elected president as main rival goes into hiding over alleged threats

Zambia elections: Hakainde Hichilema re-elected president as main rival goes into hiding over alleged threats

Zambia has a record of peaceful transfers of power. Since the return to multiparty democracy in 1991, presidential transitions have occurred through the ballot box. It is unclear if the opposition will challenge the election result. Mundubile had earlier alleged there had been discrepancies between polling-station results and those officially announced and claimed military involvement…

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Jem raises .4m to expand AI-powered platform

Jem raises $8.4m to expand AI-powered platform

Simon Ellis, co-founder and CEO of Jem, Quona Venture Partner Johan Bosini and Caroline van der Merwe, Jem co-founder and COO. (Photo: Supplied) South African HR technology company Jem has raised $8.4 million in a Series A funding round led by global fintech investor Quona Capital, as it expands its workforce management platform for frontline…

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Kushner says Iran not interested in deal that “makes sense” for U.S. as stalemate continues

Kushner says Iran not interested in deal that “makes sense” for U.S. as stalemate continues

  0m ago Saudi Arabia reportedly moving crude oil out of Strait of Hormuz using ship-to-ship transfer Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Aramco resumed offering crude oil shipments last week, using ship-to-ship transfers off the United Arab Emirates coast, the Reuters news agency says, citing shipping data and trade sources. Aramco, which is the world’s top…

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