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…
Twenty-eight people have been killed in two mass shootings hours apart in South Africa, the latest gun violence to hit the country. Eighteen people were killed when eight gunmen stormed a bar close to Johannesburg on Saturday evening, with 14 more injured. In a separate shooting in the early hours of Sunday morning, 10 people…
South Africa retained their TotalEnergies CAF Under-20 Africa Cup of Nations | COSAFA Qualifier title with a 2-1 victory over hosts Mozambique in Sunday’s final, completing a perfect tournament with five wins from five matches. Oarabile Booysen and Steven Mendes scored the goals for Amajita, who successfully defended their regional crown for a second successive…
Spar will begin piloting a refreshed version of its Spar2U on-demand shopping service from December, the group said on Monday in a trading update that also warned FY2026 earnings would fall short of the previous year’s. The new Spar2U “proposition” was shaped with a retailer advisory group, Spar said in the voluntary update to investors…
The real promise of Africapitalism lies not simply in the success of one Tony Elumelu entrepreneur, but in the possibility that thousands of entrepreneurs can become creators of value, employers of labour, innovators and contributors to Africa’s economic transformation. Conversations during economic summits on Africa clearly indicate that governments alone cannot transform Africa’s economic fortunes….
Pope Leo XIV criticized the legalization of medically assisted dying, calling it immoral and an example of “false compassion” during a visit on Sunday to Lourdes, the Catholic shrine in France associated with miraculous cures of the sick. “It is precisely in the name of this inalienable dignity of the human person that we must…
Heino Gevers, vice-president of global customer success at Mimecast. As CISOs head into their annual budget planning season, many will be looking for more available spend to battle a rapid increase in the scale and sophistication of cyber threats. Research from Mimecast shows that although security leaders are urgently seeking access to more budget, security…
Private dinner will be the first one-on-one meeting between the two men, according to reports. By Agence France Presse and Reuters Published On 28 Sep 202628 Sep 2026 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to dine one-on-one with US President Donald Trump at the White House. The meeting on Sunday evening, confirmed by Trump, comes…
SHENZHEN, CHINA – AUGUST 30: A Chinese national flag flies from a vessel in front of the MSC Claire container ship berthed beneath gantry cranes at Yantian Port on August 30, 2026, in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China. China is set to release its latest official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index as investors assess the outlook for…
Silvaguard Observation and Suppression drone and Hangar Dryad Networks, a leader in ultra-early wildfire detection, today announced it has been awarded $800,000 in the XPRIZE Wildfire competition for its performance in the Autonomous Wildfire Response finals in Alaska. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260923024178/en/ Dryad advanced from an original field…
