Oil prices today: Brent, WTI rise

Oil prices today: Brent, WTI rise

APA Corporation’s Beryl Alpha oil platform in the North Sea. Courtesy: APA Corporation Oil prices rose on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to impose shipping fees in the Strait of Hormuz and reinstate a blockade of Iranian ports, raising concerns over potential disruptions to global crude supplies.  U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures…

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West Africa: MFWA Partners Unwanted Witness, DPC, Hewlett Foundation for 8th Privacy Symposium Africa

West Africa: MFWA Partners Unwanted Witness, DPC, Hewlett Foundation for 8th Privacy Symposium Africa

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is partnering with Uganda-based Unwanted Witness (UW), Ghana’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), and the Hewlett Foundation to organise the eighth edition of the Privacy Symposium Africa (PSA), themed “Money. Data. Control.” The symposium, which will take place on 25 and 26 November 2026, seeks to examine the intersection…

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Raxio Tops US0 Million in Committed Capital as Roha and Meridiam Boost Stakes Amid Sixfold Growth Surge for its African Data Centres

Raxio Tops US$380 Million in Committed Capital as Roha and Meridiam Boost Stakes Amid Sixfold Growth Surge for its African Data Centres

Raxio Group, Africa’s most expansive data centre platform, surpassed US$380 million in committed capital as shareholders Meridiam and Roha increased their support for the company’s next phase of growth following a sixfold surge in contracted capacity this year. The additional equity from Roha and Meridiam extends Raxio’s capital base from a previous US$350 million, building…

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Trading rules near as Eskom tools up to compete

Trading rules near as Eskom tools up to compete

Eskom CEO Dan Marokane. Image: Eskom New rules governing electricity trading in South Africa are imminent, Eskom CEO Dan Marokane has said, while defending the utility’s controversial court challenge over trading licences and suggesting critics who call it anticompetitive either haven’t read the draft rules or have “read them and not understood them”. In an…

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Why eMedia’s Openview Stream is skipping South Africa

Why eMedia’s Openview Stream is skipping South Africa

eMedia CEO Khalik Sherrif eMedia has launched Openview Stream, a free, ad-supported streaming television (Fast) platform, in seven African markets – Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and Mauritius – taking its Openview brand beyond South Africa’s borders for the first time. And eMedia group CEO Khalik Sherrif has explained why the group’s home market…

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