The government of Yemen is seeking U.S. military support in its fight against the Houthis, a senior Yemeni official said Wednesday, as the Iranian-backed rebels rapidly expand their control of Yemen’s Red Sea coast and threaten another critical Middle East waterway for global energy supplies. Yemen’s president, Rashad al-Alimi, conveyed the request for U.S. assistance…
More than 25,000 people have been deported from the United States to third countries since Donald Trump returned to power – often to places they have no connection to and sometimes on another continent. Hundreds have been sent to Africa, where at least 12 countries have agreed to receive them. A six-month investigation by RFI…
Hendrik Krüger, Cloud On Demand Ask most organisations how secure their cloud environment is and you get an inventory of acronyms. We have cloud security posture management (CSPM). We have endpoint detection and response (EDR) on every device. We are on Microsoft 365 E5. All of those can be true while genuine detection capability sits…
Tuesday marks the 70th anniversary of the landmark 1956 Congress of Black Writers and Artists, held at the Sorbonne university in Paris and aimed at strengthening the Pan-African movement and giving voices to black writers and intellectuals from across Africa, Europe and the United States. The congress took place from 19 to 22 September 1956…
An artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI “infiltrated” an Australian government website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. The agent hacked a statistics portal containing “non-sensitive” data from Australia’s universal healthcare scheme Medicare, Albanese said in New York on Wednesday, local time. He had a “very frank discussion” with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman…
Airtel Money, the mobile money arm of Airtel Africa, intends to file for a public listing in London, it said on Wednesday, marking a potential turning point for a market that has faced a prolonged slowdown in new listings. The company had originally targeted a listing in the first half of 2026 but delayed it…
France skipper Kylian Mbappé targeted winning the Ballon d’Or as one of the objectives rather than an imperative of his sporting career during a wide-ranging interview with RFI. The 27-year-old has been nominated for football’s most prestigious individual prize every year since 2017. His best finish came in 2023 as a Paris Saint-Germain player when…
Climate change is making life tougher. Across Africa, failed harvests, shrinking water supplies and more extreme weather are leaving millions of people hungry and forcing many from their homes. When communities compete for land and water, the risk of conflict can grow. African governments are now developing a Common African Position on Climate, Peace and…
British Royal Air Force jet crashes in Wales during training, narrowly missing buildings – CBS News Watch CBS News A video shows a British Royal Air Force jet struggling to gain altitude just before it crashed in Wales. The two pilots ejected in time and were treated for minor injuries. Leigh Kiniry reports.
Bank Zero says it was built to break-even on a fraction of the customer base a new bank requires. Bank Zero has reached its first monthly break-even point, less than five years after launching to the public in October 2021. According to the digital bank, this was reached in August 2026, following more than a…
