Server equipment belonging to US-headquartered cloud security company Zscaler was seized by sheriffs of the court from NTT Data and Teraco data centres in Johannesburg and Cape Town between September and November of 2024, TechCentral has learnt. Court papers filed at the high court in Johannesburg confirm that the asset seizures relate to an ongoing…
Text of the Speech Delivered by Dr. Akinwumi A. Adesina at the Launch of the Global Africa Investment Summit in dubai on February 3, 2026 Your Excellency, Joan Lourenco, President of the Republic of Angola and the Chairman of the African Union.Your Excellency, Samia Suluhu Hassan, President of the United Republic of Tanzania.Your Excellency, John Dramani…
Addis Ababa — Foreign ministers from across the African continent continue to arrive in Addis Ababa to participate in the 48th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council and the 39th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly of Heads of State and Government. The Foreign Ministers of Gabon, Rwanda, The Gambia, and Equatorial Guinea–Marie-Edith…
The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularised the devastating effects of sudden climate change on planet Earth. The plot dramatises the consequences of a shut-down in an ocean current, and features the Northern Hemisphere plunging, within a few weeks, into an ice age. The lead character, palaeoclimatologist Jack Hall, uncovers…
The African Financial Industry Barometer 2025 depicts a sector at a technology inflection point. (Image created using GenAI via ChatGPT) Africa’s financial sector is in the midst of a pronounced technological transformation, with digital innovation now being central to organisations’ competitive strategy. However, firms struggle to fully mature their tech adoption and face hurdles in…
Addis Ababa — Foreign affairs ministers from across the African continent have begun arriving in Addis Ababa to take part in the 39th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Summit. Among those who arrived on Tuesday evening were the Foreign Ministers of Malawi, Burundi, Nigeria, Zambia, and the Republic of Congo–George Thapatula Chaponda, Edouard…
What: On the margins of the 39th African Union (AU) Heads of State Summit, women leaders, convened under the auspices of African Women’s Leaders Network (AWLN), will mobilize around a high-level advocacy agenda to accelerate women’s full, equal, and effective participation in leadership and decision-making. The programme opens with the 9th Empowering Women in Agriculture…
Every Monday, employees of Delivery Ka Speed, a South African township-focused logistics company, slip a note into parcels that reads “New Week, We Try Again”. The business posts the same line on its social media. Founder Godiragetse Mogajane says the phrase, which they have used since the early days of delivering food on bicycles, “comes…
Athletes from around the world are in the Italian Alps for the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics on Friday – including 13 sportspeople from eight African countries. Though the continent isn’t associated with winter sports, Africa has been a constant and growing presence at the Games since 1960. While the African continent is well…
The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, in central France, is the largest of its kind in the world, with more than 500 films screened during a week-long event. Its African Perspectives section this year tackles themes from social media to colonial archives. Tim Redford, in charge of the festival’s international competition and the African Perspectives…
