Not every snakebite injects venom. When venom enters the body, however, it can cause snake envenoming. This is a potentially fatal condition and it mostly affects poor rural communities across tropical and subtropical regions who don’t have easy access to medical care. As researchers with decades of combined experience in snakebite and tropical disease epidemiology,…
TechCentral Show guests Abraham van der Merwe and Shane Chorley Frogfoot plans to keep buying smaller fibre network operators in South Africa’s suburbs as the market consolidates, but CEO Shane Chorley stopped short of ruling out a sale of the business. “I’d be ignorant to say that we would ignore any offer,” Chorley said on…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Two months after OpenAI disclosed the accidental hacking of open-source AI platform Hugging Face, the ChatGPT maker is still working to understand the full scope of its rogue agent activity, two people briefed on the matter have said. The latest example came on Friday when OpenAI said its agents had leaked…
New York — GABI’s Unstoppable Africa 2026 brings global leaders together on Africa’s push to capture more value from its resources, accelerate investment and strengthen its influence in global trade and decision-making. Africa is pushing for a bigger role in shaping the global economy, as business leaders, heads of state, investors, policymakers, and global partners…
The UN has passed a non-binding resolution to endorse the Equal Earth Projection, a map which more fairly represents the true size of the Earth’s landmasses. The current commonly used projection, called the Mercator Projection, greatly exaggerates land towards the north and south poles, which makes Africa look much smaller. In the Mercator projection, countries…
Tactile Technologies and FEITIAN will be at Seamless Africa on 8 and 9 September at the Sandton Convention Centre. (Image source: iStock) Seamless Africa returns to the Sandton Convention Centre on 8 and 9 September 2026, and Tactile Technologies will be there again, sharing a stand with global payments technology brand FEITIAN. It is a…
Africa is beginning to reverse an age-old equation: exporting raw cotton and importing the value created from it. The challenge is to close the “missing middle”, connect regional manufacturing strengths and scale a competitive industry that keeps jobs, skills and value on the continent. For decades, Africa’s cotton story has followed a familiar pattern. Cotton…
AstraZeneca‘s failed late-stage trial for Wainua was never expected to have a major financial impact on the company. Most analysts estimate the trial miss wiped just 2-4% from their valuation models. Yet the shares lost roughly twice that in a single session, suggesting the market reaction reflected more than just the loss of one drug,…
Monaco — AFRICA must accelerate investment in its blue economy and place coastal communities at the heart of ocean conservation if it is to unlock billions of dollars in economic opportunities and millions of jobs, conservation leaders have said. Speaking at the Monaco Blue Initiative and the Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monte Carlo,…
A recent Microsoft Work Trend Index report has revealed that employees are interrupted every two minutes on average by meetings, emails or messages. But the bigger issue is not just interruption. It is what all that activity may be hiding: slow decision-making, poor alignment and stalled execution. For Dori Moreno, a growth strategist specialising in…
