US President Donald Trump has rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping within a week. He told reporters at the White House that Tehran “want to make a deal where they open the Strait immediately because they’re losing so badly”. In a post on Telegram, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas…
Delegates attend a recent financial presentation at Safaricom’s headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. Monicah Mwangi/Reuters Kenya’s government will appeal the court ruling that ordered the cancellation of the deal in which it sold an extra 15% stake in Safaricom to Vodacom, finance minister John Mbadi said on Wednesday. Mbadi said he was confident the transaction followed…
For most of the last decade, Microsoft made it inexpensive to wait. Each time a SQL Server version reached the end of its extended support – 2008, 2012, 2014 – the same escape hatch was available. Move the workload onto an Azure virtual machine and the Extended Security Updates came free. SQL Server 2014 still…
Richard Weitz, a senior fellow at the NATO Defense College tells Al Jazeera that the new US-Denmark security deal over Greenland gives US President Trump a diplomatic agreement without delivering his earlier ambition to annex the territory. Published On 19 Sep 202619 Sep 2026 Share Trump ‘settled for less’ with new US-Denmark Greenland security deal…
Vumatel lifted operating profit 57% to R2.16-billion in the 12 months to 31 March 2026, on revenue up 15.3% to R4.43-billion, according to figures disclosed by Remgro in its results for the year to 30 June 2026 published on Friday. It is the first substantial look at what Maziv, the holding company for Vumatel and…
The US International Development Finance Corporation said on Wednesday it would invest up to US$155-million in African digital infrastructure provider Wiocc Group, underscoring Washington’s support for projects seen as critical to the expansion of US technology companies. Washington has increasingly backed telecommunications and digital infrastructure projects in Africa as it seeks to provide alternatives to…
A building on Vodacom’s campus in Midrand, Johannesburg Kenya’s high court has declared the government’s sale of a 15% stake in Safaricom to Vodacom unconstitutional, null and void, and ordered the shares restored to the state — 11 weeks after the transaction closed and handed the South African group control of Kenya’s most valuable listed…
Early momentum is real, but AU member states, private capital and wary US investors have yet to be brought on board. Since the African Union Commission (AUC) and United States (US) government signed off on the Strategic Infrastructure and Investment Working Group (SIWG) in January, the platform has begun to take shape. Projects are being…
Discovery’s head office in Sandton. Image: Boogertman and Partners Discovery is buying its way deeper into US health technology. On 1 September, two months after its financial year ended and two days before it reported annual results, the group’s wholly owned US subsidiary Vitality Group International acquired 100% of Icario Holdco, a US healthcare services…
Senegal reached a staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund for a $2.2 billion, 3-year lending programme as the government seeks to restore debt sustainability after uncovering more than $11 billion of previously misreported borrowing. The agreement still requires approval from IMF management and its Executive Board. The deal follows months of negotiations after the…
