Food solutions were on display everywhere around COP30–from the 80 tonnes of local and agroecological meals served to concrete proposals for tackling hunger–but none of this made it into the negotiating rooms or the final agreement. –Elisabetta Recine, IPES-Food panel expert – As they ate catered meals, COP30 negotiators had no appetite for fixing broken…
Flutterwave has acquired Nigerian open banking startup Mono in an all-stock transaction valued between $25 million and $40 million, according to people familiar with the deal. The acquisition brings together two fintech infrastructure companies operating at scale in Africa. Flutterwave runs one of the continent’s largest payments networks, while Mono provides APIs that allow businesses…
Canal+ and Warner Bros. Discovery have announced a major expansion of their long-standing strategic partnership, signing a new multi-year, multi-territory agreement that significantly strengthens their collaboration internationally. The expanded deal covers the distribution of HBO Max as well as the renewal of several Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) thematic television channels across multiple markets in Africa…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said a peace agreement to end the war with Russia is “90% ready”, in a New Year address that largely focused on resistance to Moscow’s full-scale invasion. Zelensky said the remaining 10% of the agreement to end nearly four years of conflict would “determine the fate of peace, the fate…
DStv parent Groupe Canal+ and Warner Bros Discovery have reached a last-minute agreement that will see 12 channels, including CNN International and Cartoon Network, stay on the DStv bouquet following the warning earlier this month that they might be discontinued. According to a statement by Canal+ on Wednesday, the deal between the two broadcasting giants…
EPA/Shutterstock Ukraine’s president last met President Donald Trump at the White House in October Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will meet his US counterpart Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday, as talks continue on ending Russia’s full-scale war. Zelensky said he expected the meeting to focus on a US-brokered peace plan, and separate…
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang looks on as US President Donald Trump speaks at the US-Saudi Investment Forum at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC on Nov. 19, 2025. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images It’s been two days since news broke that Nvidia was spending $20…
Jonathan Ross, chief executive officer of Groq Inc., during the GenAI Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, May 30, 2024. David Paul | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nvidia has agreed to buy assets from Groq, a designer of high-performance artificial intelligence accelerator chips, for $20 billion in cash, according to Alex Davis, CEO…
Transnet-run Port of Durban is the busiest in sub-Saharan Africa. (Photograph: Wikimedia.) Loss-making Transnet has until noon on Monday to pay Gijima R60 million for work done between July and September this year following failing in its bid to end a R1.5 billion tender. Transnet’s agreement to pay Gijima follows a ruling earlier this month…
The firm behind President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform is merging with a Google-backed energy company in a deal valued at more than $6bn (£4.4bn). Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) and TAE Technologies announced the plans on Thursday in a joint statement, which said the move would “create one of the world’s first publicly…
