|The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Union (AU), and other key regional blocs have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to streamline the deployment of the African Standby Force (ASF). The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Gen. Birame Diop, signed the agreement on behalf of the West African bloc in…
Nutun says its agentic AI debt collector Zoey serves to augment the workforce rather than replace it. (Image source: iStock) Global business process outsourcing (BPO) and credit-lifecycle management company Nutun is readying its agentic artificial intelligence (AI) debt collector Zoey for global deployment in November. This, after the South African operations served as an innovation…
Kigali, Rwanda — Africa is emerging as the world’s fastest-growing technology market, with its innovation ecosystem attracting increasing global investment. The European Investment Bank’s recent €40 million commitment to the sector underscores this growing confidence. However, this surge in technological innovation has yet to address some of the continent’s most persistent challenges – hunger, food…
LAEM CHABANG, Thailand — The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier arrived Wednesday at a port in eastern Thailand, where thousands of U.S. sailors and Marines are disembarking for the first time in more than 280 days after a record-setting deployment in the Middle East. The toll of the more than nine-month deployment, most of it…
Tecnotree Delivers Double-Digit Profit Growth and Accelerated Deployment Momentum in H1 2026 Tecnotree, a global leader in AI-native Digital Business Support Systems (BSS) and digital platform solutions for the telecommunications industry, today announced its financial results for the first half of 2026. The company delivered growth across every principal financial measure, expanded operating margin by…
Uptime Institute today released the findings of its 16th Annual Global Data Center Survey, the most comprehensive study of the digital infrastructure sector. The 2026 results reveal an industry navigating workforce constraints, escalating outage expenses, even as rising costs remain the top concern for management teams. Financial Pressure and Resource Constraints Intensify: While high costs…
AI-assisted development is reshaping how software gets built. HOSTAFRICA today announced the acquisition of zanode.co.za, a South African application hosting platform built around GitHub-based deployments, managed PostgreSQL and ZAR-denominated pricing. The acquisition extends HOSTAFRICA’s hosting offering beyond traditional shared, reseller and VPS products into a developer-first app platform aimed at agencies, software development companies and…
Azhar Said, chief data officer at Capitec. SA is leading the continent in AI adoption, and its banking sector is the highest-adopting segment in financial services – a position that carries both pride and responsibility, says Azhar Said, chief data officer at Capitec. Said will elaborate on these themes during his presentation at the ITWeb…
In this episode, FNB Risk’s chief data and analytics officer Dr Mark Nasila discusses the current state of AI strategy creation and implementation for enterprises, looks at some of the risks, including data sovereignty and data provenance, and provides some recommendations and predictions. #AI #sovereignty #LLMs #fintech Investments in machine learning in 2017/18 to support…
Soldiers are on standby for possible deployment to Minneapolis, a US defence official has told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner. The official said the 1,500 soldiers, currently in Alaska, are an option for US President Donald Trump if he decided to use active duty military personnel, as anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demonstrations continued…
