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Africa’s growing demand for aquatic foods creates a supply gap that sustainable aquaculture expansion could help close

eriinfo.com2 days ago08 mins

Africa’s growing demand for aquatic foods creates a supply gap that sustainable aquaculture expansion could help close INFOGRAPHIC/AEN. By PATRICK MAYOYO The 2026 edition of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, launched on Tuesday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) during the Our Ocean Conference in Mombasa, Kenya, finds that global production of…

New FAO Report: Seafood trade soars to record $184bn, but sustainability gap widens

eriinfo.com3 days ago06 mins

New FAO Report: Seafood trade soars to record $184bn, but sustainability gap widens Aquaculture now provides 53 percent of total aquatic animal production and over 59 percent of aquatic animal food output. PHOTO/FAO. By PATRICK MAYOYO Aquatic animal products have reached a new economic peak, with trade soaring to $184 billion and matching the scale…

Smartphone gap keeps African women offline

eriinfo.com1 week ago07 mins

Africa’s rural communities face the largest disparities, with mobile internet gender gaps significantly wider outside urban centres. (Image created using ChatGPT) More than 810 million women across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remain offline, with Sub-Saharan Africa recording one of the world’s widest mobile internet gender gaps. According to the GSM Association’s (GSMA’s) Mobile Gender…

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Africa’s AI Governance Gap – Why National Strategies Must Move Beyond Adoption to Execution

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago011 mins

In February 2026, the Ghana Revenue Authority deployed Publican AI at Tema Port –software that analyses import declarations, benchmarks values against global trade databases, and flags anomalies before clearance. Within weeks, customs revenue soared from GH₵2.4 billion to GH₵3.6 billion, with the system generating an average of $3 million a day in additional revenue. By…

How Adobe Creative Cloud Standard bridges the gap for growing Teams in Africa

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago06 mins

Businesses that have been relying on individual Creative Cloud licences can now upgrade to Teams. (Image: Dax Data) As creative demands increase, small creative teams often outgrow the tools they started with. Free applications, non-genuine software, disconnected workflows and manual processes often leave work spread across personal accounts and manual handoffs. This slows delivery and…

ITWeb TV: SA’s ICT skills crisis rooted in experience gap

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago012 mins

In this episode of ITWeb TV, Kelvin Nhlapo, GM of the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa, uncovers the root causes of SA’s growing ICT skills gap and the institute’s efforts to tackle the crisis. #ICTSkills #AI #IITPSA While South Africa’s ICT sector continues to experience a widening skills gap, the problem is less…

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Africa: AfDB Flags Widening Trade Finance Gap for African SMEs

eriinfo.com3 weeks ago05 mins

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Africa continue to face tighter lending conditions, higher collateral requirements, and limited access to formal trade finance despite evidence showing that their credit risk profile has remained relatively stable. According to a new African Development Bank (AfDB) report released in Brazzaville on May 27, SME-related default rates, averaging between…

DDoS attacks expose South Africa’s cyber response gap

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago09 mins

South Africa has the legislative foundation to respond to nation-scale cyberattacks but the practical capacity has yet to be realised. A wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks earlier this week disrupted connectivity across more than half a dozen South African hosting providers and internet specialists, including 1-grid, Xneelo, Network Platforms, Host Africa and Domains.co.za. Tens…

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Africa’s Capital Must Stay Home to Plug Its Financing Gap – How It Could Be Done

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago011 mins

Africa is providing cheap liquidity to wealthy nations. In return it is paying huge interest rates to external institutional investors at the cost of its own development. For instance, African central banks export their reserve funds for safekeeping. Sovereign wealth funds and pension fund managers invest only in investment-grade European and United States institutions. The…

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Africa: CEOs Sound Alarm On AI Gap As Africa’s Workplaces Go Digital

eriinfo.com4 weeks ago03 mins

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 21-East African business leaders are calling on organizations to urgently scale up artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and workforce training, warning that companies that delay risk losing competitiveness in a rapidly evolving digital economy. The call was made during the East African Business Leaders Round Table convened by SeamlessHR and KPMG East Africa,…