AI’s value compounds with use. A few years ago, artificial intelligence in the office meant a chatbot on the company website. Today it sits inside our e-mail, our spreadsheets and our code editors, often without much ceremony. The question for business leaders is no longer whether staff are using AI, but how well. Mweb, which…
Nigeria has the widest gap in Africa between the estimated number of tuberculosis (TB) cases and those detected and placed on treatment, raising concerns about the country’s efforts to contain the disease, international researchers have warned. The warning was given by Professor Bertie Squire, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Partnerships at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,…
Finland has offered to help South African researchers gain access to Lumi, one of Europe’s most powerful supercomputers, as the two countries try to turn decades of goodwill into a formal partnership on AI. The offer came at a South Africa-Finland dialogue on AI, hosted by the Finnish embassy at the National Research Foundation (NRF)…
COP17 | UN biodiversity summit faces final-day deadlock over $700 billion finance gap and corporate contributions COP 17 President Hambardzum Matevosyan, Minister of Environment, Armenia. PHOTO/IISD/ENB – Mike Muzurakis. By PATRICK MAYOYO [email protected] The 2026 United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP17) is heading towards its conclusion on Friday amid unresolved disagreements over biodiversity financing, corporate contributions, benefit-sharing…
A highly produced video on the EU Space Policy’s website declares: “With Iris², Europe will no longer depend on others for satellite connectivity.” So does that mean Ukraine could switch off Starlink? No – that wouldn’t be a good idea. “Users need to think about communications resilience,” Bingen said. “So if something happens to one…
Information security and privacy consultant Anthony Olivier. Most boards approving artificial intelligence (AI) investments in South Africa today could not tell you, from their own experience, what a capable AI model can do, or where it will fail. They are signing off budgets, strategies and risk appetites for a technology they have met mostly in…
Africa’s digital economy is expanding faster than its ability to protect it. INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, drawing on information from 36 countries, found that artificial intelligence was involved in 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across the continent. Reported losses rose from $192 million in 2024 to $484 million, while 72 per cent…
Trainocate Africa will support skills development across cloud computing, AI, cyber security, data analytics, automation, networking and digital infrastructure. NIL Africa has announced its transition to Trainocate Africa, following its partnership with Trainocate Holdings, one of the world’s leading technology and human capability development training providers. Unveiled on 15 October, the transition marks a significant…
The authors, from left, Jason Molesworth and Biase De Gregorio. Molesworth is CEO and chief AI strategist at Accelerated Innovation Group, while De Gregorio is partner and head of AI advisory and talent at iqbusiness AI adoption is no longer difficult to find. Employees are using copilots and generative AI tools in their daily work,…
A familiar claim keeps surfacing in the rhetoric of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger’s ruling juntas, echoed enthusiastically by Russian state media: the West is deliberately working to destabilise the Sahel’s military governments. It’s a tidy story. It bundles sanctions, frozen aid and diplomatic isolation into a single narrative of conspiracy. But look closely at…
