The West African nation of Liberia received the first group of “third country” deportees from the U.S. on Thursday, including migrants from Latin America, U.S. officials told CBS News. Roughly 20 deportees from different countries landed in Liberia, after being deported from the U.S. A U.S. official, however, told CBS News that after the plane…
Cisco Networking Academy and Hanley Group have collaborated to bring digital skills courses to 235 schools across the Northern Cape. The Northern Cape Department of Education, Hanley Group and Cisco Networking Academy have collaborated to bring networking, cyber security, AI and digital skills courses to 235 schools across the province, with classes expected to begin…
Nigeria and other African countries will push for a legally binding instrument on drought management and increased financing to tackle desertification, land degradation and drought at the 17th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP17) in Mongolia. Nigerian delegates, alongside their counterparts from other African…
Rwanda women’s national tennis team coach Eric Bimenyimana has named top seed Sonia Tuyishime, Gisele Umumararungu, Rona Tuyishimire and Carine Nishimwe in the squad for the 2026 Billie Jean King Cup Africa Group VI in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. The four players will fly to the host city on Monday as Rwanda targets promotion to Africa…
Khimji Ramdas Group Chooses Rimini Street to Reduce SAP Support Costs, Protect 700+ Customizations and Reinvest Savings in Innovation Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™ and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today announced that Khimji Ramdas Group, one of Oman’s largest privately…
Tanzania and Burkina Faso, who both ended the group stage with three points, were eliminated Côte d’Ivoire sealed top spot in Group B of the 2026 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations after a composed 2-1 victory over Tanzania on Tuesday, while South Africa joined them in the quarter-finals with a hard-fought 1-0 win against Burkina…
Incoming Nebank CIO Nikos Angelopoulos Nedbank has appointed Nikos Angelopoulos, formerly MTN Group’s group CIO, to the same role at the bank, which has been without a permanent technology chief since the end of January. Angelopoulos starts on 1 September and joins the group executive committee. He ran technology at MTN from July 2018 until…
Nikos Angelopoulos, Nedbank Group CIO. Nedbank has appointed Nikos Angelopoulos as its new group chief information officer (CIO), effective 1 September. Angelopoulos joins the bank from MTN Group, where he has served as group CIO since 2018. In that role, he was responsible for IT strategy, investments, delivery and governance across MTN’s 16 markets, supporting…
Morocco claimed derby bragging rights with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Algeria, while Senegal returned to winning ways by edging Kenya by the same scoreline to keep qualification firmly within their grasp Hosts Morocco and Senegal boosted their Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) quarter-final hopes with crucial victories on Thursday, setting up a thrilling…
Telkom Group CEO Serame Taukobong Telkom missed its own headline financial targets in its 2026 financial year – on revenue, profit and free cash flow – yet most of its top executives took home short-term bonuses that exceeded their on-target amounts, the group’s newly published remuneration report shows. The group performance scorecard, which determines the…
