Emmanuel Raptopoulos, global president of customer success for Europe, APAC, the Middle East and Africa at SAP. Organisations need to combine intelligence with business context to make their operations predictive rather than reactive, according to SAP. The company says this is also important for adopting agentic AI and achieving a return on investment. Emmanuel Raptopoulos,…
Nairobi — Billionaire industrialist Aliko Dangote has called for faster industrialisation across Africa, saying the continent must create jobs and economic opportunities to absorb its growing young population. Speaking on the inaugural episode of BBC Africa Enterprise shortly after the groundbreaking of his planned refinery in Lamu, Kenya, Dangote said African countries must shift from…
Addis Ababa — Multilingualism is essential to strengthening Africa’s international cooperation as language plays a central role in diplomacy, trade, education, science, culture and development, Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said. ECA Deputy Executive Secretary Mama Keita made the remarks today at an event marking International Translation Day, observed annually on September 30 under this…
The Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF) will bring together leading decision-makers, coaches and football experts in Cape Verde in October for a landmark Strategy Conference aimed at shaping the next phase of African football development. The three-day gathering will take place from 7 to 9 October 2026 in Santa Maria, Sal Island, and will be…
Yemen’s special envoy to the United Nations called on support from the international community after the Iran-backed Houthi militant group seized control of the Red Sea port city of Mokha. “This renewed war should alarm us all,” Hans Grundberg, the U.N. special envoy for Yemen, warned at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council…
Uber is cutting about 3 300 jobs, roughly a tenth of its global headcount, in a restructuring designed to flatten its management hierarchy and concentrate resources on three things: ride-hailing, delivery and autonomous vehicles. The number of managers is being slashed by 20%. On the same day it announced the cuts, the company closed its operations…
JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. — President Donald Trump’s new Federal Reserve chair said Friday that although measures of inflation are still elevated, it is not yet clear that the central bank must take urgent action to address rising prices. The speech at the Fed’s yearly retreat at Jackson Hole had been eagerly anticipated after a rocky…
Addis Ababa — An African Union (AU) official emphasized Ethiopia’s significant role in promoting peace and security not only in the Horn but also across the continent, while underscoring the need for African countries to strengthen regional integration. In an exclusive interview with ENA, Head of the Governance Architecture and African Peace and Security Architecture…
Africa is home to about two thirds of the world’s uncultivated arable land. It is blessed with an average of 300 days of sunshine annually. At a time when many of the world’s advanced countries are experiencing population stagnation or decline, Africa with 1.6 billion people is the world’s second largest continent. Its population is…
Airtel Africa has switched on what it says is Africa’s first commercial direct-to-phone satellite service, going live in the Democratic Republic of Congo on 14 August in partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Branded Starlink Mobile, it lets Airtel DRC customers with a compatible LTE Android smartphone connect straight to Starlink’s low-Earth orbit satellites, which act…
