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Africa’s Urban Future On the Line As Continental Forum Opens in Nairobi With Call to Move ‘From Conversation to Execution’

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago08 mins

NAIROBI, 8 April 2026 Africa’s most consequential gathering on housing and urban development, Africa Urban Forum 2 (AUF 2), opened today in Nairobi, as African leaders and policymakers called for urgent, coordinated action to transform the continent’s rapidly expanding cities into engines of economic growth, social inclusion, and climate resilience. The three-day forum, running from…

MTN’s top brass in line for R160-million share windfall

eriinfo.com2 weeks ago03 mins

MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has been awarded conditional shares worth nearly R40-million under the telecommunications group’s long-running performance share plan, the company disclosed on Tuesday. In a notice to shareholders published on the JSE’s stock exchange news service, MTN said Mupita had been allocated 207 633 shares at R192.50 each…

How a WhatsApp bundle exposed a fault line in SA mobile

eriinfo.com1 month ago09 mins

Telkom has spent years operating in the shadow of Vodacom and MTN. That is changing. South Africa’s third-largest mobile network operator by subscribers has built a prepaid offering that is pulling customers away from its bigger rivals at a rate that is now showing up in their financial results — and forcing them to respond….

Blu Label resumes dividends as it draws line under Cell C saga

eriinfo.com2 months ago08 mins

Blu Label Unlimited Group co-CEO Brett Levy Blu Label Unlimited Group has declared its first interim dividend in eight years, signalling it is finally putting the long and costly Cell C chapter behind it. The group, formerly known as Blue Label Telecoms, declared an interim dividend of 43.56c/share for the six months to end-November 2025,…

Oil jumps after Vance says Iran ignored red line, strikes on the table

eriinfo.com2 months ago04 mins

Oil prices rose about 4% on Wednesday, after Vice President JD Vance said Iran did not address U.S. red lines in nuclear talks this week and President Donald Trump reserves the right to use military force. U.S. crude oil rose $2.65, or 4.25%, to $64.98 per barrel by 12:20 p.m. ET. Global benchmark Brent was…

The last line of defence

eriinfo.com4 months ago015 mins

A constant refrain in the security sector is that everything is an endpoint. If it’s connected to the internet, it’s an endpoint. Endpoints need protection and they’re often neglected. While the criminals who broke into the Louvre in broad daylight in October used prosaic methods, it turns out that the museum’s cyber policies were also…

the new front line of cyber risk

eriinfo.com4 months ago010 mins

The cybersecurity industry has spent years perfecting how to defend laptops, servers, identities and APIs. Yet some of the most important systems in our lives, the industrial ones that keep society up and running, were never designed for cybersecurity at all. As they connect to modern networks, the stakes rise dramatically. These are the machines,…

Enterprise browsers: The new front line of business security

eriinfo.com5 months ago010 mins

Paul Stuttard, director, Duxbury Networking. Enterprise browsers are transforming the ways in which organisations secure their digital workplaces. Unlike traditional browsers that cater to individual consumers, enterprise browsers are purpose-built platforms that integrate identity, policy and data protection into the user experience. This results in a tool that gives security teams much more power over…

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Africa: Improper Political Interference in South Africa Policing – Where to Draw the Line?

eriinfo.com5 months ago09 mins

Given the grey area between policy and operations, transparency on the police minister’s directions to SAPS should be required. Inappropriate political interference in the police and other criminal justice agencies has been a recurring concern in South Africa for many years. Allegations against suspended police minister Senzo Mchunu are now being examined by both the…

UN experts urge COP30 to uphold human rights-based climate action in line with ICJ advisory opinion

eriinfo.com5 months ago05 mins

IMAGE/UN. By PATRICK MAYOYO [email protected] At the UN Climate Conference (COP30) in Belem, Brazil, a group of UN experts has called on states to take urgent and effective action to address climate change, grounded in human rights principles. In a joint statement, the experts urged countries to follow the guidance set out by the International…