Silicon Overdrive, AWS AI streamline cloud migration

Silicon Overdrive, AWS AI streamline cloud migration

Rodney de Koch Cloud migration can prove complex and costly, and may even fail, often because discovery is incomplete and manual. Cost, time and downtime are also among the reasons for migration failure. However, generative and agentic AI can help overcome these challenges to accelerate cloud migration and support business modernisation. This is according to…

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Africa: Morocco Plans New Migration Cooperation Strategy

Africa: Morocco Plans New Migration Cooperation Strategy

MONROVIA, October 12, 2026 — Morocco is preparing to propose a new migration cooperation strategy to its international partners, following concerns raised by King Mohammed VI that existing arrangements are no longer adequate to address recurring migration challenges. The proposed framework is expected to address cooperation with European countries, particularly Spain, where disagreements over the…

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Beware the ‘lift and shift’ approach to cloud migration

Beware the ‘lift and shift’ approach to cloud migration

Marilize Redelinghuys, head of retail modernisation, Mr Price Group. Application modernisation and consolidation is a journey many established organisations need to undertake, but the path is not always as easy as some might expect. Mr Price Group has made significant progress on its modernisation journey, having rationalised from approximately 330 applications to 120, according to Marilize…

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Africa: Morocco Plans New Migration Cooperation Strategy

Africa: Hijra – Movement, Migration, and Islamic Thought

The question of why 70,000 Moroccans migrated to the Spanish-governed territories of Ceuta and Melilla within hours on 30 July – ‘Throne Day’, which is one of the most respectable celebrations of the Morocco Kingdom – still lingers in international media and haunts inquisitive minds. Commentators have talked extensively about the socio-economic and geopolitical incentives,…

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Still no end in sight to South Africa’s digital migration saga

Still no end in sight to South Africa’s digital migration saga

The communications department has told parliament that no date has been set for South Africa’s analogue television switch-off, and that it is concerned communities may believe otherwise. Director-general Nonkqubela Jordan-Dyani told the portfolio committee on communications & digital technologies on Friday, 14 August, that a date would be considered only after engagements with stakeholders had…

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