Explanations of why Africa has lagged behind tend to reach for the familiar: weak governance, corruption, ethnic conflict, the legacy of colonial borders. Joe Studwell’s How Africa Works — the long-awaited companion to his influential How Asia Works — argues that these are largely symptoms rather than causes, and that the deeper constraint has been…
Obsidian Systems’ Smarter.tech ’26 brought enterprise technology leaders and practitioners together online to tackle a question that gets harder to answer with every new platform launch: what does working smarter actually mean for organisations already carrying complex infrastructure and stretched teams, and now under pressure to adopt AI responsibly? The answer that ran through the…
Kumamoto, Japan — Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people in southwestern Japan. The powerful earthquake that hit a day earlier in the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu, also left…
A friend of the American woman who went missing while vacationing on the Caribbean island of Grenada said there is video that shows her last known movements. Elizabeth Waddell was last seen July 22 on Grand Anse Beach in Grenada’s capital city, St. George’s. Waddell’s friend and the family spokesperson, Amanda Romano-Harmon, said the Royal…
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…
The Pentagon has identified two U.S. Army soldiers killed in an Iranian strike on a military base in Jordan over the weekend. A third service member was also missing in action from the attack, U.S. Central Command said. Unidentified remains were later found in the area, the military said Sunday. The Pentagon said Monday…
YANTAI, CHINA – JULY 14, 2026 – Containers parked at Yantai Port International Container Terminal in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China on July 14, 2026. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images China’s economy in the second quarter grew at its weakest pace since 2022, as an accelerating slide in investments deepened the strain on…
The bodies of two Romanian climbers missing since last week were found Monday in the Gran Paradiso massif in the Italian Alps, authorities told AFP. The two Romanian nationals whose ages have not been disclosed had not made contact since leaving a mountain refuge on July 9, according to authorities in the Aosta Valley, a…
Africa’s young population is often described as a demographic dividend: a potential economic advantage if young people can gain the skills and jobs needed to contribute productively. But for many young people, that promise is slipping away. They leave school or training and enter labour markets where formal jobs are scarce and public programmes too…
The original discrepancies in Bitcoin and Litecoin balances were identified in early 2021. The founder of iCE3X, one of South Africa’s oldest crypto-currency exchanges, has challenged claims by the company’s liquidators that more than R30 million in crypto assets remain unaccounted for. Gareth Grobler, the former sole director and shareholder of iCE3X, says he has…
