Vodacom South Africa has dramatically deepened its relationship with Amazon, expanding a tie-up that was previously limited to Prime Video. Announcing the deal on Wednesday, the operator will now offer the full suite of Amazon Prime benefits to its post-paid and home connectivity customers, timed alongside Amazon’s first local Prime Day event. Read: Samsung Galaxy…
China’s tariff announcement and the African response In February 2026, China announced that 53 African countries can now sell their goods to China without paying any import taxes. This new rule starts on May 1. President Xi Jinping sent a message about this to African leaders at the African Union summit in Ethiopia. He said…
Addis Ababa — Ethiopia’s efforts to advance a circular economy and implement the Green Legacy Initiative are emerging as a model for other African countries seeking sustainable and climate-resilient development, a senior Finnish Embassy official has said. Speaking to ENA, Head of Cooperation at the Finnish Embassy in Addis Ababa, Tomi Sarkioja commended Ethiopia’s bold…
IHS Holding’s board backed MTN Group’s plan to buy out other shareholders and take the telecom tower operator private, setting up a vote on one of Africa’s largest digital infrastructure deals. MTN will offer $8.50 a share in cash through its subsidiaries Mobile Telephone Networks Netherlands B.V. and Sub-Merger Co. If approved, IHS will become…
The online auction giant said it doubted how the video game retailer would finance its offer.
Without a collective approach from African states, China’s tariff-free market access will not be the silver bullet many expect. China’s decision to extend tariff-free access from 1 May to all African countries, barring Eswatini (with which it maintains no diplomatic ties), has been widely welcomed across the continent. At a moment when global trade is…
President Donald Trump said Saturday that he was reviewing a new offer from the Iranian regime to end the war, but offered little optimism that the proposal would succeed. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “I will soon be reviewing the plan that Iran has just…
CBS News producer Seyed Rahim Bathaei in Tehran said Tuesday that, as far as he can see on the ground, the government remains fully in control and the country is not in a “state of collapse, by any standards at all.” President Trump said in a brief social media post earlier Tuesday that Iran had…
Microsoft is preparing to further reduce its US headcount through its first-ever voluntary buyout program, according to reports from CNBC. The initiative targets veteran employees at the senior director level and below whose combined age and years of service total 70 or higher. Read: Bandwidth Blog & Smile 90.4FM Tech Tuesday: Is the AI bubble…
Nairobi — The African Union (AU) will convene African ambassadors in Beijing this week for a high-level retreat aimed at sharpening the continent’s strategy to fully exploit China’s 100 percent tariff-free market access offer. The two-day meeting, scheduled for April 23-24, will focus on strengthening coordination among African states to operationalise the preferential trade arrangement,…
