For Gambian fashion entrepreneur Ndey Bassin Faye, building an internationally recognised brand begins with empowering women, celebrating local culture, and embracing African-made textiles. At CANEX WKND 2026 in Lagos, she and fellow entrepreneurs are looking beyond borders to build connections that could help transform their businesses and the continent’s fashion industry. When Ndey Bassin Faye…
Negotiators from the continent say the real contest at the UN climate talks is over money, minerals and who gets to profit from the energy transition. But before African negotiators can argue over climate finance at COP31, they must first fight for the right to discuss it. African negotiators will open COP31 in a dispute…
Financial technology platform Revolut has launched a trial program in the United Kingdom for “Pay with Smile,” an in-store biometric payment system that enables consumers to complete transactions using facial recognition. Positioned as the UK’s first merchant-facing facial payment platform, the service waives processing fees for participating retailers and is initially undergoing live testing across…
Image for illustration purposes only The body-worn cameras the South African Police Service (SAPS) wants to strap to its officers must be able to conduct facial recognition, according to tender documents the State IT Agency (Sita) published this week. The requirement appears in the bid specification for RFB 3286-2026, a three-year contract for the “supply,…
Somaliland has spent three decades asking the world to trust a specific story about itself: a peaceful, democratic state exercising real authority over the territory it claims, with institutions worthy of recognition. The 2023 war in Las Anod tested all four of those claims — peace, democratic legitimacy, authority over the territory, institutional credibility —…
Mogadishu — Somalia’s Foreign Minister Abdisalam Ali Dhaay held a telephone conversation with his Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdelatty, to discuss bilateral relations and regional developments, with a particular focus on the Horn of Africa, Somalia’s foreign ministry said on Sunday. According to the ministry, Dhaay thanked Egypt for its continued political, development and security support…
Just twenty-four hours after Wired exposed dormant facial recognition code inside Meta’s smart glasses companion app, the tech giant quietly pushed a software update to purge the software. Discovered on June 4, the internal code, dubbed “Name Tag”, was embedded within the core Meta AI application required to pair the wearable hardware to smartphones over…
Peacekeepers injured or killed in AU missions remain largely invisible. They deserve recognition, transparency and proper compensation. International Day of United Nations (UN) Peacekeepers on 29 May recognises outstanding service and honours fallen heroes. This year, the African Union (AU) commemorated the day alongside the UN and other organisations, using the occasion to remember the…
NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), the Intelligent Data Infrastructure company, today announced the inclusion of César Cernuda, President at NetApp, in the esteemed 2026 HITEC 100 list honoring 100 technology leaders of all backgrounds whose leadership and innovation are shaping the future of the global technology ecosystem. The list recognizes executives whose impact extends beyond their organizations…
Nomsa Samsodien, Lead Solutions Consultant, OpenText. OpenText has once again been recognised as a leader in the Cloud Performance Testing category in the latest Radar report from analyst firm GigaOm, marking the fifth consecutive year the company has achieved this distinction. This accolade underlines that OpenText is not only a trusted provider of cloud performance…
