What: African Development Bank Group high-level side event at COP31 When: 13 November 2026 | 16:30-18:00 UTC+3 Where: Africa Pavilion (A240), COP31, Antalya, Türkiye The African Development Bank Group will convene a high-level discussion at COP31 on strengthening the resilience of Africa’s food systems through coordinated investment, climate finance and partnerships. The event will introduce…
The author, Simon Hodgkinson Resilience has become a buzzword in both business and cybersecurity circles. Like many trends, the idea of resilience has become popular because it gets to the heart of a very real struggle: if preventing disruption becomes impossible, can your business at least survive it? The newly released 2026 Semperis Ransomware Risk…
Ask your operations team one question. How long does it take, from the moment a device arrives on your loading bay, to that device being live on the network? For most organisations still running a physical-Sim estate, the honest answer is weeks. Often it is not the device that is slow. It is the Sim….
First Distribution and Mimecast expanding cyber resilience across Africa First Distribution, which positions itself as Africa’s leading value-added distributor of technology solutions, today announced a new partnership with Mimecast, which positions itself as a global leader in securing humans, data and AI, to make Mimecast’s integrated cyber resilience platform available to partners across Africa. Through…
Addressing information disorder requires sustained capacity-building and regional cooperation, as exemplified by initiatives such as MISA’s Connected Media, Informed Citizens project, which supports journalists and citizens in combating disinformation. This year’s global theme for the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) 2026, Upholding information integrity in the Digital Age: The role of access…
Nairobi, Kenya — Across the Kenya-Tanzania rangelands, communities have long understood a reality that the global community is increasingly recognising: healthy rangelands support livelihoods, wildlife, water resources and local economies. They are among Africa’s most important natural assets and a foundation for resilience in a changing climate. That lesson is especially relevant today. As East…
Shana Maré, Territory Manager at Hitachi Vantara. Trusted, quality data and resilient data infrastructure are the foundations of financial services innovation in the AI era. The future of banking will be defined by an institution’s ability to transform data into a strategic asset while maintaining resilience, compliance and customer trust. This is according to Shana…
As the leaders gather in Kigali, Rwanda, for the African Food Systems Forum (AFSF), discussions about how to invest in resilient food systems will take place against a backdrop of geopolitical instability. Sierra Leone and Norway will join African and other leading representatives of governments, business, investors, and civil society to discuss a crucial topic:…
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — For pastoralists in Arvaikheer — a village in Mongolia’s dry central plains — rain can determine whether there is enough grass for cattle to roam, whether waterholes are replenished and whether families make it through another dry season. But as climate change makes rainfall increasingly unpredictable, even a wet season…
The SolarWinds World Tour team in Johannesburg. SolarWinds has embedded agentic AI into its IT infrastructure management, monitoring and observability tools to move end-users towards greater operational resilience built on trust. This emerged at the Johannesburg leg of the SolarWinds World Tour this week. The World Tour, held in cities around the world, brings together…
