Virginia and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in federal court Saturday in a last-ditch effort to stop the construction of the triumphal arch planned for Memorial Circle in Washington. The Trump administration has said it plans to begin construction of the arch next week, on Nov. 5. “The construction of the Arch will…
Travelling across Africa and around the world can provoke serious reflection. There is something profoundly wrong when products considered unsafe, substandard, adulterated or unacceptable in one market find a ready market in Africa. They arrive as food, medicines, alcoholic beverages, agricultural products and other consumer goods. Some are merely inferior. Others are counterfeit, falsified, expired,…
The author, Change Logic’s Natania Pio Last week, I published a LinkedIn post looking to connect with experienced change management professionals. I expected a few responses and perhaps some useful introductions. What I did not expect was the number of messages that followed, with people from around the world reaching out to introduce themselves and…
MultiChoice’s like-for-like revenue declined 3% during the nine months ending September 2026, primarily driven by softer subscription revenue in South Africa. The figures were detailed in a trading update by French media giant Canal+, which now consolidates MultiChoice within its global operations. Read: ASUS ROG Zephyrus Duo Review: Two-screen titan The revenue contraction showed signs…
From left: Hanna Sebolai, Felicia Tlhareseng, Muhammed Davids and Galaletsang Morokonyana, the mLab CodeTribe graduates who developed the Northern Cape’s InvestSA One Stop Shop website. Four CodeTribe graduates used their software development skills to build a provincial digital platform supporting investment promotion and helping investors access information about doing business in the Northern Cape. Digital…
The United Nations Secretary-General appealed on Friday for governments, businesses and communities to accelerate efforts to protect biodiversity for future generations and all life on Earth. Guterres was speaking in Yerevan, Armenia, ahead of the opening of the COP17 UN biodiversity conference next week. “The food we eat, the water we drink, the very air…
Lungile Mginqi, digital transformation strategist. Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is already widespread. AI transformation is not. The difference is whether leadership is prepared to redesign real work, take people through the change and build the capability to operate AI safely at scale. Enterprise AI experimentation has become a form of avoidance. AI excitement has done…
As the Democratic Republic of the Congo responds to the Ebola outbreak in Ituri, there are growing concerns about people living with HIV missing their regular care and treatment. Fear of Ebola, insecurity and pressure on health services are making it harder for some patients to reach health facilities. For people living with HIV, missing…
Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment. The release on Monday of Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform comes after companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google disclosed recent incidents in which their artificial intelligence models escaped their…
An attempted traffic stop by federal immigration officers ended in a deadly crash Sunday after the driver fled and smashed his car into a tree in Grand Rapids, Michigan, according to police. The driver, a Guatemalan national, was pronounced dead at the scene. Rosario Ovando, consul general of Guatemala in Chicago, which serves Michigan, identified…
