Tactile Technologies and FEITIAN will be at Seamless Africa on 8 and 9 September at the Sandton Convention Centre. (Image source: iStock) Seamless Africa returns to the Sandton Convention Centre on 8 and 9 September 2026, and Tactile Technologies will be there again, sharing a stand with global payments technology brand FEITIAN. It is a…
Africa is beginning to reverse an age-old equation: exporting raw cotton and importing the value created from it. The challenge is to close the “missing middle”, connect regional manufacturing strengths and scale a competitive industry that keeps jobs, skills and value on the continent. For decades, Africa’s cotton story has followed a familiar pattern. Cotton…
Malawi’s state broadcaster was forced into an embarrassing climbdown on Tuesday after reporting that President Peter Mutharika was jetting off to South Africa on yet another mysterious “private visit” — only to yank the story just hours later, sparking accusations of a cover-up. The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) had published the story on its digital…
I am from Dakhla, on the Atlantic coast of Western Sahara. For thirteen years, I have been unable to return safely because of my human-rights advocacy, my defence of the Sahrawi people’s right to benefit from the resources of their land and to express their views freely. Friends and fellow Sahrawi activists have been prosecuted…
Nairobi — Artificial intelligence has captured the world’s imagination. Every week brings another breakthrough model, AI assistant or prediction that technology will fundamentally reshape howwe live and work. Yet beneath the excitement lies a more important question: what makesartifi cial intelligence valuable at scale? The answer is not simply better algorithms or more powerful models….
Africa grows more than half of the world’s finest long-staple cotton. It earns less than three percent of what that cotton is eventually worth. This is not a trade problem. It is a narrative problem — and allAfrica is setting out to fix it. There is a number that explains much of what is wrong…
Charles Antwi-Boahen This article is an excerpt from our latest book ‘How we made it in Africa II: Real stories of entrepreneurs turning opportunity into profit‘ Interview with Charles Antwi-BoahenFOUNDER and CEO, KAB-FAM Lives in: Ghana In 2012, Charles Antwi-Boahen was working as a salesman for an air-conditioning company in Ghana’s capital, Accra. It was…
There is a special gallery inside the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi where visitors slow down, lower their voices and often fall silent. In front of them, carefully lit and disarmingly small, lies the skeleton of Lucy, the 3.2 million-year-old hominin. Perhaps more than any other ancient relative, Lucy has challenged us to think deeply…
Still from Pixar’s “Toy Story 5.” Disney Disney’s Toy Story franchise still has some buzz. The fifth installment in the Pixar film series tallied $160 million during its opening weekend, the highest in franchise history. Internationally, “Toy Story 5” snared $152 million, bringing its estimated global haul for the three-day period to $312 million. “Toy…
Cape Verde’s historic FIFA World Cup debut against Spain produced many memorable moments, but perhaps none captured the imagination quite like the performance of veteran goalkeeper Vozinha. The 40-year-old goalkeeper emerged as the hero of Cape Verde’s remarkable goalless draw against the European champions, producing a series of outstanding saves to help the Blue Sharks…
