Will Kalonzo’s heckling at Sifuna’s event trigger another political U-turn ahead of 2027? Wiper Patriotic Front leader Kalonzo Musyoka at a past event. PHOTO/UGC. By PATRICK MAYOYO [email protected] The heckling of the Wiper Patriotic Front leader Kalonzo Musyoka, during the inauguration of Nairobi Senator Edwin Sifuna’s Linda Mwananchi Movement headquarters in Lavington, Nairobi, on 20…
Google parent company Alphabet reported third-quarter financial results that missed Wall Street targets, driven by slowing search advertising growth and a sharp acceleration in capital expenditure for artificial intelligence infrastructure. The results prompted a 10% decline in after-hours trading, reflecting growing investor concern over elevated spending timelines and core revenue pressure. Read: Apple unveils 2026…
Cloud services firm Cloudflare saw millions of exploitation attempts after the public disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in the widely used programming language PHP, CEO Matthew Prince said in a post on X late on Wednesday. “In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it….
Banking regulators are stepping up efforts to contain growing AI risks, with some insiders pointing to the potential for cyberattacks on banks or rogue AI agents to undermine global financial stability. The scrutiny reflects growing recognition that advances in frontier AI may require costly investment in cyber recovery, greater attention to banks’ dependence on external…
Conservation scientist Lee White reflects on four decades spent creating Gabon’s national parks, tackling illegal logging and confronting the failures of global carbon markets. Climate change will trigger wars over water across much of Africa unless the continent protects the Congo Basin, warns former Gabonese environment minister Professor Lee White. White describes the Congo Basin…
· Oil prices slide as US, Iran pause hostilities over Strait of Hormuz ·Shettima lauds AfDB as REA, SAPZ sign MoU on energy for agro-processing zones Deji Elumoye and Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The African Development Bank (AfDB) has warned that an expected “super” El Niño weather event could cost African countries between $10 billion…
The global push for a transition to green energy has sparked demand for critical minerals such as lithium, vanadium, copper and cobalt. These are needed for electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels. Sub-Saharan Africa hosts about 30% of the world’s mineral reserves, including huge quantities of critical minerals: 92% of all platinum, 36% of…
Iran’s military has ceased strikes against Israel, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told CNBC on Monday, but Tehran warned it would resume hostilities if the IDF continues operations in Lebanon. Iran and Israel traded strikes on Sunday night for the first time since a ceasefire was agreed in April. The Islamic Republic fired missiles towards…
