BlackBerry didn’t lose as a result of it ignored peculiar clients. It misplaced whereas it was profitable them over. Its low-cost pay as you go information plan, launched by Vodacom in December 2008, opened BlackBerry to thousands and thousands of South Africans who couldn’t afford a month-to-month contract. Then Apple constructed a general-purpose cellphone on…
Universities across the world – and in South Africa – are having an id disaster, and generative AI is the set off. Greater than three years after ChatGPT walked into the lecture corridor, the talk has moved effectively previous dishonest. In a current piece in New York journal, a Columbia undergraduate boasted of utilizing AI…
Final month, Mombasa made historical past as the primary African metropolis to host the Our Ocean Convention (OOC) – a world convening to guard and preserve the ocean, gathering effectively over 100 nations. But the importance of the convention went far past the place it was held. It demonstrated why Africa is more and more…
Introduction: Africa’s Immunization Panorama and Its Significance Africa stands at a pivotal second in its public well being journey. With a present inhabitants of 1.4 billion and projections to achieve 3.3 billion by 2075, the continent’s immunization panorama holds immense significance—not just for well being outcomes however for financial and social growth. Immunization packages have…
Better diagnostic testing for cryptococcal meningitis might assist avert 135,000 deaths a 12 months in Africa, writes Edith Magak. [LILONGWE, Malawi] A persistent headache practically killed Elube. It took Patricia’s sight. Each ladies had cryptococcal meningitis, a fungal an infection that largely impacts individuals with HIV and kills round 135,000 individuals every year in Sub-Saharan…
South Africa can not construct sufficient fences or deport sufficient immigrants to beat the results of instability in neighbouring nations. South Africa has spent greater than 20 years tightening immigration legal guidelines, strengthening border safety and rising deportations in an effort to curb unlawful immigration. But irregular migration stays a persistent problem regardless of successive…
Cape Verde and Congo DR have been praised by Diego Forlan and Hristo Stoichkov after changing into two of the standout African tales of the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Each nations defied expectations to succeed in the spherical of 32 within the first 48-team version of the match, giving Africa two highly effective examples of…
GENEVA — Africa’s future within the age of synthetic intelligence will rely much less on monetary help than on investments in abilities, schooling and digital infrastructure, based on Maggie Gu, founder and president of Tomorrow Basis. Talking on Problem TV’s Au cœur de l’Éco, Gu mentioned AI presents a historic alternative for African international locations to…
The stress level: innovation and company. If the GirlCoder Membership is the place the pipeline begins, the GirlCode Hackathon is the place it faces its first severe take a look at. On 19 and 20 September 2026, Truecaller is co-sponsoring GirlCode’s annual hackathon for 18-25-year-olds. This can be a 30-hour, all-women, coding marathon bringing collectively…
The information that 4 Kenyan college college students have clinched the Grand Prize on the Huawei ICT Competitors in Shenzhen is greater than a victory; it’s a testomony to a quiet revolution. For the primary time within the competitors’s ten-year historical past, Workforce Kenya has soared above 210,000 international contributors to say the very best…