By Humeyra Pamuk, Andrea Shalal and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Aug 22 (Reuters) – With the Iran battle now at a expensive standoff and crises from Ukraine to Gaza nonetheless unresolved, President Donald Trump’s formidable overseas coverage agenda seems caught as he heads into November’s midterm elections. The setbacks are hanging for a president who returned…
Nairobi — Prime Cupboard Secretary Musalia Mudavadi has welcomed the Trump administration’s shift in U.S.-Africa coverage from one centred on assist to at least one pushed by commerce and funding, describing the method as a constructive step in direction of constructing extra balanced and mutually useful relations with Kenya. Talking throughout celebrations marking the 250th…
Through the AU Fifth Unusual Session of the Specialised Technical Committee on Transport and Vitality (STC-T&E), held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from 27-30 April 2026, the Vitality Sector discussions reaffirmed Africa’s dedication to accelerating continental power integration, common power entry, industrialization, and a sustainable power transition underneath Agenda 2063. Ministers and consultants assembly underneath the…
Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Picture: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi has appointed an unbiased panel of AI researchers, attorneys and governance specialists to rebuild South Africa’s draft nationwide AI coverage, a doc he was pressured to withdraw final month after educational citations in its reference record turned out to have been fabricated by a generative…
In the present day is a good day. From right this moment on, China will formally implement the zero-tariff therapy for 53 African nations with which it maintains diplomatic relations, thereby charting a brand new chapter of the mutually useful China-Africa cooperation. That is the main improve of China’s preferential commerce insurance policies in direction…
Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Picture: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi may very well be summoned to parliament to account for the AI-generated hallucinations that pressured the embarrassing withdrawal of South Africa’s draft nationwide AI coverage. The ANC research group on communications & digital applied sciences late on Tuesday referred to as for the minister to…
By Cheikh Mbacké Sène A Shift in How Financial Energy Is Constructed International financial competitors is more and more formed not solely by entry to capital and assets, however by the power to generate, interpret, and act on strategic data. Financial intelligence—as soon as related primarily with safety or diplomatic capabilities—is now turning into an…
Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Picture: DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi has gazetted South Africa’s draft nationwide AI coverage for public remark, opening a 60-day window for submissions on an 86-page doc that proposes a sweeping new institutional structure – together with seven new oversight our bodies – to manipulate the event and deployment of AI…
Dar es Salaam — STARTING Might 1, 2026, China will totally implement zero-tariff remedy on 100 per cent of tariff traces for 53 African international locations which have established diplomatic relations with China. This historic step is about to significantly change international commerce relations. The coverage tone for the nation’s improvement underneath the CPC’s management…
Communications minister Solly Malatsi. Photograph: Lerato Sepotokele/DCDT Communications minister Solly Malatsi on Thursday printed a draft coverage course aimed toward reducing the crimson tape that has lengthy pissed off community operators attempting to roll out broadband infrastructure throughout South Africa. The draft, printed within the Authorities Gazette, directs communications regulator Icasa to overtake the nation’s…