The News Undersea cable companies that extend internet services to West and Central Africa estimate that it could take five weeks to repair damages to their facilities noticed last week. Widespread internet outages in Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire were reported on Mar. 14, making many websites unavailable and disrupting online banking operations. Some …
G42, the Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence and cloud computing firm, has teamed up with Kenyan technology company EcoCloud to develop a green data centre in the East African country. Powered by geothermal energy – clean power made using heat from the earth’s crust – the centre is expected to have an initial capacity of 100-megawatt. …
Mastercard and MTN Group Fintech have partnered to help consumers and small businesses across Africa transact through mobile payments. With this partnership, Mastercard’s technology will support MTN’s FinTech platform, which has 290 million subscribers and 60 million active monthly MTN Mobile Money (MTN MoMo) wallets, the companies said in a Wednesday (Feb. 28) press release. …
The payment landscape in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region is marked by significant fragmentation, with numerous payment providers and methods in each country, evolving regulations and diverse customer preferences. This complexity is further compounded by challenges such as payment fraud, low checkout conversion rates and high transaction failure rates. Although the COVID-19 pandemic …
In 2014, a remarkable encounter with a whale shark sparked a journey of discovery off the coast of Madagascar’s Nosy Be. Little did marine enthusiast and researcher, Stella Diamant, know that this encounter would lead to a groundbreaking initiative in citizen science. Fast forward to today, and the results are nothing short of extraordinary: the …
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Anthony Ham Freelance writer The armed men aren’t supposed to be here. We are several miles inside Buffalo Springs National Reserve in northern Kenya, and the driver I hired for this reporting project and I are checking out a rumor that the reserve’s elephants may have gone missing. Nearly 8,000 elephants have inhabited the broader …
Aspergillosis lung infection caused by Aspergillus, vector outline diagram.Irritated airway, excess … [+] mucus and damaged cilia caused by common mold fungus spores.Microbiological danger for human health. getty In Tanzania, researchers are unlocking the mysteries of a mold (fungus) that infects patients who have already contracted the bacterial disease tuberculosis. According to World Health Organization …
Conservationist Leonard Akwany (furthest) on the shores of Lake Victoria. Leonard Akwany Local efforts to restore the ecosystem of Lake Victoria, the world’s second biggest lake, also aims to reduce gender-based violence. With fishing stocks collapsing on the lake, recent decades have seen the emergence of Jaboya culture where women, who make up 90% of …
Tropical Storm Bret, Tropical Storm Center, and additional activity coming off the coast of African … [+] on Friday morning. NOAA There is no other way to put this. The hurricane season in the Atlantic basin looks more like August than June. As I analyze the latest satellite imagery, a series of tropical activities in …
Two tropical systems being watched in the Atlantic basin on Juneteenth CIRA/NOAA In the month of June, we are celebrating Juneteenth, a federal holiday that commemorates the emancipation of slaves from Africa. Interestingly, hurricanes often follow similar paths to the slave ships, which can be attributed to the prevailing easterly flow regime in those latitudes. …