South Africa’s mining industry has always been an integral part of our country’s economic development. With various factors affecting the sector’s overall performance, the Mineral Council of South Africa’s latest publication dated February 2024, reported 2023 as the first calendar year of decline since 2015, essentially marking it theContinue Reading
Metso’s intelligent crushing and screening offering is expanding with a new software application called Metso Remote IC The new Metso Remote IC is used for remote control and monitoring of the crushing and screening process, and it connects wirelessly all the Lokotrack crushers and screens at the site. With the MetsoContinue Reading
Water scarcity poses a significant challenge to sustainable development and the well-being of people across the Africa and with factors such as a burgeoning population, changing climate patterns, infrastructural gaps, and uneven distribution of resources, the continent is grappling with the tangible consequences of restricted access to clean and safeContinue Reading
Yohannes Tsehai, country manager at Onafriq Ethiopia, explains why Ethiopia could become Africa’s next big fintech giant The fintech sector has been one of Africa’s biggest technology success stories. According to Disrupt Africa, the continent’s 678 fintech startups raised more than US$2.7bn between 2021 and August 2023. Additionally, almost allContinue Reading
Ericsson, a networking and telecommunications company that enables communications services providers and enterprises to capture the full value of connectivity, has sought to build on its footprint in Africa with a new senior appointment Majda Lahlou Kassi, who has garnered nearly 25 years’ worth of experience at the company, hasContinue Reading
Circulor, a provider of a solution for industrial, complex supply chain traceability based on AI and blockchain technology, has suggested that 2023 was a paramount year for supply chain transparency with significant progress being made towards resilient and responsible global supply chains Behind the growing global momentum (which shows noContinue Reading
Leading provider of modular data centre solutions STULZ Modular has partnered with Asperitas, an immersion cooling specialist, to unlock the benefits of immersion cooling for high-density data centre environments Together, the two organisations are devising a concept for a modular data centre solution with integrated immersion cooling for indoor and outdoorContinue Reading
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has committed US$80mn in loan financing to support the development of the Ekiti Knowledge Zone (EKZ) in Nigeria EKZ, located in the heart of Ekiti State, is being delivered as a place to catalyse digital entrepreneurship, generate 26,000 jobs and inject US$14mn annually into the economy.Continue Reading
At its 9th annual Cyber Security Weekend – META 2024, experts from Kaspersky, a global cyber security and digital privacy company, explored the evolution of Africa’s cyber threat landscape with dangers continuing to diversify and become more sophisticated While in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the conference, attendees focused on the securityContinue Reading
Airtel Africa has unveiled Airtel Africa Telesonic Limited, a new initiative aimed at transforming the wholesale data market in the continent. Telesonic will harness Airtel Africa’s extensive ground and undersea cable assets to meet the surging demand for data services, offering a mix of terrestrial fiber and undersea cable solutionsContinue Reading
