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Massive Coinbase News! Bitcoin Rips to $96,750! Football.Fun TGE Interview with Founder!Crypto majors are very green with Bitcoin making a new another 2-month high; BTC +2% at $96,7500; ETH +2% at $3,360, SOL even at $145; XRP -1% to $2.11. DCR (+30%), DASH (+10%), ICP (+10%) and ZEC (+7%) led top movers; XMR hit another new ATH at $800 before retracing to $725. Coinbase pulled support for the Senate’s crypto market structure bill ahead of a key vote, citing major concerns with the latest draft, leading to the Senate delaying the bill. Zcash avoided SEC action after the Zcash Foundation…
In 2026, visibility has become a performance metric. Executives, founders, and high-growth brands are now expected not only to build and operate, but to communicate, influence, and lead their markets through narrative. Perception shapes opportunity. Credibility determines access. Authority drives demand. Laerryblue Media, the leading pan-African public relations, reputation management, and marketing company, operates at this intersection of performance and perception. The firm enables market-facing leaders and organisations to take control of their story, shape public interpretation, and build reputational capital that compounds over time. In this new reality, visibility functions as strategic positioning, brand governance, and long-term value creation…
You may be familiar with the most common HTML tags like p, a, and img, but what about progress or details? HTML is a lot more expressive than you might have realized, and the following tags pack plenty of functionality. Find out what you can use each of these hidden gems for, and why they’re so useful. HTML has supported multimedia elements—images, video, audio—for many decades, but the latter two required browser plugins like Adobe’s Flash to work. Thankfully, HTML5 brought native audio and video elements to the web, and implementations have been improving ever since. Today’s audio element is…
President Yoweri Museveni was declared the winner of Uganda’s election on Saturday, granting Africa’s longest-serving leader a seventh term in office. African observers have denounced “reports of intimidation, arrest and abductions” targeting the opposition that they say undermined the polls’ credibility. Museveni won 71.65 percent of votes in Thursday’s presidential election, according to official results. His closest challenger, former entertainer Bobi Wine, took 24.72 percent. Wine said earlier on Saturday that he was in hiding after security forces raided his home and placed his family under house arrest. The police deny seeking to detain him. The election took place amid…
The rebranding signals a sharper focus on the African continent for this exclusive angel investor networkSINGAPORE, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — XA Africa, the exclusive operator-led investment network founded by global technology veterans, today announced its official launch as A54. The rebrand marks a significant milestone in the network’s evolution, reflecting its deepened commitment to the 54 nations of the African continent and its growing impact as a primary bridge between global expertise and local innovation. Just over one year since its public launch as XA Africa in Q4 2024, the…
Addis Abeba — US President Donald J. Trump has offered to restart United States–led mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Nile waters and the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), describing the staus as “truly understandable” but warning against the risk of military confrontation. In a letter dated 16 January and addressed to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Trump said resolving tensions around the GERD was “at the very top of my agenda,” linking the issue to his broader push for “lasting peace in the Middle East and Africa.” READ [PDF]: Letter from U.S. President Trump to Egyptian President Sisi Keep…
Bitcoin developer, Jameson Lopp, posted a simple observation days after CoinGecko published its 2025 dead coins report.Ignorant folks claim that Bitcoin isn’t scarce because anyone can launch their own cryptocurrency. They fail to recognize that while anyone can copy code, no one can copy a network of users and infrastructure.The timing crystallized a tension that’s shaped crypto since the first Bitcoin fork. Token issuance has always been abundant, as spinning up a new coin takes minutes, not months.But CoinGecko’s latest dataset turned the “anyone can launch” argument into something measurable: 53.2% of tokens tracked on GeckoTerminal between July 2021 and…
In the competitive world of Nigerian fintech, where customer acquisition costs are high and loyalty is often fleeting, MyInvestar is reporting a trend-defying 2025. The digital arm of First Ally Asset Management has released its annual wrap-up, highlighting a 49% improvement in active conversion and retention rates, a metric that suggests the platform has successfully moved users from “one-off” savers to consistent wealth-builders. The platform’s 2025 journey was marked by a steady influx of 3,782 new users, bringing a fresh wave of “Investars” into an ecosystem that prides itself on financial literacy and goal-based planning. This community-led growth translated into…
CSS relative colour values are now widely supported. In this article, pioneering author and web designer Andy Clarke shares practical techniques for using them to theme and animate SVG graphics.I’ve recently refreshed the animated graphics on my website with a new theme and a group of pioneering characters, putting into practice plenty of the techniques I shared in this series. A few of my animations change appearance when someone interacts with them or at different times of day.View this animated SVG on my website. (Large preview)The colours in the graphic atop my blog pages change from morning until night every…
** For the best experience, download the free Africa Private Equity News app Android | iOS **The Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) has announced a $3.3 million equity investment to finance the expansion of Sanivation’s waste-to-value offering in Kenya. Sanivation, in partnership with Nakuru County, established a pilot project in 2018, transforming human waste into solid fuel briquettes for use in industrial heating. PIDG’s investment – made through its project development solution, InfraCo – will support the construction of the Naivasha Treatment Plant expansion, enabling Sanivation to significantly expand its briquette production and waste management capacity. PIDG has provided a…