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Telecoms company Airtel Africa has launched a share buyback programme to repurchase up to 1% of its shares. The programme, which runs from May 22 to November 17, is worth at least $50 million. According to an announcement made on Friday via the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NGX), all shares purchased from the investors will be cancelled from their allotments upon the program’s completion. The development is part of the telco’s approach to returning cash to shareholders, central to its capital allocation policy. “The sole purpose of the buyback programme is to reduce the capital of the Company. As such, all…
Africa is experiencing one of the world’s fastest technology expansions. Over 645 million Africans now use mobile internet. Telecommunication companies generate billions in annual revenue, and digital services have transformed banking, trade, and communication. Yet this digital growth has not strengthened citizens’ right to health. Hospitals rely on paper records, clinics lack essential equipment, and emergency response systems remain weak or absent. Africa carries 24% of the world’s disease burden but employs less than 3% of the global health workforce. This gap limits people’s right to live healthy lives. Governments can rectify this imbalance by using existing mobile networks to…
I got into homelabbing because I wanted to host a few game servers for my friends. Over time, I realized that an oversized chunk of my monthly spending was going toward subscriptions, like photo backups, streaming services, and other apps, that I wasn’t using to their maximum potential. I made a concerted point to cut out as many of those services as I could and start self-hosting free, open-source replacements for many of those services instead. These are some of the best to start with. Jellyfin A Plex replacement for your own personal library Credit: David J. Buck / How-To Geek…
Divine lobbying The Congolese president is leaning on revivalist pastors as a counterweight to the Catholic Church, which has become one of the strongest opponents of constitutional change. By Stanis Bujakera Tshiamala Évariste Ejiba Yamapia, Archbishop of the Pentecostal Church of the Rescuers and legal representative of the Revival Church in the DRC. © Rights reserved Published on May 12, 2026 at 10:15 am (GMT +1) In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the president is turning to revivalist churches to counter Catholic opposition to constitutional change. The religious backing serves a political goal: a possible third term for Félix Tshisekedi.
NEW YORK CITY, NY, UNITED STATES, March 30, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Former Sierra Leone Ambassador Sidique Wai to Lead Strategic Initiative Connecting African Governments, Diaspora Leaders, and U.S. Institutions at Critical Inflection Point for U.S.-Africa Relations Gotham Government Relations, a leading New York-based government affairs and strategic advocacy firm, today announced the launch of the Gotham Africa Practice, a comprehensive platform designed to serve African governments, diaspora communities, and institutional stakeholders seeking effective engagement with Washington, New York, and U.S. policy institutions. The Gotham Africa Practice is the first Africa focused initiative by any major lobbying and government relations firm…
The Africa Finance Corporation — which mainly deploys capital for infrastructure projects — will invest $100 million in venture capital firms that back technology companies on the continent. African startups raised about $3.2 billion in 2025, a 40% increase from the year before. But while overseas investors drove a wave of multimillion-dollar funding rounds in the continent’s tech scene over the last decade, a pullback in recent years following interest rate rises in the US has prompted calls for increased African investment. — Alexander Onukwue
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Africa Bitcoin Corporation (ABC), the South Africa-based Bitcoin treasury and SME financing firm, has applied to transfer its listing from South Africa’s Alternative Exchange (AltX), a board for smaller companies, to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) Main Board.The transfer will move all of the company’s share classes, including its ordinary shares and preferred A, B, and C shares, to the JSE Main Board under the exchange’s General Segment classification, the company said in a statement on Monday. The JSE has approved the move set to take effect on Friday, May 22.
The federal government has launched GovGuideNigeria, an AI-powered platform that allows Nigerians to access information from over 35 federal ministries and more than 60 government agencies via WhatsApp and the web. Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, announced the launch today, describing it as a step toward making government information simpler, faster, and more inclusive for every Nigerian. This includes those in underserved and low-literacy communities who have historically struggled to navigate public service information. The platform responds to a problem that is easy to overlook but quietly frustrating for millions of Nigerians: getting basic information from…
Meet sibling-index() and sibling-count(). Staggered cascade effect in one line of CSS without :nth-child() rules or JS workarounds. Works for 5 items or 5,000.You know that thing where you have a grid of cards, and you want them to fade in one after another? That staggered cascade effect. Looks great. Should be simple. And yet every time I’ve built it, the implementation has made me feel like I’m doing something fundamentally stupid.See the Pen [Dynamic Staggered Animations with CSS sibling-index() [forked]](https://codepen.io/smashingmag/pen/zxowBog) by Durgesh.See the Pen Dynamic Staggered Animations with CSS sibling-index() [forked] by Durgesh.Because the options were always the same.…