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Over 3,000 pupils in Lilongwe will drink safe water and sit on desks–some for the first time in nearly 30 years–thanks to the African Trade and Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI) which has donated the items valued at more than K43 million. The beneficiary schools include Chiulongo, Chiseka, Kayabwa, Khombe, Mwenda and Chipoka. Speaking after a two-day tour and handover of the items to the Lilongwe rural East schools, ATIDI Principal Human Resources Officer Tendai Kufa said the project is helping improve access to safe drinking water and providing a conducive environment for learners, particularly those preparing for national examinations. “Reliable…

In brief SparkKitty scanned users’ photo libraries for crypto wallet seed phrases and other sensitive information. The malware was distributed through malicious apps on Apple’s App Store, Google Play, and third-party app stores. Researchers warn that storing wallet recovery phrases as screenshots can expose crypto assets to theft. A new report from cybersecurity firm Check Point details how the SparkKitty malware campaign targeted cryptocurrency users by scanning photos stored on infected Android and iPhone devices for wallet recovery phrases and other sensitive information.First discovered by Kaspersky in June 2025, Check Point’s analysis detailed how the malware spread through Apple’s App…

For a certain kind of African musician, artificial intelligence (AI) remains the enemy, the technology that steals jobs, flattens creativity, and turns songwriting into a mere prompt. Jude Lemfani Abaga, popularly known as MI Abaga, is not one of them. Speaking at a Lagos business panel earlier this month, the rapper-turned-tech-entrepreneur made a compelling case that clinging to AI anxiety is the real threat to a modern creative career. Abaga spoke at the fourth edition of United Bank for Africa’s quarterly SME Business Series, held at UBA House on Marina on Thursday, 16 July. Themed “Building for Africa’s Realities: Turning…

Here’s the loop I got tired of: record a clip on my phone, try to send it, watch the messaging app either refuse the file outright or crush it into a smeared 480p mess on its own terms. Or take the other route: open a video editor, reduce the video file size by lowering its bitrate or resolution, find the export in my gallery, share that, then remember to delete it later. Which I never do, so my storage fills with files named VID_20260714_compress_final_2.mp4. FFShare sits in the middle of that loop and removes it. It’s a 54MB open-source app…

complicated neighbours The African Development Bank is quietly looking for a new host after Niger’s military rulers fell out with neighbouring states and two of the institution’s biggest shareholders. By Alix Lavoué Sidi Ould Tah, president of the African Development Bank Group in Johannesburg on 21 November 2025. © Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Global Citizen/AFP Published on July 27, 2026 at 17:00 pm (GMT +1) Last year in Abidjan, everything went smoothly. The closing ceremony of the African Development Bank’s 2024 Annual Meetings featured a formal handover. Nialé Kaba, then Côte d’Ivoire’s minister of economy, planning and development and chair…

African startup funding dipped by 6% year on year to $1.4 billion in the first six months of 2026, after the number of early-stage companies securing venture capital investment fell, data from Africa The Big Deal shows. The largest agreement for the year so far happened in June, when four-year-old electric motorcycle maker Spiro raised $270 million. That helped raise the total for the half year, but the number of startups raising $100,000 or more fell to its lowest level since 2021, the data showed. African tech fundraising remains way behind the peak days of 2022, as Silicon Valley investors…

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Hashdex plans to put some of the crypto held by its Nasdaq CME Crypto Index ETF (NCIQ) to work through staking. The sponsor takes the first slice of net income, while common shareholders begin sharing in the rewards after an annual threshold is cleared.The framework is prospective. A July 23 Form 8-K named Coinbase Cloud as the initial provider and said staking was expected to begin promptly, subject to operational readiness.Under the July 23 prospectus supplement, a staking provider first retains its portion of gross rewards. Hashdex then receives all remaining net staking income up to a dollar threshold equal…

Before Mida had a name, it existed as three separate ideas inside Renmoney, a Nigerian digital microfinance bank, where its three founders worked as colleagues, each unknowingly trying to solve the same problem.  Mayowa Anibaba, Okeroghene Egbi, and Adija Uzodinma held senior leadership roles at the lender.  Anibaba led engineering, Egbi headed product and marketing, and Uzodinma oversaw  IT and operations. They called themselves “the trio.”   From their respective roles, they saw the same weakness in digital lending.  A lender could streamline the onboarding process, automate credit checks, and approve loans within minutes. But unless borrowers repaid those loans, none…

Most people who care about email privacy end up thinking about how to hide themselves. There are plenty of ways to do it with Gmail, but none are actually as safe as you think. Gmail doesn’t give you a good way to keep your identity private, even if you try using multiple emails. The best way is just to move on and use the services built for privacy and aliases. Gmail tricks don’t actually hide who you are Google profits by keeping your real email visible Credit: Justin Duino / How-To Geek Google’s email service has two well-known tricks that let…