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The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Parliamentary Caucus will now take place at the Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort Hotel, leaving the earlier planned schedule for Kololo for musician Ray G to have his concert at the independence ground. The change of venue was announced by Government Chief Whip Dr Ruth Aceng while speaking to journalists at Parliament on Wednesday morning. “The Caucus has been shifted to Munyonyo Commonwealth Hotel. We expect all NRM and NRM-leaning Independent MPs to be there by midday because the President and National Chairperson of the Ruling Party will be addressing the Caucus,” Dr Aceng said. She said…
For years, conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) have centred on chatbots, image generators and the race to build powerful large language models. Across Africa, however, technology is taking on a different role by solving everyday problems that affects healthcare, agriculture, logistics, financial services and insurance. Rather than competing with OpenAI or Google to build frontier AI models, African startups are embedding AI into products that address local challenges which ranges from detecting fake medicines to reducing insurance fraud and also helping farmers increase yields and enable businesses to automate routine tasks. Their timing coincides with a growing economic opportunity because…
Addis Ababa — Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has inaugurated a new terminal at Bahir Dar Dejazmach Belay Zeleke International Airport, marking a pivotal milestone for one of Ethiopia’s primary aviation gateways. The modern facility is set to dramatically enhance the regional transport landscape and serve as an engine for economic growth. Reflecting on the achievement, Prime Minister Abiy noted that the project represents far more than upgraded infrastructure. He described the terminal as a powerful symbol of resilience, recovery, and forward-looking investment. Follow us on WhatsApp | LinkedIn for the latest headlines The expanded terminal boosts overall passenger capacity and…
Solana ETFs have seen zero net flows across all six products for five consecutive trading sessions ending Aug. 4. The product-wide pause in reported primary-market flow followed an $18.1 million outflow from Bitwise’s BSOL on July 28.Farside Investors, which tracks daily fund flows, showed 0.0 for BSOL, VSOL, FSOL, TSOL, SOEZ, and GSOL during the next five sessions: July 29 – Aug. 4.The same table, which tracks Solana ETF flows, displayed $1.122 billion of cumulative net flow through Aug. 4. Seed amounts account for $449.3 million, about 40% of that total, meaning only a portion of the cumulative figure represents…
For years, Nigerian naval ships went to sea with a basic problem: they could patrol, but they did not always know where to look. A vessel could leave a port, disappear beyond the horizon, and become little more than a guess on a naval commander’s map. Patrol boats and helicopters were available, but without a clear picture of what was happening across Nigeria’s vast waters, the Navy often conducted what officials called “blind patrols.” Falcon Eye was designed to change that. The maritime surveillance system, developed by Israeli defence company RTCom Defense, began deployment along Nigeria’s coastline in 2015. By…
Discord has become the go-to communication platform for gamers and enthusiast communities for the last several years. If you add a bot, you can add a nearly infinite number of features to your server, but that comes with some downsides: You have to trust that the bot owner is handling any data they collect responsibly, you have no real control over the features, and they’re usually pretty simple. After a friend spent about 5 minutes ranting about how useless a bot was, I volunteered to make a better, smarter bot that would run on a gaming PC. I built an…
Zimbabwe opposition leader Nelson Chamisa in Harare, Zimbabwe, in January 2024. © Jekesai NjikizanaNJIKIZANA/AFP Published on August 05, 2026 at 17:00 pm (GMT +1) Zimbabwean political veteran Nelson Chamisa is creating a movement in an effort to kickstart opposition to President Emmerson Mnangagwa‘s ZANU-PF administration, he tells The Africa Report from London before his return to Zimbabwe.“It’s such an important point of reference – with over five million Zimbabweans in the diaspora, we decided to target the UK,” he says. Chamisa’s whistle-stop tour took him to cities including Manchester and London, where he spoke to Zimbabweans about his new movement,…
African governments are accelerating the use of digital platforms for taxation, procurement, healthcare, identity management, social protection and municipal services. However, the success of this transition depends on more than software, connectivity or data infrastructure. It also depends on who controls technology decisions, how public money is allocated, whether risks are monitored and whether digital investments improve services for citizens. A systematic review titled “Antecedents, Decisions, and Outcomes for ICT Governance Adoption in the African Public Sector: A Systematic Review Based on McClelland Theory and ADO Framework,” published in the journal Computers, argues that this institutional layer remains uneven across…
Ibrahim Sagna spent more than two decades in finance, including at the African Export-Import Bank and the Africa Finance Corporation, before co-founding Silverbacks Holdings, a firm that invests in technology, entertainment, sport and the creative industries. How we made it in Africa editor-in-chief Jaco Maritz spoke to Sagna about the firm’s origins and how it picks its investments.Topics discussed during the interview include:The backstory to the founding of SilverbacksWhy it doesn’t directly invest in early-stage companiesWhat it looks for in an investmentHow it decides when to exitWhy Sagna hosts his own podcastWhether ordinary people should invest in startups
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