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Breaking: Depths Of Seychelles Waters Reveal New Species

Nekton left on a profound plunging science mission into the watery universe of the Indian Ocean. 450 meters beneath with submarine teams and submerged robots off the island country of the Seychelles, The excursion uncovered assorted networks and “handfuls” of species — including fish, coral and different creatures. Paris Stefanoudis, the Deputy Science Lead at […]

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Sports: Senegalese football star Mane test positive for coronavirus

The Liverpool football team introduced late Friday that Sadio Mane was once infected with the novel coronavirus.  “Sadio Mane has examined wonderful for COVID-19 and is currently self-isolating according to the crucial guidelines,” Liverpool stated on Twitter, before adding he “has displayed minor symptoms of the virus but feels in top health overall” The 28-year-old […]

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Business: Mastercard enhances security capabilities online

As digital commerce continues to speed up owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mastercard has introduced it will provide tokenization services to retailers with app, eCommerce, and ordinary billing card-on-file application in South Africa, further defending consumers and growing comfort when storing Mastercard cards in merchant databases. Dubbed Mastercard Digital Enablement Service (MDES) for Merchants, the […]

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Technology: Ethiopia unveils locally-assembled electric car

Ethiopia has unveiled a locally-assembled electric powered car from Marathon Motor, a joint venture between Korean auto massive Hyundai and Olympic champion Haile Gebreselassie. Mr Gebresselassie on Monday delivered the vehicle to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. “As we radically change #Ethiopia’s greening & climate resilient aspirations into concrete actions through the #GreenLegacy initiative and […]

African govts must urgently update digital rights laws – Lawyer

Governments across the continent must put more work into digital rights legislation which falls into the wider area of fundamental human rights and freedom of speech laws enshrined in almost all constitutions. According to Adeboro Odunlami, a Legal Officer with social enterprise outfit, Paradigm Initiative, PIN; governments must treat work on such legislation as urgent. […]

Technology: The ICT LIFE school equipping underserved Nigerian youth for life

Ajegunle. Located in in the southwestern part of Nigeria, specifically in Lagos State, the commercial hub of Africa’s most populous country. Admittedly, far away from the many high rise and corporate floors that accomodate local, regional and global conglomerates, further from the polished floors, plush lifts and conference rooms from which the high and mighty […]

Disinfection tunnels: a problematic COVID-19 invention?

Since the arrival of COVID-19 on the continent on February 14 in Egypt, there has been multi-layered concerns by experts and governments from fears of health systems being overwhelmed to the continent being muscled out of critical virus supplies. Hydra-headed ‘doom’ predictions But also in the midst of all the concerns were projections of an […]

Media Watch: Kenya to consolidate spike in tech use during COVID-19

Kenya’s Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Innovation and Youth Affairs, Joe Mucheru, says use of technology spiked because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, “we are working with the internet providers to ensure young people are protected,” the Minister told the press during Sunday’s coronavirus daily press briefing by the Health Ministry. We […]

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Rwanda set to launch Space Agency in July

Rwanda’s Minister of Technology and Innovation Paula Ingabire advanced on Wednesday that the Rwandan Space Agency must start operating in July this year. According to the minister, the agency will support forecasting and planning in agriculture, environmental monitoring, disaster preparedness, as well as urban planning through the use of satellite data and Earth observation images. […]

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Farmers, miners in Ivory Coast embrace use of drones

Farmers and miners in Ivory Coast are embracing the use of drones for light work. Until recently, stock checks and growth reports are done on foot. But now, this is done in record time. Thanks to these equipment manufactured by Ivory Coast drone. “With a drone today we can calculate the stockpile of gravel that’s […]

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Breaking: Ethiopia unlocks one of the world’s last closed telecoms markets

For delivery man Sisay Alebachew, the difference between a good and bad day depends on Ethio Telecom, Ethiopia’s monopoly telecoms provider. When the internet is down or too slow to use, customers struggle to place orders on the website of Deliver Addis, Sisay’s e-commerce employer, meaning he has little to do. Other times, when the […]

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Technology: Vivo smartphones head to head with giants in Kenya

Vivo smartphone made its debut to the Kenyan market a year ago and through them leveraging on innovation and quality of products to offer to customer satisfaction, they have unveiled new smartphones. The Vivo 17 pro is their latest device in the market with a total of six cameras. It is competing with the likes […]

3D masks – ventilators: Kenya tech-novators on virus-combat mission

African scientists, engineers and innovators have turned to homegrown solutions to prepare for the worst case scenario amid the COVID-19 pandemic disruption – which at a point brought much of the world to its knees. By the time the virus hit Africa, where cases have risen slowly, images of overwhelmed hospitals and stories of health […]

Rwanda deploys high-tech robots to screen COVID-19 patients and deliver food

The government of Rwanda has deployed five high-tech robots in its fight against the novel Coronavirus. The robots will help with the screening of COVID-19 patients and also reduce contact with health workers. On Tuesday, the robots were launched by the country’s Ministry of Health at the Kanyinya Covid-19 Treatment Centre in Kigali. The robots […]

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We’ve not issued 5G license to any operator in the country – NCC

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has maintained that it has not issued 5G license to any operator in the country. The Commission in a statement on Monday  signed by the Director of Public Affairs, Mr. Henry Nkemadu  was reacting to a statement making rounds in the social media sites that the Nigerian Telecoms industry is […]