Vincent Owino Regional financiers are already using AI mostly to combat fraud in payments Like many industries across the globe, artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the financial industry by storm, and one of the fast-rising applications is in payments, to solve age-old challenges that have slowed cross-border settlements in the banking sector. In East Africa,…
Nigerian Tribune Telecommunications stakeholders have stressed the advantage of collaboration in limiting barriers to national broadband penetration and promoting digital economy. The telecommunications stakeholders spoke at the annual Telecoms Executives and Regulators Forum (TERF) 2023 organised by the Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) in Lagos, recently. The Executive Vice Chairman, Nigeria Communications Commission…
Reuters ABUJA, Aug 5 (Reuters) – The World Bank is aiming to help fund construction of 1,000 mini solar power grids in Africa’s biggest economy Nigeria in partnership with the government and private sector, the lender’s president Ajay Banga said on Saturday. Nigeria, with a population of more than 200 million people, has installed power…
Story by Jacopo Prisco, video by Adrian Lydon, CNN In Nelson Mandela Bay, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, thousands of hectares of land could one day become the world’s largest green ammonia plant. Ammonia, which is made up of nitrogen and hydrogen, is commonly used as a fertilizer. In the early 1910s scientists…
By Rédaction Africanews Mounira is barely 40 centimeters tall. Mouth open, cheek flat against her mother’s chest, this baby born almost two months prematurely is growing thanks to the “kangaroo” method, increasingly used around hospitals in Côte d’Ivoire. Her mom Affousata Sidibé is happy with the results of this method. “I’m leaving today. Anyway, I’m…
By Rédaction Africanews and AP The industrial landscape of the northeastern province of Mpumalanga, an area known as South Africa’s coal belt will soon be transformed. The Komati power plant, once a busy coal plant that is now earmarked to be repurposed as a wind and solar power plant that will have batteries to store…
By Bridget UGWE The 2023 edition has given prominence to artificial intelligence. The sector is getting increasingly popular in Africa, a continent firmly at the heart of the digital revolution. From June 14th to 17th, over 2,500 exhibitors will showcase their latest innovation. The latest edition of Vivatech, Paris’ largest tech show, kicked off in…
By Duncan Miriri GITHUNGURI, Kenya, June 14 (Reuters) – Eighty percent of voters in this constituency in the heart of Kenyan tea country cast their ballots for William Ruto last August, helping the self-proclaimed champion of impoverished “hustlers” score an upset presidential election win. Less than a year later, it is hard to find anyone…
Nearly 300 children have been safely rescued from an orphanage in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, aid agencies say. They had been staying at the Mygoma Orphanage, where more than 70 children are reported to have died from hunger and illness since the conflict in Sudan broke out in mid-April. The orphanage was in an area of…
By Rédaction Africanews with AFP A former Minister of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) prosecuted and briefly detained in 2021 for an alleged embezzlement of funds allocated to the fight against Covid-19 was acquitted on Wednesday by Congolese justice, announced his lawyer. Eteni Longondo, Minister of Health from 2019 to 2021, had…
