Government accused of interrupting mobile chat apps in Gambia
Media Foundation for West Africa is accusing Gambian government of interrupting mobile chat apps such as Viber in the country. It noted that less than a year after The Gambia...
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Mahindra Comviva joins GlobalPlatform
Mahindra Comviva has become the latest member of GlobalPlatform, the organization which standardizes the management of applications on secure chip technology. Mahindra Comviva is one of the top 3 mobile...
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Zambia develops national strategy framework on Child Online Protection
Zambia in collaboration with the International Telecommunication Union recently hosted a workshop to develop a national strategy framework on Child Online Protection (COP) in the country. The three - day...
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Huawei holding ICT forum in Harare
Huawei is hosting a public information and communications technology (ICT) forum in Harare in collaboration with the government this week Thursday. Participants will be from all ministries and state owned...
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Institute for War & Peace Reporting launch East Africa’s first digital media incubator
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) on Friday launched The Rwanda Media Hub, the first incubator for digital media and media production enterprises in East Africa. The media incubator...
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Nigerians and South Africans emerge Ericsson App Awards finalists
Ericsson has announced the semi-finalists for the annual Ericsson Application Awards with Team SOP from Nigeria and Team WorkMode from South Africa named as semi-finalists in the company category and...
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Nigeria overtakes South Africa to become Africa’s largest economy
Recalculation of Nigeria's GDP showed it has the highest GDP in Africa. Nigeria surpassed South Africa on Sunday to become Africa’s largest economy and 26th largest in the world after...
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Rwanda Launches National Drugs Distribution System
According to Rwanda's health ministry officials, its new electronic system of delivering drugs to health centres across the country is enhancing efficiency and speed of the distribution. Joseph Kabatende, the...
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Etisalat organize capacity building training for 50
50 Nigerians recently participated in a five -day capacity building training session organised by Etisalat for the successful top 50 candidates of the Etisalat EasyBusiness Millionaire Hunt at the Enterprise...
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Globacom Nigeria unveils 10 new services for subscribers
Globacom recently put together a live demonstration of 10 brand new products and services. The products cover a broad spectrum of the operator's offerings aimed at improving the way its...
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Airtel opens Express Shop in Nassarawa
Airtel has opened its ultra-modern Express Shop - a showroom in Lafia, Nassarawa state. The company said the facility is in line with its renewed drive to deliver exceptional customer...
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1500 Nigerian women get tech training from MasterCard
MasterCard recently partnered with Youth for Technology Foundation,YTF, in Nigeria,to boost entrepreneurial capabilities of over 1500 Nigerian women with technology hands-on trainings. Youth for Technology Foundation will recruit and train...
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Symantec: Simple njRAT Fuels Nascent Middle East Cybercrime Scene
Symantec says the majority of njRAT C&C servers are found in the Middle East and North Africa. It said it has observed the growth of indigenous groups of attackers in...
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OpenBTS offers African mobile operators new opportunities
According to London's Balancing Act, Africa's mobile operators are faced with a number of network challenges that will have major commercial consequences. It identified the need to transition to IP...
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Cisco unveils TelePresence® MX200, MX700 and MX800
Cisco has unveiled TelePresence® MX200, a new video and collaboration solutions that would make high-quality video accessible to all categories of organizations. It allows users to effectively share video and...
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Forbes announce 10 brightest female tech founders in Africa
Forbes has released its list of 10 of the brightest female tech founders in Africa. They include techpreneurs from Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda and Cameroon. Rebecca Enonchong: Cameroonian Founder, AppsTech...
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South Africa’s Arts & Culture Trust celebrate 20th anniversary with new website
South Africa's Arts & Culture Trust (ACT) said it is proud to unveil its new website and digital platforms, launched as part of the Trust's 20-year celebrations. The reinvented act.org.za...
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Econet Wireless founder among Fortune Magazine’s ‘World’s 50 Greatest Leaders’
The group chairman and founder of Econet Wireless founder and Group Chairman, Mr Strive Masiyiwa, has been named among Fortune Magazine's 'World's 50 Greatest Leaders'. Fortune Magazine described him as...
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Google introduces Shelfies on April Fools Day
Google is today marking ten years and as a way to say thank you to its users it has introduced "shelfies" (SHareable sELFIES). According to a post on Gmail's blog...
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Uganda gets new national web portal
A new web portal has been developed by the Ugandan government to ease the flow of information from its institutions to the general public. Pius Mwinganisa the principal information officer...
Read moreNigeria’s identity management commission launch call center
Nigeria's National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) its call center number service - 0700 CALLNIMC for the ongoing National Identity Management System (NIMS) Project. Emmanuel Ogungbe, NIMC's IT and IDD Deputy...
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DuPont, Nike Drive Revolutionary Advances in Golf Ball Technology
DuPont science is at the core of Nike Golf’s next generation RZN golf ball, designed to deliver more energy at impact for faster ball speed, longer distance and a more...
Read moreMillicom Launches Think | a New Tech Incubator in Rwanda
Millicom today announced the creation of a tech incubator in Rwanda to develop new digital solutions. The objective is to develop innovative and scalable businesses in which Millicom will take...
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INTERSWITCH QUICKTELLER AND WESTERN UNION INTRODUCE ACCOUNT-BASED MONEY TRANSFER
Interswitch Transnational, pan-African integrated payments company, announces an agreement with Western Union, the leading global payment services company, to introduce an account-based money transfer service (“ABMT”) to Nigeria. The collaboration...
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Lamudi Nigeria breaks past 10,000 listings
On Friday 28 March 2014, Lamudi, founded by Africa Internet Holding (AIH) and Nigeria’s online real estate platform surpassed 10,000 listings. The platform now provides Nigerians with a wider selection...
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Eskimi release research results on travels
Eskimi, a popular social media platform has released the results of another survey it ran on how often its users travel; it revealed respondents' international travel itinerary. 3,562 people participated...
Read moreWest Africa Entrepreneurship Conference 2014 holds in Nigeria
The 2014 edition of Women of West Africa Entrepreneurship Conference, WOWe, is taking place from the 26th – 27th of June 2014, at the Oriental Hotel in Lagos, Nigeria. Women entrepreneurship...
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Oracle announces Java 8
Oracle has announced the availability of JDK 8, a production-ready implementation of the Java SE 8 Platform Specification, which was recently approved through the Java Community Process (JCP). This release...
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International Atomic Energy Agency trains Nigerian experts on nuclear safety
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is supporting Nigeria in capacity building as it plans to commence generation of power from nuclear sources. The IAEA yesterday commenced the training of experts...
Read moreTelecom Consumer Parliament names Etisalat best network in Nigeria
Nigeria's fourth largest telecoms company, Etisalat has been declared as the nation's best network according to the Telecom Consumer Parliament (TCP), an alternative dispute resolution arm of the Nigerian Communications...
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