Bringing AWS Wavelength to Morocco and Senegal
Orange Middle East & Africa (OMEA) and Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced they are bringing supporting use cases across regulated industries that require data to remain local, such as telecom, finance, public sector, and healthcare, as well as industries that depend on low-latency applications like gaming. The new Wavelength Zones will support Amazon Elastic Compute […]
There Is No ‘One Africa’: How The Continent Can Turn Diversity Into Growth And Opportunity
Africa will shortly be home to the world’s largest working age population and a burgeoning consumer class; it’s also rich in natural resources. Despite such human capital and natural resources, Africa’s economic growth and productivity has slowed over the past decade. If nations across the continent deploy their diverse strengths, it could help reimagine Africa’s […]
Navigating TB Eradication In Africa By Fighting Drug Resistance With Genomics
Belinda Ngongo – Director, Global Health External Affairs, Illumina Despite the advancements in tuberculosis (TB) surveillance and genomic sequencing technologies, the disease continues to be a global health crisis, constituting an excess of 10.6 million people contracting the bacterial infection in 2022. Within the same year, over 1.3 million people suffering from TB died. According […]
Africa Needs To Trade In Higher-Value Goods To Aid Development
African countries need to trade in value-added and intermediate goods with each other and the rest of the world in order to address the continent’s developmental challenges. Platforms like the African Continental Free Trade Area ( AfCFTA) must also be used to strengthen value chains across various sectors. These are some of the points that […]
Celebrating The Success Of The 5th Edition Connected Africa Summit – Africa’s Premier Telecom Summit
We are thrilled to express our heartfelt appreciation for your unwavering support of the 5th Edition Connected Africa Summit – Africa’s Premier Telecom Summit. Held in the vibrant city of Johannesburg, this year’s event brought together some of the brightest minds in the telecommunications industry, underscoring Johannesburg’s role as a leading hub for Africa’s telecom […]
U.S. Embassy Morocco And Prosper Africa Host Venture Capital Forum
The United States Mission in Morocco and the U.S. government’s Prosper Africa initiative convened a two-day U.S.-Morocco Venture Capital Forum in Marrakech on May 27-28 to deepen U.S.-Morocco commercial ties and increase investment in the region. The Venture Capital Forum took place ahead of GITEX Africa 2024, Africa’s Biggest Tech & Startup show, and brought […]
Empowering The Future Of Banking: Celebrating Innovation And Excellence At The 12th Edition Connected Banking Summit – Southern Africa 2024
The Maslow Hotel in Johannesburg became the epicentre of innovation and excellence on May 23rd, 2024, as it hosted the 12th Edition Connected Banking Summit – Southern Africa Innovation & Excellence Awards 2024. This highly anticipated event celebrated outstanding achievements in the banking and financial services industry, centered around the theme “Empowering Tomorrow’s Banking Digital […]
