A further 700,000 people could die of Covid by March in Europe and parts of Asia, the World Health Organization has warned. The death toll already exceeds 1.5 million in the 53 countries of what the WHO terms as its Europe region. The WHO warned of “high or extreme stress” in intensive care units in…
Plans to roll out end-to-end encryption on Facebook and Instagram have been delayed amid a row over child safety. Meta – as Facebook’s parent company is now called – said messaging encryption on the apps would now come in 2023. The process means only the sender and receiver can read messages, but law enforcement or…
INTERNATIONAL Trade Centre (ITC) executive director, Pamela Coke-Hamilton, has stressed the need to upscale information dissemination and capacitating African small to medium…
TO support universal and affordable broadband access in Africa, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has partnered with Liquid Intelligent Technologies to expand…
THE World Health Organisation is due to hold the 9th Conference of the Parties to its Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Not represented?…
The newly-elected mayor of Johannesburg, Jolidee Matongo, has died in a car accident, aged 46. He had been appointed as mayor on…
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak tweeted on Sunday about a “private space company” he’s launching that’s “unlike the others.” Called Privateer Space, its mission is…
Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, part of Marriott Bonvoy’s portfolio of 30 extraordinary brands, today unveiled newly transformed spaces at Sheraton Djibouti. The…
