Apple announced on Tuesday it has filed suit against an Israeli company that’s been closely monitored for its role in supplying spyware to foreign governments—a number of them on the African continent—and placed on a U.S. entity list for its development of Pegasus surveillance tools. “NSO Group creates sophisticated, state-sponsored…
South Africans living along the country’s coastal Garden Route braced for continued rains, even as they dealt with flooding that prompted water rescues and closed roads and schools. There were no immediate reports of injuries, but property damage was ongoing along the route. It runs roughly from east of Cape…
Explosive allegations in an investigative report released Friday put former president Joseph Kabila and his associates at the center of embezzlement claims of at least US$138 million taken from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s state coffers. The “Congo Holdup” report, a product of European Investigative Collaborations (EIC), is based on…
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the twin bomb blasts that killed four people in…
African internet growth depends on greater engagement, not AFRINIC The Supreme Court of Mauritius recently…
In Togo, President Faure Gnassingbé said Monday that the country’s security remained a top priority,…
There’s disappointment and anger over the now-concluded COP26 climate negotiations in Glasgow, with firm commitments…
The United States announced new financial sanctions on Friday in connection with the ongoing conflict…
New evacuation zones were ordered in the Canary Islands as the Cumbre Vieja volcano shows no signs of stopping. The volcano erupted on September 19 and has continued to pour lava onto the island of La Palma for more than a month now. It originally flowed west to the sea…
French oil major TotalEnergies is pushing back against detailed claims that its companies certainly knew of the threat of climate change by 1971, while proceeding to shift its defense of its products and its messaging across the decades. The 50-year description of Total’s engagement with climate change was published in…
Climate change is causing the rapid melt of glacier ice on the African continent, with all of it likely to be gone by 2040 or sooner, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization and its partners. There are just three mountains in Africa that are covered by…
China on Monday backed away from a report that its space program succeeded this summer in testing a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile, while insisting that the August mission was merely a “space vehicle” test. Zhao Lijian, spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made the comments during a daily press…