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Herotel is currently South Africa’s third-largest fibre network operator behind Vumatel and Openserve. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has approved the licence transfer application of Herotel to Maziv subsidiary Vumatel.Maziv told ITWeb that ICASA approved the licence transfer application today.The approval follows the Competition Tribunal’s clearance of Vumatel’s acquisition of Herotel in December last year and marks a major step in strengthening South Africa’s fibre ecosystem, according to the companies.Vumatel says the transaction will combine its metropolitan fibre expertise and national scale with Herotel’s footprint in rural and underserved communities.The companies believe the merger will accelerate broadband…

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Eight months after Cameroon’s deeply disputed October 2025 presidential election, the country remains trapped in one of the most unusual political silences in its modern history. Paul Biya, now 93 years old and still officially the world’s oldest sitting head of state, has yet to form the government he personally promised Cameroonians on New Year’s Eve last year. And that silence is no longer being interpreted as ordinary political delay. It is now increasingly being viewed as evidence of something much deeper: a regime quietly struggling with the realities of succession, internal power rivalries, and the uncertain future of a…

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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision last year to abruptly dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development — once a leading global aid donor — has been followed by a significant increase in violence in several African countries that the agency had supported, according to a study published on Thursday.While the authors did not blame the USAID cuts for the increase in violence, they said the findings demonstrate that “large-scale, sudden aid cuts can destabilize fragile settings.” They, however, added that this is not evidence that more aid reduces conflict, instead it only shows “the effect of…

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