Author: Chris Anu

Richard Schumacher, group chief strategic alliance officer at Seacom When a Belize-flagged, UK-registered cargo ship called the Rubymar was struck by a Houthi missile in the Red Sea in February 2024, it began to drift. With its anchor down in shallow water, it severed three of the region’s subsea cables before sinking on 2 March – among them was Seacom, the first privately owned subsea system to land on Africa’s east coast in 2009. According to Richard Schumacher, group chief strategic alliance officer at Seacom, the outage taught his company and the industry a lesson that all technical leaders on…

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Credit: Aga Khan UniversityPanelists at the Traditional Medicine event at WHS Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, 29 April 2026Leaders from government, academia, regulatory bodies and community innovation, and youth networks convened at the World Health Summit Regional Meeting in Nairobi on 29 April 2026, to advance the role of traditional medicine as a core pillar of primary healthcare and universal health coverage in Africa. The high-level session, “Traditional Medicine as Part of the Solution: Reimagining Primary Health Care and Universal Health Coverage in Africa,” was sponsored by the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre and its newest Collaborating Centre partner, Charité Competence…

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Staff at the zoo were heartbroken when Kaya died in March, aged 17. She was born there in 2009. Partridge said the new lions would bring a happy adjustment after “life without lions”.”It’s been a little bit nerve-wracking, but we’re happy they’re here and we can’t wait to go forward and see what they like to play with,” she said. The new arrivals are northern lions – different to the southern lions they had at the park before – and are part of a north African lion breeding programme.Snipp said they had brought the lions to Suffolk because they were…

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Boomi, the data activation company for AI, and Couchbase, Inc., the operational data platform for AI, today announced a partnership through which the two companies are collaborating closely to accelerate AI pilots to production. The companies will co-engineer solutions that give customers a production-ready foundation for agentic AI, combining Boomi’s connectivity, runtime, and governance for AI agents with Couchbase’s scalable recollection and vector capabilities. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260513350337/en/Enterprises deploying AI agents today face a common challenge: while agents perform well in pilots, they struggle to scale due to inconsistent access to trusted context,…

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CASABLANCA, Morocco — The remains of the second U.S. Army soldier who went missing during military exercises in Morocco have been recovered, the Army said Wednesday, ending a multinational search operation that deployed air, naval and artificial intelligence assets.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.The soldier was identified as Spc. Mariyah Symone Collington of Taveres, Fla., the U.S. military Europe and Africa said in a statement. She was 19 years old.“Royal Moroccan Armed Forces transported the Soldier’s remains by a Moroccan helicopter to the morgue of Moulay El Hassan Military Hospital in…

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They come in blister packs of 10 like any normal painkiller and you can buy them easily in roadside kiosks and street pharmacies across west Africa.Millions of tapentadol tablets from India are helping drive a deadly opioid epidemic ravaging the region, with officials and researchers telling AFP that they are also being added to the “zombie drug” kush.The cheap pills are so strong that no regulatory authority in the world has approved them.Yet an AFP investigation found Indian pharmaceutical firms were flooding west Africa with the pills despite New Delhi vowing to crack down on the trade. Some shipments were…

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Cricket South Africa have confirmed a busy programme for the country’s Emerging and A teams across the second half of 2026, including tours and series against Bangladesh Emerging, Bangladesh A and England Lions. CSA also announced the Emerging Academy intake for 2026, along with the South Africa A squad for the upcoming May and June tour of England. South Africa Emerging Men fixtures One-day tri-series 30 July: South Africa Emerging v University Sports South Africa, Pretoria 1 August: South Africa Emerging v Bangladesh Emerging, Pretoria 3 August: University Sports South Africa v Bangladesh Emerging, Pretoria 5 August: South Africa Emerging…

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