Details Vaughan O’Grady Category: Energy & Sustainability 06 August 2026 777 views
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By ABS News Desk | August 4, 2026 YAOUNDÉ — The Trump administration has formally notified the United States Congress of plans to close the American Embassy branch office in Douala, Cameroon, ending Washington’s permanent diplomatic footprint in the country’s largest city and commercial nerve centre, according to separate notices sent to lawmakers late last week and obtained by the media. The Douala branch office, which employs 14 local staff members and no direct-hire American personnel, is one of five smaller U.S. diplomatic missions earmarked for closure. The others are the U.S. Embassy in Grenada, consulates in Nagoya, Japan, and…
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Electra Mining Africa, taking place from 7 – 11 September at the Johannesburg Expo Centre in Nasrec, will showcase the latest mining industry trends and bring together technology providers, manufacturers, engineering specialists, and industry experts.
PalmPay, one of Africa’s fastest-growing digital payments companies, is considering a listing in Hong Kong after reaching a valuation of more than $1 billion, positioning the company to become one of the continent’s few fintech unicorns to test public markets following the slowdown in global startup funding.
Africa is home to 18% of the world’s people but holds less than 1% of global data centre capacity, and only about 40% of its population is online. That gap in compute, connectivity, and digital skills is what a new pan-African research call wants to close.
African governments are racing to digitise public services, connect institutions and modernise administration. However, many e-government projects still end in delay, underperformance, budget overruns or abandonment. The problem, a new review argues, is not simply weak technology; it is the disconnect between how digital projects are formally governed and the political, institutional and operational conditions…
Apple reached a $5 trillion market capitalization on July 28 Eastern Time, reclaiming its position as the world’s most valuable company. Unlike cloud-heavy peers, Apple’s capital-light AI strategy—prioritizing on-device features and leveraging existing hardware ecosystems—has shielded it from mounting infrastructure costs. While its stable cash flows and services revenue support long-term growth, the current 41x…
The story so far: In late July, 1,319 employees working at some of the world’s frontier AI companies signed and released an open letter titled ‘Pacing the Frontier.’ In it, they called on the U.S. government to help address the lack of technical and governance tools to regulate the speed at which frontier-wide progress was…
UK flood intelligence specialist Previsico has announced its entry into the African market, beginning with South Africa, as part of its ongoing international expansion.
