Category: Telecommunications
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🇯🇵 The Console May Disappear — But the Minerals Behind Computing Are Only Becoming More Important
Ken Kutaragi, the creator of PlayStation, believes AI, cloud computing and network technology could eventually make dedicated gaming consoles unnecessary. But if computing leaves the console and moves into the cloud, the demand for minerals does not disappear—it moves upstream into servers, semiconductors, batteries, power systems and telecommunications infrastructure. For Africa, that could make critical…
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🇪🇬CAMRED III Brings Africa’s Mining, Investment and Technology Leaders to Cairo
CAMRED III opens in Cairo October 5–7, bringing African mining leaders, investors, government institutions, technology providers and mineral-sector organizations together around critical minerals, smart mining, beneficiation, investment and African value chains.
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🇬🇧 UK Air-Traffic Control Failure Disrupts African Routes as Military Flight-Plan Link Emerges
London — September 12, 2026 — A major failure in the United Kingdom’s air-traffic-control system has exposed vulnerabilities in one of Europe’s most important aviation networks, disrupting thousands of flights and sending delays across international routes linking Britain with Africa. The incident occurred on September 8 after a failure in the flight-data processing system operated…
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🇲🇱 Mali’s information war is increasingly being shaped by AI
A 2026 study by the Timbuktu Institute identifies Mali as an “open-air laboratory” for information warfare driven by generative AI, with various conflict actors utilizing the technology to differing extents to amplify existing societal faultlines. While the Al-Qaeda-affiliated JNIM has shown limited usage, the Tuareg separatist FLA actively employs AI-generated characters on social media to…