Sign up: register@panafrican.email

Tag: IT

  • Africa: Jiji Expands Beyond Africa With Bangladesh E-Commerce Entry

    Africa: Jiji Expands Beyond Africa With Bangladesh E-Commerce Entry

    African online marketplace Jiji will launch operations in Bangladesh, marking its first expansion outside the continent. The move targets the country’s growing middle class, mobile connectivity, and expanding e-commerce sector, which is expected to reach $13 billion by 2027, according to Payments and Commerce Market Intelligence (PCMI). Jiji operates in seven African countries, including Nigeria,…

    Read more...

  • 🌍 Major Solar Flares Predicted, Ozone Impact, SDO is Back

    🌍 Major Solar Flares Predicted, Ozone Impact, SDO is Back

    However, it is unlikely that solar activity would have a significant impact on this process.

    Read more...

  • Steam Deck’s OS Expands to Lenovo’s New Handheld

    Steam Deck’s OS Expands to Lenovo’s New Handheld

    Valve is steadily spreading its influence – first with Steam as a PC games hub, then with Steam Deck in the handheld area, and now the latter’s OS is exclusive to Valve’s products no more. Valve announced that Lenovo’s new handheld, Lenovo Legion Go S, revealed at CES 2025, will be powered by SteamOS, becoming the…

    Read more...

  • African Union greenlights AI adoption across member states

    The Executive Council of the African Union (AU) has approved the “Continental Artificial Intelligence Strategy,” which promotes AI adoption in the public and private sectors among member states. This strategy was announced in a document published on the AU website on Aug. 9. The AU’s AI strategy was formally adopted during the AU Executive Council’s 45th Ordinary Session…

    Read more...

  • KETI: Bridging Language Barriers in Healthcare

    KETI, a revolutionary language tool developed by a Ugandan innovator, is making significant strides in the healthcare sector by translating medical results into multiple languages. This tool is especially vital for communities where language barriers have long hindered access to crucial medical information, often resulting in miscommunication, misunderstanding, and, in severe cases, inadequate treatment. Inspiration…

    Read more...

  • New Frontiers, Old Tactics: Chinese Espionage Group Targets Africa & Caribbean Govts

    The China-linked threat actor known as Sharp Panda has expanded their targeting to include governmental organizations in Africa and the Caribbean as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign. “The campaign adopts Cobalt Strike Beacon as the payload, enabling backdoor functionalities like C2 communication and command execution while minimizing the exposure of their custom tools,”…

    Read more...

  • Warner Bros. Reportedly Considers Leaving Game Business

    The company is planning to sell its game division’s stake shares to avoid a break-up. According to a Financial Times report, Warner Bros.’s top management seeks to compensate for the company’s dropping share price. The price of Warner Bros. Discovery, a company’s subdivision engaged in the game industry, has fallen by almost 70% since it was…

    Read more...

  • Nigeria: Meta removes 63,000 accounts linked to sextortion

    Meta said Wednesday it had removed about 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria that were engaging in sexual extortion and had taken down thousands of Facebook groups and pages that were trying to organize, recruit and train new scammers. Sexual extortion, or sextortion , involves persuading someone to send explicit photos online and then threatening to…

    Read more...

  • Top 10 African countries with the most internet users in 2024

    The global number of internet users continues to rise, thanks to the growing accessibility of affordable devices, better connectivity, and the spread of digital services. Africa, despite facing numerous challenges, is also experiencing this upward trend. This advancement is due to multiple factors, such as investments in infrastructure, the expansion of mobile networks, and initiatives…

    Read more...