The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and pan-African telecoms operator MTN have launched a joint campaign – “One More Push” – to encourage people across the continent to not give up [c]
Even before 2020, that’s before the outbreak of the current pandemic, Kenya already had a significant portion of the population that was grappling with mental health. And this was (and is still) an issue the [c]
The Covid-19 has been with us for over a year, since the first case was reported in the country in the first quarter of 2020. Even though members of the public still have to adhere [c]
During the pandemic, Kaspersky alone recorded more than 5,000 fraudulent sites globally related to the Coronavirus. During this period, the company also prevented more than one million users’ attempts to visit these sites, according to [c]
By Bernard Martyris As HR leaders look towards the post-COVID economy, employee wellbeing will need to feature at the top of their list. No business leader would have predicted that this era in history would [c]
Like nearly every sector, the electronics industry has changed significantly because of the pandemic. Not only was the supply of components affected as the world was reeling from initial outbreaks, and continues to be deeply [c]
MTN Group’s brand is growing from strength to strength, evidenced by its top rankings in two separate independent brand surveys released this week. MTN remains the ‘Most Admired African Brand’ in the Brand Africa 100: Africa’s [c]
PwC has released findings of the Family Business survey at a time when the East African family businesses have seen mixed performance over the last financial year (pre-Covid-19), with 46% experiencing growth and 31% seeing [c]
With reports of digital piracy increasing by more than 60 per cent in some countries during the past 12 months, INTERPOL is launching a new project to tackle this fast growing crime area. With EUR [c]
As services suspended for Kenya’s latest lockdown have resumed at speed, GeoPoll has unveiled its latest pan-African poll showing Kenyans are more worried than ever about the financial impact of Covid-19 and the accompanying restrictions. [c]
Healthcare consulting firm, Salient Advisory, has launched a health care report calling on donor agencies, governments and impact investors to accelerate the impact and scale of African health-tech innovators working in supply chain. The report, [c]
Scammers are constantly searching for new ways to steal users’ data. Last year, a completely new category of opportunity became one of the most profitable scams for fraudsters. They extensively used COVID-19 related spam letters [c]
MultiChoice Kenya, the home of Kenya’s most-loved video entertainment brand, has donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth Sh2.3 million to the Ministry of Health intended for people in high-risk areas and those at the frontline in support [c]
The GSMA has shared details of its health and safety plan for MWC21 Barcelona. The plan was developed in coordination with and approved by the Catalan health authorities responsible for the regulations governing MWC21, including [c]
The entire globe is currently undergoing one of the largest and most complex vaccination campaigns in history, and, not surprisingly, scammers and sellers on the dark market have been eager to make a profit off [c]
Necessity is the mother of invention, so the saying goes. And no event or incident has illustrated this than the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Amidst the calamity and uncertainty brought on the global population by the [c]
The Coronavirus is wreaking havoc on everything in our lives. It’s hard to find something that hasn’t been impacted in a major way as we attempt to limit the spread of the virus. Cloud security [c]
It’s over a month since we ushered in a New Year. But unlike the other years, most of us welcomed 2021 while locked within our houses (or compounds), as Kenya was (and is) still under [c]
MTN has announced the donation of $25 million to support the COVID-19 vaccination programme in the continent being spearheaded by the African Union (AU). The donation will help secure up to 7 million doses of [c]
Since the government, through the Ministry of Health, confirmed the country’s first Covid-19 case in Nairobi on March 12, 2020, the government then embarked on a daily exercise of providing updates to the public, at times more than [c]
Panicked responses to the infamous COVID-19 have triggered strange, yet substantial adaptation in remote collaboration innovations became an essential for African organizations. However, the transition might not be easy, according to a survey by Liquid [c]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) states on its website that there are currently more than 50 Covid-19 vaccine candidates in trials. The organization is working in partnership with scientists, business, and global health organizations through the ACT [c]
The beginning of the year is always a sound time to review the main developments and incidents that took place in the cybersecurity industry over the past year. To look at the impact these events [c]
By Jiten Vyas Even as the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to pause travel around the world, it has not stopped people from dreaming about where they want to take their next, somewhat off-schedule, vacation. While UNWTO’s [c]
The Covid-19 pandemic has been with us for over a year now. In its wake, the pandemic has left a record number of casualties, including over 2 million dead with over 95 million infections. And [c]
Information technology may just be the safest field to get into in the years to come. Under the burdens of the coronavirus pandemic, businesses look to IT specialists to smooth hybrid home and office work [c]
Kenya recorded a sharp increase in cyber threats between July and September 2020, with 35.1 million incidents detected, representing a 152.9 per cent jump, according to the quarterly sector statistics report covering the period released [c]
In the autumn of 2020 (for the northern hemisphere), Kaspersky researchers identified two APT incidents that targeted entities related to COVID-19 research – a Ministry of Health body and a pharmaceutical company. Kaspersky experts assessed [c]
By Diego Gutierrez This year has been filled with upheaval – disruption across industries, changes to the way we work and multiple challenges to business models globally. While 2020 was filled with rapid change, the [c]
Micro-retailers that adopted digital solutions have been more resilient through the COVID-19 pandemic. At the Fourth Micro-Retail Stakeholder Forum, hosted virtually by international nonprofit TechnoServe on December 9, representatives from across the private sector and [c]
By Siwar Zein The way we work has been irrevocably changed by the challenges we have been faced with in this difficult and uncertain year. Today, more people are working from their homes than in [c]
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