Concerns for banks as WhatsApp adds payment
Whatsapp has introduced payments to its messaging app in India, making it the latest service to let users transfer money to one another with a text. After the pilot in India, this peer-to-peer payment,...
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End-game looms for South Africa’s Zuma
Efforts by South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) to unseat President Jacob Zuma tilted towards the end game on Wednesday as the speaker of parliament said party leader Cyril Ramaphosa would outline Zuma’s...
Why Cape Town’s water could run out in April
THE people of Cape Town have spent recent years praying for rain. It has not come often enough. Lawns have faded to brown and swimming pools have gone dry. The dams that hold the...
Muhammadu Buhari starts to jockey for a second presidential term
THE mantle of power is so heavy in Nigeria that presidential candidates must be begged to run for office, or at least give that appearance. There was no serious doubt that the current president,...
Lawyer: Nigeria deports American, 2 Nigerians to Cameroon
Lawyer to Cameroonian separatists been deported claimed on Tuesday that Nigeria could have made some errors in deporting two naturalised Nigerians and an American to Cameroon last weekend. The trio were among the 47...
Kenya’s self-declared President, Odinga may face treason trial
Kenyan opposition leader, Raila Odinga, has defiled government’s warning and sworn-in himself as “the people’s president” and could face treason trial. The government had warned that he risked being charged for treason, an offence...
Odinga now Kenya’s opposition president
Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinghas been sworn-in as opposition president in a direct challenge to President Uhuru Kenyatta’s rule. The symbolic event conducted with the Bible saw Odinga took oath of office in front...
Kenyan opposition leader swears himself in as ‘president’
Ralia Odinga, Kenyan opposition leader, has sworn himself in as an alternative president. Odinga supporters attended the ceremony which held in Nairobi, the country’s capital. Security was tight in Nairobi as government shut down independent TV...
Tsvangirai Zimbabwe opposition leader dying
Morgan Tsvangirai, the leader of Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change is battling for his life in South Africa where he is receiving medical treatment for colon cancer, News 24 reported. Tsvangirai, a former prime...
The next war: The growing danger of great-power conflict
How shifts in technology and geopolitics are renewing the threat In the past 25 years war has claimed too many lives. Yet even as civil and religious strife have raged in Syria, central Africa,...
