Signal’s meteoric rise has WhatsApp looking over the shoulders as rivalry peaks
The number of new users installing messaging app Signal every day is on track to cross 1 million, putting it closer to levels seen by larger rival WhatsApp, following an update to the Facebook Inc-owned app’s privacy policy. About 810,000 users globally installed Signal on Sunday, nearly 18-fold compared with...
Kuwait’s Al-Sumait Prize up for grabs by outstanding Africans in health sector
Al-Sumait Prize has called for nominations for this year’s award for outstanding service in the health sector in Africa. The prize is open to individuals and organisations that have pioneered in the delivery of high-impact solutions to health in Africa. Special focus is on the 2021 cycle on the utilisation...
Plan to build a global network of floating power stations on oceans
Early last year, just a few weeks before the pandemic brought life in the United States to a standstill, Yi Chao and a small team of researchers dropped a slender metal tube into the Pacific Ocean off the Hawaiian coast. After nearly two decades as an oceanographer at NASA’s Jet...
$6.5 billion lined up for Great Green Wall initiative in the Sahel region
Barely hours after 100 actors from Africa and Europe signed a charter in support of pastoralism and livestock development in the Sahel, the African Development Bank unveiled plans to raise $6.5 billion to fund the region’s Great Green Wall Initiative. The funds will mitigate losses wrought by the coronavirus in...
