Equatorial Guinea petroleum minister pulls out of Africa Oil Week in Dubai in protest
Equatorial Guinea Minister for Mines and Hydrocarbons Gabriel M. Obiang Lima has announced that his country will not participate in this year’s edition of Africa Oil Week that is scheduled to be held in Dubai. Mr Obiang Lima made the announcement on Tuesday June 15 in the capital Malabo in...
Tokyo Olympic committee’s decision to track foreign journalists elicits strong opposition
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) wants the Olympic Organising Committee’s (OOC) reverse a decision that subjects foreign journalists to mandatory monitoring during the period of the games in Tokyo, Japan. IFJ says the regulation is a complete disregard for privacy and it is an impediment to the freedom of...
Rattled by thinning sign-ups, WhatsApp goes on charm offensive to regain users
Government attacks on WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption are akin to demands that an Orwellian telescreen be installed in every living room, the app’s head has said as it launches a major advertising campaign in defence of privacy. Will Cathcart told the Guardian in an interview that the abstract nature of digital...
Espionage: The AN0M fake secure chat app may have been too clever for its own good
In April 1943, Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was killed when the US Air Force shot down the plane carrying him to Balalae Airfield in the Solomon Islands. The attack was made possible by the USA cracking Japanese codes and decrypting a message that revealed Yamamoto’s flight plan would just take...
National loyalty: Real America has always been a country of white people
As a national narrative, Smart America has a tenuous sense of the nation. Smart America doesn’t hate America, which has been so good to the meritocrats. Smart Americans believe in institutions and they support American leadership of military alliances and international organisations. But Smart Americans are uneasy with patriotism. It’s...
Africa energy industry defies Covid threat, sets November conference in Cape Town
The African Energy Chamber is set to host the first-ever African Energy Week (AEW) in Cape Town from November 9-12, 2021. Themed ‘Replacing Africa Oil Week’, the four-day interactive conference seeks to unite industry stakeholders, international speakers and movers and shakers from the African oil and gas sector. The conference...
PhD holders, researchers want reforms in their fields addressed to rein in wastage
Nations, universities and research institutions around the world must redouble efforts to expand training for PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to prepare them for jobs outside academia. So urges a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental coalition of 38 nations. The report, the result...
G-7 DFI and multilateral partners to pump $80 billion into African economies
The G7 DFIs, the IFC, the private sector arm of the African Development Bank, EBRD and the European Investment Bank have announced they will commit $80 billion investment in the private sector over the next five years to support sustainable economic recovery and growth in Africa. The investment is intended...
Kenya’s rugby juniors prepare for Barthes U20 trophy defence in Nairobi
A 28 strong Kenya U20 training squad has been preparing for their Barthes U20 trophy defence under the tutelage of head coach Curtis Olago. The side has had a series of training camps in Nairobi and Nakuru over the past month and has also had the opportunity to play two...
In Smart America, new economy replaced ‘outmoded ideologies’ with dazzling technologies
Winners in Smart America have lost the capacity and the need for a national identity, which is why they can’t grasp its importance for others. Politically, Smart America came to be associated with the Democratic Party. This was not inevitable. If the party had refused to accept the closing of...
