The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide much needed funding to assist 23,900 vulnerable rural people (4,780 households) in the Republic of South Sudan. The IFAD grant will help reduce the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their farming activities and safeguard their...
Acronis announced that it has added 4Sight Dynamics Africa, a subsidiary of 4Sight, as a cloud distributor for Central Europe, Middle East and Africa, continuing to intensify its investments and development on the African continent. 4Sight Dynamics Africa will represent Acronis as a cloud distributor across...
AURA, South Africa’s leading security and medical response platform, recently announced its expansion into Kenya. Later this year, the startup will look at possible expansions in Mexico and Nigeria. Warren Myers, AURA’s CEO believes that South African startups can compete with the best in the world...
The South African National Roads Agency (Sanral) has begun a new project looking at technologies such as machine learning and facial recognition and how they can be used to improve road safety and congestion. The project is being spearheaded by Sanral's Technical Innovation Hub who are...
Hikvision has generated a total revenue of $9.78 billion for fiscal year 2020, having achieved a year-over-year (YoY) growth of 10.14%. Net profits attributable to shareholders of the company was $2.06 billion reflecting YoY growth of 7.82%. Hikvision also reported its first quarter of 2021 revenues...
Following years of decline driven by economic recession, the Angolan defence budget is now set to increase in the coming half-decade from $0.9bn in 2021 to $1.9bn in 2026, registering a healthy CAGR of 3.2% and keeping Angola as one of the largest defence spenders...
viisights, Inc., a developer of innovative behavioural recognition systems for real-time video intelligence, has recently deployed a new installation in the city of Eilat, Israel to detect, predict and analyse events of interests in real-time and alert authorities of crowding, violent/suspicious activity, traffic or crowd...
The Africa data centre market size by investment was valued at USD 2 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach USD 5 billion by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 15% during 2021-2026. The data centre market expects to observe growth because of the...
Roke Telkom, a Ugandan public service provider for voice and data communications services has launched a new cloud surveillance solution for mission critical applications, according to a report in East Africa Business Week. Roger Sekaziga, chief executive officer, Roke Telkom said the service launch comes as...
Growing adoption of work from home and a lack of IT skills are set to motivate more South African companies to consider cybersecurity as a service. South Africa’s lockdown over the last year has accelerated many trends, from e-learning and e-commerce, through to video conferencing and...
