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Tunis – The number of foreign tourists in Tunisia dropped by 20% to four million in the first eight months of the year after two Islamist attacks that killed dozens of Western visitors, the tourism minister said on Monday. Tunisia, for which foreign tourism is an important...

Kinshasa – More than 1 000 people demonstrated on the streets of Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital on Tuesday against what they said are plans by President Joseph Kabila to cling to power after his constitutional mandate ends next year. The crowd, which gathered...

A dedicated academy that will teach the willing students about Bitcoin has opened up at the Bandwidth Barn in Woodstock, Cape Town. This academy that will focus on the courses related to Bitcoin and blockchain development has been founded by Sonya Kuhnel who is also the founder...

Amazon, will employ about 250 people in Johannesburg, its second location in South Africa after setting up a service center in Cape Town in 2004. AMAZON.COM Inc plans to open a branch of its cloud-based technology business in Johannesburg as the online retailer seeks to expand...

South Africa paid tribute to women across the country on National Woman’s Day, which was held on 9 August 2015. Besides a general tribute to women in South Africa, National Woman’s Day is also a public holiday in South Africa; however, as Women’s Day fell on Sunday the 9th, the...

Participate Technologies was proud to sponsor the recent Distance Education and Teacher Education in Africa (DETA) Conference, held at the Mauritius Institute of Education, Réduit, Mauritius, from 20 -24 July 2015. The sixth of its kind, the conference was formed to offer a...

International enterprise software development firm, SAP will be hosting over a hundred workshops during the Africa Code Week holding across 17 African countries from the 1st to 10th of October, 2015. The event is targeted at equipping 20,000 kids and youths within the ages 8 to...

Toby Lankford, who describes himself “a developer/ tinkerer that loves aerial and personal robotics, living off grid, and growing good food naturally with robots” has a project that should be of interest to Africa’s endangered rhinos and elephants. He is working on a 3D printed...

70% of users in sub-Saharan Africa browse the web on mobile devices, and just 6% use computers -very many people who need phone security there. MOTIVATED by more of a sense of mission, than turning a handsome profit, the World Economic Forum has unveiled a list of 49 companies...

Many Africans who grew up in the eighties and nineties will remember the hoverboard from the smash hit trilogy, Back to the Future. While many of us have dreamed of owing one at the time, the technology sector was just not advanced enough to offer something that technologically...