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| Sep 29, 2026 | Kenya: Ignore Fake 'Citizen Digital' Graphic Quoting Kenyan Governor Wamatangi As Dismissing War On Illicit Brew | Ignore fake 'Citizen Digital' graphic quoting Kenyan governor Wamatangi as dismissing war on illicit brew
IN SHORT: As the crackdown on illicit brew intensifies in Kenya, a graphic circulating on social media quotes Kiambu county ... |
| Aug 31, 2026 | Tinsel Magazine Publishes 'The Countries Looking Away' on Nations Without Child Online Safety Laws | Concluding Installment Maps the Countries With No Child Online Safety Law, and Brazil, Indonesia and the UAE, Which Passed Theirs in the Past Year
For years the burden sat on parents to prove the harm. Now it sits on the platforms to prove ... |
| Jun 16, 2026 | Kenya: The Algorithm Will See You Now - Deepfake Doctors and the Commodification of Care in Kenya | A few months ago, I was scrolling through TikTok when I came across a video. In a brightly lit room with brown décor, a doctor in a checkered shirt was discussing PCOS, a common condition that affects many women globally. As he shared medic... |
| May 14, 2026 | Microsoft Removes Israel General Manager After Azure Stored 200 Million Hours of Palestinian Surveillance Recordings | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: May 14 2026, 16:56 PM EDT
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| Sep 26, 2025 | Inside the failed courtship between Kenya BNLP startup Lipa Later and Nigeria’s Klump | In late 2022, Klump, an early-stage Nigerian buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) startup, got a surprise push from one of its investors. A contact connected to that backer suggested they talk to Kenya’s Lipa Later, which was quietly looking for partne... |
| Apr 1, 2025 | The Hidden Struggles of Africa's Data Workers: A Call for Change | In the shadows of the digital age, Africa's data workers toil. They are the unseen hands behind the algorithms, the silent voices in the tech revolution. Yet, their reality is far from glamorous. Job insecurity looms like a dark cloud.... |
| Mar 31, 2025 | Africa's Data Workers Are Being Exploited By Foreign Tech Firms - 4 Ways to Protect Them | Data workers in Africa often have a hard time. They face job insecurities - including temporary contracts, low pay, arbitrary dismissal and worker surveillance - and alarming physical and psychological health risks. The consequences of thei... |
| Jan 29, 2025 | Africa: Ignore Deepfake Videos Using African Celebrities and Doctors to Promote Non-Existent Joint Pain Cures | Ignore deepfake videos using African celebrities and doctors to promote non-existent joint pain cures
IN SHORT: Two videos circulating on Facebook falsely advertise "miracle" cures for joint pain. But they're using deepfake t... |
| Jan 29, 2025 | South Africa: Ignore Fake News Graphics Claiming That Kenyan Cabinet Minister's Son Launched Cyber Attacks On the Country's Digital Systems | Ignore fake news graphics claiming that Kenyan cabinet minister's son launched cyber attacks on the country's digital systems
Graphics, seemingly from several media outlets, and an official-looking letter linking Leslie Muturi to ... |
| Mar 7, 2024 | Things really aren't going to plan for Sam Altman's strange eyeball-scanning orb | Tech Things really aren't going to plan for Sam Altman's strange eyeball-scanning orb
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| Jan 29, 2024 | WHO Lauds Progress in Eliminating Harmful Trans Fat: 183,000 Lives Saved Yearly | Quincy Jon, Tech Times 29 January 2024, 08:01 pm |
| Nov 23, 2023 | Why African investors are not buying into the EV hype | Green transportation is becoming a global trend, and Africa wants to latch on to it. However, Africa’s electric vehicles market is low on financing. So, companies struggle to produce enough vehicles, lower costs, and expand their reach.
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| Aug 9, 2023 | Kenya Is Going Digital to Boost Tax Revenue - There Are Lessons to Learn From Other African Countries | Many African tax authorities have weak capacity to raise revenue. From 1990 to 2020, sub-Saharan African countries on average collected only about 12%-15% of GDP as taxes, a much lower share than the 33.5% in OECD economies.
For countries t... |
| Aug 3, 2023 | Worldcoin hopes to resume iris scans in Kenya | Sam Altman’s crypto startup Worldcoin yesterday faced its first major hurdle in Africa when authorities in Kenya suspended its iris-scanning activities (“proof of personhood verification”) over security, privacy and data protection concerns... |
| Jun 26, 2023 | Ruto signs Kenya’s finance bill 2023 into Law | President of Kenya William Ruto has signed a tax bill into law that intends to raise taxes on commodities. Image by gettyimages.com
Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday 26th June 2023 signed into law a bill that raises taxes on a wide ra... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Mauritania disrupts mobile internet following violent protests | The government of Mauritania cuts internet due to the violent protests
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The Mauritanian government cut internet access for mobile phones Wednesday, a day after protests over the death of a young man after a brief... |
| May 12, 2023 | Kenya starvation cult death toll climbs to 179 | Kenyan government officials and pathologists wearing protective clothing stand by before the start of postmortem analysis on victims of the Shakahola massacre at the Malindi district funeral home, in Malindi on May 1, 2023. – A high-profile... |
| May 10, 2023 | Kenya plans special startups’ employee-equity tax regime | Kenya is proposing a special tax regime on startups’ Employee Share Ownership Plans (ESOPs), as it aligns to its plan to spur innovation.
The finance bill 2023 proposes the deferment of taxes on employee-allocated shares, recommending for t... |
| Feb 22, 2023 | Nigerians vote in most unpredictable election in years | Supporters for the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Bola Tinubu dance outside Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos on February 21, 2023 ahead of the Nigerian presidential election scheduled for February 25, 2023. (Photo by ... |
| Feb 4, 2023 | Japan PM dismisses aide over ‘outrageous’ homophobic comments | Japan’s Prime Minister and ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Fumio Kishida attends a news conference at the party’s headquarters in Tokyo on November 1, 2021.
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| Jan 19, 2023 | Jacinda Ardern: Five key moments as New Zealand PM | (FILES) In this file photo taken on September 12, 2022, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks about a public holiday on September 26, 2022 to mark the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II during a press conference at the Parli... |
| Sep 7, 2022 | Africa: Just Who Is Stirring Up Disinformation in Africa? | Kenya's election shows that understanding how voters are influenced online is central to freer, fairer elections.
As digital access deepens across Africa, there's growing evidence of external players weaponising social media platf... |
| Aug 16, 2022 | William Ruto: Kenya’s next president has a heavy job cut out for him | On the 9th of August, 2022, Kenyans grabbed global attention as they trooped out in the morning cold to their various polling units. After almost a decade under two-term president Uhuru Kenyatta, it was time to choose its next captain. It w... |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Cryptocurrencies Are Gaining Ground Across Africa. That’s Both Good News And Bad | Bitcoin. Image by Liam Ortiz from Pixabay |
| Jul 25, 2022 | Africa: Cryptocurrencies Are Gaining Ground Across Africa. That's Both Good News and Bad | Cryptocurrencies have become popular in African and other developing countries. That's according to a policy brief released recently by UNCTAD, a United Nations agency. Significant proportions of Kenya (8.5%), South Africa (7.1%) and N... |
| Jul 25, 2022 | Good news and bad news: Cryptocurrencies gaining ground across Africa | Good news and bad news: Cryptocurrencies gaining ground across Africa: Image: Adobe stock
Cryptocurrencies have become popular in African and other developing countries. That’s according to a policy brief released recently by UNCTAD, a Unit... |
| Jul 5, 2022 | The leading African tech moves from June 2022 | We’re halfway through the year, and quite a number of exciting things have happened in Africa’s tech ecosystem.
From MTN’s $53.4 mobile money fraud lawsuit and Kune’s shutdown in Kenya, to big acquisitions across North Africa, here are the ... |
| Jun 16, 2022 | Nazir Jinnah involved in alleged family betrayal at English Point | Nazir Jinnah on the stand again
A family torn apart by fraud and greed PARIS, FRANCE, June 16, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In an interview with the Business Daily, Nazir Jinnah’s lawyer Ndeda when questioned about the shareholding of English... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | African Creator Economy - A Socioeconomic Renaissance of the Continent? | The creator economy may well be a global phenomenon but to me Africa is positioned to profit the most from it compared to other continents. This sentiment is informed by a confluence of factors that are shaping the future of Africa's l... |
| May 17, 2022 | Nazir Jinnah to go on trial in Kenya for fraud and forgery | Nazir Jinnah on trial MOMBASA, KENYA, May 17, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- He stands accused of acquiring Ksh. 50 million from the sale of a Mombasa property without the consent of the owners.
The Director of Assets and Legal Affairs at Engli... |
| May 13, 2022 | Kenya: Screenshot Suggesting Kenyan Politician Tweeted Warning to Kenyan Trade Union Secretary General Is From Imposter Account | A screenshot of a tweet which appears to quote Kenyan politician Moses Wetangula has attracted social media attention in the country.
The tweet reads: "Once Kenya Kwanza is ELECTED, we will ensure that Francis Atwoli VACATE the office ... |
| Kenya: Ministers refuse to shut down Facebook despite allegations of hate speech | Leo Komminoth
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August 3rd 2022 •
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A threat to shut down Facebook in Kenya if it did not comply with rules on hate speech before next week’s elections has been overturned.
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