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  APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), the leading award-winning, pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, is proud to announce its participation at Africa Tech Festival 2025, taking place from 11 to 13 November in Cape Town. The company’s presence at the continent’s most influential technology and innovation gathering underscores its commitment to telling Africa’s success stories, driving confidence in the continent’s innovation ecosystem, and supporting its clients in connecting African […]

  Canon Academy offers a comprehensive educational program featuring hands-on workshops covering a wide range of photography topics. To date, we have successfully trained 2,200 students through this initiative.   Participants will have the opportunity to engage with Canon’s latest imaging innovations throughout the programme. Canon Central and North Africa (CCNA) (www.Canon-CNA.com), a leader in imaging technology, today announced the launch of the Canon Academy in partnership with the Kigali Center […]

  The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit (ICIEC) (https://ICIEC.IsDB.org), a Shariah-based multilateral insurer and member of the Islamic Development Bank Group, has maintained its Aa3 Insurance Financial Strength Rating (IFSR) following Moody’s Ratings’ completion of its periodic review of the Corporation. The reaffirmation reflects Moody’s continued confidence in ICIEC’s strong financial foundation, prudent risk management, and strategic development mandate. The announcement follows a rating committee […]

  Cybercriminals are not only using fear and urgency to exploit their victims.  Positive emotions – such as empathy, curiosity, and a desire to help – are also being exploited, warns Anna Collard, SVP of Content Strategy and CISO Advisor at KnowBe4 Africa (http://www.KnowBe4.com/).  “Emotional manipulation is a common tactic in social engineering (https://apo-opa.co/3LF51hS),” says Collard. “We have all heard about their fear-based tactics or scams using a sense of […]

  The Alliance of African Multilateral Financial Institutions (AAMFI) and the African Union Development Agency–NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD) have jointly announced the establishment of the AAMFI Infrastructure Financing Facility for African Union Development projects, a major initiative to accelerate infrastructure development across Africa. The announcement was made during the Luanda Infrastructure Financing Summit, held under the theme “Cutting the Cost of Capital: Financing Africa’s Infrastructure”. A Declaration of Intent to establish the […]

  The African Guarantee Fund (AGF) West Africa (https://AfricanGuaranteeFund.com/) Board has announced the appointment of Mr. Serge MIAN, as the Managing Director in charge of the subsidiary effective 3rd of November 2025. Mr. MIAN is a highly accomplished investment banker has had a sterling career having worked with top employers such as JP Morgan, EY, Deloitte based France and AXA Investment managers in the United States of America (USA). He […]

  Wingu Africa, the pioneering specialist provider of carrier-neutral, Tier III-standard data centres in East Africa, has entered a strategic partnership with Africa Data Centres (www.AfricaDataCentres.com), the operator of the continent’s largest network of interconnected facilities. The collaboration unites two major developers of critical African digital infrastructure to create a seamless platform that links the important East African markets of Djibouti, Ethiopia, and Tanzania with Africa Data Centres’ extensive footprint […]

  President Isaias Afwerki attended the inauguration ceremony of the Grand Egyptian Museum held yesterday in Giza, overlooking Egypt’s three great Pyramids. The Grand Egyptian Museum is the largest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization. The museum, which is built on 300 thousand square meters around the Giza Pyramids, houses a collection of Egyptian artifacts from various periods of the country’s civilization, estimated at over 100 thousand […]

  World Olympics Day was observed at the national level in Akordet on 1 November. The event was attended by senior Government and PFDJ officials, as well as heads of national and regional sports federations. Mr. Michael Teklemicael, President of the National Olympic Committee, said that holding the event in Akordet aimed to recognize the role and contribution of the Gash-Barka Region in producing Olympians and to highlight the region’s […]