Slashdot Items Tagged "africa"

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Thursday March 14, 2024 @12:06PM Undersea Cable Damage Causes Internet Outages Across Africa
Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:23PM Africa's Internet Registry Placed Under Receivership
Friday July 28, 2023 @08:53AM Kenya Reports Cyber Attacks Causing Government System Outages
Monday May 15, 2023 @02:29PM Nigeria Mobile Operators To Bar Text Service for Banks Over $259 Million Debt
Wednesday April 05, 2023 @12:56PM South Africa Fights To Keep Phone Networks Up as Lights Go Out
Friday February 10, 2023 @11:38AM South Africa Declares 'State of Disaster' on Power
Thursday January 26, 2023 @01:56PM Africa Has Become 'Less Safe, Secure and Democratic' in Past Decade, Report Finds
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:05AM Buy Life Extension Products Online at Best Prices in South Africa on desertcart
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @02:02AM South Africa Visa for Indians - Fees, Status
Friday January 06, 2023 @12:03PM Buy Mio Products Online at Best Prices in South Africa on desertcart
Wednesday January 04, 2023 @11:22AM Venture Capital Africa aims to help you expand your company
Monday January 02, 2023 @04:13AM The Best Places in Africa to See Lions
Friday December 30, 2022 @07:33AM Best Wildlife Safaris Tours In South Africa | Eagle Eye Safaris
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:35AM WeeTracker Africa | Would Profile
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @06:07AM Best Wildlife Photography Tours In South Africa | Eagle Eye Safaris
Tuesday December 27, 2022 @02:13AM Learning Solution and Skills Development in the South Africa – An Introduc
Monday December 26, 2022 @04:27PM Africa Pharma Market | Pharma West Africa
Wednesday December 21, 2022 @11:48AM Startup Funding Africa aims to maximize your company's profits
Monday December 19, 2022 @09:02AM Africa Government Bids
Friday December 16, 2022 @09:47AM Hair Loss Treatment South Africa
Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:45AM Microsoft Targets Internet Expansion in Africa, Longer-Term Cloud Adoption
Wednesday December 14, 2022 @11:14AM Are Palm Readings and Chirology Legit?
Friday November 04, 2022 @08:12AM Glencore ordered to pay millions over Africa oil bribes | newstobreak.us
Wednesday October 05, 2022 @05:10PM Google Picks South Africa For Its First Cloud Region In Africa
Friday September 30, 2022 @12:00PM Crypto Is Quietly Thriving in Sub-Saharan Africa: Chainalysis Report
Wednesday August 10, 2022 @03:32PM The Most Curious Nation About Crypto Is Nigeria, Study Shows
Monday June 13, 2022 @09:18PM Nigeria's Internet Regulator Releases Draft To Regulate Google, Facebook, TikTok and Others
Friday April 29, 2022 @02:48PM Nigeria Blocks 73 Million Mobile Phones in Security Clampdown
Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:56PM Bitcoin Becomes Official Currency In Central African Republic
Wednesday April 20, 2022 @12:51PM South Africa is Running Out of Marmite
Friday April 15, 2022 @10:09AM Nigerian Banks Hit by 'Great Resignation' of Top Tech Talent
Friday March 18, 2022 @02:00PM Google Internet Cable Lands in Africa, Promising Fast Connection
Tuesday March 15, 2022 @09:58AM South Africa Regulator Refers Meta To Tribunal Over Dominance
Monday October 11, 2021 @11:01AM Telkom Says Netflix No Longer Available on South Africa Provider
Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:17PM Africa Internet Riches Plundered, Contested by China Broker
Wednesday October 06, 2021 @12:09PM Historic Go-ahead for Malaria Vaccine To Protect African Children
Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:56AM Google To Invest $1 Billion in Africa Over Five Years
Wednesday September 15, 2021 @04:46PM Ransomware Encrypts South Africa's Entire Department of Justice Network
Monday September 13, 2021 @01:56PM Inside the Shadowy World of Disinformation-for-Hire in Kenya
Monday August 23, 2021 @11:35AM Ethiopia To Build Local Rival To Facebook, Other Platforms
Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:37PM South African Brothers Vanish, and So Does $3.6 Billion in Bitcoin
Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:12PM Ghana Plans To Relax Telecom Licensing Rules To Lower Data Costs
Monday February 01, 2021 @09:40AM Internet Disrupted in Myanmar Amid Apparent Military Uprising
Tuesday December 15, 2020 @05:27PM French and Russian Trolls Wrestle For Influence In Africa, Facebook Says
Monday August 31, 2020 @03:22PM Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic.
Tuesday August 25, 2020 @12:04PM Africa Declared Free of Wild Polio in 'Milestone'
Monday June 15, 2020 @04:34PM South African Bank To Replace 12 Million Cards After Employees Stole Master Key
Thursday May 14, 2020 @10:29AM Faster Internet Coming To Africa With Facebook's $1 Billion Cable
Monday March 16, 2020 @04:28PM Ten-Minute Coronavirus Test For $1 Could Be Game Changer
Friday March 13, 2020 @06:05PM South Sudan Is Building Its Electric Grid Virtually From Scratch
Thursday March 05, 2020 @12:09PM Scientists Turn To Tech To Prevent Second Wave of Locusts in East Africa
Tuesday January 14, 2020 @08:26PM Rapper Akon Created His Own Cryptocurrency City In Senegal Called 'Akon City'
Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:48PM Africa's Internet Management Body Mired Again by Corruption Allegations
Monday December 09, 2019 @01:12PM African Countries Are Struggling To Build Robust Identity Systems
Tuesday November 05, 2019 @01:25PM Africa Should Look To India For Digital Inspiration
Monday October 28, 2019 @07:13PM Origin of Modern Humans 'Traced To Botswana'
Thursday October 10, 2019 @05:22PM Rwanda Releases First Smartphone Made Entirely In Africa
Wednesday August 14, 2019 @11:58AM Huawei Technicians Helped African Governments Spy on Political Opponents
Thursday August 01, 2019 @04:46PM A Newly Discovered Hacking Group Is Targeting Energy and Telecoms Companies
Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:14PM Facebook Shuts Down An Israeli Firm's Effort To Influence Politics In West Africa
Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:43PM Rwanda Is Way Ahead On Delivery Drones
Sunday January 06, 2019 @12:25PM As Smartphones and Internet Connections Rise in Africa, So Does Entertainment Streaming
Tuesday September 25, 2018 @01:39PM Internet Society Partners with Facebook To Expand Internet Connectivity in Africa
Wednesday September 05, 2018 @04:27PM Benin Becomes the Latest African Nation Taxing the Internet; Citizens and Advocates Denounce the Move
Friday August 10, 2018 @12:49PM Ethiopia is Blocking the Internet Again To Stifle Unrest in Its Troubled Eastern Region
Tuesday July 10, 2018 @01:54AM Scientists Discover the World's Oldest Colors
Friday July 06, 2018 @06:19PM Kenya To Use Alphabet's Balloons For Rural Internet
Wednesday June 13, 2018 @05:10PM Cybercrime is Costing Africa's Businesses Billions
Tuesday June 12, 2018 @04:24PM Giant African Baobab Trees Die Suddenly After Thousands of Years
Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:02PM Personal Records of Nearly 1 Million South Africans Leaked Online
Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:47PM African Manufacturing Jobs Could be Threatened by US Based Robots, Report Says
Sunday March 18, 2018 @03:19AM Ghana's Windows Blackboard Teacher And His Students Have a Rewarding Outcome
Friday January 26, 2018 @09:15PM Scientists Discover the Oldest Human Fossils Outside Africa
Friday January 19, 2018 @09:59AM Surviving Cancer In A Country With No Radiotherapy Machine
Friday January 12, 2018 @11:57AM Will Cape Town be the First City To Run Out of Water?
Monday November 13, 2017 @08:15PM Digital Technology Can Help Reinvent Basic Education In Africa
Sunday August 27, 2017 @02:09AM East Africa Leads The World In Drone Delivery
Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:41PM Ethiopia Turns Off Internet Nationwide as Students Sit Exams
Monday April 24, 2017 @12:04PM World's First Vaccine Against Malaria To Arrive Next Year, Says WHO
Thursday February 09, 2017 @08:08PM eBay Founder Pledges $500,000 To Test Universal Basic Income Program In Kenya
Wednesday February 08, 2017 @02:25PM Why Has Cameroon Blocked the Internet?
Monday February 06, 2017 @06:34PM Scientists Discover Evidence of a 'Lost Continent' Under the Indian Ocean
Saturday November 26, 2016 @04:13AM Schools Funded By Gates and Zuckerberg Ordered Closed In Uganda
Friday November 11, 2016 @06:37PM A USB Stick Can Show HIV Test Results In Under 30 Minutes
Thursday November 03, 2016 @03:14PM Mirai Botnet Attackers Are Trying To Knock Liberia Offline
Sunday September 18, 2016 @06:07PM Oldest-Ever Proteins Extracted From 3.8-Million-Year-Old Ostrich Shells
Friday September 09, 2016 @06:05PM 10 Percent of the World's Wilderness Has Been Lost Since 1990s
Friday July 29, 2016 @03:30PM US Military Using $600K 'Drone Buggies' To Patrol Camps In Africa
Sunday July 17, 2016 @04:33PM The World's Most Powerful Telescope Just Discovered 1,230 New Galaxies
Saturday June 18, 2016 @03:19PM Bill Gates' Donation of Thousands of Chickens Rejected by Bolivia
Sunday May 22, 2016 @12:40PM Attackers Steal $12.7M In Massive ATM Heist
Monday May 02, 2016 @03:58PM Climate-Exodus Expected In The Middle East And North Africa
Wednesday February 10, 2016 @12:32PM World's Largest Solar Power Plant To Supply Enough Energy For 1.1 Million People
Friday January 22, 2016 @08:05PM Civil Construction Wipes Out Internet Connectivity Across Africa
Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:51PM University of Cape Town Team Breaks World Water Rocketry Record
Saturday October 03, 2015 @12:59PM Cape Verde Boulders Indicate Massive Tsunami 73,000 Years Ago
Saturday September 26, 2015 @02:40PM Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes
Thursday September 10, 2015 @09:19AM Researchers Say S. African Bones Are From Previously Unknown Human Relative
Friday August 28, 2015 @08:56PM Kenya's iHub Creates Accelerator Program For Tech-Hardware Entrepreneurs
Tuesday August 25, 2015 @09:24AM South Africans Revolutionize Concentrated Solar Power With Mini Heliostats
Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:33PM Mobile Phone Data Can Track the Spread of Infectious Diseases
Monday August 10, 2015 @03:54AM Stingray-Like Device Enables Blackmail In S. Africa
Tuesday August 04, 2015 @09:00AM KFC South Africa Lets Customers Listen To Music Using Bone Conduction
Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:43AM The Epidemic May be Over, But Liberia Has New Ebola Cases
Sunday June 28, 2015 @09:52AM Despite Regulatory Nod, Cheap Ebola Test Still Undeployed
Tuesday June 09, 2015 @10:33AM Computer Modeling Failed During the Ebola Outbreak
Saturday May 09, 2015 @06:09PM WHO Declares Liberian Ebola Outbreak Over
Thursday April 23, 2015 @12:58PM Africa E-Waste Dump Continues Hyperbole War
Saturday March 21, 2015 @06:12PM Ebola-Proof Tablet Developed By Google Set For Deployment In Sierra Leone
Friday March 06, 2015 @09:40PM Oldest Human Fossil Fills In 2.8-Million-Year-Old Gap In Evolution
Saturday January 24, 2015 @01:32AM Made-In-Nigeria Smart Cards To Extend Financial Services To the Poor
Saturday January 17, 2015 @04:01PM What Africa Really Needs To Fight Ebola
Tuesday January 13, 2015 @12:08PM South Africa Begins Ambitious Tablets In Schools Pilot Project
Friday January 09, 2015 @09:22AM Over 30 Uber Cars Impounded In Cape Town
Thursday December 04, 2014 @09:39AM Study: HIV Becoming Less Deadly, Less Infectious
Monday December 01, 2014 @06:55PM SKA Telescope To Offer Neighbors Cheap Broadband
Sunday November 30, 2014 @04:03PM WHO Timeline for Ebola Containment Proves Hard To Meet
Tuesday November 25, 2014 @12:34PM Apple To Donate Profit Portion From Black Friday For AIDS Fight
Sunday November 16, 2014 @02:11PM MARS, Inc: We Are Running Out of Chocolate
Thursday October 30, 2014 @08:20AM Ebola Forecast: Scientists Release Updated Projections and Tracking Maps
Monday October 27, 2014 @01:15PM Pentagon Builds Units To Transport Ebola Patients
Sunday October 19, 2014 @12:41AM Canada Will Ship 800 Doses of Experimental Ebola Drug to WHO
Tuesday October 07, 2014 @08:13AM AIDS Origin Traced To 1920s Kinshasa
Thursday September 25, 2014 @02:05AM New Nigerian ID Card Includes Prepay MasterCard Wallet
Saturday September 06, 2014 @01:55PM Survivors' Blood Holds Promise, But Draws Critics, As Ebola Treatment
Friday September 05, 2014 @08:51PM Obama Administration Seeks $58M To Put (Partly) Toward Fighting Ebola
Friday August 29, 2014 @07:30PM Anti-Ebola Drug ZMapp Makes Clean Sweep: 18 of 18 Monkeys Survive Infection
Tuesday August 05, 2014 @09:40PM "Secret Serum" Used To Treat Americans With Ebola
Monday July 14, 2014 @10:07PM How a Supercomputer Beat the Scrap Heap and Lived On To Retire In Africa
Monday June 23, 2014 @08:09PM UK Man Sentenced To 16 Months For Exporting 'E-Waste' Despite 91% Reuse
Monday June 16, 2014 @09:27AM "Super Bananas" May Save Millions of Lives In Africa
Monday June 09, 2014 @08:08PM $470 RepRap Derived 3D Printer Going Into Production
Thursday April 17, 2014 @09:43AM 5-Year Suspended Sentence For S. Africa's First Online Pirate
Thursday December 05, 2013 @06:14PM Nelson Mandela Dead At 95
Monday November 18, 2013 @06:23PM Ancient Egyptians Created "Meat Mummies" So Dead Could Continue To Eat
Tuesday October 29, 2013 @08:12AM Inside South Africa's First Fully Digital Government School
Sunday October 06, 2013 @11:24AM US Forces Undertake Two African Raids, Capture Embassy Bombing Figure
Friday September 27, 2013 @06:01PM Protesters Are Dodging Sudan's Internet Shutdown With a Phone-Powered Crowdmap
Thursday September 26, 2013 @10:26AM Wealth In Africa Mapped Using Mobile Phone Data
Saturday September 07, 2013 @03:05PM Using Raspberry Pi and iOS App To Catch Rhino Poachers
Tuesday August 27, 2013 @08:04AM 100% Failure Rate On University of Liberia's Admission Exam
Thursday August 08, 2013 @06:54AM Zimbabweans Hit By Cyber Attacks During Election
Tuesday July 09, 2013 @08:56AM RepRap Morgan Receives $20,000 Gada Prize For Simplifying 3D-Printer
Thursday June 20, 2013 @11:17AM Attackers Tweet As They Assault UN Development Program Compound
Thursday June 13, 2013 @01:26PM World Population Could Reach Nearly 11 Billion By 2100
Saturday June 08, 2013 @08:01PM Northern Hemisphere Pollution a Cause of '80s Africa Drought
Sunday June 02, 2013 @11:21PM Ask Slashdot: How To Start and Manage a University LUG?
Tuesday May 28, 2013 @08:54AM Multiple Studies Show Used Electronics Exports To Third World Mostly Good
Saturday May 25, 2013 @07:54AM African Soil Mapped For the Very First Time
Friday April 26, 2013 @12:09PM Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real
Tuesday March 26, 2013 @11:34AM Google Tests White Space Radio For Schools In South Africa
Saturday March 09, 2013 @01:22PM SXSW: How Mobile Devices Are Changing Africa
Wednesday February 20, 2013 @11:47AM Crowdfunding service SliceBiz wins Apps4Africa cash prize
Monday February 04, 2013 @09:38AM Researchers Demo Hack Against African Micro-Finance Accounts
Thursday January 17, 2013 @11:10AM How Mobile Operators Are Caught In the Middle In the Middle East and Africa
Friday January 04, 2013 @07:06PM Rare Water-Rich Mars Meteorite Discovered
Thursday December 13, 2012 @09:05AM Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam
Sunday November 18, 2012 @07:53PM Coffee and Intellectual Property
Tuesday November 13, 2012 @03:41AM Africa makers get energy from pee
Saturday November 03, 2012 @08:52AM Artificial Misting System Allows Reintroduction of Extinct Toad
Sunday September 30, 2012 @01:59PM African Robotics Network Challenge Spurs Rash of $10 Robots
Friday September 14, 2012 @12:21AM Ancient Egyptian Tech May Be Key To Printing 3D Ceramics
Thursday September 13, 2012 @08:06AM EVE Online CSM and Diplomat Killed in Libyan Consulate Attacks
Thursday September 06, 2012 @01:20PM Securing lifes and investments from armed robbery in Nigeria
Saturday June 23, 2012 @07:47PM Ethiopian Government Denies Banning Skype
Saturday April 21, 2012 @09:54PM Beneath Africa, Survey Finds 'Huge' Water Reserves
Saturday April 07, 2012 @10:17AM Robot Helicopters To Single Out Pirate Ships
Wednesday March 28, 2012 @10:35AM Ask Slashdot: How to feed Africa?
Saturday March 10, 2012 @05:46AM South Africa Wins Science Panel's Backing To Host SKA Telescope
Friday March 09, 2012 @07:24PM For Sale: Internet Spying Business Developed For Gaddafi
Monday February 27, 2012 @04:27PM Ship Anchor Damages African Undersea Cables
Sunday February 19, 2012 @11:34PM Kenyan Chief Foils Robbery Via Twitter
Thursday February 16, 2012 @09:29AM Decision Time For SKA Telescope Bids
Monday February 13, 2012 @09:03AM It's Not All Waste: The Complicated Life of Surplus Electronics In Africa
Sunday February 12, 2012 @06:39AM African used computer exports reused 85%
Thursday January 26, 2012 @09:16AM Revolutionary Wants Technology To Transform Libya
Friday January 13, 2012 @07:06PM Google Caught Misbehaving By Kenyan Startup
Monday January 09, 2012 @12:49PM Kenya Seeks Nuclear Power Infrastructure
Friday December 09, 2011 @08:34PM Earliest Human Beds Found In South Africa
Wednesday November 23, 2011 @03:18PM Bee Barrier Buzzing Defends Against Elephants
Tuesday November 22, 2011 @01:35PM South Africa Passes Secrecy Bill, Makes Whistleblowing a Dangerous Act
Wednesday November 09, 2011 @11:17PM West African Black Rhinos extinct
Wednesday November 02, 2011 @11:57AM Libya Elects Engineer To Acting Prime Minister Post
Friday October 28, 2011 @06:34PM Quiet Cellular Antenna Tech To Boost S. African SKA Bid
Thursday October 20, 2011 @10:03AM Reuters Reports Death of Gaddafi In Libyan City of Sirte
Wednesday October 19, 2011 @12:11AM New Vaccine Halves Malaria Risk
Tuesday October 11, 2011 @08:23AM RIM Server Crash Leaves Millions Without BBM
Monday October 10, 2011 @08:16PM Do developing nations repair/reuse better?
Tuesday September 27, 2011 @08:13AM 4G To Reach Africa - Ghana Will Be First
Friday September 23, 2011 @11:08PM Australian Aboriginal DNA Suggests 70,000-Year History
Friday September 23, 2011 @02:15AM Australian Aboriginal DNA - 70,000 year history
Friday September 09, 2011 @06:49PM New Skeleton Finds May Revamp History of Human Evolution
Monday August 08, 2011 @09:18PM World's First Cybernetic Athlete To Compete
Thursday August 04, 2011 @01:30PM Giant African Rat Kills With Poisonous Mohawk
Monday July 25, 2011 @10:55AM Cast-off gadgets peek into new owners' lives
Monday July 18, 2011 @06:11PM Neanderthal Genes Found In All Non-African Populations
Thursday June 09, 2011 @01:57PM Using Smartphones To Fight Malaria
Wednesday May 11, 2011 @12:52AM US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates
Tuesday May 10, 2011 @07:51PM U.S. Navy creates MMO to fight Somali Pirates
Tuesday March 22, 2011 @10:51AM Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes