Mastercard has acquired a minority stake in the fintech subsidiary of South African telecommunications giant MTN in a deal valued at a whopping $5.2 billion, whereby the partnership will see Africa’s biggest mobile company to strategically leverage the US giant’s technology for its payments and remittance expansion in the continent. By snapping up the minority […]
The European Parliament has withdrawn a resolution condemning Algeria’s crackdown on the media and its freedom of speech violation, a move that was orchestrated by Macron’s MEPs. The resolution was intended to denounce the muzzling of the media by the Algerian regime and the arrest of journalists including editor in chief of the country’s last […]
Generative AI was behind more than a third of new biometric fraud cases in Africa last year, according to a new report by Smile ID, the continent’s leading provider of identity verification solutions, warning that the surge in deepfakes threatens the data of millions of consumers whose details are held on insecure systems. The 2025 […]
