Nigeria
Nigeria lifts Twitter ban from midnight, government official says
Nigeria will lift a ban on Twitter from midnight after the social media platform agreed to open a local office, among other agreements with authorities in the West African country,...
IBM and Amazon partner to extend reach of data tools for oil companies
International Business Machines Corp and Amazon.com’s AWS have said they would work together to extend the reach of a set of tools that oil companies use to manage disparate ...
Google to invest $1 billion in Africa over five years
Google plans to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years to ensure access to fast and cheaper internet and will back start-ups to support the continent’s digital ...
Twitter sees jump in govt demands to remove editorial content
Twitter Inc a surge in government demands worldwide in 2020 to take down content posted by journalists and news outlets, according to data released by the struggling social media p...
Nigerian telecoms firms suspend access to Twitter
Nigerian telecoms firms blocked access to Twitter following a regulatory directive aimed at suspending the US social media giant indefinitely, a move criticised by rights campaigne...
Bitcoin meets the real world in Africa
Just over four months ago, entrepreneur Abolaji Odunjo made an intrinsic change to his company selling mobile phones in a bustling street market in Lagos. He started paying his pro...
HealthTech pins hope on Africa’s COVID-19 shift to online care
When Loveth Metiboba’s infant had diarrhoea, she worried that taking him to a clinic near her home in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, might expose them both to the coronaviru...
African governments team up with tech giants to fight lies surrounding COVID-19
Governments across Africa are teaming up with technology giants including Facebook and WhatsApp to fight misinformation about coronavirus on social media platforms that could prope...