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Mozambique's telecom regulator INCM kicked off training for their ThinkLab startup incubator program with sessions from the ITU and their own stats department. Mohamed Ba from the International Telecommunication Union talked about how incubators fit into digital transformation and what...

The African Telecommunications Union and African Subsea Ecosystem Forum ran a workshop for 240 people from 42 countries about how Africa depends on underwater fiber cables that keep breaking. Secretary General John Omo said the cables carry up to 99 percent of international data traffic, and...

Kenya hit 60.2 million mobile data subscriptions by the end of September, and the Communications Authority says nearly four out of five connections are mobile broadband. Most people are running 4G, which makes up almost 85 percent of broadband users, while 5G subscribers are burning through 40...

Bayobab just hired Peter Nwankwo to run commercial stuff for their fiber division starting next year, and he brings over two decades of telecom experience to the gig. The guy worked on MTN's fiber-to-the-home push and helped cut costs by renegotiating supplier deals. He also ran cable landing...

Eutelsat pulled in 670 million euros from a rights issue that got way more interest than they expected, and the money is going toward their low Earth orbit satellite stuff plus the IRIS² constellation they want to build. The share sale moved about 496 million new shares at 1.35 euros each, and...

Zambia just threw 100 million kwacha at Zambia Railways Limited to fix up their busted rail system, and the EU is kicking in over 50 million euros to help repair tracks and upgrade signals on main routes. The cash is supposed to get ZRL out of barely functioning mode and turn it into something...

Kenya just got a new electronics factory at Sarin Industrial Park near Nairobi, and a bunch of government people showed up for the opening. Principal Secretary Eng. John Tanui and Trade Cabinet Secretary Hon. Lee Kinyanjui were there with officials from investment and immigration departments...

Acer dropped a white version of its Predator Bifrost graphics card based on AMD's RX 9070 XT chip, and it's selling for around 855 bucks through their site and partner stores. The card comes with three custom fans that use a counter-spin setup and dual ball bearings to keep things quiet while...

Scythe tossed out the Kotetsu Mark 4, which is a compact single-tower cooler that hits entry-level builds and mainstream rigs without taking up half the case. The thing uses four copper heat pipes with direct contact on the CPU and pushes air through aluminum fins with a 120mm fan that keeps...

Crystal Dynamics dropped word that two separate Tomb Raider games are getting worked on right now, and Amazon Games is publishing the mainline entry. The big one runs on Unreal Engine 5 as a single-player action-adventure that keeps the unified timeline going instead of rebooting Lara again...

Thermaltake launched the WS ARGB case series that slaps wood panels onto their frameless glass builds for people who want their rig to look less like a gaming setup and more like actual furniture. The View 170 WS ARGB starts at 69 bucks for micro-ATX and mini-ITX boards with three pre-installed...

Keychron dropped the Q1 HE 8K with Hall effect switches that read magnetic fields instead of metal contacts, which lets you tweak actuation points and get instant key resets when you let up. The 65 percent layout keeps arrow keys around while the 8,000 Hz polling rate chases down input lag for...

An Intel Xeon 696X engineering sample showed up in PassMark, showing 32 cores, but the benchmark software is definitely reading the chip wrong since early firmware and provisional microcode tend to confuse detection tools when new architectures land. The multi-threaded scores match what you...

Nampak Zimbabwe pulled profit after tax up 57 percent to hit 7.81 million dollars for the year, despite revenue dropping from 101 million to 93 million as volumes slumped across the board. The packaging company benefited from a 66 percent drop in tax expenses and avoided the big monetary loss...

Kavango Resources pushed back the deadline for buying the Nara Gold Project in Zimbabwe to late February while both sides wrap up paperwork. The site covers 45 claims across four old mines that pulled over 90,000 ounces out of the ground, but never got proper modern exploration work done. The...

UK miner Ariana Resources locked down a 5.31 million dollar investment from Hong Kong Xinhai Mining Services to fund metallurgical testing and wrap up a feasibility study for the Dokwe Gold Project in Zimbabwe. The site holds over a million ounces of gold worth nearly 4 billion dollars at...

Tanganda Tea Company is dumping non-core assets and locking down bridge financing to scrape together 7 million dollars for working capital after weather issues and commodity price drops tanked its tea, macadamia, and avocado operations. The firm expects to post a 4.2 million dollar loss for the...

The Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce is pushing back against the government's plan to bump VAT from 15 to 15.5 percent, saying companies will just pass costs straight to consumers and make inflation worse. The business group argues the tax hike lands at a terrible time since firms are...

Willdale Limited cleared illegal settlers off its 123.6-hectare Mt Hampden site and handed the property to contractors who are building an industrial commercial park. The brick company plans to sell residential and commercial stands from the development to fund a capital raise that will pay for...

Seed Co International pulled its half-year loss down to $200,000 from $2.8 million in the same period last year by tightening up spending and managing credit risk better. The foreign ops arm of the Seed Co Group pushed revenue up 15 percent to $46 million while cutting overhead by 9 percent...