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2025年8月15日星期五

World Humanoid Robot Games open in Beijing

• 下午2:28

The World Humanoid Robot Games, an international sports competition for human-form robots, opened in Beijing on Thursday<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2025/08/15/world-humanoid-robot-games-open

2025年8月12日星期二

Norway's sovereign wealth fund sells its shares in 11 Israeli companies

• 下午2:24

Norway's sovereign wealth fund has sold its shares in 11 Israeli companies, its managers said Monday, a move they said reduces its holdings in the country against the backdrop of the “serious humanitarian crisis” in Gaza.<div class="small-12 column text-c

2025年7月4日星期五

From flood to famine: Rainfall chaos fuels Africa’s drought crisis

• 上午9:59

Extreme weather events, including heatwaves, droughts, and floods, have increased in frequency by a factor of two or three since 1990 and are expected to intensify further.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.afric

2025年6月17日星期二

Meta brings ads to WhatsApp

• 下午1:10

“The personal messaging experience on WhatsApp isn’t changing, and personal messages, calls and statuses are end-to-end encrypted and cannot be used to show ads,”<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/

2025年6月13日星期五

VivaTech 2025: Africa takes center stage with bold AI ambitions

• 上午11:51

Held in Paris, this year’s event highlighted artificial intelligence (AI) as the dominant trend, offering a unique opportunity for African nations to leapfrog into the digital future.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https:

2025年5月12日星期一

Experts call for AI skills development in Africa's education sector

• 上午10:07

“We also need another kind of infrastructure: intellectual infrastructure. If African leaders do not understand AI, it will show. They are responsible, and they must educate and upskill themselves to drive results.”<div class="small-12 column text-center

2025年2月26日星期三

New study explains why is Mars red

• 上午11:01

New research is helping us understand why Mars is covered in red dust<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2025/02/26/new-study-explains-why-is-mars-red?utm_source=test_mrss&utm_campaign=feeds_science

2025年1月28日星期二

Trump says Microsoft is one of the companies eyeing TikTok

• 下午3:19

President Donald Trump said Monday evening that Microsoft is among the U.S. companies looking to take control of TikTok to help the popular app avert an effective ban that could kick-in in April.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a

What is DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company upending the stock market?

• 上午10:08

“They’re not using any innovations that are unknown or secret or anything like that," Rasgon said. "<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2025/01/28/what-is-deepseek-the-chinese-ai-company-upending-th

2024年12月20日星期五

Africa in 2024: Battling Climate Extremes and Seeking Global Action

• 下午4:02

The Africanews editorial team takes a look back at the highlights of 2024. Africa has faced a year of extreme weather events. Droughts have worsened, followed by torrential rains and flooding.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a hre

2024年11月26日星期二

South Africa's refurbished Digital Dome set to open in February 2025

• 上午8:41

The Johannesburg Planetarium has been transformed into the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome, marking a new chapter for science in South Africa.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2024/11/14/south-af

2024年10月2日星期三

John Amos, Emmy nominee for the blockbuster 'Roots,' dies at 84

• 上午10:26

Born John Allen Amos Jr. on Dec. 27, 1939, in Newark, New Jersey, he graduated from Colorado State University with a sociology degree and played on the school’s football team. It's eventually in acting that he found his way.

2024年9月30日星期一

A lake in Sao Paulo turns green due to algae bloom

• 下午3:07

A lake in Sao Paulo’s iconic Ibirapuera Park has turned green due to an algae bloom stemming from low water levels amid historic drought and record high temperatures in Brazil.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.a

2024年9月18日星期三

US says it was not involved in Lebanon pager explosions which struck Hezbollah fighters

• 下午4:37

Following a wave of pager explosions in Lebanon that left several injured and scores more wounded, a Pentagon official has said that the US was not involved in the incident. The explosions struck many members of Hezbollah, which has blamed Israel. Israeli

UN officials underline uneven progress in digital transformation worldwide

• 下午1:54

UN officials on Tuesday underlined that digital inequalities could leave some developing nations behind, as the digital world continues to transform. Experts in the field are calling for more support to developing nations, particularly in Africa.<div clas

Kenya: Islanders upcycle washed up plastic waste into boats

• 上午10:09

On the coastal island of Lamu, off Kenya's east coast, workers are turning plastic waste into furniture, even boats Lamu is contending with mounds of plastic waste - some washed up on its beaches, others generated by its own residents.

2024年9月12日星期四

Kenya: An organization gives rural communities first glimpse into wonders of metaverse

• 下午8:05

Kenya-based Arica VR Campus and Center is on a mission to giving members of remote communities a first glimpse into the wonders of the metaverse. The organization started hosting weekly metaverse events in 2019.

2024年9月10日星期二

Apple embraces the AI craze with its new iPhone 16 lineup

• 下午2:14

Apple embraces the AI craze with its newly unleashed iPhone 16 lineup<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2024/09/10/apple-embraces-the-ai-craze-with-its-new-iphone-16-lineup/?utm_source=test_mrss&ut

2024年8月29日星期四

Robot waiters turn heads in Kenya

• 上午8:55

Customers access the menu by scanning a QR code at the table and place their order online. Once the food is ready, a bell rings to alert a human waiter who places it on a robot's tray.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https

2024年7月30日星期二

China and 26 African countries agree to strengthen partnerships in digital field

• 下午1:32

The parties jointly issued an action plan which includes the implementation of 10 digital transformation demonstration projects and the training of at least 1,000 professionals in the digital field.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button">

2024年6月25日星期二

Chinese Lunar probe returns with first far side moon samples

• 上午11:22

“I now declare that the Chang’e 6 Lunar Exploration Mission achieved complete success,"<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2024/06/25/chinese-lunar-probe-returns-with-first-far-side-moon-samples/?ut

2024年6月10日星期一

Want to turn off Meta AI? This is what to do

• 上午11:22

The chatbot can recommend local restaurants, offer more information on something you see in a Facebook post, search for airline flights or generate images in the blink of an eye.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www

Tanzanian forest recreated in Italy to raise awareness on biodiversity research

• 上午10:19

Through a partnership with Tanzania National Parks, MUSE in 2006 established the Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre to support the park in ecological monitoring and biodiversity research, as well as to support development of environmental education pro

2024年6月2日星期日

Morocco raises awareness of forest fire risk as summer approaches

• 上午12:34

According to the National Agency for Water and Forestry, 466 fires were recorded in 2023, affecting 6,426 hectares, while the area burnt in the previous year reached 22,760 hectares.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https:/

2024年5月31日星期五

Gitex Africa: Start-ups carving their way into the global AI economy

• 下午7:48

Powering Africa into the global AI economy was one of the ambitions of the 2024 Gitex tech fair which ended in Morocco Friday (May 31).<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2024/05/31/gitex-africa-sta

2024年5月30日星期四

Gitex Africa: Morocco's tech fair focuses on continent's needs

• 下午4:50

Around 1,500 exhibitors, companies, entrepreneurs, innovators and startups from over 130 countries are attending the second GITEX Africa tech show.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2024/05/30/gite

2024年5月28日星期二

AI creates excitement and worry at digital festival in Berlin

• 下午7:24

Around 25,000 people are expected to attend this year's event to discuss all aspects of the digitalisation of the world.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2024/05/28/ai-creates-excitement-and-worry

2024年5月24日星期五

AI reigns supreme at the 8th edition of Vivatech

• 下午7:11

"Today, tech is going to speak your language, whereas before it was you who had to adapt to tech. And what's interesting is that it's reshuffling the deck. Particularly the balance between countries, because access to artificial intelligence doesn't cost

2024年5月21日星期二

Microsoft's AI chatbot will 'recall' everything you do on a PC

• 上午9:37

Microsoft wants laptop users to get so comfortable with its artificial intelligence chatbot that it will remember everything you're doing on your computer and help figure out what you want to do next.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button

2024年4月25日星期四

Kenyan government recommends regulating, not banning TikTok

• 下午2:16

Kenya's government is cautioning against a blanket ban on TikTok despite growing worries over the content circulated on the platform. Instead, authorities are advocating for stricter oversight measures by regulatory bodies.<div class="small-12 column text

2024年4月16日星期二

SA users of Starlink will be cut off at the end of the month

• 下午3:20

Starlink users in South Africa are facing a major setback as the satellite internet service provider has issued a warning that their services will be terminated by the end of the month.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="http

2024年3月29日星期五

Facebook News tab will soon be unavailable

• 上午11:44

Meta says users will still be able to view links to news articles, and news organizations will still be able to post and promote their stories and websites, as any other individual or organization can on Facebook.<div class="small-12 column text-center ar

2024年3月14日星期四

Internet disruption hits West and Central Africa, Netblocks and Cloudflare data shows

• 下午4:44

A major internet outage struck West and Central Africa on Thursday, as reported by the internet observatory Netblocks, which cited information from operators indicating multiple subsea cable failures. The precise cause of these failures remains unclear at

2024年2月26日星期一

Google denies Gmail is shutting down after viral hoax

• 下午1:09

Google denies Gmail is shutting down after viral hoax<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2024/02/26/google-denies-gmail-is-shutting-down-after-viral-hoax/?utm_source=test_mrss&utm_campaign=feeds_sci

2024年2月23日星期五

A Kenyan start-up turns plastic waste into solar-powered freezers

• 上午12:39

A Kenyan company is collecting plastic strewn across beaches and turning it into cold storage units. The recycled plastic is used to manufacture solar-powered freezers.

2024年2月7日星期三

Meta says it will label AI-generated images on Facebook and Instagram

• 上午12:47

Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing labels on AI-generated images that appear on their social media feeds, part of a broader tech industry initiative to sort between what's real and not.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><

2024年1月30日星期二

Elon Musk says the first human has received an implant from Neuralink

• 下午5:31

When Neuralink announced in September that it would begin recruiting people, the company said it was searching for individuals with quadriplegia due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's Dis

2024年1月2日星期二

X now worth 71% less than when Musk bought it, Fidelity estimates

• 上午11:45

X, formerly known as Twitter, has seen its value fall by a staggering 71% since Elon Musk's acquisition in late 2022.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2024/01/02/x-now-worth-71-less-than-when-musk

2023年12月6日星期三

China helps launch Egypt's MISRAT-2 satellite

• 下午3:15

Egypt's space agency chief has hailed cooperation with China, following the launch on Monday of a remote-sensing satellite into orbit from a centre in northwest China.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews

2023年12月5日星期二

Women in science: two Cameroonians win prize

• 上午11:30

In Cameroon's rural north, a career in science is a rarity for most women. Two young women have bucked the trend, winning a prestigious science award on November 8.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.co

2023年11月16日星期四

Flying Taxis: Archer Aviation's Vision for Urban Air Mobility Takes Flight

• 上午12:16

Archer Aviation is pioneering the development of the Midnight, a four-passenger electric-powered vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2023/11/16/flying-

2023年11月1日星期三

Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads

• 上午11:19

A British software firm, Threads Software Limited, has given Meta a 30-day ultimatum to cease using the name "Threads" in the UK, citing ownership of the trademark.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.co

2023年9月28日星期四

Rwanda: an AI platform for small holder farmers

• 下午5:12

A young female student in Rwanda from the University of Rwanda Theofrida Muginga is creating 'Mkulima GPT,' a ChatGPT-driven Swahili chatbot. Its mission is to empower smallholder farmers by detecting crop diseases and providing culturally-sensitive agric

2023年7月6日星期四

Meta officially launches "Threads", the new social network competing with Twitter

• 上午8:48

The app went live just after midnight Wednesday in the U.K. in Apple and Google Android app stores in more than 100 countries including the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada and Japan.<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https:

2023年7月5日星期三

The young guard of African animation in the spotlight on Disney+

• 下午1:59

The young guard of African animation in the spotlight on Disney+<div class="small-12 column text-center article__button"><a href="https://www.africanews.com/2023/07/05/the-young-guard-of-african-animation-in-the-spotlight-on-disney/?utm_source=test_mrss&u

2023年6月28日星期三

In conservative Somalia, an online app to find your soulmate

• 上午9:33

"It's less difficult than physically meeting strangers. When you interact with someone online, you can ask them all the questions you want and make sure they're right for you before you meet them," she smiles.<div class="small-12 column text-center articl

2023年6月15日星期四

VivaTech forum: Africa at the heart of the digital revolution

• 下午8:59

The 2023 edition has given prominence to artificial intelligence. The sector is getting increasingly popular in Africa, a continent firmly at the heart of the digital revolution. From June 14th to 17th, over 2,500 exhibitors will showcase their latest inn

2023年6月12日星期一

Young Nigerian entrepreneur in vanguard of green mobility

• 上午9:27

31-year-old entrepreneur Mustapha Abubakar Gajibo first converted petrol-powered minibuses into solar-powered electric vehicles, in his workshop of Borno state. He launched his company after dropping out of university. He says potential clients contact hi

2023年6月6日星期二

Kenya: Virtual reality used to teach students about plastic pollution

• 下午4:01

So, VR comes in helping them, one, conceptualise the problem. It's one thing to say 'don't throw away waste,' but it is another thing to understand that if I throw away a plastic bottle, it will end up in the Indian Ocean and it will affect marine life, w

2023年6月1日星期四

Gitex Africa: Tech giants, startups and SMEs gather in Morocco

• 上午11:07

The first edition of #Gitex Africa was launched in Marrakech on Wednesday (May 31st). 900 companies and 250 lecturers from 95 countries are taking part in the exhibition.View on euronews

2023年5月8日星期一

World's tallest hemp hotel set to open in June in South Africa

• 上午9:56

The 12-storey building with breathtaking views and a minimal ecological footprint is set to open its doors in Cape Town, South Africa. "Hempcrete" blocks derived from the cannabis plant have been used to fill the building's walls, supported by a concrete

2023年5月7日星期日

Kenya: Residents on a mission to reduce flooding damage

• 上午8:32

Kenyan volunteers are being equipped with weather forecasts and advice to allow people living in informal settlements to prepare for extreme weather. They clear waste from drains ahead of rainy weather in a bid to prevent blockages and reduce the damage

2023年4月6日星期四

Young Libyans answer call of e-gaming

• 下午3:29

Unlike in other Arab states, "the gaming community was completely dead here" until recently, says Sofiane Mattouss, a computer science student, who runs an arcade set up in 2022.View on euronews

2023年2月9日星期四

South Africa battles with water crisis

• 上午10:09

"Infrastructure deterioration" is "also leading to people not having sufficient water. There’s also the element of the unequal distribution of water in South Africa. Less than 40% to 45% have taps in their homes," says Dr Ferrial Adam. This prompted innov

2020年4月9日星期四

Virtual safaris show animals emboldened by lockdown in S.African game parks

• 上午10:07

WildEarth, an innovative daily live stream, provides viewers with an interactive view of an African game reserve experience.View on euronews

2020年3月27日星期五

Anti-'Boo-hari' tweet by Iranian topples coronavirus on Nigeria Twitter trends

• 下午8:30

Mohammed Tawhidi threw jibes at Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian president, and whiles at it he has generated a heated debate among Nigerians. Tawhidi, a self acclaimed Imam of Peace, is an Iranian currView on euronews

2020年3月26日星期四

The beauty of South Africa: Through the lens of a tour guide

• 上午5:03

Because of COVID-19, the government has imposed restrictions and a 21 day nationwide lockdown begins on March 26. And so most of Mpofu's impending tours have been cancelled.View on euronews

2020年3月4日星期三

Coronavirus causes drastic drop in China’s air pollution

• 下午3:07

The resulting factory closures and fall in motor traffic has meant a sustained drop in noxious nitrogen dioxide, NASA stated on Saturday.View on euronews

2020年1月31日星期五

Scientists back use of Napier grass as sustainable way to feed herds

• 下午2:40

According to a study carried out in Kenya by the Centre for International Forestry Research,the use of Napier grass as fodder could help reduce strain on forests.View on euronews

2020年1月27日星期一

C.A.R: MSF offers free care for accident survivors

• 上午5:21

After a stay in an isolation room with strictly regulated access, Synthia is allowed to return home, but the story doesn't end there. Every week she has to go to the facility for outpatient check-up.View on euronews