أطلقت شركة "جوجل" بالوناتها العائمة المسماة (Loon) لتوفير خدمة الإنترنت في كينيا بعد اختبارات استمرت لأشهر.
ونقلت صحيفة "نيويورك تايمز" عن الرئيس التنفيذي لشركة "Loon"، أليستر وستغارث، في تدوينة قوله إن: "خدمة 4G LTE ستقدم لمشتركي "Telkom Kenya" عبر (...)
أعلن المسؤولون عن مشروع Project Loon التابع لشركة Alphabet المالكة لجوجل أن مناطيدها المطورة فى إطار المشروع بدأت تقديم خدمات الإنترنت التجارية فى كينيا، وأشارت مصادر فى شركة Loon إلى أن بعض مناطيدها عملت بصورة تجريبية فوق كينيا الشهر الفائت، (...)
بعد اختبارات استمرت لأشهر، أطلقت شركة "جوجل" أسطول من البالونات العائمة المسماة (Loon) لتوفير خدمة الإنترنت في كينيا على ارتفاع 20 كيلومتر فوق الريف الكيني، ويغطي هذا الأسطول مساحة تقدر نحو 50 ألف كيلومتر مربع عبر المناطق الغربية والوسطى من البلاد، (...)
CMA CGM Group, a leading shipping and logistics company, has announced it is expanding its JEDDEX service covering the ports of Aqaba in Jordan and Ain Sokhna in Egypt.
In a Tuesday press statement, the group said it will be offering a competitive (...)
After nine years of Ethiopian intransigence and evasiveness Egypt was forced to turn to the UN Security Council (UNSC) in an attempt to check Addis Ababa's bid to begin filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam reservoir unilaterally, without a (...)
Ethiopia's strategy for dam construction goes far beyond developmental goals. It seeks to build an infrastructure for regional water hegemony, positioning it, at the very least, in such a way that it can exchange water for oil. This is hardly a (...)
Arab League Permanent Representative to the UN Maged Abdel-Fattah on Tuesday said that the UN Security Council is waiting to hear from the current chair of the African Union (AU), President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, on the outcome of (...)
As COVID-19 cases surged in many parts of the world, the island nation of the Seychelles was looking good: 70-plus straight days without a single infection. Then the planes arrived.
Two chartered Air Seychelles flights carrying more than 200 (...)
Lorugum village in northwest Kenya is under siege. Hundreds of thousands of young desert locusts perch on trees, shrubs, and in the grass.
In the coming days or weeks, their bodies will turn from pink to yellow, their wings will harden and, if (...)
There's an old, and somewhat overused, saying attributed to Winston Churchill that is nevertheless appropriate in these uncertain times: never let a good crisis go to waste.
A global pandemic certainly qualifies as a crisis, but what good can we (...)
The Commercial International Bank – Egypt (CIB) has reserved a full floor at a major hotel in Cairo as a quarantine bay for its employees if needed.
The floor reservation, which has a capacity of 30 rooms, comes as part of CIB's concern for the (...)
The crunch of young locusts comes with nearly every step. The worst outbreak of the voracious insects in Kenya in 70 years is far from over, and their newest generation is now finding its wings for proper flight.
The livelihoods of millions of (...)
If the recent initiative undertaken by the current African Union chair succeeds in resolving the outstanding differences between Egypt and Sudan, on the one hand, and Ethiopia, on the other, over the rules for filling and operating the Grand (...)
The 2021 African Cup of Nations has been postponed until 2022, while the semi-finals of both the CAF Champions League and the Confederation Cup will be played in a single-leg format instead of in two, the Confederation of African Football decided on (...)
Egypt's exports of iron, steel, and cement decreased 41.1 percent in the first five months 2020 to record $254 million compared to $431 million in the same period of 2019, according to a monthly Export Council for Building Materials report.
The (...)
For months, experts have warned of a potential nightmare scenario: After overwhelming health systems in some of the world's wealthiest regions, the coronavirus gains a foothold in poor or war-torn countries ill-equipped to contain it and sweeps (...)
Majid Al-Futtaim Group reopened on Saturday its recreational services in Egypt, including VOX Cinemas, Ski Egypt, Magic Planet, Little Explorers, and MELT Bistro & café.
The resumption of the company's recreational services follows a directive from (...)
Egypt coach Hossam El-Badry said on Sunday the looming return of domestic football would be gradual so that the players remain safe as clubs gear up for the resumption of the Egyptian Premier League.
The country's football association (EFA) said the (...)
أعلن وزير المياه والري الإثيوبي سيليشي بيكيلي، السبت، أنه سيكون هناك اتفاق بين مصر وإثيوبيا والسودان فيما يتعلق بملء سد النهضة في غضون أسبوعين إلى ثلاثة أسابيع.
وكتب بيكيلي عبر تويتر أنه "تم التوصل إلى توافق لوضع اللمسات الأخيرة على اتفاق سد النهضة (...)
"More than 90% of issues in the tripartite negotiations on the giant Nile dam between Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan have been resolved," the African Union (AU) Commission Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat said in a statement on Saturday.
There are two (...)
Ethiopia is scheduled to begin filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in the next two weeks, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced in a statement on Saturday.
The statement added that, during this time, the remaining construction (...)
Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia heads of state participated in African Union (AU) mini-summit, to discuss the the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on Friday. Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, Sudan's PM Abdalla Hamdok, and Ethiopia's PM Abiy (...)
Africa's first participation in a COVID-19 vaccine trial started Wednesday as volunteers received injections developed at the University of Oxford in Britain, while officials said the continent of 1.3 billion people cannot be left behind.
The (...)
Kenya was elected to the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, defeating Djibouti in a second-round of voting by the 193-member General Assembly after an initial ballot failed to produce a clear winner.
Mexico, India, Ireland, Norway - who were elected (...)
The Commercial International Bank (CIB) will limit its focus on its latest 51% bank acquisition in Kenya with no further expansion plans on the horizon, the bank has announced.
The announcement came on the back of difficulties relating to the proper (...)
