Updates

Border Closure: Bloomberg report on sole export exemption Misleading

November 10, 2020/Dangote Group Contrary to reports by Bloomberg that Dangote Cement was granted sole approval to export cement through the land borders, information has emerged that other companies also got approval to export through the land borders. Nigerian Customs Service has reportedly revealed that BUA Group and a gas company […]

Malawi’s TNM selects Canonical’s Charmed OpenStack to help lead virtualisation charge

November 10, 2020/Edelman Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, today announced that its Charmed OpenStack, an open source private cloud solution that allows businesses to control large pools of computer, storage and networking in a datacentre, has been selected by Telekom Networks Malawi Plc (TNM), to modernise and virtualise its entire […]

BudgIT, Code Launch Pan-African Program on COVID-19 Fund Accountability

November 9, 2020/BudgIT BudgIT Foundation and Connected Development (CODE), two prominent civic-tech non-governmental organizations spearheading the advocacy for openness, transparency and accountability in public finance in Africa, have launched the COVID-19 Transparency and Accountability Project (CTAP), an initiative that seeks to promote accountability and transparency through the tracking of COVID-19 […]