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Zenith Bank has announced the return of its annual startup competition, Zecathon 4.0, with a massive ₦77.5 million in cash prizes up for grabs. The competition, a vital component of the Zenith Bank Tech Fair, seeks to identify and accelerate the growth of Nigeria’s most promising startups in FMCG, insurance, education, retail & ecommerce, cybersecurity, […]

A snug of the seatbelts isn’t enough. While good cabin safety briefings should be short and sweet, use the flight as an opportunity to teach passengers about the aircraft, what can go wrong and how to handle it, and how they can help you by looking for traffic and speaking up when they’re uncomfortable with

Airbus has released its latest forecast for the Asia Pacific aviation market, predicting that the region will require 19,500 new aircraft over the next 20 years. Airbus said that this demand represents 46% of the global requirement, which is expected to reach around 42,430 new aircraft by the year 2043. At the Association of Asia-Pacific

Editor’s note: MacDill officials ended the evacuation order Friday, Oct. 11. For details, visit MacDill’s Facebook page here. MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, saw significant rain and strong winds as Hurricane Milton cut across the state Wednesday night, but the base appears to have avoided the worst of the storm. As of Thursday,

To protect against threats from Russia and China, U.S. Space Command needs more advanced tools to track what’s happening in space as well as satellites that can move freely in the domain by 2027, according to its commander, Gen. Stephen Whiting. Those capabilities will be crucial to military operations, Whiting said, as both Russia and

PARIS — The pace of change in maritime warfare requires Western navies to innovate faster and work more intimately with industrial partners to defeat evolving threats, the heads of the French and U.K. navies said. Navies can no longer count on ships staying relevant over their 40-year lifespan, and weapon systems will change “dramatically” over

WASHINGTON — Satellite-servicing startup Starfish Space announced Nov. 13 it raised $29 million in a new funding round led by Shield Capital. Other participants in the round include new investors Point72 Ventures, Booz Allen Ventures, Aero X Ventures, Trousdale Ventures and TRAC VC, as well as existing investors Munich Re Ventures, Toyota Ventures, NFX, and

“These are politically motivated actions against us. There are many more pressing issues facing this city.” The newly-appointed mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Babalwa Lobishe has started her term of office by targeting immigrant-owned spaza shops. Eight shops were closed on Monday. Photo: Thamsanqa Mbovane The newly elected Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Babalwa Lobishe

Africa continues to grapple with plastic pollution, a waste crisis, and limited investment, activists report, as discussions unfold at the UN climate meetings in Azerbaijan. To shed light on these overlapping challenges, RFI interviewed campaigners and negotiators from across the continent. Zitouni Ould Dada, a veteran of at least 15 Cop meetings, is attending Cop