David Thomas

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Five cloud providers operating under strict data legislation

6 days ago | cloudcomputing-news.net | David Thomas

Data privacy laws are tightening, meaning businesses and global organisations need to be vigilant when choosing appropriate cloud provision for the workloads and storage needs. Certain regulations in different countries impose strict rules on how data is collected, processed and stored, and adherence to those policies and standards help ensure the proper management and security of data.
South Africa’s Ukraine stance must go beyond Trump contempt

2 weeks ago | african.business | David Thomas

In late April Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was welcomed to Pretoria’s Union Buildings by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for a historic visit, the first by a Ukrainian head of state in 33 years since the post-apartheid establishment of diplomatic relations. The visit comes at a pivotal time in the history of Ukraine.
MNI INTERVIEW: Dollar Safe Haven Status Tarnished...- 04-25-2025

2 weeks ago | mnimarkets.com | David Thomas

You are missing out on very valuable content. The sell-off in the U.S. dollar over the past few weeks is raising questions about the currency's safe haven status and putting focus on the U.S. Treasury market, International Capital Market Association Managing Director Andy Hill told MNI. "There'...
MNI INTERVIEW: ECB To Stick To QT Despite Turmoil...- 04-09-2025

1 month ago | mnimarkets.com | David Thomas

The European Central Bank is likely to keep to its balance sheet tightening despite bond market concents prompted by U.S. tariffs, and is unlikely to accelerate policy easing as a result of sliding equities, the ECB's former director general of marke...
Trump slaps tariffs on Africa as he hails ‘Liberation Day’

1 month ago | african.business | David Thomas

US President Donald Trump has slapped tariffs on African countries as part of his so-called ‘Liberation Day’ reshaping of global trade, which also sees a universal 10% baseline tariff on all imports into the US.
Cassava and Nvidia to launch Africa’s ‘first AI factory’

1 month ago | african.business | David Thomas

Zimbabwean telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa’s Cassava Technologies is teaming up with US tech giant Nvidia – one of the world’s most valuable companies – to build what it says is Africa’s “first AI factory”. UK-headquartered Cassava, founded and executive chaired by Masiyiwa, says it will build “a powerful and super-secure data centre facility” powered with Nvidia AI computing technology.
Time to tear down Africa’s visa barriers

2 months ago | african.business | David Thomas

For decades, Africans have struggled to travel freely around the continent. Visas to visit fellow African states are hard to secure, costly, and limited in scope. The pan-African dream of unfettered travel between nations – let alone of arrangements allowing citizens to work and settle in other parts of Africa – remains a long way from reality. There has been no shortage of earnest meetings to discuss the issue.
Trump vows to cut off funding for South Africa as Musk weighs in

Feb 3, 2025 | african.business | David Thomas

President Donald Trump says all future funding to South Africa will be cut off pending a “full investigation” into the country’s land redistribution policies. “South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention. A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform. “The United States won’t stand for it, we will act.
Kagame and Ramaphosa in furious row over DRC invasion

Jan 30, 2025 | african.business | David Thomas

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has launched a furious broadside against South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as diplomatic tensions spill over in the wake of the killing of 13 South African soldiers in a Rwandan-backed invasion of the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. On Sunday, Rwandan troops and Rwandan-backed rebels in the M23 militia (pictured) entered Goma, the largest city in the eastern DRC’s North Kivu Province.
Africa needs to get real about UN Security Council reform

Jan 27, 2025 | african.business | David Thomas

Africa has long pushed for representation on the UN Security Council, the ultimate global forum for debating war and peace in our time. The Council has for years been dominated by permanent members China, France, Russia, the UK and the US – the legacy of a Cold War era of great power diplomacy from which Africa has been rigorously excluded.