Ethiopia

Gfive
In Brief
Maryline Josephine

G-Five: An AI-powered recruitment game-changer

Ethiopia-based online recruitment firm G-Five by Gebeya has established an AI-powered platform to connect highly skilled, certified, and multilingual African talent with global companies. Gebeya Inc. is a Pan-African Freelance Talent Marketplace that aims to be a proactive contributor to Africa’s digital transformation and to foster a thriving Africa by leveraging continental and global job opportunities for African talent. The AI-powered recruitment platform will assist global companies in saving time and money while gaining access to the top tech talent in Africa for just $50 (Kes7,500). The firm claims that the platform can reduce client time by 70 percent because the matching engine is designed

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ATMIS troops withdrawal
FeaturedNews
Dek Farah

Will ATMIS withdrawal from Somalia turn it into an Afghanistan

Somalia occupies a crucial position along the Red Sea, where approximately 10 percent of global trade traverses—and that is a big deal. In the current landscape of global geopolitics, a power struggle off the coast of Mogadishu for control of Somalia is set to determine the authority over one of the most geostrategically important areas for global trade, encompassing Africa’s longest coastline. The withdrawal of African Union troops due to dwindling mission funding has raised concerns among analysts, who fear that Somalia may succumb to extremism, akin to Afghanistan. Others, however, state that with the right support, Somalia is ready to assume responsibility for its…

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Peter Ndegwa
CorporateNews
, Otiato Guguyu, Otiato Guguyu and Otiato Guguyu

Safaricom turns to the internet as profits drop

Safaricom wants to be the biggest internet provider in the country to diversify from its slowing voice, message and mobile money business, by targeting one million connections of homes and business and backing the government project to link schools and hospitals to fiber infrastructure. The telco currently has 250,000 homes linked to their fiber network, 205 fifth generation (5G) sites in 23 counties and has now placed a bid in the governments procurement of laying over 100,000 kilometers of fibre optic cables across Kenya and establishment of digital village smart hubs and studios in each of the country’s 1450 wards. The telco boss Peter Ndegwa…

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