Commonwealth News
Vanuatu seeks climate actions at World Court
Vanuatu says global warming is a human rights issue and needs tougher laws to address climate change. To address this, it wants the International Court of Justice to protect vulnerable communities and the rights of residents. Pacific island countries and areas are...
Wi-flix celebrates 1 million paid subscriptions and raises its sights
Wi-flix, Africa’s leading video-on-demand streaming platform passes one million-plus paid subscriptions and 300k plus customer milestones. According to the co-founder, Louis Manu, "we have recorded a 51% and 61% growth in revenues and subscriptions simultaneously in...
Vodafone’s K3 billion investment to expand Papua New Guinea’s telco market
Vodafone PNG enters as the third telecommunications player in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The company's Regional CEO, Pradeep Lal says he is already in discussion with PNG’s other telcos about tower sharing to eventually benefit all players in the market. Read the...
Pakistani startup empowers the hearing impaired with tech
Wamiq Hassan, a computer engineer, and two of his friends Ali Shabbar and Abdul Qadeer, who are both visually impaired, co-founded the DeafTawk. It is a first-of-its-kind sign language interpretation app. The app aims to empower the deaf community with quality sign...
Climate change: West African countries mark $294 billion to meet challenge
The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), agree on a regional strategy and spend about $294 billion to deal with global warming over the next 10 years. Read the original article here:...
Commonwealth Games Australia partners with Harvey Norman for Birmingham 2022
Harvey Norman, Australia's leading retailer will be the official sponsor of Australia's Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games team. Commonwealth Games Australia CEO Craig Phillips said the partnership will help us "prepare and send a team of 425 athletes across 21...