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South African Post Office: the rescue is ending, the statutory bill is not
On 12 June 2026 the Post Office's business rescue practitioners asked the Pretoria High Court to terminate the rescue, reporting a balance sheet returned to a positive R840 million and a loss cut from R514 million to R71 million. No order had been granted by 17 August 2026, the…
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Mauritania's 2018 ACE Cable Cut Made International Path Diversity an Accountability Test
Mauritania’s March-April 2018 connectivity crisis showed that international resilience depends on usable, independent, tested paths and verifiable restoration—not on the mere existence of routes labelled as backups.
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Nova Registry's Domain Renewal Depends on Scarcity vs Substitutes
Nova Registry Ltd.'s.link account must be judged through the renewal decision of a domain holder who can always choose a larger open TLD, a country-code name, a social handle, a link-in-bio page, a defensive registration, or no additional namespace; the question is whether a rare…
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AfriNIC's membership fee carries registry continuity risk
The annual fee paid to African Network Information Center - (AfriNIC) Ltd is best understood as a continuity premium: a network operator is paying to keep number-resource administration, public registry records, routing-security services and member accountability available while…
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RICTA and the Hidden Cost of a Rwandan Domain-Year
A Rwandan business choosing a web identity can buy a familiar global domain, point customers to social media, or register a local .RW name and ask the national namespace to carry its credibility. Rwanda Internet Community and Technology Alliance (RICTA) Ltd sits behind that last…
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9 Payment Service Bank and the cash-out toll inside financial inclusion
A wallet balance in Nigeria is useful only when the surrounding machinery works: the nearby cash counter has float, the phone network is reachable, the customer can pass KYC, the receiving bank accepts the transfer, settlement completes, support answers, fraud controls do not…
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