Business email compromise and CEO impersonation is on the rise, and it puts the entire organisation at risk One of the most successful cyber-attacks of 2022 is CEO fraud, also known as Business Email Compromise (BEC). According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center 2021 report, this type of attack is one of the most profitable, and one that has seen a significant increase. It is also incredibly smart – cybercriminals impersonate the CEO or a high-level executive using email, deep fakes or audio files to trick staff into providing access to critical business information, systems or even authorising fraudulent…
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By NLM Writer In Sub-Saharan Africa, 85% of the population couldn’t afford an energy- and nutrient-sufficient diet. In the 12 most afflicted countries, World Bank data shows 9 out of 10 people struggle to afford a nutritious meal. Climate change, if unchecked, is expected to make food even more unaffordable. The economic shocks from increasing temperatures, water stress and continued droughts will push tens of millions of Africans into extreme poverty over the next decade. In the Horn of Africa, extended droughts threaten many with famine as food insecurity has reached emergency levels or worse, according to famine early warning system FEWS NET. Climate change is parching the land,…
By Yaroslav Lissovolik In 2023 South Africa is chairing the BRICS grouping and has declared that it intends to work towards closer BRICS-Africa partnership. As a member of the BRICS core South Africa has been among the most active proponents of advancing BRICS as an open platform that reaches out to Africa and the rest of the developing world via the BRICS+ format. Today it is impossible to imagine a BRICS grouping on the international arena without South Africa and Africa being one of its key regional agendas. In fact, Africa is much more than just a regional track in…
But does the alternative cut it? By Silas Apollo The decision by Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Alliance leader Raila Odinga to resume the nationwide protests against the government could present a new challenge to President William Ruto, who, over the past couple of weeks, has been facing increasing pressure to cave into the demands of the opposition coalition. Odinga, through the Azimio National Executive Council chairman Wycliffe Oparanya, has announced that the coalition will, starting this month, resume its countrywide protest in what he says is a move aimed at piling additional pressure on the Kenya Kwanza administration. The…
Counties across the country could soon each have a distinct and well-marked boundary if a Bill before the Senate seeking to define the boundaries of counties is adopted by MPs. The County Boundaries Bill of 2023 wants a legal framework established in law to allow each county to draw up its boundary and reduce conflicts over resources. The Bill before the Senate also seeks to establish a framework for revising and altering county boundaries to resolve conflicts as may be determined from time to time. The proposed law, sponsored by Homa Bay senator Moses Otieno Kajwang’, argues that while the…
By Silas Apollo The selection panel of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission has said that it expects to complete interviews of candidates for the position of IEBC chairperson and six commissioners by May. The panel’s chairperson, Dr Nelson Makanda, said the interviews are expected to begin in earnest following a successful shortlisting of candidates. Dr Makanda said that the panel is expected, soon after the completion of the interviews, to retreat to identify two names of successful candidates for the position of Chairperson and other nine for the six Commissioners. The names will then be presented to the President…
County governments may soon be required to justify whether the taxes and levies collected at the county level translate to improved services to the residents. This is according to a new policy guideline currently being developed by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), which also seeks to compel the devolved units to adjust the levies and fees based on the individual need and location of a county. CRA, in a new guideline on tax policies in counties, wants each county government to develop tax policies that reflect its need and that of its residents. The draft Model Tariffs and Pricing…
By Silas Apollo Governments in Africa have been asked to rethink their public debt management strategies to overcome the current debt distress affecting a number of countries in the continent. MPs drawn from across various Parliaments in Africa have said that the over-reliance on debt had affected the growth of many nations on the continent. Speaking during the opening session of a three-day forum geared towards Strengthening Processes for Legislative Budgeting and Public Debt Management in Mombasa, the lawmakers expressed concerns that many Parliaments in the region have very little role in budgeting despite their cardinal role as vanguards of…
Kevin Omwanza The Kenyan political scene is perhaps the best of what can be described as a theatre of the absurd, and watching the prime time news appears nothing short of tuning in to an unedifying but comical flurry of clowns bleating up and down their respective podiums. Appears that the degree requirement for certain elective offices did little, if anything, to purge the stubborn idiocy and ignorance beclouding our august houses. Take for instance the last two weeks which have seen the overflow of emotions and ignorant passions; an unprecedented onslaught on the judiciary led by no less a…
Documenting of all the resentments affords one an opportunity to prioritise what to deal with and what to put aside for mulling and even what, at the moment, seems unsalvageable By Jacob Oketch Writing about staying away from alcohol is a very hard thing to do because the norm is to do the opposite. The immense pull in alcohol, generating tonnes of money for advertisements, for example, makes it the king. Dailies have, for instance, give acres of space to review watering holes and brands of liquor on the market. Other writers just marvel about the thrill of the bottle…
