AU, China unite to tackle cybercrime

The African Union (AU) has announced its intention work with China to define a collaboration framework on cyberspace.

Military spending increases in Africa, eastern Europe, Middle East, and Asia says SIPRI

SIPRI – World military expenditure totalled $1.8 trillion in 2014, a fall of 0.4 per cent in real terms since 2013, according to figures released by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in its comprehensive annual update of the SIPRI Military Expenditure Database.

90% of world’s population now covered by a mobile network -ITU

The number of fixed telephone lines worldwide continues to drop – but the drop has been massively more than compensated for by the growth in mobile. • There were around 57 million fewer fixed telephone lines at the end of 2009 than there were at the end of 2006. • There were 1.9 billion net additional mobile cellular subscriptions globally between the end of 2006 and 2009.