South Africa is considering doubling the amount of electricity it plans to buy from a proposed multibillion-dollar hydro power plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Windows 10 Mobile will not receive any support or updates by the end of the year, spelling the death of Microsoft’s iOS and Android alternative.

A bug on Twitter exposed the tweets of some Android users who chose to keep their accounts private for more than four years, the social network has revealed.

Helios Towers, which earlier this week announced its entry into the South African market in a joint venture with Vulatel, said on Friday that is has acquired a controlling stake in SA Towers.

The planned merger of the departments of communications and telecommunications & postal services was “gaining traction”, with senior staff urged to work quickly to conclude the “configuration”.

More than 770 million e-mail addresses have been discovered in a database allegedly used by hackers, security researcher Troy Hunt has revealed.