An outage at Fastly, a cloud-based content platform that serves many leading international websites, sent large chunks of the Web offline on Tuesday.

Multiple outages hit websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, affecting news websites and social media platforms.

In recent years, Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city, has become Africa’s most attractive tech hub for investors. But that could be imperilled by the government’s decision to suspend Twitter’s operations in the country.

Apple is giving the iPad software the biggest revamp to its Home screen since launching the device over a decade ago, adding a new widgets system.

A new inland transit facility between South Africa and Mozambique could slash transport times between the Maputo port and the region’s industrial and business hub.

Apple on Monday said a new “private relay” feature designed to obscure a user’s Web browsing behaviour from Internet service providers and advertisers will not be available in China – or South Africa.

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