InfoSecSherpa’s African News Roundup for Sunday, January 8, 2023

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Special Africa InfoSec and Data Privacy Edition.
All news items from January 1–7, 2023.

1. Learning from Ghana’s Multistakeholder Approach to Cyber Security
   (Africa Center for Strategic Studies, January 3rd)
2. ICANN’s Coalition to help build a better Internet for Africa
   (Technology Magazine, December 2nd)
3. BT helps Interpol drive down African cybercrime
   (Telco Titans, January 4th)
4. The government has approved Czechia´s strategies for engaging in Africa and for cooperation with the Indo-Pacific
   (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, January 4th)
5. Why is Kenya’s new digital payments platform so glitchy?
   (Quartz/Yahoo Finance, January 4th)
6. We’re developing Africa’s next generation of tech professionals’
   (The Nation, January 6th)
7. Nigeria’s first military satellite DELSAT-1 to counter threats to national security
   (Military Africa, January 6th)
8. Cyber gang abused free trials to exploit public cloud CPU resources
   (Computer Weekly, January 6th)
9. French-speaking cybercriminals continue attacks on African banks
   (CyberScoop, January 5th)
10. Thales to invest MAD 350 mln in cybersecurity centre in Morocco
    (Telecompaper, January 6th)