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Picture a shop manager arriving at opening time to find the freezers warm and the chicken, fish and dairy ruined. Cyberattacks have moved far beyond stolen passwords and locked laptops, and in France last month they reached the humble supermarket fridge. Major French chains said hundreds of their stores saw refrigerators defrost, forcing staff to […]
While global telecom giants are already sketching the sixth generation of mobile networks, much of Africa is still waiting for the fifth to arrive. The debate around Africa 6G is heating up as regulators prepare for the 2027 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-27), where countries will decide who gets which slices of the airwaves. The danger […]
For millions of Africans, the nearest reliable signal is a long walk, a motorbike ride or a hilltop away. Solar-powered internet is changing that, because it brings connectivity to places the national grid has never reached. Instead of waiting years for power lines, communities are now plugging into the one resource Africa has in abundance: […]
Every time a generator coughs to life during a blackout in Lagos, or a battered minibus crawls up a hill outside Nairobi trailing black smoke, we are reminded that the air above us belongs to everyone. Yet the story of Greenhouse Gas Emissions is not one of shared blame. A small group of countries and […]
South Africans are plugging in faster than anyone predicted. South Africa EV sales and the wider new-energy vehicle market have already beaten last year’s full-year total, industry body naamsa said on Monday. The Numbers Behind the Surge Sales of new-energy vehicles (NEVs) reached 22,389 between January and September, up 34 percent on the 16,703 sold […]
Few business relationships on the African continent can say they are older than most modern nations’ borders. The Ethio Telecom and Ericsson partnership is one of them, and it has now reached an extraordinary 132-year milestone. Ericsson first entered Africa in Ethiopia in 1894, back when a telephone was a rare curiosity. From Telephone Receivers […]
When Aliko Dangote called his share sale “The People’s IPO,” plenty of people smiled politely. Now the Dangote refinery IPO has the numbers to back the slogan, with investors queuing up well beyond what he asked for. Demand Beyond Target The $1.6 billion offering has drawn about three times its targeted orders, according to two […]
Libreville can scroll again. Gabon social media access was restored on Saturday, ending a shutdown that lasted eight months. The Ban and Its Cost The High Authority for Communication blocked platforms including WhatsApp, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube and Instagram in February, citing hateful and false content. The timing was tense. President Brice Oligui Nguema was facing […]
Ask a young graduate in Lagos, Nairobi or Lusaka what stands between them and a good job, and many will give the same answer: skills. The Africa digital skills gap is now one of the biggest brakes on the continent’s growth, even as demand for digital talent rises faster than schools and training centres can […]
The IMF annual meeting in Bangkok has ended with a message African leaders know well. Without stronger digital connectivity, developing nations risk watching the global tech boom from the sidelines. The latest World Economic Outlook puts global growth at 3.1 percent, with inflation spiking to 4.7 percent. An AI boom is lifting economies that build […]
Walk through Lagos, Nairobi or Accra and you’ll see phones in nearly every hand. Africa’s digital boom is real, and it is changing how people pay, trade, learn and find work. But every boom sends a bill to someone, and on this continent that bill is rarely read out loud. The headlines love the success […]
Egypt’s tech scene has just landed a heavyweight. The new FPT Africa office in New Cairo is the first the Vietnamese group has opened anywhere on the continent, and it hints at where global tech money may flow next. For young African engineers, that is worth paying attention to. A Hanoi-to-Cairo Bet FPT is headquartered […]
Global markets ended the week on a nervous note, and the reasons reach well beyond Wall Street. The tech stocks AI spending worries story is back in the headlines, this time joined by bond yields that remain stubbornly high. The AI bill keeps growing For two years, investors rewarded any company that promised an AI […]
From health diagnostics in Nairobi to smart farming tools in Accra, artificial intelligence is already part of everyday work across the continent. Whatever shape the Africa AI innovation and technology development future takes, it will be settled by decisions made in the next few years, not the next few decades. The Carnegie Endowment for International […]
Technology is moving fast, and trust in it has to keep up. William Kabogo people-centred AI governance and data privacy Kenya took centre stage on Monday, when the ICT Cabinet Secretary opened the Summit on People-Centred Technologies in Africa at Nairobi’s Sarit Expo Centre. Trust Is the Real Currency Kabogo told delegates that every digital […]
Ghana has switched on a nationwide alarm for anyone who sends, saves or spends money through a phone. The Ghana NCSAM 2026 digital finance security awareness campaign was officially launched on October 1, 2026, as digital financial services keep expanding across the country. Government officials and financial-sector leaders used the launch to push for closer […]
Geologists are trekking through the Congolese bush with GPS units and tablets linked to servers thousands of kilometres away. This is the daily reality of KoBold Metals AI critical minerals Congo exploration, now unfolding around the remote southeastern town of Manono. The California-based company, founded in 2018 and backed by investors including Bill Gates and […]
For decades, Africa has earned its living from what lies under the ground. Africa gaming industry growth and investment now point to a different kind of export, one that ships through an app store instead of a port. The people building it say the continent’s next big story may be written in code, art and […]
KAMPALA: Someone standing in a village with no mast in sight can now make a call from an ordinary phone. The Airtel Uganda Starlink direct-to-cell service went live on September 24, connecting compatible smartphones straight to satellites overhead. How Starlink Mobile Works The service, branded Starlink Mobile, runs on a constellation of about 650 satellites […]