Google and Zindi's WAXAL challenge on Lingala and Shona speech recognition drew 1,462 entrants from 100 countries, with ...

Angola Cables is deploying Ciena WaveLogic 6 Extreme optics on SACS and MONET, its Angola to US route via Brazil, adding 800G ...

The Africa Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF) holds its 15th edition from 2 to 5 November 2026 at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra, Ghana. Ghana is hosting it with the AfIGF Secretariat, and ...

The African Development Bank, UNDP, Google and Apolitical have launched free AI courses for African public officials, built by Stanford Online and SDA Bocconi.

PwC will launch its Africa Entertainment and Media Outlook 2026–2030 in Johannesburg on Tuesday 13 October 2026, with a briefing from Charles Stuart, the firm’s Africa entertainment and media leader, ...

Naira notes changing hands. Photo: MUHAMMAD MUKTAR via Pexels. MTN Group’s mobile money platform moved $330 billion in the first half of 2026, more than a third up on the same period last year, as the ...

A woman using a mobile phone. Photo: Ila Bappa Ibrahim via Pexels. Malawi reached 87% 4G population coverage in 2025. Unique mobile internet penetration is 12.5%. The gap between those two numbers is ...

Johannesburg, the hub of Southern African cloud infrastructure, is now Africa’s first Azure ExpressRoute Metro location. Photo: Zak H / Pexels Johannesburg has become the first city in Africa to offer ...

What is an SSL Certificate? An SSL certificate is a digital certificate that authenticates a web site’s identity and enables an encrypted connection. SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. The primary ...

Yellow Card, Africa’s prominent stablecoin infrastructure provider, has officially received a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) licence from South Africa’s Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) ...

Google has announced that its second Africa Equiano undersea cable has landed in Lagos, Nigeria. This comes a month after the first cable landed in Togo. It was the first in a series of landings on ...

INX-ZA, the internet exchange point arm of the South African Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA), has selected Nokia to upgrade its network infrastructure. The Finnish telecoms firm will ...