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Vodacom expands digital accessibility across Africa as Deaf users gain wider access to essential services
Vodacom Group is expanding efforts to improve access to digital services for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people across its African operations,…
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Meta is taking its AI stack directly into the enterprise market
Meta has launched Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business division aimed at helping companies deploy artificial intelligence across growth, customer…
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Samsung is turning the connected home into a more complete wellness experience
Wellness has become less about a single workout or fitness goal and more about how we manage the different parts…
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How Kenya Airways is using AI to make sense of changing airfares
You search for a flight today and find a fare that works. Tomorrow, the same seat may cost more. It…
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The iPhone 18 scam: Fake stores are offering discounts, pre-orders and unlikely deals
Kaspersky has warned consumers looking for iPhone 18 models about scammers using fake websites and heavily discounted offers to steal…
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Bridging Kenya’s digital skills gap: Why practical application and AI capability-building are defining tech workforce readiness
Kenya’s technology sector is producing more skilled graduates and creating new career opportunities, but employers continue to face challenges in…
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Two Kenyan healthcare innovators reach the final of Africa’s top engineering prize
Two Kenyan healthcare innovators are among four finalists selected for the 2026 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, the continent’s largest…
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Before you press send: Simple way to protect your money from fraud
You are about to pay a supplier when an email or an SMS arrives asking you to use a new…
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Kenya wants its tourism products to compete in the digital spaces where travellers make decisions
Kenya is digitising its tourism products as the government targets travellers who increasingly rely on smartphones, online platforms and artificial…
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How Airtel Money turned agents, cashback and interoperability into a Kenya growth strategy
In a market long described as a one-horse race, Airtel Money has been gaining ground without much noise. Four years…
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EEMEA SMEs are rethinking growth as cybersecurity, AI and digital payments gain ground
Small and medium-sized businesses across Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EEMEA) are increasingly turning to cybersecurity, artificial intelligence…
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Binance puts $100 million into Circle as USDC partnership expands
Binance has invested $100 million in Circle Internet Group as part of a renewed five-year strategic partnership to expand the…
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Paystack brings onsite checkout and terminal integration to Shopify in South Africa
Paystack has launched an onsite card checkout for Shopify in South Africa, giving online shoppers the ability to complete card…
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Africa Financial Summit 2026 heads to Angola to drive African financial integration
Angola is set to host the annual Africa Financial Summit 2026 on November 3 and 4, in Luanda, bringing together…
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Samsung Care+ cuts screen repair costs across East Africa
Samsung is expanding access to Care+, a service plan that allows owners of eligible Galaxy smartphones in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda…
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Inside I&M Bank’s push to go ‘digital fast’
Every month, about 25,000 people open an I&M Bank account without filling in a form. They need only a national…
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Absa launches all-in-one app in push for digital customers
Absa Bank Kenya has launched a digital platform that bundles banking, savings, investments, loans and lifestyle services into a single…
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Tecno wins two IFA innovation awards for modular phone, mini PC
Smartphone maker Tecno has won two awards at this month’s IFA 2026 consumer electronics trade show in Berlin for a…
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WSO2Con Africa puts enterprise AI governance at the centre of the agentic enterprise
The agentic enterprise is forcing companies to rethink what it means to deploy artificial intelligence safely. At WSO2Con Africa 2026…
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WSO2’s Golden Path shows how enterprises can build towards trusted AI agents
The Golden Path to the Agentic Enterprise is WSO2’s proposed roadmap for organisations moving from general-purpose AI use towards systems…
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M-PESA’s Vinod Sharma draws a hard line around where AI can touch money
A customer sending money through M-PESA sees a relatively simple action: enter a number, select a recipient, confirm and wait…
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The rise of AI agents is pushing governance beyond models and into infrastructure
AI agent governance is becoming an architecture problem as enterprises give software access to APIs, data, workflows and systems that…
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AWS sees AI agents taking on more software work, with humans still accountable for the outcome
AI is moving deeper into software engineering, but AWS says the transition does not require developers to surrender control of…
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Enterprise AI pilots are working, but the execution gap is holding back production
Enterprise AI adoption is running into an AI execution gap as companies discover that a successful pilot does not automatically…
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WSO2’s AI engineering strategy goes beyond coding assistants to institutional knowledge
WSO2 is giving AI agents more than access to its code. At WSO2Con Africa 2026 in Nairobi, Senior Vice President…
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Latitude59 opens Nairobi pitch contest for African startups
Estonian startup event Latitude59 has opened applications for its 2026 Kenya pitch competition, offering early-stage African founders a shot at…
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As African governments adopt AI, data and integration are becoming central to the effort
AI in government is moving from policy discussions and experiments into practical public services across Africa, but technology leaders from…
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Yellow Card hires ex-Monzo executive Ross Everett as group CFO
Stablecoin payments firm Yellow Card has appointed former Monzo Bank finance executive Ross Everett as its group Chief Financial Officer…
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The rise of AI agents is forcing enterprises to rethink authority, security and accountability
At WSO2Con Africa 2026 in Nairobi, the discussion around how enterprises are governing AI agents moved beyond the question of…
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WSO2 outlines the digital foundations behind sovereign AI for government
A government can have a digital identity system, online services and APIs across its agencies and still struggle to make…
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Kenya charts path to turn university research into business
Kenya’s research community wants a staged financing system and earlier industry involvement to help more locally developed technologies make the…
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KPC fellowship lands jobs for 30pc of first tech cohort
Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) says 30 percent of the first cohort of its youth technology fellowship have secured jobs, as…
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State plans unified platform to link government systems
The government is building a unified operations platform to link public institutions’ systems through secure application programming interfaces (APIs), as…
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Equity Mobile App now lets you authorize payments using face ID or fingerprint
Imagine accessing your bank account and authorizing payments with only a glance or a touch. This is the experience the…
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Bolt, Kenya Red Cross to train 500 boda riders in first aid
Ride-hailing firm Bolt has partnered with the Kenya Red Cross to train more than 500 boda boda riders in first…
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CRDB’s WSO2 integration backbone is helping reshape its digital banking architecture
CRDB Bank’s digital banking transformation was driven by a problem that sits underneath the mobile apps, internet banking platforms and…
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AI in banking is moving into real decisions, but banks still own the outcome
AI in banking is moving from experimentation into practical financial workflows, but a panel at WSO2Con Africa 2026 showed that…
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#WSO2ConAfrica: Kenya wants AI agents to coordinate public services, but the systems underneath still need to connect
Kenya’s government has spent years putting services online. The harder part now is getting the systems behind those services to…
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Kenya’s postal parcel volumes surge 549pc on new e-commerce partnership
Domestic parcel volumes handled by the Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK), the country’s designated public postal operator, jumped 549.2 per…
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WSO2Con Africa 2026: How enterprises can make existing data and systems accessible to AI agents
An enterprise AI agent needs access to more than a large language model. At WSO2Con Africa 2026 in Nairobi, a…
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WSO2Con Africa 2026: How durable workflows could reshape enterprise AI execution
At WSO2Con Africa 2026 in Nairobi, WSO2 is examining a practical problem that becomes more important as enterprises connect AI…
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Standard Bank’s Kenyan ambitions meet a Sh167bn capital pool and a regional banking race
Standard Bank’s Kenyan expansion is getting another layer of financial flexibility as the South African banking group keeps acquisitions and…
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KCB reveals 22.23% Pesapal stake as its wider fintech strategy takes shape
KCB Group is acquiring a 22.23 percent stake in Pesapal, giving the bank a sizeable position in one of East…
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Kenya’s EV charging market grows as EPRA removes the 15,000 kWh tariff ceiling
Kenya’s EV charging tariff framework has changed as the country’s electric mobility market becomes a larger consumer of electricity. The…
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Spiro secures another $18 million as AfricaGoGreen commitment hits $36 million
Spiro has secured an additional $18 million in debt financing from the AfricaGoGreen Fund (AGG), taking the climate fund’s total…
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How This Is Digital turned an AI experiment into a training business serving 800+ professionals
When Grace Murugi asked Claude what kind of company she should start, she was not looking for a business name…
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Kenyan banks are raising dividends as CBK proposes tighter capital-linked payout rules
Kenya’s new bank capital proposals could change how CBK controls bank dividend payouts by tying the amount lenders can return…
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Airtel Money gains ground as Kenya’s mobile money base tops 54m
Kenya’s mobile money subscriptions reached 54.0 million by June 2026, growing 13.2 per cent year-on-year and pushing mobile money penetration…
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Samsung begins One UI 9 rollout with new Galaxy AI features for the S26 series
Samsung has started the One UI 9 rollout to the Galaxy S26, S26+ and S26 Ultra, bringing new Galaxy AI…
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Google trains Kenyan Gen-Z creators, students on Gemini AI tools
Google hosted a hands-on workshop at its Nairobi office, locally dubbed Tutunge na Gemini, targeting Gen Z creators, media professionals…
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Vertiv, Pinnacle ICT in distribution deal to expand data infrastructure reach in Southern Africa
Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure, has announced a distribution partnership with Pinnacle ICT, extending the availability of…
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TechTrends Media expands into Rwanda and Uganda, launches TechTrends.rw and TechTrends.ug
TechTrends Media, the Nairobi-based digital media group behind TechTrends Kenya, EcoNews and GreenShift Magazine, has announced its expansion into Rwanda…
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Nyashinski and Foi Wambui face court disputes over music used in commercial brand campaigns
Nyashinski and Foi Wambui are facing separate copyright disputes over music used in Tecno and Oppo campaigns, putting the spotlight…
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Safaricom gains ground in Kenya’s mobile market as broadband and mobile money shares edge lower
Safaricom increased its share of Kenya’s mobile subscription market during the fourth quarter of the 2025/26 financial year, even as…
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Kenya’s .KE domains reach 129,140 as local digital identities continue to grow
Kenya had 129,140 registered .KE domains by the end of June 2026, adding 4,642 registrations during the final quarter of…
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Kenya saw fewer detected cyber threats in Q4 while cybersecurity advisories increased
Kenya’s National Kenya Computer Incident Response Team Coordination Centre (KE-CIRT/CC) detected 2.36 billion cyber threat events between April and June…
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Kenya’s mobile market hits 88 million SIM subscriptions as smartphones replace feature phones
Kenya’s mobile market reached almost 88 million SIM subscriptions by June 2026, but the more revealing change is happening in…
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Kenya reaches 54 million mobile money subscriptions as agent numbers fall
Kenya’s mobile money market added users in the quarter to June 2026, but its physical agent network moved in the…
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Kenya’s fixed internet market grows 32% as fibre, wireless and satellite expand
Kenya’s fixed internet market reached 2.84 million connections in the year to June 2026, giving the country a much larger…
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Kenya now has 52 million smartphones as mobile data use deepens
Kenya’s smartphone growth and mobile data use continued at a brisk pace in the fourth quarter of the 2025/26 financial…
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Airtel Money’s London IPO faces a smaller raise after investor feedback
Airtel Money is seeking to raise at least $800 million through a London initial public offering, a substantial reduction from…
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Ampersand’s three-minute battery swaps target Rwanda’s motorcycle taxi market
Rwanda-based electric mobility company Ampersand showcased its battery-swapping network for commercial motorcycle riders at the Equity Group Trade and Investment…
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Internet shutdowns affected 800 million people in 2025, Vodafone report finds
A new report by Vodafone has revealed that internet shutdowns are imposing growing social, economic and security costs worldwide, with…
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New Kenya terror-financing rules put greater pressure on banks, fintechs and virtual-asset firms
Kenya has raised the maximum fine for legal entities that breach its terror-financing rules from Sh3 million to Sh20 million,…
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Dashen Bank and Visa sign five-year partnership to expand digital payments in Ethiopia
Dashen Bank and Visa have entered into a five year strategic partnership which is aimed at expanding digital payments in…
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Absa Kenya, Vivo Energy sign MOU to finance Shell dealers
Absa Bank Kenya PLC and Vivo Energy Kenya, the company that distributes and markets Shell products and services in the…
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GSMA warns of AI divide as 3.4 billion remain offline
The GSMA has warned that the world risks a new divide between AI “haves” and “have-nots” unless urgent action is…
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Apple adds Apple TV, Arcade to iCloud+ in Kenya at no extra cost
Apple has expanded its iCloud+ subscription in Kenya to include Apple TV and Apple Arcade at no additional cost, marking…
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Equity Bank accelerates push to link local SMEs to global markets
Kenyan commercial banks are shifting their lending strategies from traditional primary production toward value addition, aiming to plug local small…
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KRA waives penalties, interest over iTax portal downtime
The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) will waive penalties and interest accrued by taxpayers as a result of intermittent downtime on…
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PAPSS targets faster adoption as transaction volumes jump 1,000pc
The Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) says it is entering a new growth phase after transaction volumes across its…
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Kenyan creators face new payout questions as TikTok rolls out tax checks
TikTok has begun asking Kenyan creators to submit tax and residency information as the platform prepares to apply withholding deductions…
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iPhone 18 Pro introduces new photography tools, improved thermal performance and longer battery life
The iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max introduce a series of camera, performance and battery improvements while retaining…
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Kenya puts Konza cloud expansion and spaceport plans before global investors
Kenya is pitching a portfolio of infrastructure opportunities to global investors in South Korea, including cloud infrastructure, a planned digital…
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Kenya ranks second in Africa for EV charging stations, but coverage remains uneven
Kenya had the second-highest number of electric vehicle charging stations in Africa in 2025, according to a survey by the…
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Bolt Comfort rides grow sixfold in Kenya as premium transport expands to Mombasa
Bolt says its Comfort ride category in Kenya has recorded more than sixfold growth in ride volume over the past…
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Kitsoft and Smart Africa partner on Africa’s digital public infrastructure ambitions
Kitsoft, an international GovTech company with Ukrainian roots, and the Smart Africa Secretariat have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)…
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AI is making cyber threats harder to spot. Here is how businesses can prepare
As artificial intelligence evolves, businesses are increasingly targeted by cybercrime, and cybercriminals use new approaches to manipulate employees and business…
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Is the upgrade worth it from the Galaxy S25 FE vs Galaxy S26 FE
Samsung’s Fan Edition lineup has always hit that sweet spot of flagship vibes without the eye-watering price tag, but comparing…
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Safaricom, Vodacom respond after High Court nullifies stake sale
Safaricom PLC has confirmed the High Court’s ruling nullifying the government’s sale of its 15 per cent stake to Vodacom,…
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Kenya floats tender for national fibre backbone, cross-border links
Kenya’s ICT Authority (ICTA) has issued an international tender for the extension of the country’s national fibre backbone and cross-border…
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WSO2 launches open platform to rein in enterprise AI agent sprawl
Technology firm WSO2 has announced the general availability of Agent Manager, an open control plane built to govern artificial intelligence…
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High Court nullifies Safaricom’s 15pc stake sale to Vodacom
Kenya’s High Court has declared the government’s sale of a 15 per cent stake in Safaricom PLC to Vodacom Group…
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Nigerians can apply for Dangote Refinery shares through Flutterwave
Nigerians can now apply to buy shares in Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals FZE online through Flutterwave, giving individual investors…
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Sanlam Allianz Kenya posts 21% profit growth as integration strengthens its business and SME ambitions
Sanlam Allianz General Insurance (Kenya) Limited increased its profit after tax by 21% in 2025, as higher insurance revenue and…
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Spiro partners with Yadea to expand electric motorcycles and battery swapping across Africa
Electric mobility company Spiro has partnered with Chinese electric two-wheeler manufacturer Yadea in a move aimed at expanding affordable electric…
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Twiga Foods placed under administration
Templar Field Limited, formerly known as Twiga Foods Limited, and GT Flow Limited, formerly Twiga Foods One Limited, have been…
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Kenya approved alternative building methods. Why are banks and insurers still cautious?
Kenya’s 2024 building code review created more formal space for alternative construction methods, including stabilized soil blocks, timber-frame systems and…
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MTN South Sudan raises broadband coverage to 85% after modernizing more than 500 network sites
MTN South Sudan has increased its population broadband coverage from 76.6% to 85% over the past two years after modernizing…
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Adil El Youssefi: How next-generation intelligent infrastructure is powering Africa’s data centre revolution
Africa’s data centres are changing fast. As the continent’s demand for digital services grows, facilities from Johannesburg to Lagos to…
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AXIAN Telecom becomes Yas Group as Africa’s telecom, infrastructure and fintech businesses align under one corporate identity
AXIAN Telecom has adopted Yas Group as its new corporate identity, replacing the AXIAN Telecom name in external communications, investor…
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Michael Mutiga Confirmed as Stanbic Bank Kenya CEO as lender builds on strong H1
Michael Mutiga has been confirmed as Chief Executive of Stanbic Bank Kenya after the appointment received the necessary regulatory approvals…
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Kenya’s next Hustler Fund plan could link repayment records across banks, Saccos and digital lenders
The Kenyan government plans to use borrowing and repayment records from across the financial sector to help determine which Hustler…
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Rival platforms are registered in South Africa, Uber is still waiting for its certificate
Uber’s registration with South Africa’s National Public Transport Regulator (NPTR) remains unresolved months after the deadline set under the country’s…
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Kenya’s data centre market is expanding, but the scale of its AI ambitions will depend on power, capital and demand
Kenya’s ambition to attract larger artificial intelligence workloads is increasingly being reflected in the infrastructure being planned around the country.…
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Kenya’s electric mobility market is moving beyond pilot projects as financing, charging networks and local assembly begin to take shape
Kenya’s electric vehicle market is taking shape around the parts of transport where operating costs can be measured most clearly.…
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WSO2Con Africa 2026 attendee guide: What to know before heading to Nairobi
WSO2Con Africa 2026 will bring enterprise technology leaders, developers, architects, security professionals and business decision-makers together in Nairobi from September…
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From Theranos to OpenAI, Hollywood finds drama in Silicon Valley’s power struggles
Silicon Valley’s most recognizable names are becoming characters in a new crop of Hollywood films, with Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg,…
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Universal Music Group’s ElevenLabs partnership shows how music companies are turning AI from a legal threat into a business
Universal Music Group’s partnership with ElevenLabs gives selected artists and rights holders a way to participate in AI-generated music under…
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CBK’s tougher capital rules could put pressure on dividends at Kenya’s biggest banks
Kenya’s largest banks could face tighter decisions over dividend distributions if the Central Bank of Kenya adopts proposed capital buffers…
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Why Uber’s Nigeria business struggled to balance passenger fares, driver earnings and sustainable growth
Uber’s exit from Nigeria after 12 years has raised questions about the economics of running a global ride-hailing platform in…
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