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East African Animation Earns Global Recognition at Annecy’s Biggest Market
East Africa’s animation industry delivered its strongest showing yet at the world’s largest animation market this year, with studios from…
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The Cybersecurity Gap Many Small Businesses Discover Too Late
For many small businesses, installing antivirus software has long been considered enough to keep company computers safe. That approach made…
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Kenya’s Metered Internet Billing Bill Puts Unlimited Fibre Plans Under Scrutiny
A proposal before Parliament could change how many Kenyans pay for home internet. The Kenya Information and Communications (Amendment) Bill,…
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Kenya Expands Cybersecurity and AI Governance as Digital Risks Rise
Kenya’s cybersecurity agenda is expanding alongside the rapid growth of digital government services, with the government stepping up efforts to…
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ILO and Microsoft Launch Digital Skills Programme for 1,700 Youth in Kenya
The International Labour Organization (ILO), in partnership with Microsoft, Power Learn Project Africa, the Turkana County Government and with support…
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Google Puts New AI Infrastructure and Startup Funding at the Centre of Africa Summit
Google has expanded its long-term technology strategy on the continent with a series of infrastructure, artificial intelligence and startup investments…
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Tech Mahindra and Microsoft Unveil AI Network Digital Twin
Tech Mahindra has partnered with Microsoft to introduce an AI-powered Network Digital Twin solution designed to help telecommunications companies modernize…
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Samsung’s Market Value Jumps 453% Amid AI Chip Boom
Samsung Electronics has recorded the steepest year-on-year market capitalisation growth among the world’s largest publicly traded companies, with its valuation…
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Germany Expands Kenya Partnership Around Digital Growth and Clean Energy
Germany’s Sh7.8 billion commitment to Kenya extends beyond development assistance. The three-year cooperation package brings together digital transformation, renewable energy,…
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Why NTT DATA Is Bringing Cursor Into Enterprise Software Engineering
NTT DATA has entered into a strategic partnership with AI coding platform Cursor, a move aimed at accelerating enterprise software…
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TECNO Brings Cross-App Intelligence to EllaClaw AI
TECNO is expanding its artificial intelligence ambitions with a broader set of capabilities for EllaClaw, the company’s experimental mobile AI…
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Yas Tanzania Expands Network Capacity With an African First for Ericsson
Yas Tanzania has become the first telecommunications operator in Africa to commercially deploy Ericsson’s AIR 3285 radio technology, a move…
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Yellow Card Finds a Swiss Base as Stablecoin Payments Grow Across Africa
Yellow Card has secured Swiss regulatory approval to operate through a supervised financial intermediary in Lugano, giving banks, financial institutions,…
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Pauline Namwakira Becomes Second Kenyan to Receive AWS Golden Jacket
Kenya has added another name to the exclusive global list of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Golden Jacket recipients, with cloud…
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AWS Selects Nine African Organizations for Social Impact Accelerator
Amazon Web Services has selected nine African organizations to join the fourth cohort of its Social Entrepreneur Accelerator, marking the…
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Africa’s Fast-Rising 5G Market Is Starting to Look Beyond Connectivity
Sub-Saharan Africa is on track to become the world’s fastest-growing 5G market over the next five years, fueled by rising…
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15 African AI Startups Graduate from Google for Startups Accelerator, Raise $1.1M Average
Fifteen AI-focused startups from eight African countries have completed the Google for Startups Accelerator Africa programme, with 60% of the…
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Seacom Nairobi-Kampala Route Adds 30Tbps Growth Capacity
Seacom has launched a new Nairobi-Kampala route, adding a high-capacity terrestrial connection between Kenya and Uganda as demand for digital…
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Kenya’s 5G Data Usage Is Rising Faster Than Subscriber Growth
Kenya’s 5G data usage is beginning to reveal a different story from the one usually told through subscriber numbers. The…
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Kenya’s Mobile Growth Continues as SMS Slips Further
Kenya’s mobile subscriptions climbed to 84.1 million during the third quarter of the 2025/26 financial year, according to new figures…
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Starlink’s Speed Advantage Is Starting to Pressure Africa’s Broadband Providers
Starlink broadband speeds in Africa are now outperforming most terrestrial internet providers across the continent, according to new data from…
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Bharti Airtel Wins Shareholder Backing to Increase Airtel Africa Stake
Bharti Airtel has secured overwhelming shareholder backing for a transaction that will significantly increase its ownership of Airtel Africa, a…
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Kenya Ranks 6th in Africa’s Digital Rights and Inclusion Index
Kenya has been ranked sixth in the latest report on the state of digital rights and inclusion across the continent.…
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Apple Adds SynthID as AI Editing Expands in iOS 27
Apple wants people to know when artificial intelligence played a role in creating a photo. As the company rolls out…
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Zachary Ochieng | The Next Frontier of UAE-Kenya Ties Isn’t Oil or Roads, It’s Algorithms
The recently concluded AI Everything Kenya x GITEX Kenya convened over 15,000 delegates in Nairobi, affirming that what Kenya and…
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Blue Pearl’s Java Upgrade Offers a Glimpse of IBM Bob’s Enterprise Ambitions
As enterprises search for faster ways to modernize ageing software systems, IBM is using a South African customer project to…
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EU Invests €37 Million into Blue-Raman Cable Project to Enhance East Africa’s Global Connectivity
Speaking after talks with Henna Virkkunen, European Commission Executive Vice President, in Brussels, President William Ruto said the EU-backed cable…
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CYBER SECURITY
The New Reality of Enterprise Security: Scaling Resilience Amid Complexity
Large enterprises face a cybersecurity mismatch: rising AI-powered attacks and Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) outpace understaffed teams. Fragmented tools create…
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Why Amazon Wants Kenya to Host Its First Satellite Gateway in Africa
A new application before Kenya’s communications regulator points to the country’s growing role in the physical infrastructure underpinning Africa’s digital…
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WWDC 2026 Offered a Public Look at Apple’s New Power Structure
Apple spent much of WWDC 2026 talking about software, artificial intelligence and the future of Siri. The more revealing story…
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iOS 27 Brings Apple’s AI Ambitions Into Everyday Parts of the iPhone
Apple used WWDC 2026 to position iOS 27 as a broad update to the iPhone experience, combining performance improvements, expanded…
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Apple Turns to Google as Siri Becomes the Center of Its AI Push
For years, Apple approached artificial intelligence with unusual caution. While rivals raced to release increasingly capable chatbots, Apple focused on…
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Kenya Secures New EU Support for Digital Infrastructure and Regional Connectivity
Kenya’s latest agreements with the European Union place digital infrastructure, data governance and services trade at the centre of the…
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MTN Makes the Case for Shared Telecom Networks Across Africa
Africa’s largest mobile operators are pressing governments to rethink how telecommunications infrastructure is financed and regulated, arguing that the continent’s…
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Kenyan Students Win Historic Grand Prize at Huawei ICT Global Final
Kenyan university students have delivered the country’s best-ever performance at the Huawei ICT Competition 2025-2026 Global Final, held in Shenzhen,…
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Absa and Salesforce Extend Strategic Partnership To Advance AI in Banking
Absa has renewed its partnership with Salesforce through a new three-year agreement aimed at advancing the bank’s adoption of artificial…
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Google, Tourism Ministry Partner to Drive AI-powered Tourism Strategy
The Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife, through its Magical Kenya “Origin of Wonder” platform, has announced a strategic AI-driven partnership…
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East Africa’s Mobile Roaming Plans Run Into Tax and Telecom Revenue Realities
Efforts to lower mobile roaming costs across East Africa are moving back into regulatory negotiations as governments and telecom authorities…
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Africa’s Data Centres Are Growing Around Finance Demand
Africa’s data centre expansion is increasingly being pulled into the orbit of financial services, with banks, insurers and mobile money…
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Google’s AI Recovery Is Taking Shape Through Ads, Android and Existing Reach
Google spent much of the past three years being described as the company that hesitated. That interpretation is becoming harder…
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LINX Kenya Traffic Surges Twenty-Fold
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has recorded a twenty-fold increase in traffic across its Kenyan infrastructure over the past year.…
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West Africa’s First Hyperscale-Ready Data Centre Opens in Lagos
Kasi Cloud Datacenters has commissioned West Africa’s first hyperscale-ready, AI-capable data centre campus in Lekki, Lagos, marking a significant milestone…
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African Organisations Pivot to Unified Security Platforms, Genetec Report
Organisations across Africa are accelerating the shift from fragmented surveillance infrastructure to unified security platforms, according to new data from…
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Kenya’s Internet Providers Are Fighting a Different Battle Now
For years, Kenya’s home internet market expanded through geography. Internet providers raced to wire apartment blocks, reach gated estates, and…
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ASUS Bets on Offline AI and Long-Term Partnerships as it Deepens Kenya Push
ASUS is expanding its commercial footprint in Kenya with a strategy built around offline artificial intelligence, SME-targeted products, and partnerships…
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From Blueprint to Build: Inside AfriQloud’s First Sovereign Deployments
The vision was the easy part. The harder question – the one development financiers, regulators, and infrastructure operators inevitably ask…
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Truecaller Launches of Travel eSIM Service
Truecaller has announced its entry into the travel eSIM segment through the launch of services aimed at travellers. The initiative…
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Google Expands AI Infrastructure as Hassabis Describes Early AGI Phase
Google closed its annual developer conference with a message that extended far beyond consumer software updates. After unveiling new AI…
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East Africa’s AI Infrastructure Push Takes Centre Stage at GITEX Kenya
Kenya’s first Oracle Cloud Infrastructure region will be hosted in Nairobi, iXAfrica Data Centres confirmed on Wednesday, in the headline…
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Google Expands AI Pro YouTube Bundle to Kenya
Google is widening the role of its paid AI subscriptions beyond chatbot access and cloud storage, adding YouTube Premium Lite…
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Android 17 Starts Closing Android’s Cross-Device Gap With Continue On
Google is expanding Android beyond the smartphone with Android 17, introducing a wave of consumer-facing features built around AI assistance,…
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DRC Adds Second ACIX Site as Local Internet Routing Push Grows
Internet traffic inside the Democratic Republic of the Congo will now move through multiple exchange locations in Kinshasa after the…
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Google’s New Workspace Push Is Really About Conversational Computing
Google used its I/O 2026 developer conference to outline a broader redesign of how people interact with Workspace, moving beyond…
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Kenya Airways Deploys AI Platform to Optimize Ticket Pricing
Kenya Airways has adopted Jupiter 5.0, an AI-powered pricing platform developed by FlyNava Technologies, in a move aimed at advancing…
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Censys and EVAD to Showcase SOC Modernization Platform in Nairobi
As Kenya prepares to host the first-ever GITEX Kenya 2026 in Nairobi from 19th to 21st May, the conversation is…
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Kenya’s High Court Has Slowed Vodacom’s Push for Safaricom
Kenya’s High Court has temporarily halted the government’s planned sale of a 15 percent stake in Safaricom to Vodacom Group,…
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TECNO AI identified as Digital Economy Catalyst in Omdia Report
TECNO has released a commissioned study by technology research firm Omdia arguing that localised artificial intelligence built for African infrastructure…
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Don Boxley | VMware Migration. The Claims Came First. The Results Lagged. Not Anymore
VMware has earned its place in the data center. For years, it’s helped organizations bring structure, reliability, and scale to…
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Africa’s AI Ambitions Are Starting to Look Like an Infrastructure Strategy
African governments are beginning to frame artificial intelligence, connectivity and digital infrastructure less as isolated technology sectors and more as…
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Google Expands Gemini, Creator Tools and Security Features in Android 17
Google is widening the role of artificial intelligence across Android devices with new automation, creator and security tools in Android…
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Critical Cybersecurity Skills Gaps Threatening Africa’s Digital Growth
With the rapid expansion of Africa’s technology sector, particularly in digital payments, fintech, government digital services and startups, cybersecurity threats…
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Nairobi Hosts East Africa’s First GITEX AI Summit
Nairobi will host the first East African edition of GITEX next week as Kenya intensifies efforts to position itself as…
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Kenya Is Turning Tech Summits Into Investment Infrastructure
Nairobi’s growing role in African technology is no longer being defined only by startup growth or mobile money adoption. It…
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Kenya, France Deepen Digital and Infrastructure Cooperation
Kenya and France have placed technology cooperation at the centre of a new round of bilateral agreements signed in Nairobi,…
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ASUS Showcases AI-Enabled Commercial Devices at GITEX Kenya 2026
ASUS today announced its participation at the first edition of GITEX Kenya, taking place in Nairobi from May 19-21, 2026.…
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Kenya to Phase Out Paper Logbooks in New NTSA Digital Vehicle System
Kenya will begin replacing paper motor vehicle logbooks with digitally generated ownership records from June 10 as the National Transport…
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Factorial Backs Kenya HR Push With $10M AI Fund in KEPSA Partnership
HR and business management software firm Factorial has partnered with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) to drive technology adoption…
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Western Firms Want Africa’s Digital Growth but Struggle to Fund the Risk
Plans for a major data center development in Kenya backed by Microsoft and Abu Dhabi-based G42 have effectively fallen away…
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Why Safaricom’s Tech Company Transition Feels Bigger This Year
For years, telecom companies measured themselves through coverage maps, call minutes and subscriber growth. Increasingly, the language coming from large…
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Why Ethiopia Matters to Safaricom’s Future
Safaricom used its FY2026 results presentation to frame Ethiopia as a long-duration infrastructure project tied to digital systems, network reach…
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Kenya’s Planned Microsoft-G42 Facility Faces Delays Over Grid Capacity
Kenya has suspended plans for a proposed $1 billion data centre backed by Microsoft and Abu Dhabi-based G42 after officials…
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KRA Links Tax System to M-Pesa in Compliance Push
Kenya Revenue Authority is restructuring its tax collection systems around real-time business transactions, placing digital payments and automated invoicing at…
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East Africa Pushes for a Unified Digital Network as Telecom Gaps Persist
Regional governments across East Africa are widening efforts to connect their digital infrastructure, lower telecom costs and reduce dependence on…
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EXCLUSIVE: Airtel Kenya Begins Fibre Rollout As Fixed Internet Competition Tightens
Airtel Kenya has introduced fibre-based internet services for homes and businesses, adding fixed broadband to its existing mobile and payments…
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Connected Africa Summit 2026 Opens In Nairobi To Accelerate Africa’s Journey Toward An Inclusive Digital Market
The Connected Africa Summit 2026 officially opened today in Nairobi, bringing together government leaders, policymakers, regulators, ambassadors, development partners, investors,…
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Liquid Intelligent Technologies Closes $660M Refinancing
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has closed a $660 million refinancing package, anchored by a $300 million Eurobond that was oversubscribed 2.5…
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Africa’s Digital Leaders to Convene in Nairobi for Connected Africa Summit 2026
Africa’s top policymakers, technology executives, and innovators will gather in Nairobi later this month for the Connected Africa Summit 2026,…
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Adil El Youssefi | How Africa’s Data Centres are Evolving to Support the Continent’s AI Surge
Across Africa, artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from being a futuristic concept to a daily reality. Banks are using it…
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Four Kenyan Startups Land Spots in Google Accelerator Africa Cohort
Kenya’s innovation ecosystem has earned global recognition after four local startups- Comana, Duck, ReportsAI, and VunaPay were selected for the…
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The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra Camera Refines What Previous Models Left Unresolved
The camera changes on the recently launched Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra are easier to understand when viewed as corrections. Over…
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ALX Accelerates Gender Parity in Africa’s Tech and AI Workforce
ALX, Africa’s leading talent accelerator, has trained 347,100 graduates to date, and women account for more than half. The Mastercard…
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Paratus Group Appoints New GM to Lead FAST Congo
FAST Congo, the wholesale connectivity joint venture between the Paratus Group and Global Broadband Solutions (GBS) operating in the Democratic…
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Kenya’s 5G User Base Grows Fast as Data Use Climbs
Kenya added 724,753 new 5G users over the past year, pushing adoption of high-speed mobile internet deeper into homes and…
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AfriQloud: Reimagining Africa’s Digital Future Through Sovereign Infrastructure
Across Africa, a new vision for digital infrastructure is emerging – one that challenges long-standing dependencies and redefines how the…
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Truecaller Unlocks Global Access for Its Business Chat Service
Truecaller has announced the global rollout of its Business Chat service, extending access to channel partners and enterprise solution providers.…
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Airtel Commits $1B to Nxtra, Widening Its Data Center Play From India to Africa
Airtel has confirmed a $1 billion data center investment into its subsidiary Nxtra Data, with participation from Alpha Wave Global,…
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Algiers Declaration Puts African Telecommunications Sovereignty at the Centre of Connectivity Plans
African ICT ministers have adopted the Algiers Declaration on African Telecommunications Sovereignty (2026–2030) at the Global Africa Tech Summit held…
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Airtel Reaches 650 Million Subscribers Across India and Africa
Bharti Airtel has reported that its global customer base has surpassed 650 million users, reinforcing its position as one of…
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Westcon-Comstor Expands Cybersecurity and Networking Portfolio with Infoblox in Southern Africa
Westcon-Comstor has announced a new distribution partnership with Infoblox, bringing the company’s hybrid and multi-cloud networking platform to channel partners…
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Daraja 3.0, Agentic AI, and 5G Gaming: What Safaricom’s Decode 4.0 Means for Kenyan Developers
Twenty-five years ago, Safaricom launched as a telecommunications company. Today, it is something considerably more difficult to define: part infrastructure…
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A Shift Is Taking Shape in Safaricom’s APIs and AI Ecosystem as AI Moves Into Production
Safaricom’s APIs and AI ecosystem are emerging as a core layer for developers building financial and digital services, as highlighted…
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Rising Data Use Is Catching Up With Kenya’s Networks, and Quality Is Starting to Show It
Mobile network quality in Kenya has deteriorated, with the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) warning that operators are struggling to…
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At Decode 4.0, Safaricom Moves Its Center of Gravity Toward AI and Retools M-Pesa to Match
Safaricom Group Chief Technology Officer James Maitai officially opened Safaricom Decode 4.0 , declaring this the “Year of AI” for…
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At Decode 4.0, the Work of Building Kenya’s AI Backbone Comes Into View
The next leap for Kenya’s economy will not be defined by physical infrastructure alone, but by a sophisticated layer of…
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Moniepoint Acquires a Controlling Stake in Kenya’s Sumac Microfinance Bank
Nigeria’s fintech Moniepoint has completed its acquisition of a 78% stake in Sumac Microfinance Bank, establishing a regulated entry into…
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Samsung Unveils Next-Gen HBM4E Memory and Deepens NVIDIA Partnership at GTC 2026
Samsung Electronics took center stage at NVIDIA’s GTC 2026 conference in San Jose this week, unveiling its most advanced memory…
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Inside Kenya’s AI and Connectivity Plans as Global Partners Move In
There is a number that keeps surfacing in Nairobi’s tech policy circles. $5 billion. It is the price tag attached…
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EU and Kenya Move Deeper Into Digital Systems Design With New Strategic Dialogue
Fifty years is a long time in diplomacy. Long enough for habits to form, for language to settle into routine.…
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M-Pesa Tanzania Launches Africa’s First Mobile Money Tap-to-Pay Feature
M-Pesa users in Tanzania can now pay by simply tapping their Android phones at Visa-enabled terminals, no physical card required.…
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Orange Builds Its Africa Strategy Around the Max It Super App
Telecom operators once measured success in towers, spectrum licences and subscriber counts. Increasingly, the fight sits elsewhere. It sits inside…
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MTN Passes 300 Million Subscribers as Africa’s Data Appetite Grows
The headline number looks simple enough. MTN now counts 307 million voice subscribers across its markets. Profit has returned. Data…
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