Spiro Ghana Launch: 100 Electric Motorcycles and a Battery-Swap Network Arrive in Accra
Spiro's Ghana launch puts 100 Ekon electric motorcycles and two-minute battery swaps on Accra's roads, with savings of up to $2 a day promised to riders.
Infrastructure
Internet access, power, data centres, and mobile networks — the physical foundation everything else runs on. The stories that do not get written often enough.
Spectrum Costs in Africa: Operators Pay 24% More for Less, GSMA Says
Spectrum costs in Africa run 24% higher per unit than elsewhere, GSMA finds, as 200+ licences near renewal. Here is who pays most and what it wants changed.
Vuyani Jarana: How a boy fascinated by radios became a champion of rural connectivity
Vuyani Jarana turned his childhood curiosity with radios into a career driving rural connectivity across South Africa. As former chief executive of Vodacom Business and South African Airways, and now leading Ilitha Telecommunications, he focuses on bringing affordable broadband to townships and rural areas.
Why cheaper fibre fees fail to spark Nigerian infrastructure investment
Lowering Right of Way charges reduces cable deployment expenses, but it does not make internet infrastructure projects automatically viable. In Nigeria, operator decisions to expand broadband footprint depend heavily on consumer market demand and commercial revenue potential rather than fee reductions alone.
Kaspersky’s African business is profitable. Now it wants bigger clients.
Global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky is expanding its enterprise footprint across Africa following a decade of profitable growth. The company is targeting large-scale institutional contracts across banking, central government, and critical national infrastructure.
Seacom puts CEO Alpheus Mangale on special leave as it builds SEACOM 2.0
Subsea cable operator Seacom has placed group CEO Alpheus Mangale on special leave while allegations about how the company is run are investigated. CFO Charl Slabbert is acting CEO.
Morocco's AI data centre push takes shape as FiveNines joins Nexus project
UK firm FiveNines has been appointed to lead development of a 20MW AI data centre near Casablanca, the first piece of Nexus Core Systems' planned 180MW, renewable-powered AI Factory in Morocco.
Millions of Africans have internet coverage but are not online. Here’s why
Across Africa, approximately 906 million people live within reach of mobile broadband networks but remain offline. The persistent digital divide has shifted from physical network coverage to barriers surrounding device affordability, digital skills, electricity reliability, and transaction trust.
Safaricom taps Pesapal’s 30,000 POS terminals to take M-PESA contactless
Safaricom has partnered with Pesapal to bring M-PESA tap-to-pay and dynamic scan options to tens of thousands of point-of-sale devices. This expansion promises faster, more convenient checkout experiences across major retail outlets in Kenya.
Terra Industries Secures $18M for Drone Facility
Defense and autonomous tech startup Terra Industries has secured an additional $18 million in seed funding, accelerating the construction of its 34,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Ghana.
How Agritech Innovations Are Securing Food Systems in Africa
Agriculture employs over half of Africa’s workforce, yet post-harvest losses and climate unpredictability cost billions annually. A new generation of agritech innovators is deploying satellite data, smart hardware, and digital commodity trading to fix the chain.
Africa's Push for Sovereign AI and Local Compute Power
Relying on foreign data hubs for artificial intelligence introduces unacceptable latency, foreign currency risk, and cultural bias. African tech ecosystems are responding by building indigenous cloud infrastructure and sovereign AI models.