Africa's Tech Future, Today.
The Yaoundé Declaration asks African states to host all critical government data locally by 2030. What the data hosting target covers and who could benefit.
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.
Nigeria's House of Reps says poor network quality is hurting POS and businesses, and has ordered telecom CEOs to appear on 28 October or risk arrest summons.
BPE website backups holding database credentials sat in a public folder for days, a researcher says. What was exposed and what Nigeria's privatisation agency must do.
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 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.
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.
Nithio's investment takes the MAX Series B3 round to $29 million. The Nigerian EV financing firm says it is now profitable in its largest market, Nigeria.
Satlyt, led by founder and CEO Rama Afullo, raised an $8M seed round led by non sibi ventures to run AI apps on satellite computers already in orbit.
The National Identity Management Commission has reaffirmed that Nigeria's national identity database is hosted locally within the country and managed entirely by internal staff. As the agency scales enrolment toward a 95 per cent national coverage target, it is implementing local data hosting and user consent management tools across its identity authentication services.
Comparing the OnePlus 16 and the RedMagic 12 Pro+ highlights two distinct approaches to mobile gaming hardware. Powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 processor, both smartphones target high-performance gaming, with OnePlus prioritising versatile photography and RedMagic focusing on active fan cooling.
Alchymia is reimagining artificial intelligence architecture to run frontier models locally without massive server farms or screens. Founded by Ayomide Daniels, the startup has developed the Alchymia Bar, a screenless pocket-sized device designed for resource-constrained markets across Africa and Asia.
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