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TechAfrica News ·
Airtel Africa has reaffirmed its commitment to Seychelles’ digital transformation, with plans to continue investing in network infrastructure, innovation and customer-focused services. The commitment was reiterated by Airtel Africa...
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announced that the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS), Nigeria’s central payment infrastructure operator, leveraged Transactility’s jPOS open-source technology for the rollout of the National Payment Stack (NPS), a...
TechAfrica News ·
Ghana’s Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations is seeking to address training and infrastructure challenges affecting beneficiaries of the One Million Coders Programme following a monitoring visit to the Asawase...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
Imagine an outside incident responder typing into a shared channel: “Roll back the production release, revoke every active session and send the incident update to the customer.” An engineering director adds a thumbs-up. Outside counsel...
TechAfrica News ·
Liquid C2 , a business of Cassava Technologies, a global technology leader, today announced a new reseller partnership agreement with KnowBe4, a global leader in digital workforce security, securing both humans and AI agents. Through...
TechAfrica News ·
FiveNines Group has announced that it is to partner with Nexus Core Systems to oversee the development of a data centre in Morocco. The 20MW facility on the outskirts of Casablanca will be purpose-designed for high-density AI computing...
TechCentral ·
Tough questions emerged about cloud budgets and data control at a recent Cloud on Demand and Microsoft breakfast.
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ITWeb TV Biz speaks to Nola Richards, group executive head of ESG and sustainable business at Vodacom Group, about how energy efficiency, virtual wheeling and cross-sector partnerships are shaping a lower-carbon future for the...
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The Independent Communications Authority of SA expands its regulatory approach, as satellite connectivity, cloud computing and AI reshape the digital infrastructure landscape.
iAfrica.com ·
Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela has asked whether South Africa would build the university system it currently has, if it were designing one today with full knowledge of inequality, artificial intelligence, climate change and the...
iAfrica.com ·
An elderly South African widow living in the United Kingdom tried to transfer accumulated pension payments from her South African bank account. Her bank told her she first needed an Approval for International Transfer from SARS. The...
TechCentral ·
Wits physicists have built an optical neural network that reads light's hidden topology without imaging it.
iAfrica.com ·
Microsoft is pitching AI integration to Africa’s oil, gas, utilities and mining operators, targeting the gap between industrial hardware systems and enterprise data — the specific failure point that recent research identifies as the...
iAfrica.com ·
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing cybercrime. The tools that can help us work smarter, communicate faster, and solve complex problems can also be exploited to deceive, manipulate, and defraud us on an unprecedented scale. This...
iAfrica.com · · Medium severity
More than 150 University of Johannesburg students signed up for the AI for Africa Hackathon Challenge at Vodacom World — the first delivery from the Vodacom, UJ and AWS AI partnership announced in July, and the point at which it reaches...
TechCabal ·
13 octobre 2026 Hello , Welcome back to Francophone Weekly by TechCabal , your weekly deep dive into the tech ecosystem across French-speaking Africa. For readers who want to understand Francophone Africa beyond headlines—through...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
The AI revolution is here, and enterprises everywhere are racing to deploy the latest tools, agents and models. Yet, the simple truth is that access to AI technology is no longer a competitive advantage. Open-weight models are becoming...
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Token prices tell only part of the story. Context, architecture and model selection often have a greater impact on the final AI bill, says Saurabh Agrawal, CTO: software engineering at DVT.
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
The AI industry says enterprises can’t absorb AI. Its answer is to absorb it for them. The engineer across the table knew the model cold.
CXO Insight Middle East ·
InsuranceMarket.ae has selected Snowflake as its trusted and governed data foundation to automate reporting, centralise business information and support faster customer service. By using Snowflake, the insurance company has reduced...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
“Claim your ground, lead your business” is the overarching motto of this year’s German-speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) congress — a slogan the organizers say aims to bring SAP’s technological vision in line with the concrete challenges...
CXO Insight Middle East ·
UAE organisations have moved quickly to establish policies governing AI access, but new research from Delinea shows that those rules are not consistently translating into effective control over what AI tools and agents do in practice....
CXO Insight Middle East ·
The latest Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal update accelerates and simplifies daily operations for SOC teams and threat analysts. AI summarisation and MCP connectivity for third-party AI tools unlock the full potential of...
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The investment manager provides R275 million in mezzanine debt funding to ICT distributor DCC Holdings.
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Cisco is introducing a dedicated Tokenomics capability within Splunk Agent Observability, helping organisations track and attribute AI token expenditure in real time as they look to optimise AI at scale. AI Tokenomics focuses on...
AI saves workers a day a week, but they don’t know what to do with it | CIO ·
The first wave of enterprise AI deployments was straightforward: a chat interface calling a model, wrapped around a few clear use cases. The next wave is driven by autonomous agents that maintain state, revisit context, call tools and...
TechTrends Africa ·
Facebook Marketplace is celebrating its 10th anniversary, highlighting how Nigerians use it to discover products, sell items and connect with... The post Facebook Marketplace at 10: What Nigerians Buy Most and How to Trade Safely...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business · · Unconfirmed
WhatsApp introduced usernames to give people more privacy when chatting with strangers. But the feature is already facing criticism from some users who say hiding their phone numbers could make it harder for customers, friends and...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business · · Unconfirmed
Microsoft’s engineering operations in Kenya are facing a major shake-up as reports emerge that the company plans to close its Africa Development Centre (ADC) in Nairobi. Employees were reportedly informed of the decision on Monday,...
Cio Sa ·
Commercial technology provider ASUS Business has signed up as a Gold partner for the 2026 IT Indaba.
TechCentral ·
The trial doubles as a pitch for spectrum that mobile operators and Wi-Fi advocates have fought over.
Semiconductor Engineering ·
New technical papers recently added to Semiconductor Engineering’s library: Technical Paper Research Organizations Spatially deterministic nucleation of 2D semiconductors by etching flux KAIST , TDS Innovation , Hanyang University ,...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is adding artificial intelligence (AI) to how it checks election results, but it has not yet finished the policy that will govern it. At a press conference in Abuja on 6 October, held...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Ride-hailing drivers in Lagos are demanding higher fares from Bolt and inDrive , warning that the current pricing structure is making it increasingly difficult to earn a living. The drivers took their grievances to the streets on...
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The partnership brings Elastic’s security, search and observability capabilities to partners and companies across Africa.
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By investing in scalable, secure hybrid infrastructure, SMEs can turn IT from a cost centre into a growth engine, says Dean Wolson, GM of Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group Africa.
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Africa's digital economy is growing at remarkable speed, opening new opportunities for people, businesses and governments across the continent.
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Tech experts and business leaders will discuss how the rapid convergence of AI, evolving regulation, cyber risk, digital sovereignty and sustainability is fundamentally redefining enterprise governance.
CXO Insight Middle East ·
Dell Technologies and Tahaluf Al Emarat Technical Solutions have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop AI-powered solutions aimed at improving urban services, public safety, and operational efficiency across the UAE. The...
TechCentral ·
A sell-off in AI chip stocks is the clearest sign yet that investor sentiment is shifting.
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