Angola Cables is deploying Ciena WaveLogic 6 Extreme optics on SACS and MONET, its Angola to US route via Brazil, adding 800G ...

Google and Zindi's WAXAL challenge on Lingala and Shona speech recognition drew 1,462 entrants from 100 countries, with ...

PwC projects $255 billion of cumulative data centre capital spending in Africa by 2050 in its central scenario. Image: Pexels / panumas nikhomkhai Africa’s data centre build-out is the one part of the ...

The GSMA puts Africa's mobile internet usage gap at 906 million people inside coverage, against 122 million with no network, ...

An entry-level smartphone costs Sub-Saharan Africa's poorest fifth 76% of monthly income. The GSMA says memory costs now put ...

The African Development Bank, UNDP, Google and Apolitical have launched free AI courses for African public officials, built by Stanford Online and SDA Bocconi.

PwC will launch its Africa Entertainment and Media Outlook 2026–2030 in Johannesburg on Tuesday 13 October 2026, with a briefing from Charles Stuart, the firm’s Africa entertainment and media leader, ...

GDG Arusha hosts a two-day DevFest at the Institute of Accountancy Arusha in Njiro, including a separate track for secondary school students. Attendance is free and capped at 150 places.

The MTN Group Foundation and Gates Foundation will spend about $25m to 2030 on phones, data and AI tools for Nigerian mothers and frontline health workers.

South Africa’s WordPress community meets at The Edge at Knightsbridge in Bryanston. Speaker applications, tickets and sponsorship are open through the official WordCamp site. WordCamp Johannesburg ...

KCD Nigeria, operated by EverythingDevOps in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, runs under the theme Telling the African Cloud Native Story. RSVP is through the CNCF community ...

The US International Development Finance Corporation intends to join AFC and Vision Invest in WIOCC Group, citing support for American hyperscalers in Africa.