Africa engineering prize shared

A South African and Ugandan jointly won the 2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.

Head of Nigerian NGO wins Africa Education prize

HP, in collaboration with Microsoft and T4 Education, have named Simi Nwogugu, CEO of JA Africa,...

Digital can unlock
education in Africa

Research by Vodacom, Vodafone and Safaricom shows that connectivity hold the key to unlocking the true...

C-3PO coming to
Comic Con Africa

Anthony Daniels, the actor who played the iconic Star Wars character, will be at the Johannesburg...

AWS puts Nigeria on Edge

New Amazon CloudFront edge location offers customers up to 20% improvement in latency and added cybersecurity...

Africa Prize names finalists from SA, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda

Innovations include electromobility motorbike conversion, a portable uterine inspection device, and power packs made from recycled...

Inflation stifles smartphones 
across Africa

The continent's smartphone market has fallen to a three-year low as demand drops, although feature phones...

Africa’s top 5 smart cities
show what is possible

Smart cities are a potential solution to Africa's urban challenges, writes Axis Communications sales manager MARCEL...

GITEX: Rural start-up represents SA

IoT innovators Comdatech have come up with a solution that uses smart sensors to enhance the...

GITEX: Leaders pledge to ‘unleash digital for a new Africa’

Exhibitors at GITEX Africa 2023 have committed to the continent’s digital transformation missions.

GITEX: Oracle brings cloud smarts to Morocco

Industry-tailored cloud innovations for African businesses are being showcased at GITEX Africa 2023.

New fibre projects boost
Africa connectivity

New fibre networks announced by MTN's Bayobab and Cassava's Liquid will provide robust east-west and north-south...

First GITEX Africa
sells out

Massive global interest in Africa has seen the conference in Marrakech, Morocco, poised to become Africa's...

Can ET detect us?

What would the Earth look like to an alien civilization located light years away? Researchers from...

5G tech space for Abuja

The African School of Economics has launched mobile technology spaces for distributed learning and remote work.

All tech roads lead to Dakar

Senegal’s positioning has been solidified through the country’s continued success in the technology startup and innovation...

In Africa, beware 
growth at all costs

There may be massive opportunity, but chasing rapid growth across the continent is risky, F5 CEO...

Netflix reimagines African folktales

A continent-wide call for submissions has culminated in six short films by emerging fimmakers, produced in...

As one big African VC
falls, another rises

Within days of Naspers announcing it would close its Foundry start-up fund, Flat6Labs launched a $95m...

Ray of light as Kenya
mobile market falls

New data shows that, while smartphone shipments are down, vendors like Samsung, which offered financing, weathered...