WIOCC’s $300 Million Raise Puts Gulf and Development Capital Behind Africa’s AI Plumbing
The pan-African carrier’s biggest funding round yet will pay for data centres, open-access fibre and new subsea cable capacity. Washington…
Buying AI or Building It: Nairobi’s Planned ETF and MEST’s Founder Programme Show Two Sides of Africa’s AI Bet
The Nairobi Securities Exchange wants to let Kenyans invest in global AI companies in shillings, while its chief warns of…
FIFAfrica26 is expected to shape Africa’s voice at WSIS+20 and the UN AI Governance Dialogue in New York in May 2027
Africa’s biggest internet freedom forum has just closed. Its organisers say the conversations will feed into global digital governance, with…
Two Offers, One Continent: Beijing and Seoul Court Africa’s AI Future
China’s proposed BRICS open-source AI community and South Korea’s K-AI Package arrived within days of each other. They offer African…
Trump Has Renamed AI ‘Super Intelligence’. What Does It Mean for Africa?
The White House has formally instructed U.S. agencies to use “Super Intelligence” or “SI” instead of “Artificial Intelligence” or “AI”.…
Africa’s AI Governance Gap: New Index Finds Strategies Are Moving Faster Than Implementation
Africa’s first continent-wide, Africa-led AI governance index finds that governments are making progress in developing AI strategies, but implementation, funding…
Nigeria Opens National AI Innovation Challenge for Builders Developing with N-ATLAS
Applications are open for a new national build-only AI challenge aimed at developers, researchers, startups and technology innovators building practical…
Korea and AfDB Launch AI Hub as Cassava, NVIDIA and Vodafone Deepen Africa’s Compute Push
Seoul/Cairo – Africa’s artificial intelligence ambitions gained new institutional and infrastructural backing this month, as the African Development Bank (AfDB)…
Ethiopia Bets Big on Artificial Intelligence With Launch of Medemer AI University
In a move that could reshape Africa’s artificial intelligence landscape, Ethiopia has announced plans to establish one of the continent’s…
South Africa’s Languages Finally Get a Seat at the AI Table
A team of researchers at the University of Cape Town has built MzansiLM: the first publicly available AI language model…