Can Africa Build Its Own LLM? Ready for Some Versions, Not Yet for Others
The continent has working African-language models, a growing GPU footprint and a $60 billion pledge. It also has under 1%…
UNDP and GSMA Partner to Scale African-Led AI, With Local Languages in Focus
Africa’s push to build artificial intelligence systems that reflect its own languages, communities and development priorities has received a new…
Morocco Releases Open-Source AI Tools to Recognise and Transcribe Darija
Morocco has taken another step toward building artificial intelligence systems adapted to its linguistic realities, releasing two open-source AI tools…
Nigeria Turns to AI to Convert Youth Voices Into Policy Proposals
Nigeria is turning to artificial intelligence to help close the gap between young people’s ideas and government policymaking, with the…
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…