Guinea is strengthening its digital transformation agenda through a new strategic engagement with Huawei, as the government seeks to accelerate the development of critical digital infrastructure and position technology as a catalyst for national growth. During a working visit to China, Minister of Communication, Digital Economy and Innovation Mourana Soumah held high-level discussions with Huawei…
SMART Zambia Institute is strengthening Zambia’s digital health transformation agenda through a strategic collaboration with the Global Fund and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), marking another significant step toward leveraging technology to improve healthcare delivery across the country. The high-level engagement highlights the growing recognition that digital innovation is becoming an essential pillar in…
Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Anthropic have taken another significant step in advancing enterprise artificial intelligence with the general availability of Claude models in Microsoft Foundry, powered by NVIDIA’s GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs on Microsoft Azure. The collaboration provides Azure-native enterprises with a high-performance platform for developing and deploying autonomous, domain-specific AI agents capable of handling increasingly…
Google has partnered with British-Sierra Leonean actor Idris Elba through the Elba Hope Foundation to launch a landmark $1 million initiative aimed at empowering Africa’s rapidly growing creator economy with artificial intelligence. The programme will provide 100,000 content creators across Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, and Sierra Leone with free access to Google’s Gemini AI…
Mashreq has announced a strategic collaboration with Mastercard to significantly enhance its Quick Remit solution, strengthening its cross-border payment capabilities and expanding access to faster, more secure, and competitively priced international money transfers. By integrating Mastercard Move into its digital banking ecosystem, Mashreq is enabling customers to send funds directly in local currencies across new…
Tech Mahindra has announced a strategic partnership with Perplexity to embed AI-powered intelligence across its global sales organization, reinforcing its commitment to leveraging artificial intelligence to drive business growth and improve customer engagement. Through the deployment of Perplexity Enterprise Pro, the company is equipping its sales and customer-facing teams with trusted, real-time insights that enable…
Mozambique is taking another important step toward building a safer and more digitally aware society through a new partnership between the National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (INTIC) and Vodacom Mozambique. The two organizations have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to implement a nationwide Privacy and Data Protection Literacy Programme in schools, reinforcing…
Nigeria’s financial services sector is preparing for a major shift in data management following the Central Bank of Nigeria’s (CBN) new data localisation directive, and Clouds2Africa has announced that it is fully prepared to support the transition. Operated by TelCables Nigeria and powered by Angola Cables, the locally hosted cloud platform says it is already…
