Airtel Africa Foundation Offers Full Fellowships to 20 Ugandan Students Pursuing Technology Degrees The Airtel Africa Foundation is offering full fellowships to 20 exceptional first-year undergraduate students in Uganda, providing financial support for young people pursuing careers in technology and innovation. The fellowship covers tuition, accommodation and academic materials, as well as a fixed stipend…
Intron Voice AI has launched Sahara v2.5, an upgraded version of its voice artificial intelligence platform designed to improve support for Africa’s multilingual communication patterns. The latest release supports 63 languages and introduces bilingual conversations across 12 African language pairs, enabling voice AI systems to better handle the way users naturally switch between languages during…
South Africa is positioning itself to play a larger role in Africa’s growing artificial intelligence infrastructure ecosystem through a strategic partnership between Stratos Lab, ECOBLOX and Digital Parks Africa. The collaboration will see the deployment of what the partners describe as Africa’s most powerful AI Cloud, delivering 7.2 EFLOPS of sovereign AI computing capacity. The…
Egypt is positioning its technology and business services offshoring sector as a major driver of economic growth, foreign direct investment, service exports and skilled employment, with the industry increasingly shifting toward higher-value digital services powered by Generative AI. Supported by policy frameworks from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and the Information Technology…
Revolut has launched Revolut Research, a dedicated division within its broader AI Department focused on developing next-generation machine learning architecture for financial services. With more than 80 million retail customers across over 40 markets, Revolut said the new division will provide a unified foundation for its proprietary AI deployments and machine learning initiatives. The unit…
Nigeria’s electronic payment transactions recorded mixed performance in the first quarter of 2026, with the overall value of transactions rising despite a decline in transaction volumes across the six payment channels tracked by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). According to CBN data covering cheques, ATMs, point-of-sale terminals, web payments, mobile payments and Nigeria Instant…
Nigeria has inaugurated the National Sovereign Cloud Initiative Implementation Taskforce (NSCI-ITF), marking a new phase in the country’s efforts to move from developing its sovereign cloud framework to coordinated implementation. The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is coordinating the National Sovereign Cloud Initiative (NSCI), which provides a framework for strengthening Nigeria’s digital sovereignty and…
NTT DATA and Palo Alto Networks have announced a multi-year strategic alliance aimed at helping organizations securely adopt artificial intelligence, modernize cybersecurity, simplify complex technology environments and strengthen cyber resilience for the AI era. The agreement, which represents Palo Alto Networks’ first strategic alliance of this kind with a global systems integrator, targets $1 billion…
