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…
Zambia is intensifying its digital transformation efforts in rural areas through a series of ICT interventions designed to improve public service delivery, government connectivity, efficiency and accountability. The SMART Zambia Northern Provincial ICT Unit is implementing digital upgrades across Mpulungu, Mbala and Lupososhi districts, with the programme focusing on government human resource systems, ICT infrastructure,…
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…
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is urging Nigerian public institutions to prioritise homegrown digital solutions and adopt a “Nigeria First” approach in technology procurement. NITDA Director-General Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi said modernising public procurement should extend beyond administrative processes, describing it as a mechanism for building resilient public institutions, enforcing rigorous technology standards and…
Members of the Global Partnership for Ethiopia (GPE) Board have commended the rapid growth and achievements of Safaricom Ethiopia during the company’s first five years of operations in the Ethiopian telecommunications market. The recognition came during a town hall session with Safaricom Ethiopia employees, where board members and senior leadership reviewed the company’s progress, key…
Cassava Technologies has announced that its Cassava AI Factory has been ranked 36th globally in the latest TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, highlighting the growing availability of advanced artificial intelligence computing infrastructure in Africa. The company said the ranking reflects the continent’s increasing capacity to support AI development, with the Cassava AI…
Cameroon Telecommunications (CAMTEL) has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting Cameroon’s digital transformation, identifying interoperability, digital identity and secure data exchange as key pillars of the country’s emerging digital public infrastructure. The commitment was made during the Internet Governance Forum of Cameroon (FGI Cameroon 2026), which concluded on August 20 following three days of discussions on…
