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GITEX Africa Day 2: MTN’s CISO on Why Africa Is Building Faster Than It Can Secure

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The STAR Summit put Africa’s cybersecurity readiness gap on the main stage for the first time. MTN Group CISO Justin Williams delivered the diagnosis. GITEX Africa’s fintech track wrestled with who governs digital money across 54 countries.

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GITEX Africa Day 1: AI Governance Takes Centre Stage in Marrakech

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April 8, 2026

Morocco’s Maroc Digital 2030 strategy, hyperscale data centre commitments, and 800 startups competing in the Supernova Challenge headline the first day of GITEX Africa 2026 in Marrakech.

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Ghana Just Did What No West African Country Has Done: Put a Price on Charging an EV

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April 6, 2026

On April 1, Ghana’s energy regulator cut electricity bills and buried the continent’s most consequential EV policy signal in the same decision. The…

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Kenya Generates 35% of Its Power From the Earth. The Rest of Africa’s Rift Valley Has Built Almost Nothing.

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April 5, 2026

The Great Rift Valley runs 6,000 kilometres through the heart of Africa, carrying volcanic heat sufficient to power the continent’s most reliable…

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Nigeria Signs Africa's First Binding AI Law

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Nigeria Signs Africa’s First Binding AI Law

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April 4, 2026

President Tinubu signed Nigeria’s National Digital Economy and E-Governance Bill into law on 27 March 2026, making Nigeria the first African country to enact binding AI regulation. NITDA gains powers to license, audit, and penalise high-risk AI systems.

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Nigeria Has Two Real-Time Fraud Systems Going Live at Once. They Don’t Talk to Each Other.

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April 3, 2026

The NCC’s TIRMS scam-flagging mandate goes live in April 2026, the same month CBN is pushing mandatory AI-powered AML baselines. Two regulators, two fraud systems, no shared architecture — and Nigeria’s telcos caught in the middle.

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Scale × Mastercard: Pan-African Card Issuance Partnership — 5 Markets

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April 3, 2026

Card issuance in Africa has always been a coordination problem. To issue a Visa or Mastercard-branded payment card, a fintech must assemble a stack of…

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Kenya CA QoS Report 2025: Telkom Fails Compliance Threshold — Enforcement Risk in East Africa

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April 3, 2026

Kenya’s Communications Authority released its annual Quality of Service assessment for FY2024-2025 on April 1, 2026. The verdict on Telkom Kenya is…

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South Africa’s Biggest Fibre Deal Is Done. Now Parliament Wants to Know Why the Regulator Changed Its Mind.

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March 30, 2026

The R11bn Vodacom-Maziv transaction closed in December 2025, handing Remgro a R2.66 billion dividend and giving Vodacom a 30% stake in South Africa’s dominant fibre network. Three months on, Parliament is asking why the Competition Commission reversed its earlier opposition — and whether the Open Access conditions are worth the paper they’re printed on.

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Africa’s Language AI Infrastructure Layer: Who Is Building the Stack That Makes LLMs Work in Hausa, Swahili and Amharic

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March 29, 2026

Large language models work in English. They work tolerably in French and Arabic. In Hausa — spoken by 80 million people — they largely do not. In Yoruba…

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GITEX Africa Day 2: MTN’s CISO on Why Africa Is Building Faster Than It Can Secure

GITEX Africa Day 1: AI Governance Takes Centre Stage in Marrakech

Ghana Just Did What No West African Country Has Done: Put a Price on Charging an EV

Kenya Generates 35% of Its Power From the Earth. The Rest of Africa’s Rift Valley Has Built Almost Nothing.

Nigeria Signs Africa’s First Binding AI Law

Nigeria Has Two Real-Time Fraud Systems Going Live at Once. They Don’t Talk to Each Other.

Scale × Mastercard: Pan-African Card Issuance Partnership — 5 Markets

Kenya CA QoS Report 2025: Telkom Fails Compliance Threshold — Enforcement Risk in East Africa

South Africa’s Biggest Fibre Deal Is Done. Now Parliament Wants to Know Why the Regulator Changed Its Mind.

Africa’s Language AI Infrastructure Layer: Who Is Building the Stack That Makes LLMs Work in Hausa, Swahili and Amharic

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