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GITEX Africa 2026 Day 2: STAR Summit — AI, Cybersecurity and Fintech Take Centre Stage
MARRAKECH — On Day 2 of GITEX Africa 2026, the event’s most anticipated new session — the Strategic Digital Defence AI Readiness Summit — took the main stage with a…
GITEX Africa 2026 Day 1: Africa’s AI Governance Moment Lands in Marrakech
GITEX Africa 2026 Day 1 in Marrakech: Morocco’s AI governance push, 55,000 delegates, data centre commitments, and the continent’s largest startup showcase.
Kenya’s Third Operator Is Failing Its Network Test. The CA Has the Numbers. Now What?
Telkom Kenya scored 52.76% in the CA’s latest QoS assessment against an 80% compliance threshold. That’s not a close miss. It is a structural failure of network quality at the country’s third operator.
South Africa’s Fibre Consolidation Is Done. Now the Real Test Begins.
The R11 billion Vodacom-Maziv deal closed in December after four years of regulatory attrition. What Remgro, Vodacom, and South Africa’s 900-plus ISPs do next will determine whether it was worth the wait.
Nigeria’s Two-Regulator Fraud Infrastructure: NCC TIRMS Is Live. CBN Is Building Its Own. They Don’t Talk to Each Other.
Nigeria has built two parallel fraud-fighting systems — one for telecoms, one for banking. TIRMS flags scam calls in real time. CBN mandates AI-powered AML. Neither shares an API or enforcement framework.
Africa’s AI Data Centre Race Has a Power Problem
MTN is spending $240 million on an AI data centre in Lagos. Microsoft and G42 are spending $1 billion in Kenya. The investment is real. So is the power problem that could undermine it.
Africa Spent $2 Billion on Chinese AI Surveillance. No Country Has Laws to Govern It.
When Rest of World published its investigation into Chinese AI surveillance infrastructure across Africa in March 2026, the headline figure was striking enough: eleven African countries have collectively spent more…
Africa’s Billion AI Surveillance Problem: No Laws, No Oversight
Eleven African countries have collectively spent more than $2 billion on Chinese-supplied AI surveillance systems. Not one has laws that adequately govern these deployments. For businesses in telecoms, financial services, and enterprise tech, the compliance exposure is real.
Africa Electricity Tariff Reform Wave 2026: Who Gains, Who Loses
Across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, electricity tariffs have risen sharply in 2026. The reform wave was necessary — but not equally shared.
Africa Electricity Tariff Reform Wave 2026: Who Gains, Who Loses, and What It Means for the Energy Transition
Across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, electricity tariffs have risen sharply in 2026. The reform wave was necessary — but not equally shared.
