DRC’s National Digital Plan: AI, Broadband Towers, and a Five-Year Infrastructure Bet
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has published its National Digital Plan 2026–2030. What the $2.7 billion infrastructure target actually means.
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African Data Workers Are Training Military AI Without Knowing It
African data annotation workers are feeding military AI systems — often without disclosure. The labour rights and ethics gap is widening.
CBN’s Double Mandate: Nigeria Fintechs Face Compounded AI Compliance Deadlines
Nigerian fintechs face simultaneous biometric and AI-AML compliance deadlines — and the rebuild is more expensive than either mandate alone.
Nigeria’s CBN Makes AI Mandatory in Anti-Money Laundering Compliance
The Central Bank of Nigeria has embedded AI into its AML compliance framework — the first time machine learning is mandatory under Nigerian banking law.
Africa’s AI Compute Gap: Why African Developers Pay 3x More to Build with AI
AWS has no GPU instances in Africa. GCP offers T4 inference-only. Azure has A10 in South Africa only. For Africa’s AI developers, an effective cost premium of 2.5 to 3 times makes AI development structurally more expensive than anywhere else in the world.
Africa’s LLM Localisation Race: Who Will Own the African Language Stack?
The race to build large language models for African languages is intensifying — and the structural stakes go beyond AI benchmarks.
Nigeria Mandates AI Anti-Money Laundering: What Banks and Fintechs Must Build by September 2027
CBN’s AI AML baseline standards set specific technology requirements for transaction monitoring — with a September 2027 compliance deadline.
Africa LLM Localisation Race: Who Will Own the African Language Stack?
A race is underway to build the foundational language models for Africa’s 2,000+ languages. The winner will shape who controls African AI for the next decade.
Africa’s Agricultural AI Problem: Why Smallholder Farms Are the Hardest Localisation Challenge
AI tools trained on North American farmland cannot identify cassava or sorghum. Why smallholder farming is Africa’s hardest AI localisation problem — and who is solving it.
AU-Google AI MOU: Can Partnership With a Tech Giant Deliver Sovereign AI for Africa?
The African Union signed a landmark AI partnership with Google. A critical analysis of what the MOU delivers, what it concedes, and whether sovereign AI is possible under its terms.
