The Nairobi AI Forum 2026, convened on 9 and 10 February at a gathering that drew more than 500 participants from Africa, Europe, and the G7, has emerged as a defining moment for the continent's artif…
South Africa has established itself as Africa's space power, operating the continent's most sophisticated satellite programme and hosting world-class radio astronomy infrastructure that is attracting …
Ghana's network of coding academies and technology training centres has become a continental reference point for digital skills development, producing a generation of engineers and software developers…
Ethiopia's telecommunications liberalisation — long delayed but finally executed — has unleashed a connectivity revolution, with mobile penetration, internet access, and digital financial services exp…
Rwanda has ranked first on the inaugural African Artificial Intelligence Readiness Index, published by the Smart Africa Alliance, outscoring 54 other nations on metrics including digital infrastructur…
Rwanda's nationally deployed drone delivery network, the most advanced of its kind anywhere in the world, has transformed healthcare logistics across the country's rugged terrain and spawned a global …
Tunisia has positioned itself as Africa's cybersecurity capital, leveraging its educated engineering workforce, strategic Mediterranean location, and forward-thinking digital policy to build a securit…
Nairobi's technology ecosystem, long celebrated under the Silicon Savannah banner, has crossed a defining threshold with the emergence of its first wave of billion-dollar companies — a development tha…
Cameroon's agricultural technology startup ecosystem has emerged as one of Central Africa's most vibrant innovation communities, developing digital tools that are transforming smallholder farming, red…
Egypt's New Administrative Capital, rising from the desert 45 kilometres east of Cairo, is the most ambitious smart city project in Africa — a $58 billion investment in future-ready urban infrastructu…
Senegal has emerged as West Africa's solar technology hub, combining ambitious national electrification targets with a thriving domestic solar innovation ecosystem that is designing, manufacturing, an…
Nigeria's artificial intelligence startup ecosystem has announced itself on the world stage, with a new generation of companies applying machine learning and data science to African-specific problems …