South Africa's traditional measure of the digital divide — whether people can get online — is no longer adequate, Deputy ...

Microsoft has appointed Angela Nganga as Country Lead for East Africa, placing an executive whose background is in government ...

Deloitte's Egyptian technology hub has grown from 23 professionals to more than 900, and the firm is committing a further $80 ...

Mastercard is embedding card payments directly into WhatsApp conversations through a collaboration with commerce platform ...

More than 75% of industrial AI pilot projects never reach large-scale deployment, and over 80% of manufacturers cannot extend ...

The continent needs to create productive opportunities for a rapidly expanding working-age population. Yet some of the routine tasks through which people ...

Tether AI Research has released open-source translation models covering 19 African languages that run entirely on smartphones ...

Around military bases in northeastern Nigeria, deep trenches serve as a low-tech defence against Islamic State West Africa ...

South Africa should not compete to host large AI data centres, according to an AI implementation expert whose argument cuts ...

Ugandan artificial intelligence startup SANDI AI Technologies has secured a major milestone after emerging as the Grand Prize ...

AI demand for memory and computing hardware has pushed up US core inflation by roughly as much as the tariffs imposed early ...

Lelapa AI is adding text-to-speech to its product line and preparing to take its language technology outside Africa, chief ...