Article Written By Sanel’Ekhaya Ntathu For more than a century, South Africa’s mining industry has measured success in tonnes  extracted, metres drilled, and shifts completed. Those metrics still matter, but they no longer  define competitiveness. The industry’s biggest challenge is no longer geological, it’s how  quickly operations can turn data into better decisions. Artificial intelligence […]

Nigeria’s 2027 general election will be the first in the country’s history to take place with generative AI tools in wide circulation. The information environment around it has already been transformed, according to Navigating Nigeria 2027, a new strategic communications and reputation report from Bloomwit Africa. Fabricated audio, video, and images of Nigerian public figures […]

Namibia and China have opened a new front in their space cooperation with the formal launch of a joint AI satellite initiative aimed at strengthening Namibian technical capabilities in satellite engineering and space science. Chinese satellite company STAR.VISION confirmed on LinkedIn that it had commenced the collaborative project following discussions with Namibia’s Minister of Education, […]

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, working with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, have built a tool designed to uncover hidden problems in the datasets used to train medical AI — a class of research whose implications land squarely in African healthcare, where the imaging systems, patient populations and clinical workflows behind training data often […]

Inside Kampala’s recording studios, AI has moved from a distant idea to a working part of daily music production — helping Ugandan artists write lyrics, craft melodies and polish tracks in a fraction of the time and cost it once took, while opening professional-grade output to producers who could never have afforded it. It has […]

The World Bank Group has pledged to support Egypt’s push to build a competitive digital economy and accelerate AI adoption, as senior officials from both sides reviewed the country’s broadband expansion and the rollout of the second version of its National AI Strategy in a Cairo meeting. Minister of Communications and Information Technology Raafat Hindi […]

Morocco has announced a new Women’s Leadership Academy for the Digital Era in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), positioning the initiative as part of the country’s broader effort to close the gender gap in senior technology, public administration and executive roles. The Academy is designed to equip women leaders with digital, leadership […]

The University of Benin has secured named backing for an on-campus AI Centre from two of the highest-profile figures in Nigerian business and technology philanthropy, at the launch of a new trust fund designed to consolidate long-term investment in the federal university’s development. Tom Ilube, CBE — the Nigerian-British technology entrepreneur best known for founding […]

Tomorrow Foundation has signed a new three-year partnership with the Thunderbird School of Global Management and Arizona State University to deliver the 100 Million Learners Initiative in Nigeria, extending the entrepreneurship-and-leadership education programme into what is one of Africa’s largest youth workforce markets. The initiative — a Thunderbird/ASU global programme launched in...

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa has begun a series of national consultations to develop a harmonized regional AI strategy across its 21 member states, part of a broader push by the bloc to align rules that support AI adoption and digital growth from Egypt in the north to Eswatini in the south. […]

Kenya and France reaffirmed a commitment to help young African researchers turn AI research into businesses and jobs, extending a bilateral programme designed to close the gap between the continent’s scientific output and its high-skilled digital employment. The commitment was formalized on July 14 by Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs, Musalia Mudavadi, […]

Egyptian construction-tech startup Kuadra has closed a funding round led by Cairo-based Edafa Venture and is preparing to launch what it calls the first unified AI-powered platform for managing the full project lifecycle at contracting companies — a bet that one of the country’s biggest but least digitally mature sectors is ready to automate its […]

Cape Town–based customer service company Cue has raised $5 million in a primary funding round co-led by South African venture capital firm Knife Capital and FAM Investments, and will deploy the capital toward its next generation of autonomous AI agents, international market expansion and deeper investment in voice, security and enterprise integrations. Founded in 2015, […]

Pan-African data centre operator Raxio Group has passed $380 million in committed capital after existing shareholders Roha, a US-based infrastructure investor, and French infrastructure firm Meridiam increased their stakes, and the company reported that contracted power capacity grew sixfold in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year — a jump […]

This story is a rewrite of “Can Artificial Intelligence stop mass fish deaths on Lake Victoria?” by Davis J. Weddi, produced by SciDev.Net’s Sub-Saharan Africa English desk with support from the Pulitzer Center. Original reporting and photography by Davis J. Weddi. In early February 2026, phones belonging to more than 300 tilapia farmers on Kenya’s […]

Zimbabwe’s Nhimbe Trust has been selected for UNESCO support to run “Fearless Frontiers,” a Southern Africa–wide project focused on strengthening digital media capacities, promoting the ethical use of artificial intelligence and defending artistic freedom — the strongest AI-focused element in a wider tranche of four Southern African creative-sector initiatives backed under UNESCO...

Johannesburg’s Noordgesig Library marked South African Librarians’ Day on July 10, 2026 with a programme centred on how artificial intelligence is reshaping libraries, education and access to information — the latest in a widening set of South African library-sector conversations about how the profession should respond to AI. The event was hosted by the City […]

Djibouti used the sidelines of the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva last week to press its national AI and digital-transformation agenda in talks with the International Telecommunication Union and Smart Africa, part of a broader push to translate the small Horn of Africa nation’s connectivity advantages into an operational AI ecosystem. Minister […]

The Broadcasters Convention – West Africa 2026 will spotlight AI-driven content discovery and personalized user experiences on video-on-demand platforms as one of its featured discussions, organiser Broadcast Media Africa (BMA) has announced. Now in its next annual edition, the convention will run 22-23 September at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra, Ghana — a move […]

As artificial intelligence and data-centre growth place new pressure on power systems around the world, USP&E is bringing AI-powered digital twin technology to African power projects – not as an imported off-the-shelf tool, but as a platform built around the realities of operating on the continent. At Africa Energy Forum 2026 in Cape Town, USP&E […]

Nigerian jihadist groups have “institutionalized” the use of commercial AI chatbots, deploying them for tasks ranging from battlefield strategy to bombmaking, according to a new study whose author warns that the pace of adoption has outrun the safeguards Big Tech has put in place. The study, published last week by Antonia Juelich, a researcher affiliated […]