African tech startup Cybervergent has raised $3 million in seed funding to accelerate the growth of its artificial intelligence-powered compliance, risk, audit and data security platform across the continent. The round was co-led by Ventures Platform Fund and Atlantica Ventures VC Fund. Proceeds will support Cybervergent’s expansion into Africa and the Middle East while furthering […]

This year will be a decisive turning point in how organisations deploy and derive value from artificial intelligence (AI). This is according to Cliff de Wit, Accelera Digital Group (ADG) Chief Innovation Officer. De Wit says businesses will move beyond experimentation this year. They will graduate into true operationalisation, with AI becoming a dependable and […]

A Moroccan electrical engineer and ICT researcher who spent two decades working on mobile networks and railway systems is now making the case that artificial intelligence cannot reach its full potential without the full participation of women — and that Morocco, despite its academic promise, still has significant ground to cover. Dr. Sofia Ghacham, founder […]

The GSMA and Zindi, an AI challenge platform focused on emerging markets, have launched a competition aimed at identifying vulnerabilities in large language models when deployed across Africa’s more than 2,000 languages — a gap organizers say poses a significant blind spot in global AI safety standards. The African Trust and Safety LLM Challenge was […]

40,000 voices, 500 Accents. 24 New Languages. Intron Sahara-v2 Sets the Standard for African Voice AI Built on 14 million+ audio clips, 50,000 hours, from 40,000+ African speakers, the new release outperforms leading global models on several benchmarks, and introduces the inaugural 2026 Africa Voice AI Report “Sorry I didn’t catch that” – a familiar frustration […]

Google is rolling out support for 13 African languages across its AI-powered search features, expanding access to tools including AI Overviews and AI Mode for millions of users across the continent. For South Africa, the newly supported languages are Afrikaans, Sesotho, Setswana and isiZulu, allowing users to search and interact with AI in their preferred […]

The University of Venda has signed a five-year memorandum of understanding with the African Technology Forum to advance artificial intelligence education, digital innovation and technology-driven talent development, the institutions announced Friday. The signing ceremony was held at the university’s Council Chambers in Thohoyandou on March 6. The partnership establishes a structured framework...

Nigeria’s data protection regulator has aligned with more than 60 global counterparts to address privacy violations stemming from artificial intelligence tools capable of generating highly realistic images and videos of identifiable individuals. The Nigeria Data Protection Commission endorsed a joint statement coordinated by the Global Privacy Assembly’s International Enforcement...

Algeria’s Minister of Post and Telecommunications Sid Ali Zerrouki participated in a high-level meeting on AI governance in telecommunications on the sidelines of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, using the occasion to outline the country’s ambitions to become a regional technology hub. The meeting was organized by the United Nations Development Programme and the GSM […]

For centuries, Africa has powered global economic growth through its resources, labour, and human potential, yet too little of that prosperity has been realised on the continent itself. Today, artificial intelligence presents a rare opportunity to change that trajectory. As the global economic order undergoes its most significant transformation since the end of the Second […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a central driver of today’s digital economy. Behind the impressive breakthroughs in generative AI, Natural Language Processing, and predictive analytics lies an even bigger story: the massive investments being made in AI infrastructure. Cloud hyperscalers, chipmakers, and global tech players are pouring billions into data centres, high-performance...

Kenya’s Ministry of Health plans to integrate artificial intelligence into the country’s community health system to improve service delivery and help frontline health workers make faster, better-informed decisions. The ministry said it will collaborate with Barcelona-based Causal Foundry to deploy AI across three key areas: managing health data, guiding clinical decisions and enhancing...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has directed the National Training Academy to implement a rigorous AI and digitalization-based testing system to ensure impartial assessment, during a meeting with the institution’s Board of Trustees. El-Sisi also instructed the academy to establish strategic regional and global partnerships with prestigious institutions that share its goals. The...

Egypt will introduce programming and artificial intelligence courses to technical school curricula beginning in the 2026-2027 academic year, extending a coding and AI initiative already underway at the general secondary level. The expansion builds on a policy launched in the 2025-2026 academic year that added coding and AI instruction to the curriculum for first-year general […]