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Tesla has finally shown its long-delayed next-generation Roadster, and it did so with a stunt that looked closer to a film set than a…
Read the storySenegal is building a domestic supply chain for laptops, smartphones and other digital devices, and this week it signed a major partnership to speed…
Kenya has spent years building a reputation as one of Africa’s most connected economies. M-PESA moved money before most of the world had mobile…
A delivery address should tell a rider where to go. In Nigeria, it often comes with a second set of instructions: a nearby landmark,…
Airtel Uganda has switched on Airtel Starlink, letting customers send messages from places with no mobile signal, with no dish or extra hardware needed.…
Roughly 300,000 children in Kenya have a hearing impairment, according to the Kenya Society for Deaf Children. Just 20,000 of them were enrolled in…
Nigeria has cut the delivery timeline for its $2 billion national fibre network from five years to three. Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital…
Kenya's draft National Payment System Bill would require banks and mobile money providers to share customer data with licensed third parties under open finance…
Côte d'Ivoire has approved an eight-year partnership with Zipline to expand drone delivery from one distribution centre to ten nationwide. The network will serve…
Biochar Industrial Group (BIG), a climate-tech startup founded by former executives of Nigerian agro-processing company Releaf, has closed a $1.5 million pre-seed round to…
Nigeria’s Federal Government has opened the application portal for the Student Venture Capital Grant (S-VCG), a ₦50 million equity-free grant programme designed to turn…
The company has secured its initial ASIC fleet for a 9MW computing node in southern Nigeria, with the first batch ready to ship from…
Apple has confirmed its most significant hardware lineup in years, introducing the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and its first-ever foldable device,…
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