Shaping Africa’s digital future – panel presses for agile policy, regional harmony, and inclusion.

Africa’s ability to turn connectivity into growth will hinge on smarter, faster policy rather than technology alone, according to a policy panel that urged governments to co-create rules with industry…

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Telco leaders outline playbook to turn subsea capacity into last-mile coverage in Africa.

Africa has abundant subsea bandwidth at its shores but struggles to move bits from the beach to businesses and homes inland. That was the message from industry leaders at the…

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After leapfrogging mobility – can Africa get AI-ready?

Africa’s next technology surge will be measured in data, compute, and skills - not SIM cards, stressed a high-level panel at Hyperscalers Convergence Africa 2025, asking whether the continent can pivot from mobile-first success to…

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Nigeria requires $10 billion annually to tackle energy poverty – experts.

The Africa Energy Conference 2025, held at the Lagos Business School, convened policymakers, investors, and industry executives to address one of Africa’s most pressing development challenges: delivering reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy to a…

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Africa must Harness Data and Computing Power to Develop AI – NITDA DG.

The Director-General of Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, has urged African nations to build up their own data sets and computing infrastructure to fully harness artificial intelligence…

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Africa’s data ambition meets its defining test at Hyperscalers Convergence Africa 2025.

Executives from Africa’s digital infrastructure, telecom, and cloud industries gathered in Lagos on Tuesday for Hyperscalers Convergence Africa 2025, calling for urgent reforms to unlock the continent’s next phase of digital…

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