Connecting Africa's hot startup of the month is Nigeria's Chassis, a cloud GPU infrastructure company that provides locally ...

Sub-Saharan Africa remains the world's most active mobile money region, driven by new registered accounts and rising monthly activity in East and West Africa. That's according to the new GSMA State of ...

Algeria's Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has announced the start of 5G deployment after the country's Regulatory Authority of Post and Electronic Communications (ARPCE) granted licenses to ...

The South African arm of pan-African telecommunications company MTN Group, in partnership with Swedish telecom company Ericsson, has completed a core network modernization project. MTN said the ...

Over the past five years, Ethiopia has made significant progress in liberalizing its telecom market to spur competition and growth and has significantly increased mobile penetration and uptake in 3G ...

South African headquartered Vodacom Group and SpaceX's satellite Internet service, Starlink, have partnered to deliver high-speed, low-latency broadband Internet to millions of businesses across ...

Niger's ruling military Junta has struck a deal with SpaceX's satellite Internet service, Starlink, to expand coverage in the poorly connected country. The Minister of Communication and Digital ...

The Zimbabwean government and a Russian consortium of cybersecurity technology companies, Cyberus Technology, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to train young people in cybersecurity ...

Somali telecoms and mobile money operator Hormuud Telecom has announced two new banking partnerships to advance interoperability with its mobile money offering EVC Plus. The operator signed ...

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is fast-tracking a procurement push to connect half a million African schools to the Internet. The UN agency said that after five years of planning, it is ...

Pan-African mobile operators Vodacom and Orange have announced a rural "towerco" partnership in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the aim of providing better network coverage for rural ...

Telecom-linked fraud is costing South Africa an estimated R5.3 billion (US$300 million) annually, with nearly 60% of mobile banking fraud linked to SIM swap crimes. That's according to the 2025 Sector ...