Hotel & Hospitality Expo Africa 2026 Brings Procurement-Ready Tech To Africa’s Hospitality Sector
Hotels across the world are investing billions in digital infrastructure, and African operators are leading the way. African hotel chains lead global artificial intelligence (AI) adoption at 57% integration, far surpassing the 35% worldwide average (Source: Hotel.Report). Tech experimentation is over. Forward-thinking operators are now prioritizing procurement that delivers immediate return on investment. That shift […]
Gates Foundation Ebola Response Funding Announcement.
We are deeply concerned by the Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak affecting communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Our thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones, the communities facing uncertainty, and the frontline health workers, laboratory teams, responders, and community volunteers working under extremely difficult conditions to protect lives. No single […]
Digital Lifelines: How Telkom Is Connecting South Africa’s Learners To Opportunity
By Judy Vilakazi. Head of Telkom Foundation A computer lab with no connectivity. A screen without a manual. Learning materials with no classroom to teach them in. A satellite without a connection point. Technology, no matter how advanced, means little if it cannot reach the learners it is meant to empower. For learners, connectivity is […]
The Future Is Female Mentorship Program Returns For Its Sixth Edition In 2026
Africa’s Premier PR and Communications Mentorship Initiative for African Female Tech Founders Returns with New Strategic and Exciting ecosystem partnerships to Expand Support for Finalists The Future is Female Mentorship Program, the first and only PR and communications initiative dedicated exclusively to African female tech founders, today announced its return for a sixth edition following […]
Strengthening Policy To Foster More Equitable Responses To Future Health Crises
When a region is hit by health crisis upon health crisis, governments, scientists, researchers and the medical community must work together to manage immediate impacts on people’s health as well as the longer-term collateral damage. In West Africa — where countries have experienced a series of infectious disease outbreaks including cholera, measles, yellow fever and […]
Lagos AI Programme Sets Out To Build The Pipeline African Builders Have Been Missing
The Artificial Future, a multi-week AI initiative from YPIT, launches in Lagos this May with a hackathon for 250 builders, a global webinar series, and a conference bringing together investors, founders, and policymakers on June 13th Young People in Tech (YPIT), a global community founded in Lagos in 2022, has launched The Artificial Future: a […]
South Africa Raises Interest Rates
South Africa is increasingly using industrial clusters to move beyond exporting raw minerals and toward higher-value manufacturing, clean technology production, and advanced industrialization. Backed by partnerships involving the World Economic Forum, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and local research institutions, the strategy focuses on creating specialized manufacturing hubs that combine infrastructure, skills, logistics, and […]
Nigeria’s Tinubu Defends Painful Economic Reforms
Lesotho has become a striking example of how smaller African economies are navigating growing geopolitical pressure from the United States under President Donald Trump’s administration. A controversial new agreement between Washington and Maseru—reportedly tied to health funding, trade access, and broader strategic cooperation—has sparked criticism over transparency, sovereignty, and unequal negotiating power. Civil society groups […]
Kenya Overtakes Nigeria as Africa’s Venture Capital Leader
Africa’s long-term economic growth may depend less on advanced technology and more on whether children master basic literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving skills early in life. Policymakers, educators, and business leaders increasingly warn that weak foundational learning is undermining the continent’s ability to prepare young people for an AI-driven global economy. While Africa has the world’s […]
South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya Dominate Outsourcing Growth
Digital Africa has launched a $57 million seed fund aimed at supporting startups in African markets that have historically attracted limited venture capital funding. The initiative will focus on early-stage technology businesses operating outside the continent’s dominant investment hubs. Backed by French development financing, the fund seeks to improve access to capital for founders building […]
