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A new UN Economic Commission for Africa report argues that the continent’s growth has relied too heavily on labor and capital accumulation rather than productivity gains, leaving the structural transformation from subsistence farming to high-value industries frustratingly slow. The solution, the report contends, lies in frontier technologies: AI, machine learning, smart agriculture, digital finance, and […]
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Cassava Technologies (www.CassavaTechnologies.com), a global technology leader of African heritage, today announced its National Sovereign Cloud (NSC) solution, designed to support African governments with secure, locally-governed digital infrastructure that enables the deployment of AI-enabled public services. The solution provides government customers with Cloud, Cyber Security, Compute AI infrastructure, Local-Language AI models, and an AI Institute […]
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The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) today approved an investment of 6.5 million euros in the Saviu II fund in order to support technology start-ups through their seed phase and first institutional fundraising, mainly in French-speaking Central and West Africa. The Bank Group will invest 4.5 million euros as equity […]
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New BCG-PxD report shows how Digital Agriculture Units can help governments turn digital strategies into real farmer impact Digital agriculture could unlock up to USD 500 billion in additional agricultural GDP each year across low- and middle-income countries, if proven solutions can successfully scale beyond pilots. The From Strategy to Scale: Why Delivery Matters in Digital […]
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,18 February 2026-/African Media Agency(AMA)/ – Yango Group, a global technology company digitalising urban services, today announced that its advanced AI-powered routing technologies saved African urban commuters almost 2 million hours in 2025 across multiple cities, contributing to a global total of more than 5 million hours saved across over 20 cities […]
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African governments are turning to technology to solve a massive tax problem. With foreign aid drying up, nations are scrambling to generate revenue from their own economies—but roughly 85% of workers operate in the informal sector, making traditional tax collection nearly impossible. Digital tools now offer a solution. Countries like Rwanda use electronic billing machines […]
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Dubai-based Maser Group is placing a bold $1.6 billion bet on Africa’s future by investing in AI-powered data centers and large-scale farmland projects across the continent. The company has already committed about $300 million to land and asset-backed ventures, aiming to tackle rising food insecurity while meeting soaring demand for digital infrastructure. Backed by its […]
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A high-level meeting has been held in Addis Ababa between Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), and Sheikh Shakhboot bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, the UAE Minister of State. The meeting built upon the first round of political consultations that took place in Abu Dhabi on September 13, 2025, under the […]
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After Sudan’s national museum in Khartoum was looted during the early months of the country’s civil war, a digital reconstruction is now giving its lost treasures a second life online. With nearly all 100,000 artifacts stolen or destroyed, researchers turned to technology as the only way to preserve the country’s cultural memory. Drawing on old […]
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