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Analysis: Pushing Back from Big Tech: Africa’s Hard Road to AI Sovereignty
The continent’s biggest tech economies want to own their AI future. The infrastructure they need still belongs to Big Tech.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Beyond the Signal: Why Africa’s Next Telecom Era Will Be Built Beneath the Surface
The subsea cable buildout underway represents the most significant transformation in the continent’s digital infrastructure since mobile telephony arrived in the 1990s. But capacity without distribution remains an abstraction; redundancy without policy coordination remains a vulnerability.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: 810 Million Women Still Not Using Mobile Internet in Low- And Middle-Income Countries, Compared to 595 Million Men
Persistent barriers such as those related to affordability, skills and safety concerns continue to limit women’s digital inclusion in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Finance
- Region
- Global
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After Securing $260 Million in 2025, Madagascar Billionaire Lands Another €170 Million for Telecom Growth
Madagascar billionaire Hassanein Hiridjee has secured another major vote of confidence from international financiers after AXIAN Telecom landed a €170 million ($196 million) loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), extending a funding streak that has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars into the fast-growing African telecom operator.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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Analysis: AI Offers Promise for Agriculture, but Smallholder Farmers Risk Being Left Behind
Precision tools lift yields in rich countries, but without finance, training and data rights, small farmers in poorer regions may miss out.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Nigeria’s Tanda Launched to Digitise Informal Markets in Africa
The platform supports digital product listings, local and remote purchasing, wholesale pricing for bulk buyers and resellers, escrow and fulfillment coordination, and AI-powered voice and chat commerce assistance.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital inclusion, e-commerce, MSMEs
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Indian Founders Flip Y Combinator’s $25,000 AI Tokens for Quick Bucks
A grey market for discounted AI credits has emerged following Y Combinator's Startup School in India. Attendees are selling free credits for AWS, Azure, and OpenAI at reduced prices, with some facing activation issues and restrictions. These messages are from founders, engineers and student builders.
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- Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: AI Is Killing the Cheap Smartphone
In 2026, the International Data Corporation, which tracks the smartphone market, predicted that worldwide smartphone shipments would fall 13 percent, their largest single-year decline ever.
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- Technology
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- Global
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