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# tech.africa: African technology news since 2004

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## Posts
- [CINX adds two Cape Town sites as peering stays concentrated](https://tech.africa/cinx-oadc-cape-town-expansion/): CINX has gone live at two OADC sites in Cape Town, taking it to six locations, while 87 of its 122 networks still connect inside a single building.
- [Nigeria’s only subsea cable outside Lagos, two years on](https://tech.africa/qua-iboe-cable-landing-akwa-ibom/): MainOne has extended metro fibre to Uyo airport, the latest step in the Qua Iboe build-out. Nigeria still has just one cable landing outside Lagos.
- [AFRICLOUD Opens Its Lagos Region: Nigeria Joins Lisbon and Johannesburg](https://tech.africa/africloud-opens-its-lagos-region-nigeria-joins-lisbon-and-johannesburg/): Cloud infrastructure provider AFRICLOUD has launched its third region in Lagos, providing Nigerian businesses with in-country cloud servers for the first time and bringing West Africa its closest AFRICLOUD location yet.
- [Truecaller asks users what they want to buy](https://tech.africa/truecaller-pulse-declared-intent-ads/): Truecaller has launched Pulse from Lagos, an ad product that asks users directly about purchase intent instead of inferring it from behaviour.
- [AI will amplify African education’s gaps, not close them](https://tech.africa/aithos-wits-ai-education-roundtable/): At a Wits roundtable, Vaxowave's Kume Luvhani argued AI amplifies whatever system it enters, and that delivery, not curriculum, is Africa's bottleneck.
- [ICASA hears satellite spectrum rules on 19 August](https://tech.africa/icasa-satellite-spectrum-hearings-august/): ICASA holds hearings on 19 and 20 August on satellite spectrum amendments covering space-segment registration, fees and blanket terminal licensing.
- [Liquid runs a dozen light-beam links across Lagos](https://tech.africa/taara-liquid-lagos-light-beam-links/): Liquid has deployed nearly a dozen Taara light-beam links across Lagos, carrying up to 20 Gbps over 20 km without trenching or spectrum licences.
- [CDN77 joins JINX as networks add second African exchanges](https://tech.africa/cdn77-jinx-african-ixp-second-exchange/): CDN77 has joined JINX and Kaopu Cloud HK and Africloud have joined IXPN Lagos, as networks with an African presence add a second exchange.
- [Five African governments back African-language AI push](https://tech.africa/atlas-umoja-ai-abuja-declaration/): Benin, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria and Togo are backing ATLAS Umoja AI, launched in Abuja alongside a ministerial declaration on meaningful connectivity.
- [OpenAI Africa lead joins Africa Tech Festival line-up](https://tech.africa/africa-tech-festival-2026-speakers/): Africa Tech Festival named its first 2026 speakers, including South Africa's communications minister, Google and Amazon Africa MDs, and OpenAI's Africa lead.
- [Q&A: building a digital Islamic bank in Somaliland](https://tech.africa/wadaag-bank-somaliland-digital-banking/): Somaliland's sixth bank starts operations this month. Its chief executive on digital-first banking, Sharia structures and the correspondent-banking problem.
- [Afreximbank and Gebeya offer $50k to African creators](https://tech.africa/afreximbank-gebeya-canex-create-thon/): Afreximbank and the pan-African tech platform Gebeya are running a $50,000 competition that challenges African creators to build working music, video and gaming projects in a four-day sprint.
- [ICASA maps South Africa’s mobile spectrum plan to 2030](https://tech.africa/icasa-imt-roadmap-spectrum-2030/): South Africa's regulator has published a draft IMT Roadmap, an updated National Radio Frequency Plan and a public spectrum database, setting out how much new mobile spectrum it wants released by 2030.
- [rAge becomes a gaming and esports festival for 2026](https://tech.africa/rage-mettlestate-gaming-festival-2026/): rAge, South Africa's best-known gaming event, is partnering with esports company Mettlestate to relaunch as a full gaming, esports and digital-culture festival in Johannesburg this November.
- [African crowd builds 4,216 AI safety tests in 8 languages](https://tech.africa/african-trust-safety-llm-benchmark/): A GSMA-backed challenge run on Zindi has produced a benchmark of 4,216 verified adversarial tests for AI safety in African languages, drawn from more than 42,000 submissions by 320 participants.
- [Dimension Data raises $2.9m to expand Nigeria fibre](https://tech.africa/dimension-data-nigeria-fibre-bond/): Dimension Data Limited has closed the first tranche of a N20 billion bond programme, raising N4.05 billion to expand fibre infrastructure for Nigeria's growing demand for connectivity.
- [Vodacom Lesotho lets M-Pesa users invest from M50](https://tech.africa/vodacom-lesotho-mpesa-tsetela/): Vodacom Lesotho and STANLIB have launched Tsetela, a mobile investment product inside M-Pesa that lets customers start saving from M50, or about US$3, with interest paid daily.
- [AfDB lends €100m for Africa’s first battery gigafactory](https://tech.africa/morocco-battery-gigafactory-afdb/): The African Development Bank has approved a €100m loan to build the continent's first integrated battery gigafactory, in Morocco, anchoring an African supply chain for electric vehicles and grid storage.
- [Ericsson opens telecoms learnership in SA’s Eastern Cape](https://tech.africa/ericsson-sa-telecoms-learnership/): Ericsson South Africa has enrolled its first cohort of 15 learners in a five-year field-operations learnership, aiming to build local telecoms-infrastructure skills against a backdrop of high youth unemployment.
- [PwC: AI is reshaping how South Africa’s mines decide](https://tech.africa/pwc-ai-south-africa-mining-2026/): A third PwC and Minerals Council study finds AI is already changing decisions in South African mining, but leaders are clear that skills, data and culture, not the technology, decide whether it works.
- [Sub-Saharan Africa took in $205bn in crypto, Nigeria leads](https://tech.africa/sub-saharan-africa-crypto-205bn/): Sub-Saharan Africa received more than $205 billion in on-chain value in a year, up 52%, with Nigeria alone accounting for $92bn. Now the enterprise infrastructure is starting to follow the adoption.
- [AFR-IX lights up Raxio data centres in Angola, Mozambique](https://tech.africa/afr-ix-raxio-angola-mozambique/): Pan-African carrier AFR-IX Telecom has deployed its network inside Raxio's Tier III data centres in Angola and Mozambique, adding route diversity to two of the continent's less-connected markets.
- [Ghana opens 5G spectrum bidding after NGIC monopoly ends](https://tech.africa/ghana-5g-spectrum-applications/): One day after stripping NGIC of its 5G exclusivity, Ghana's regulator invited applications for spectrum across three bands, open to operators and 100% Ghanaian-owned new entrants. Applications close 6 August 2026.
- [Johannesburg becomes Africa’s first Azure ExpressRoute Metro](https://tech.africa/johannesburg-azure-expressroute-metro/): Africa Data Centres' JHB1 has been designated a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Metro peering location, pairing with Teraco's JT1 to make Johannesburg the only African metro on Azure's dual-site resilience list.
- [African banks enter an AI ‘prove it’ phase, report finds](https://tech.africa/african-banking-ai-roi-report-2026/): A survey of 277 banking executives across 37 African countries finds budgets still rising but boards now demanding proof that AI pays for itself. A third of institutions still do not measure the return at all.
- [Ghana strips NGIC of its 5G wholesale monopoly](https://tech.africa/ghana-ngic-5g-exclusivity-removed/): The National Communications Authority has removed the exclusivity condition from Next-Gen InfraCo's wholesale licence, ending the single-network model Ghana built its 5G rollout around. NGIC had 49 sites live against a 4,400-site plan.
- [Raxio data-centre capital tops $380m on investor boost](https://tech.africa/raxio-380m-committed-capital/): Raxio has lifted committed capital to $380m as Roha and Meridiam raise their stakes, after contracting six times more data-centre power in H1 2026.
- [CSquared adds 2Africa capacity to cut West Africa cable risk](https://tech.africa/csquared-2africa-west-capacity/): CSquared has switched on 2Africa West subsea capacity to add route diversity across West and Central Africa after repeated cable cuts disrupted the region.
- [ICASA fines Session Telecoms R6m for numbering breaches](https://tech.africa/icasa-session-telecoms-sanction/): ICASA has fined Session Telecoms R6m for misusing phone numbers in an interconnect-bypass case, with 24 months of compliance monitoring to follow.
- [Paratus, Powertel switch on Zimbabwe cross-border fibre](https://tech.africa/paratus-powertel-zimbabwe-fibre/): Paratus Zimbabwe and Powertel have switched on the first phase of a Botswana-Zimbabwe-Zambia fibre link, live between Plumtree and Bulawayo at 800Gbps.
- [Renew Capital picks 15 African embedded-finance startups](https://tech.africa/renew-capital-emfi-15/): Renew Capital has selected 15 companies from over 500 applicants across 48 African countries for its EmFi Series, betting embedded finance can close the SME credit gap.
- [BEAC joins PAPSS, linking Central Africa to instant payments](https://tech.africa/beac-joins-papss/): The Bank of Central African States has joined PAPSS, connecting the six CEMAC countries to Africa's instant-payment network, now spanning 28 countries.
- [Google unveils Africa AI and infrastructure push at summit](https://tech.africa/google-building-for-africa-summit/): Google used its first Building for Africa Cloud Summit in Johannesburg to unveil a new Eastern Cape connectivity hub, an AI lab in Ghana and developer funding.
- [Vodacom completes $2.1bn Safaricom deal for 55% stake](https://tech.africa/vodacom-safaricom-deal-completed/): Vodacom has closed its $2.1bn purchase of a further 20% of Safaricom, lifting its stake to about 55% and cementing control of East Africa's biggest telco.
- [ISPA: Internet blocking needs a clear legal framework](https://tech.africa/ispa-internet-blocking-position-paper/): ISPA says any move to block websites in South Africa, including offshore online gambling, must rest on clear law and court oversight, not administrative order.
- [ICASA finalises rules on recycling dormant mobile numbers](https://tech.africa/icasa-numbering-plan-amendments/): ICASA has finalised its Numbering Plan amendments, standardising how operators deactivate and recycle inactive mobile numbers, with new consumer safeguards.
- [IXPN upgrades to 400G peering at three Lagos sites](https://tech.africa/ixpn-400g-peering-upgrade/): IXPN, Nigeria's main internet exchange, has upgraded its core switches to 400G at three Lagos data centres, enabling higher-capacity peering for members.
- [Nigeria tells payment firms to store data at home by 2027](https://tech.africa/cbn-payment-data-localisation/): The Central Bank of Nigeria has ordered banks, fintechs and payment firms to store locally generated payment data in the country by January 2027.
- [Small fibre operators outshine SA’s big eight: ISPA](https://tech.africa/ispa-fno-perception-survey/): Smaller fibre network operators are outscoring most of South Africa's big eight on service perception, according to ISPA's latest FNO survey; Octotel still leads.
- [Grey adds local-currency deposits in Ghana and Kenya](https://tech.africa/grey-local-currency-deposits/): Grey has launched local-currency deposits in Ghana and Kenya, letting users fund their accounts in cedis and shillings via bank transfer and mobile money.
- [Liquid C2 earns gold in Google’s peering programme](https://tech.africa/liquid-c2-google-peering-gold/): Liquid C2, a Cassava Technologies business, has reached gold status in Google's Verified Peering Provider programme, the most widely peered gold partner in Africa.
- [Arridex opens West Africa’s first 3D-printing plant](https://tech.africa/arridex-omnifactory-3d-printing/): Arridex has commissioned its Omnifactory in Lagos, West Africa's first multi-technology industrial 3D-printing plant, making industrial parts on demand.
- [The cheapest way to send money to Nigeria from the UK](https://tech.africa/send-money-to-nigeria-from-uk/): Compare the cheapest ways to send money to Nigeria from the UK, from Lemfi, Wise and Remitly to WorldRemit and NALA, on fees, exchange rates and speed.
- [Vodacom brings Amazon Prime to its South African customers](https://tech.africa/vodacom-amazon-prime-south-africa/): Vodacom has partnered Amazon to offer Amazon Prime, with Prime Video, free delivery and Luna gaming, to its South African customers, free on some plans.
- [Google’s accelerator graduates 15 African AI startups](https://tech.africa/google-accelerator-class-10-ai/): Google's Startups Accelerator Africa has graduated its 10th class, 15 AI startups from eight countries, 60% of them already profitable, at a Demo Day in Nairobi.
- [Starlink in Africa: countries, prices and speeds (2026)](https://tech.africa/starlink-africa/): Where Starlink is available in Africa, what it costs and how fast it is in 2026: 26 countries live, prices by market, and why South Africa is still waiting.
- [Nigeria’s Daya raises $2.4m for stablecoin payments](https://tech.africa/daya-stablecoin-payments-raise/): Nigerian fintech Daya has raised $2.4 million in pre-seed funding led by Hivemind Capital to expand its stablecoin payment platform for African businesses.
- [Huawei Cloud launches Model-as-a-Service in Egypt](https://tech.africa/huawei-cloud-maas-egypt/): Huawei Cloud has launched Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) in Egypt, letting businesses use and customise large language models without building AI infrastructure.
- [MTN ranks second worldwide on digital rights index](https://tech.africa/mtn-ranking-digital-rights/): MTN Group has climbed to second worldwide in the 2026 Ranking Digital Rights Index, the first telecoms operator from an emerging market to reach the top three.
- [Flat6Labs and IFC back Algeria’s startup incubators](https://tech.africa/startalgeria-flat6labs-ifc/): Flat6Labs and the IFC have launched StartAlgeria, a programme to strengthen the incubators and accelerators that back Algeria's early-stage startups.
- [Interswitch taps Temenos for African digital banking](https://tech.africa/interswitch-temenos-digital-banking/): Interswitch is adopting Temenos technology to run managed digital-banking services for banks across Africa, starting in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire.
- [MTN taps Ant International to build a MoMo super-app](https://tech.africa/mtn-ant-international-momo/): MTN Group Fintech has partnered Ant International to turn its MoMo mobile-money service into a super-app, with the first rollout expected in Nigeria next quarter.
- [Datacentrix launches a CPaaS business-messaging platform](https://tech.africa/datacentrix-cpaas-platform/): Datacentrix has launched a CPaaS platform that lets businesses run SMS, WhatsApp, RCS and USSD messaging from one place, through its eNetworks ISP arm.
- [Digital reforms could unlock $1.4bn for Congo: GSMA](https://tech.africa/gsma-congo-digital-economy/): Digital reforms could unlock about $1.4 billion in value, create 144,000 jobs and connect 540,000 more people in the Republic of the Congo by 2030, the GSMA says.
- [Spiro closes $270m round with fresh Chinese backing](https://tech.africa/spiro-270m-funding-round/): African EV company Spiro has closed its funding round at $270 million after a fresh $55 million investment from Chinese growth-stage fund NewTrails Capital.
- [Sub-Saharan Africa to lead the world in 5G growth](https://tech.africa/sub-saharan-africa-5g-growth/): Sub-Saharan Africa will be the world's fastest-growing 5G market, rising from 30 million subscriptions to 370 million by 2031, Ericsson forecasts.
- [KoBold Metals uses AI to hunt Africa’s critical minerals](https://tech.africa/kobold-metals-ai-mining-africa/): California-based KoBold Metals is using AI to speed mineral exploration in Africa, from a $2.3bn copper mine in Zambia to a $1bn lithium project in DR Congo.
- [Truecaller launches Call-to-Cart AI commerce tool](https://tech.africa/truecaller-call-to-cart/): Truecaller has launched Call-to-Cart, an AI tool that turns the moments around a phone call into a two-step path from ad to checkout, across 150-plus markets.
- [Cloud sovereignty for the AI age](https://tech.africa/cloud-sovereignty-ai-age/): In this guest column, Gert Haasbroek argues that cloud sovereignty in the AI age is about control, accountability and governance, not just where data is stored.
- [Mobile tech added $240bn to Africa’s economy in 2025: GSMA](https://tech.africa/gsma-africa-mobile-economy/): Mobile technologies contributed $240 billion to the African economy in 2025, 7.8% of GDP, and supported 13 million jobs, a new GSMA Mobile Economy report says.
- [Pretoria start-up uses AI to detect lung disease in miners](https://tech.africa/nexus-ai-lung-disease-screening/): Pretoria start-up Nexus Intelligence uses AI, built on a Google model, to screen chest X-rays for TB and lung disease in miners in as little as 45 seconds.
- [AI-powered Chrome arrives in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa](https://tech.africa/google-chrome-gemini-africa/): Google is bringing Gemini AI features to Chrome in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, adding an in-browser assistant, multi-tab tools and new safety protections.
- [Huawei Cloud and Thndr partner on Egyptian fintech](https://tech.africa/huawei-cloud-thndr-egypt-fintech/): Huawei Cloud has signed an MoU with Egyptian investment platform Thndr to expand cloud and AI in Egyptian fintech, built on its 2024 Egypt cloud region.
- [Paratus launches LTE and 5G mobile network in Namibia](https://tech.africa/paratus-namibia-mobile-network/): Paratus Namibia has launched a private LTE and 5G mobile network built on its own data centre, with power and cooling infrastructure from Vertiv and ISF ICT.
- [Samsung Innovation Campus opens at Durban University](https://tech.africa/samsung-innovation-campus-dut/): Samsung has launched its Innovation Campus at the Durban University of Technology, training 60 young South Africans in AI, Python coding and digital skills.
- [Starlink now outpaces local ISPs across Africa, Ookla finds](https://tech.africa/starlink-africa-speeds-ookla/): Ookla data shows Starlink topped 50 Mbps in 16 of 23 African markets in Q1 2026, beating local ISPs almost everywhere as new local gateways slashed latency.
- [Kora joins the IATA network to power African air payments](https://tech.africa/kora-iata-airline-payments/): African fintech Kora has joined the IATA Financial Gateway, so airlines can now accept payments across Africa via cards, bank transfers and mobile money.
- [Bank of Ghana grants Enza an enhanced payments licence](https://tech.africa/enza-ghana-payments-licence/): enza, an Abu Dhabi fintech with African operations, has won a Payment Service Provider Enhanced licence from the Bank of Ghana, launching services this summer.
- [OADC standardises on Vertiv at Johannesburg data centre](https://tech.africa/oadc-vertiv-parklands-data-centre/): Open Access Data Centres has standardised power and cooling on Vertiv at its Parklands facility in Johannesburg and commissioned a new IDC 10 data hall for AI workloads.
- [Africa still runs on Wi-Fi 4 and 2.4 GHz, Ookla finds](https://tech.africa/africa-wifi-adoption/): Ookla data shows nearly half of African Wi-Fi users are still on Wi-Fi 4 and the 2.4 GHz band, with the 6 GHz spectrum used by 0.0% across the continent.
- [Smart Hands Africa becomes Supermicro services partner](https://tech.africa/smart-hands-africa-supermicro/): Smart Hands Africa has been appointed an authorised Supermicro services partner, providing server installation and support across 13 African markets.
- [MTN launches One TV digital entertainment platform](https://tech.africa/mtn-one-tv/): MTN has launched MTN One TV, a video and entertainment service billed via airtime and Mobile Money, rolling out in phases across its African markets.
- [South Africa hit by 171,000 DDoS attacks in late 2025](https://tech.africa/south-africa-ddos-attacks/): South Africa logged 171,812 DDoS attacks in the second half of 2025, among the world's most-targeted countries for banking and computing, NETSCOUT says.
- [Nigeria’s data-centre boom hinges on its power supply](https://tech.africa/nigeria-data-centres-power/): Nigeria's data-centre market could top $1 billion by 2031 on AI and demographic demand, but power supply is the binding constraint, industry figures say.
- [AethexAI raises $3M to build voice AI for Africa](https://tech.africa/aethexai-voice-ai-africa/): AethexAI, a voice-AI startup built for Africa's low-bandwidth telephony, has raised $3 million led by 4DX Ventures, with live deployments in West Africa.
- [Under-35s lead South Africa’s earned-wage access uptake](https://tech.africa/earned-wage-access-south-africa/): Under-35s account for 53.5% of activity on Paymenow's earned-wage access platform, spending mostly on transport and food, new South African data shows.
- [PayAngel partners with Visa to speed African payouts](https://tech.africa/payangel-visa-africa-payments/): PayAngel is using Visa Direct and Currencycloud to speed cross-border payouts to 22 African countries, India and Bangladesh, the diaspora-focused fintech says.
- [Memory price surge squeezes African IT budgets](https://tech.africa/africa-it-hardware-costs/): Gartner forecasts DRAM and NAND memory prices rising sharply on AI demand, squeezing African IT budgets and pushing firms toward refurbished hardware.
- [KIXP interconnects its two Mombasa data centres](https://tech.africa/kixp-mombasa/): Kenya's internet exchange KIXP has interconnected its two Mombasa points of presence at ICOLO data centres, extending resilient local peering to the coast.
- [IXPN doubles peak traffic to over 2 Tbps](https://tech.africa/ixpn-2tbps/): The Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria says peak traffic crossed 2 Tbps in March 2026, double its April 2025 level, with more than 130 networks connected.
- [Why African digital health may be a better starting point for AI than the West’s](https://tech.africa/african-digital-health-better-ai-starting-point/): DHS Africa CEO Niklas Inderst argues that the case-based, multi-channel digital health systems being built across African markets are architecturally closer to what AI clinical software needs than the EMR-heavy stack the West is now spending billions to retrofit.
- [MTN names new Group People Chief and two market CEOs](https://tech.africa/mtn-leadership-appointments/): MTN has named Mitwa Ng'ambi as group chief people and culture officer and appointed new CEOs for its Cote d'Ivoire and Zambia operations from September 2026.
- [Spiro raises $215m to expand Africa battery-swap network](https://tech.africa/spiro-215m-battery-swap/): African electric-mobility company Spiro has raised $215 million in equity led by Impact Fund Denmark, Equitane and FEDA to scale its battery-swap network.
- [Brass folds business banking into Paystack MFB](https://tech.africa/brass-paystack-mfb/): Nigerian business-banking startup Brass is moving its operations into Paystack Microfinance Bank and will stop running as an independent company by July 2026.
- [M-Pesa Tanzania links with PayPal for cross-border payments](https://tech.africa/mpesa-tanzania-paypal/): Vodacom M-Pesa in Tanzania has integrated with PayPal, letting customers move funds between the two wallets via the M-Pesa Super App.
- [ZANOG and NAPAfrica deploy a community cache cluster in Cape Town](https://tech.africa/zanog-napafrica-cape-town-cache/): NAPAfrica and ZANOG have deployed a community-run cache and compute cluster at Teraco CT2 in Cape Town to keep more South African traffic local.
- [AISCA Foundation launches in Kigali to back African AI with compute grants](https://tech.africa/aisca-foundation-kigali-cassava-african-ai-compute/): AI Skills and Compute Africa Foundation (AISCA) has launched in Kigali, with seed funding from Cassava Technologies, to provide grant-funded compute and skills development for African AI builders. Targets include 25,000 AI builder grants and 10,000 researcher grants.
- [Liquid extends cloud and cybersecurity services to Botswana with Secure360](https://tech.africa/liquid-botswana-cloud-cybersecurity-secure360/): Liquid Intelligent Technologies has launched cloud and cybersecurity services for Botswana enterprises through its Secure360 framework, marking a decade of operations and 1,174 km of fibre deployment in the country.
- [Telecom Egypt launches first Fibre-to-the-Room service with Huawei](https://tech.africa/telecom-egypt-huawei-fttr-launch/): Telecom Egypt (WE) has launched a commercial Fibre-to-the-Room service in partnership with Huawei, the first such deployment in Egypt and an early commercial rollout on the African continent.
- [Inside Meta’s African network](https://tech.africa/meta-africa-peering/): Meta peers at 27 internet exchanges across 10 African countries through a two-ASN architecture totalling around 5.5 Tbps. Mapped from BGP routing data and compared with Google's African footprint.
- [Q&A: Terry Mulligan on Africa’s $1m AI manufacturing prize](https://tech.africa/terry-mulligan-milken-motsepe-qa/): Terry Mulligan, Director of Environmental and Social Innovation at the Milken Institute, on bridging Africa's innovation funding gap and why AI manufacturing matters now.
- [PayPal adds Uganda, Malawi to PYUSD stablecoin rollout](https://tech.africa/paypal-pyusd-uganda-malawi-stablecoin/): PayPal has extended PYUSD, its dollar-backed stablecoin, into Uganda and Malawi as part of a 70-market global rollout for faster cross-border payments.
- [Angola Cables partners Uniti for US-Africa connectivity](https://tech.africa/angola-cables-uniti-transatlantic/): Angola Cables has signed a partnership with US fibre provider Uniti Wholesale, combining its SACS, MONET and WACS submarine systems with Uniti's 386,000km US terrestrial network.
- [Tharisa Mine deploys adaptive wireless, an African first](https://tech.africa/tharisa-radwin-fiberinmotion-mine/): Tharisa Minerals has deployed RADWIN's FiberinMotion adaptive wireless network at its Rustenburg platinum mine, the first such African implementation, in partnership with Datacentrix.
- [PwC: SA infrastructure spend to reach $582bn by 2050](https://tech.africa/pwc-sa-infrastructure-582bn-2050/): PwC's Global Infrastructure Outlook forecasts South Africa's infrastructure spending will total $582 billion over 2025-2050, with transport leading at 27% of total.
- [Google Hustle Academy 2026 opens in SA, Kenya, Nigeria](https://tech.africa/google-hustle-academy-2026-africa/): Google has reopened Hustle Academy in three African markets, citing McKinsey's $100 billion generative AI opportunity and a 90% skills shortage.
- [ICASA flags legislative hurdle in B-BBEE equity rule](https://tech.africa/icasa-bbbee-eca-amendment/): ICASA says it cannot fully apply Minister Solly Malatsi's B-BBEE policy direction without parliament amending the Electronic Communications Act.
- [MTN calls for shared infrastructure at Africa CEO Forum](https://tech.africa/mtn-africa-ceo-forum-2026/): MTN used the Africa CEO Forum in Kigali to argue that fragmented markets and duplicated infrastructure are holding back Africa's digital growth.
- [ICASA holds final community TV workshops on 26 and 28 May](https://tech.africa/icasa-community-tv-workshops-2026/): ICASA holds its final community TV and spectrum licence workshops in Limpopo, Eastern Cape, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal on 26 and 28 May 2026.
- [Vodacom adds 6,160 5G sites, M-Pesa scales to 103m](https://tech.africa/vodacom-5g-mpesa-fy2026/): Vodacom Group's FY2026 buildout added 6,160 5G sites and 3,041 4G sites across its African footprint, while M-Pesa financial-services users hit 103 million.

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