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Twenty-six projects have been selected under LINGUA Africa, covering more than 50 African languages, dialects and sign languages spoken by over 500 million people across 47 countries — with each awardee eligible for up to $250,000 in cash and $400,000 in compute credits.
The initiative brings together the Microsoft AI for Good Lab, the Gates Foundation, the Masakhan...
Equinix is scaling its Johannesburg 1 data centre to 24MW to meet growing AI and cloud demand — while holding back development on land it has bought in Johannesburg and Cape Town until it sees whether that demand materialises.
The US digital infrastructure company entered South Africa in 2024 with a $160 million investment in JN1, its first international business ex...
Nigerian fintech Mathesis Analytics has secured a strategic investment from Sewa Capital to scale its AI-powered credit decisioning engine, bringing a platform that has already supported more than 8 million loans deeper into institutional lending. The investment amount was not disclosed.
Mathesis addresses what its founders identify as a structural gap in Nigerian c...
Kenya has the world’s highest rate of AI use, with 97.5% of online adults reporting they used at least one AI tool in the past month, according to the Digital 2026 Mid-Year Global Update published by DataReportal in partnership with We Are Social and Manochi.
That is the highest figure among the 54 countries tracked — ahead of the United Arab Emirates at 94.2% and I...
Global youth unemployment rose in 2025 as weaker growth, geopolitical tension and sluggish job creation made work harder to find, the International Labour Organization said — with Northern Africa recording the second-highest rate of any world subregion.
The unemployment rate among 15-to-24-year-olds reached 12.4%, up from 12.3% in 2023, equivalent to 67 million youn...