Artificial intelligence is changing every industry. We cover it from a Nigerian and African lens. What models, tools, and developments matter to builders here, and what the implications are for African markets and users.
Egyptian e-commerce operations startup Fincart secured an oversubscribed $2.8 million seed funding round co-led by Launch Africa and Antler MENAP. Read full article →
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) introduced the National Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Framework to standardize IT projects.Beginning in the second quarter of 2027, all Federal Government software projects must obtain third-party certification before… Read full article →
The Kenyan government has drafted the 'Kenya Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies Policy' to regulate AI adoption across the economy.Under the policy, businesses must clearly notify users if they are interacting with chatbots or… Read full article →
Absa Bank Kenya's KES 4 billion ($31 million) technology spend in 2025 successfully automated 71% of its internal back-office and customer processes.The digital shift migrated 94% of customer transactions away from brick-and-mortar branches, helping lower… Read full article →
Fincart secured $2.8 million in seed funding co-led by Launch Africa and Antler MENAP to accelerate its team scaling and product development. Read full article →
Nigerian financial services group Zedcrest has acquired UK-founded cross-border payments startup Leatherback for an undisclosed sum. Read full article →
The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK), led by Director General David Kemei, is lobbying the National Assembly for new powers under the proposed Competition (Amendment) Bill, 2026.CAK argues that the current Competition Act fails to… Read full article →
Egyptian startup Stakpak, which develops open-source autonomous DevOps agents, has been acquired by US-based cloud platform Vercel.Founded in 2023 by George Fahmy, Stakpak raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding before its acquisition. Read full article →
Codar secured $1.5 million in hybrid equity and debt financing, backed by KWE4 Africa Venture Studio.The capital will fund curriculum expansions in AI, platform infrastructure upgrades, physical learning hubs, and expanded scholarship access. Read full article →
The Kenyan government and industry leaders are calling for dedicated investments in local AI infrastructure, including cloud computing, data centers, and research facilities. Read full article →
Lagos-based EdTech and tech talent accelerator Codar Tech Africa has raised $1.5 million in a hybrid equity and debt funding round led by KWE4 Africa Venture Studio. Read full article →
RiseUp, A15, and BitRoot have partnered with NVIDIA to launch SIGNALS, a recurring programme in Egypt providing AI founders with GPU credits, technical training, and access to NVIDIA's global Inception startup ecosystem. Read full article →
Cassava Technologies' Africa Data Centres has been designated a Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Metro peering location in Johannesburg, the first on the African continent to enable private, redundant cloud connectivity for businesses. Read full article →
Mathesis Analytics, a Nigerian AI-powered credit infrastructure company, has secured an investment from First Ally Capital to expand its alternative credit decisioning platform across African markets. Read full article →
Nigerian telecom operators recorded 155,397 fibre-cut incidents across April and May 2026, a 2,428% increase compared to the 5,934 cases recorded in the first three months of the year, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission… Read full article →
22-year-old Tanzanian founder Bell Sugwa launched eBeLl AI, an autonomous platform that generates articles, audio in 30 languages, and short-form videos from a single input plus a real-time voice AI tutor on Telegram. Read full article →
Glovo has launched an AI Shopping Assistant integrated with ChatGPT and Claude, allowing users to describe what they need in plain language and receive up to five personalized product suggestions with prices, images, and store… Read full article →
NEC Africa and PowerX have announced a strategic partnership combining NEC's pan-African ICT delivery capability with PowerX's AI and machine learning analytics platform to manage cell site infrastructure across Africa's telecommunications networks. Read full article →
British High Commissioner Matt Baugh confirmed UK-Kenya bilateral trade has surpassed Sh340 billion (£2 billion) for the first time, one year after the two countries signed a Strategic Partnership. Read full article →
TeKnowledge, a technology services company with over 2,000 engineers including a strong Nigerian base, has partnered with Equinix, operator of more than 280 data centres and over 10,000 customers globally, to deliver hybrid and multi-cloud… Read full article →
Kenya's Copyright Tribunal ruled that AI-generated works cannot be copyrighted, establishing that authorship under Kenyan law is exclusively human. AI can assist but cannot be a legal author or co-owner. Read full article →
Refiant, founded by Dr Viroshan Naicker, Siddharth Gutta and Mathew Haswell, launched Protea, a suite of long-context AI models with a 10 million-token context window, roughly 10x larger than leading competitors like Claude and ChatGPT.Protea… Read full article →
Banking technology firm Backbase acquired Kasisto, an agentic AI company for financial services, integrating its KAI platform into Backbase's Banking Operating System to help African banks overcome legacy IT constraints. Read full article →
The Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, led by Minister Bosun Tijani, has directed regulators, including the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), and the Nigeria Data Protection… Read full article →
Fuzu, a Kenyan HR-tech startup founded in 2015, raised $3.86M in Series A funding from eight backers including Sparkmind.vc, Finnfund, Seedstars International, and Kepple Africa Ventures to expand its AI-powered recruitment and career development platform. Read full article →
HyperDev, a South African and European generative AI software development platform co-founded by a former OpenAI engineer and a former Google AI researcher, has closed a R16 million ($1 million+) pre-seed round from European and… Read full article →
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), led by Executive Vice Chairman Aminu Maida, disclosed that Nigeria has only about 265,000 active Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) connections, below the African average, despite internet subscriptions reaching 154.72 million in April… Read full article →
TelCables Nigeria, a subsidiary of Angola Cables, has launched Clouds2Africa, a naira-denominated cloud hosting and AI infrastructure service targeting Nigerian banks, fintechs, and startups seeking to comply with Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) data localisation… Read full article →
AWS introduced Amazon S3 Annotations, allowing teams to attach up to 1,000 mutable, searchable annotations per object with a combined capacity of 1 GB, a major expansion from the previous limit of 10 tags and… Read full article →
Jubilee Group and BimaLab (FSD Africa's insurtech accelerator) are co-developing insurance products targeting low-income consumers and Kenya's estimated 7.5 million SMEs, a segment largely excluded from formal insurance coverage. Read full article →
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