Google has exceeded a five-year pledge to invest $1 billion in Africa, the company said on Wednesday at the first Africa Cloud Summit in Johannesburg, alongside a batch of new infrastructure and AI initiatives. The announcement builds on Google’s 2025 …
The hard part of electrifying a motorcycle in Lagos or Nairobi was never the motorcycle, it was the charging. A rider who earns by the trip cannot afford to sit for hours waiting for a battery to fill, which is why Spiro built its business around swapp…
African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as investor and partner.
The startup’s own stack for Africa and Middle East is now handling more than 17,000 calls per day.
Fortescue‘s recently-acquired turbine subsidiary Nabrawind has done something that was believed to be impossible: they’ve installed a full-scale, energy producing wind turbine in harsh Namibian conditions using a new, crane-less deployment process.
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The African nation of Uganda has announced a new National E-Mobility Strategy that it hopes will energize its manufacturing sector by transitioning the country’s public transit sector fully away from fossil fuels by 2030.
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Francis Dufay told Bloomberg TV the African e-commerce company is implementing AI across operations, logistics, finance, and marketing, and intends to be profitable by the end of the year. The 200 jobs disappearing now sit on top of a workforce that ha…
South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies spent months drafting a national artificial intelligence policy. It proposed a National AI Commission, an AI Ethics Board, an AI Regulatory Authority, an AI Ombudsperson, a National A…
While the US is still stuck debating EVs, the rest of the world has already plugged in and charged ahead – and nowhere is that more obvious than Africa, where one country has banned ICE vehicles outright and another is rapidly electrifying mines that a…
Ethiopia made history in 2024 by becoming the first country to ban the sale and import of new internal combustion-powered vehicles. Despite the predictions of the anti-EV hysterics, they’re doing just fine — but the process hasn’t been without its chal…