Tech

8 May 2026 - Airtel Africa’s group revenue rose by 29.5% in reported currency to $6.4 billion for the year ended March 31, 2026. On a constant currency basis, revenue grew by 24.0%. The…

8 May 2026 - The Milken Institute  and the Motsepe Foundation  are honored to announce BleagLee , a Cameroon-based AI-powered waste recycling company, as the $1 million…

8 May 2026 - Safaricom’s FY26 results reveal a 62% surge in active cardholders, signalling a quiet but significant shift in how Kenyans transact globally If you have been putting off…

8 May 2026 - By Wojtek Piorko, managing director for Africa at Vertiv As analysts expect Kenya’s economy to continue growing at a moderate pace in 2026, it remains critical to…

8 May 2026 - Africa’s fintech sector may be one of the most dynamic globally, but according to M-PESA’s Head of Product – Digital, Jason Masai, much of that innovation is missing the mark…

8 May 2026 - MTN Uganda ’s mobile money arm, MoMo , has officially opened its new office premises, marking what the company described as a milestone that goes beyond…

8 May 2026 - ARPU measures how much telecom operators earn per subscriber and is a key indicator of whether revenue is sufficient to cover operating costs and fund network investments.…

8 May 2026 - Safaricom  has reported a strong set of results for the year ended 31 March 2026, alongside a major expansion of its investment commitment in Ethiopia ......

8 May 2026 - It underscores how Africa has become one of the world's most active testing grounds for crypto payments and dollar savings products.

8 May 2026 - Visa has announced a new agreement with Ethiopian Airlines to expand the rollout and adoption of co-branded payment products, in... Source

8 May 2026 - The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) will phase out physical motor vehicle logbooks and roll out digital e-Logbooks beginning... Source

8 May 2026 - Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia closed the financial year ended 31 March 2026 with total funding of $2.65 billion, a 17% increase from $2.27 billion a year earlier and…

8 May 2026 - Guinea has taken a major step toward strengthening its digital infrastructure following the signing of a contract for the construction and maintenance of a second ......

8 May 2026 - Airtel Africa plc  delivered a strong performance for the year ended 31 March 2026, supported by broad-based growth across its telecom and mobile money businesses, ......

8 May 2026 - Plans for a major data center development in Kenya backed by Microsoft and Abu Dhabi-based G42 have effectively fallen away after comments from President William Ruto…

8 May 2026 - Visa, a global digital payments leader, has officially opened a new office in Addis Ababa. While the company has maintained a presence in Ethiopia for years, the new location…

8 May 2026 - Paga  has announced a strategic partnership with Sui  aimed at building next-generation financial infrastructure to improve access to digital financial services…

8 May 2026 - Sumsub, a leading full-cycle verification platform focused on scalable compliance, has unveiled its Adaptive Deepfake Detector,  a next-generation solution designed to…

8 May 2026 - The number of Kenyans actively using the M-PESA GlobalPay Virtual Visa Card jumped 62.1% in the year ended 31 March 2026, according to Safaricom’s FY26 results released on…

8 May 2026 - More Kenyans are using delivery apps for routine purchases, giving Glovo one of its strongest growth rates globally as merchants increase their reliance on digital sales…

8 May 2026 - Our conversation moves between those personal aspirations and what it takes to build something that lasts. For Ogallo, the two are not separate. They rarely are.

8 May 2026 - Quantum computing has long been viewed as a futuristic technology still years away from practical enterprise deployment. While experts expect... Source

8 May 2026 - OPay,  a leading fintech company in Nigeria, partnered with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)  at the Global Money Week 2026 Financial Literacy Fair and ......

8 May 2026 - Small financial gaps increasingly get resolved through a mobile overdraft sitting inside a payments platform already woven into daily life. That reality has turned Fuliza…

8 May 2026 - It marks Paga's first formal move into crypto since Tayo Oviosu transitioned to Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in April.

8 May 2026 - Vodacom Tanzania Plc  has reported robust preliminary financial results for the year ended March 31, 2026, recording strong double-digit growth across revenue, customer…

8 May 2026 - du,  the leading telecom and digital services provider, announced a strategic partnership with Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO)  during Make it in the Emirates (…

8 May 2026 - Microsoft has released new insights showing that organizations across the world, including in Africa, are fundamentally redesigning how they operate in response to artificial…

8 May 2026 - Safaricom, Kenya’s largest telecom operator, is expanding M-PESA's presence in retail investing after assets in its money market fund, Ziidi, more than doubled.

8 May 2026 - Meet Sarah Wahinya, a Web3 and fintech growth strategist and East Africa Lead for Stellar, where she operates at the intersection of partnerships, market expansion, and…

8 May 2026 - In today's edition: Quick Fire 🔥 with Sarah Wahinya || IHS exits Brazil's fibre market || Safaricom users now buy more data || Who secured the bag? 💰

7 May 2026 - For years, telecom companies measured themselves through coverage maps, call minutes and subscriber growth. Increasingly, the language coming from large operators revolves…

7 May 2026 - Aliko Dangote is preparing a major move into Nigeria’s power sector, with plans to generate 20,000 megawatts of electricity. The proposal could significantly expand his…

7 May 2026 - African startup funding 2026 reached $887M in 4 months. Despite a 51% deal drop, debt is driving the ecosystem toward $1B.

7 May 2026 - Safaricom used its FY2026 results presentation to frame Ethiopia as a long-duration infrastructure project tied to digital systems, network reach and future platform growth…

7 May 2026 - A growing share of Kenya’s public services now runs through systems linked to Safaricom, extending the company’s influence far beyond mobile connectivity and consumer…

7 May 2026 - African startups are securing larger funding rounds, but most still fail to reach Series A, according to a new State of Startup Funding in Africa report. The report found…

7 May 2026 - African startups raised $110 million in April 2026, marking the lowest monthly funding total in more than a year, even as deal activity recovered slightly from March.…

7 May 2026 - If you own a Galaxy phone released in the last three to four years, One UI 8.5 is most likely coming to your device.

7 May 2026 - Data revenue rose 14.4% to KES 83.4 billion ($646 million), compared with a 1.3% increase in voice revenue to KES 81.8 billion ($634 million).

7 May 2026 - Every national digital strategy on the continent mentions them. Every donor programme funds them. Digital literacy. Digital skills. The two terms appear so…

7 May 2026 - Demand for electric buses in Kenya and Rwanda is growing faster than current deployment capacity as transport operators continue placing orders ahead of new vehicle…

7 May 2026 - Ooredoo Group  announced a partnership with du,  the leading telecom and digital services provider, to land the Fibre in the Gulf (FIG) subsea cable system in…

7 May 2026 - A new white paper by Mastercard and Checkout.com reveals a massive year-on-year surge in tokenization transactions processed through Mastercard  in the MENA region at…

7 May 2026 - SMART Zambia  – e-Government Division has reaffirmed the Zambian government’s commitment to fully digitalising public services as part of the country’s broader digital…

7 May 2026 - John Kipchumba Tanui has reaffirmed Kenya’s commitment to strengthening digital cooperation with South Korea following a high-level engagement with representatives from K-…

7 May 2026 - As enterprises accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence into business operations, many continue to face challenges linked to fragmented data systems, manual data…

7 May 2026 - Mastercard  has launched Built Small. Moving Strong, a regional resilience program designed to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as they navigate a…

7 May 2026 - Industry leaders, policymakers, and technology experts have called for accelerated investment in All-Optical Networks (AON), positioning fibre infrastructure as the... Source

7 May 2026 - Kenya has suspended plans for a proposed $1 billion data centre backed by Microsoft and Abu Dhabi-based G42 after officials concluded the country’s electricity system cannot…