AI News – Africa

Professor Clement K. Dzidonu, the President of the Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), has recently advocated for a radical rethink in how individuals, educational bodies and society approach the learning culture in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI), stating that learning is a journey and not a destination,…

Africa carries one of the world’s highest burdens of drug-resistant infections, yet the laboratory data needed to track it is often missing. The bigger health-tech opportunity may be building the systems that make that data usable, not the AI layered on top.

Across rural Nigeria, host communities watch heavy machinery dig up their land daily. But ask locals who hold the operational licence, what minerals are being extracted, or what community benefits they are legally owed—and the room goes silent. To fight this “information opacity,” Anthony Adejuwon and his team at…

In today’s edition: Kenyans are watching two IPO deals // Koko’s continued search for a buyer // Senegal maps rules for satellite Internet // Zimbabwe’s new AI hub

By Allan Juma, Lead Cybersecurity Engineer at ESET South Africa, according to the Microsoft Global AI Diffusion monitor, is leading the continent in generative AI adoption with 23.1% of the working-age population actively using AI in their daily activities. Companies have introduced AI into daily operations rapidly,…

With just days to go, all is set for the 11th edition of the Nigeria Innovation Summit (NIS), as innovators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, investors, technology leaders, researchers, business executives and development stakeholders from Nigeria and around the world prepare to converge in Lagos to explore how AI and…

With just days to go, all is set for the 11th edition of the Nigeria Innovation Summit (NIS), as innovators,… The post Nigeria Innovation Summit 2026: Africa’s Innovation Community Gathers in Lagos to Shape the Future in the Age of AI appeared first on TechTrends Africa.

Its longer-term plan is to connect computing resources across different satellites and turn them into what it calls virtual AI data centres.

In today’s edition: Spam callers could face 1 year in jail || MTN, Telecel secure Ghanaian 5G licences || Ghana has new rules for public AI buys || South Africans are withdrawing cash from retail tills

South Africa introduced a digital social assistance programme in 2020 to identify who was eligible for its Social Relief of Distress grant. The country’s High Court later found that the automated vetting system it relied on was unconstitutional and invalid. The case was brought by the Institute for Economic Justice, a…