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Startups, science and the infrastructure connecting 1.5 billion people.
South Africa's only science park inside an industrial zone hosts Science Minister Blade Nzimande on Friday, as the government looks for ways to turn research into products.
Phones already on the networks are safe, the regulator says. New devices must now be verified before they can connect, to keep out counterfeits.
Higher Education Minister Buti Manamela said assessment must test judgement, not just answers, and that Africa needs AI in its own languages and on its own data.
Mary-Brenda Akoda, a Google DeepMind scholar trained at Imperial College, plans to launch GenMRI in Nigeria and Britain next year. It works on the scanners hospitals already have.
A new Vehicle Targeting System at Lebombo will pick out vehicles for inspection by intelligence, not at random.
Dr Faith Peta has spent 20 years rebuilding the country's ability to make its own foot-and-mouth vaccine. The first local doses went out in February.
KwaZulu-Natal wants a share of the investment and jobs as South Africa's car industry moves towards cleaner vehicles.
The Nigerian payments company's revenue more than doubled in six months, with lending now earning more than payments. Loan losses are rising too.
Commonwealth tax administrators visiting Arusha commended the region's shared customs territory and its electronic tracking of cargo across borders.
Proptiva Africa has put approvals, photo evidence, messages and payments for a property project into one login. Here is how the pieces fit together.
Cloned voices, deepfake video and machine-written phishing are changing cybercrime, a senior communications official warns. His advice: verify before you pay.
Users in four states have struggled to load or upload videos since mid-September. Civil society groups want to know whether someone ordered it.
A biometric platform due on 10 November is meant to stop rejected applicants filing again. The minister says the appeals backlog is about 120,000 cases.
The Open Geospatial Consortium opens four days of meetings in Cape Town today. Its standards sit behind the digital maps on every phone.
Tunisia, Egypt and Senegal have national genome projects and three more are planning them. A new paper sets out what will decide whether patients benefit.
Only one Egyptian woman in five has medical insurance. A Cairo app and a maker of reusable underwear are building products around what women will not ask aloud.
The Securities and Exchange Commission says the online investment platform is not registered and that anyone who uses it does so at their own risk.
The state says it will go from under 1,000MW to more than 3,000MW, using smart meters, private plants and its new powers to regulate electricity.
Forget the race for giant models. The bank says the continent's opening is in cheap, local tools for farms, clinics and classrooms, if the power stays on.
The Naija Concierge matches clients with vetted drivers, errand runners and inspectors it calls Gigsters, and pays them through the app. It is betting that trust is the thing Lagos logistics has been missing.
Proptiva Africa gives property owners abroad a team on the ground in Lagos, Abuja and Accra, and a portal where every update is photographed and time-stamped.
A media researcher argues that the country's institutions were built for a slower kind of lie, and that they must be ready before the campaign, not after the first crisis.
Shoppers can buy gold bars from a quarter of a gram, and silver from five grams, with a bank card.
The mobile money business, which operates in 13 African countries, opened slightly below its offer price. Full trading begins on 14 October.
The seventh national Cybersecurity Month runs from 11 October to 9 November, with a focus on protecting children online.
Sending $200 through a traditional service costs about $17. Stablecoin services charge between 0.5% and 2%, and Nigeria now accounts for most of sub-Saharan Africa's inflows.
Musango matusadonaensis walked on two legs about 210 million years ago and was found by a safari camp manager. Scientists worked from houseboats to dig it out.
The central bank is negotiating with the overseas arm of India's national payments body to build a shared system for banks, mobile money and fintech firms. Talks could conclude by the end of October.
Developer numbers are soaring in Nigeria and Ghana, but only 12% of the poorest households in 19 countries have both a phone and electricity, the bank's latest Africa report says.
The team behind Naulisako beat 40 other young developers in a 30-hour contest at Konza Technopolis and will now compete against winners from five other African countries.
More than £2 million will help companies in Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda and elsewhere replace diesel generators at clinics, phone masts, farms and fishing harbours.
Around 100,000 solar panels were installed across the continent every day this year, one estimate suggests, as households and businesses abandon diesel generators.
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