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South Africa’s Shoestring Space program just beat Italy and Russia to a lunar payload slot
Three metal spheres, hand-assembled by South African and Algerian students, tested by volunteers, funded on what one NASA scientist openly called a shoestring budget, and they’re going to the Moon in 2029. Not as cargo, not as a “thank you for participating” plaque. But as a working science instrument, riding on China’s Chang’e-8 lander, listening…
South Africa just built the AI misinformation tool English-only platforms never bothered with
South Africa has 12 official languages. Its misinformation detection tools have one working one: English. That’s not an insult to the engineers who built them. It’s just how AI gets made: train it on the biggest pile of text you can find, and the biggest pile is always English. Everything else gets left to “we’ll…
Africa’s Mobile Money boom may be a sitting duck for Malware as a Service Kits like flying Eagle
Imagine you get a message. It looks official. It says your local public safety office now has a slick new app “one-stop” service, no more queuing at the counter. You download it. You feel modern. You feel efficient. Three weeks later, your bank balance tells a different story. That’s not a hypothetical. That’s what just…
Knowlix AI, another Foreign SaaS, just landed in 29 African countries. Will it survive contact with reality
There’s a graveyard of foreign software platforms in Africa. Not the dramatic kind with tombstones, the quiet kind, where the app just stops getting used, the subscription lapses, and nobody notices until finance asks why they’re still paying for it. Knowlix AI just walked into that graveyard’s front gate. Confidently in 29 countries at once….
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Morocco just signed a deal with a company nobody outside IT knows, and that’s exactly the Point
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Cisco’s Appointment of Ossama Eldeeb as Africa MD, signals for AI-ready infrastructure, not just a staffing move
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Libya just found more oil, but here is what these new oil discoveries really say about African upstream risk
Libya’s National Oil Corporation just announced three fresh oil and…
Malawi cut child deaths by half, using AI that works like a Network monitoring dashboard
Malawi has cut pediatric mortality in some hospitals by 40-51%…
DRC just turned the Congo river into a $1.5B Data Highway, and it’s the smartest infrastructure move nobody’s talking about
The DRC’s government has signed a $1.5 billion memorandum of…
India is knocking on Africa’s door with Solar Panels and Satellite Tech. Will Africa answer with more than just cobalt?
Diplomats and policy experts gathered in New Delhi this week…
Sony is coming for the Switch 2’s throne, and Africa’s Pocket might just be the real prize
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Nigeria’s Oil is back but the real test is whether it stays that way
For most of the past decade, Nigeria’s oil story has…
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South Africa’s Shoestring Space program just beat Italy and Russia to a lunar payload slot
Three metal spheres, hand-assembled by South African and Algerian students,…
South Africa just built the AI misinformation tool English-only platforms never bothered with
South Africa has 12 official languages. Its misinformation detection tools…
Africa’s Mobile Money boom may be a sitting duck for Malware as a Service Kits like flying Eagle
Imagine you get a message. It looks official. It says…
Knowlix AI, another Foreign SaaS, just landed in 29 African countries. Will it survive contact with reality
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