The cited reason? National security, specifically concerns that turbines can cause radar interference....

Nigeria’s push to position itself as a serious player in the global digital economy is increasingly converging on a single piece of infrastructure: data centres. As artificial intelligence workloads begin to reshape computing demand worldwide, the question is no longer whether Nigeria will build more data centres, but whether it is ready to host facilities

Happy pre-TGIF. ☀️️ Francophone Weekly by TechCabal, our latest newsletter, will resume on January 13. If you’re new here, it’s where you receive bite-sized analyses of the Francophone region, presented as clear insights and actionable steps for investors, financial institutions, government bodies, tech bros, and the average Joe who’s just interested in what’s going on

When the concept of “Web 3.0” first emerged about a decade ago the...

From January 2026, founders, investors, executives, and freelancers from more than 20 African countries will face a new financial hurdle when trying to visit the United States. Under a revived US visa bond programme, applicants who otherwise qualify for short-term business and tourist visas (B1/B2) will be required to post a bond of $5,000, $10,000

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Global attention has remained fixed on Kenya’s M-PESA and Nigeria’s fintech unicorns because they offer clean stories of scale. Yet, a quieter story has unfolded in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia, Somalia, and Djibouti, all operating under severe structural and political strains, have developed digital systems within conflict-affected economies, each taking a distinct route shaped

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Nandan Nilekani built Aadhaar, India’s vast digital biometric identity system. Now he wants to...

When most people in tech think about communications or “comms,” as many call it,  they think of a shiny press release announcing a seed round or a colourful Instagram post describing a new product. But for Toluwanimi Onakoya, communications is less about the high of a launch and more about the precision of a pivot.

For over a decade, people have written Kenya’s tech story almost entirely based on developments in the capital Nairobi, the “Silicon Savannah.” Startups, venture capital firms, accelerators, and policy attention have concentrated in the city, much to the neglect of other regions like the coastal city of Mombasa and Kisumu. But a redistribution of Kenya’s

Good morning. ☀️️ Tech (read: AI) is promising to “disrupt” everything and life as we know it; it’s such a brazen attempt—cruelly bestowed on poor AI—that I no longer blame sceptics who say they smell a bubble (my new favourite tech word, by the way). People fear the eradication of thought and judgement, whatever that