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Facebook Joins Forces with Eutelsat to Expand WiFi Connectivity Across Sub-Saharan Africa

Eutelsat Communications is expanding its use of the Express WiFi platform in partnership with Facebook to provide broadband services via satellite across several regions in Sub-Saharan Africa. With Express Wi-Fi, Eutelsat aims to connect thousands of people in rural and...

New mobile-to-mobile digital payment service launched in Africa

WorldRemit users can now make instant, low-cost international mobile money transfers to 15 million accounts in Guinea, Malawi, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Niger.  Digital money transfer service, WorldRemit, is set to continue its expansion in Africa by launching a new international...

Nigeria’s internet download speed amongst slowest in the world

A report published by Cable, reveals that Nigeria’s significantly slow Internet download speed has caused the nation to rank 176th out of 207 countries — down from 95th place just two years ago.  The Worldwide broadband speed league 2019 report...

Zara arrives in 106 markets thanks to its new global online store

Zara's global women's men's and kids' collections will be available online for the first time to customers in Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Madagascar, Zimbabwe and Ghana, among others, starting tomorrow. Tomorrow,...

PayJoy, Baobab+ democratise mobile Internet for African countries

In an effort to expand access to high-quality solar home system solutions and smartphone technology to a billion people worldwide, Baobab+ is licensing PayJoy’s Checkout platform including its proprietary Lock technology. This will allow consumers to purchase a smartphone...

Fourth Edition of Africa Code Week kicks off in Madagascar

The 2018 edition of Africa Code Week (ACW) officially kicked-off in Madagascar this week with its first-part series of Train-the-Trainer (TTT) workshops. More than 200 local teachers and parents received hands-on training on the open-source Scratch learning interface, which...

SAP to Bring Digital Literacy to 20,000 Youth with Africa Code Week

SAP has revealed the start of Africa Code Week, a continent-wide initiative to spread digital literacy and simplify access to coding education for young people. From October 1-10, 2015, online sessions and hundreds of free coding workshops will be organized...

West Africa: Sonatel reveals digital education project

Senegalese operator Sonatel has launched the Orange Foundation's digital education project for Africa in the presence of the country's minister of education, Serigne Mbaye Thiam. According to the operator, the project is expected to cover Senegal, Cameroun, Niger and Madagascar...

EASSy cable gets major speed boost with Alcatel-Lucent

Gloabl technology giant Alcatel-Lucent is set to upgrade the EASSy submarine cable system, one of the largest and most modern systems serving Africa, with the deployment of the latest 100 gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) technology. Alcatel-Lucent‘s 100G technology will enable the system...

Altech’s Huawei partnership to benefit African infrastructure

Altech and Huawei recently entered into a partnership to drive future growth initiatives in the enterprise market. The new entity will be branded as Altech Collab and will reside within Altech’s New Business Development division. The agreement covers a number...
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Glencore’s Tech Push Transforms Education in Rustenburg

Glencore Ferroalloys has taken a daring step in influencing the future of the young people in the communities where...
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