Wave Côte d’Ivoire has joined the PI-SPI instant payment network, developed by the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO). The mobile money operator is now listed among the authorized participants as of September 30, 2026, after having been absent from the list on July 31, 2026. This integration marks a significant expansion of the…
Service providers are sought for the supply of cloud services for the South African School Administration and Management System. (Image source: iStock) It’s another quiet week on National Treasury’s eTenders Portal, requiring the ICT industry to turn to local government, as a wide range of metro, district and local municipalities come to the party with…
When one Black South African journalist decided to leave the profession after only four years, she did not walk away because she had stopped believing in journalism: ‘I mourned because I knew I could have done so much in that space.’ Her experience is documented in a 2025 Reuters Institute fellowship paper by South African…
Former Google DeepMind researcher Alex Turner warned that “misaligned” artificial intelligence could prove more dangerous than China’s aggressive development push during a New York City Council meeting on Monday. “China is not our only potential adversary,” he said. “With reasonably high chance, we are racing to build and grow our own adversary here at home,…
Thousands of years ago, farmers in West Africa took a wild ancestor of rice and turned it into a crop of their own. But it was difficult to harvest and, over time, globally dominant Asian rice pushed it aside. Yet African rice survived in some of the region’s harshest growing conditions, coping with drought, deep…
Vodacom Group CIO Mohamed Sami Mohamed Sami, group CIO at Vodacom, says autonomous AI agents that resolve customer problems without handing them to a human are the next big shift in customer experience – and that it is closer than many think. Speaking on TechCentral’s Meet the CIO podcast series, which is brought to our…
Jani Ibrahim’s career has followed an unusual arc: engineer first, industrialist second, institution builder last, each stage quietly funding the next. In September, that arc reached West Africa, when he was elected President of the Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FEWACCI). The election happened in Abidjan, at FEWACCI’s 11th Annual General…
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Former Super Eagles captain, William Troost-Ekong has identified the reason behind Nigeria’s topsy-turvy start to their AFCON 2027 qualifiers. The three-time African champions were in action twice last month, coming from behind to defeat Madagascar at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo, before falling to a 3-0 loss against Guinea-Bissau. The players, coach Eric Chelle,…
Our new book, How we made it in Africa II: Real stories of entrepreneurs turning opportunity into profit, is available here. The book was recently shortlisted for the Business Council for Africa (BCA) African Business Book of the Year Awards 2026. AfricaWorks founder Grégoire Schwebig says the co-working space operator is considering expanding to Conakry,…
