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A participant at a Wikimedia workshop in Lagos checks her smartphone, May 2017. Mobile remains the main way Nigerians get online.

Nigerians used 90% of 2025’s internet data in just eight months

14 Oct4 min read

The Spheres at Amazon’s Seattle headquarters (April 2020). The company is said to be negotiating to buy Decart, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Amazon reportedly in talks to buy Decart for $7 billion, a bet on the software behind AI chips

13 Oct3 min read

Downtown Nairobi. In 2019 Microsoft chose the city for one of its two African engineering centres; the other was in Lagos.

Analysis

Microsoft dismantles its Nairobi engineering centre, seven years after a $100 million promise

13 Oct6 min read

Yandex headquarters in Moscow at night. The three data centres hit between October 8 and 11 are in the Ryazan, Kaluga and Vladimir regions.

Drones knock three Yandex data centres offline in four days

13 Oct3 min read

Dakar seen from Gorée Island in 2024. The Technology New Deal, launched in February 2025, sets Senegal’s digital targets through 2034.

Dossier-Tek

Digital economy

Senegal’s Technology New Deal, 19 months on: online services delivered, Starlink switched off, billions still on paper

13 Oct16 min read

The new Labour Code, in force since September 18, recognises remote work, full-time or part-time, as a fully fledged way of organising work.

Remote work: what Senegal’s new Labour Code changes for employees and employers

13 Oct3 min read

Six French-speaking African countries have adopted a common framework for ethical and inclusive AI. The challenge is to turn these principles into concrete policies.

AI: Six African countries want common rules

12 Oct4 min read

Yellow taxis on an expressway in Dakar. NeoFleet finances taxi and ride-hailing fleets in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Peru.

Startups & Fintech

NeoFleet raises $4 million to finance taxi fleets in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire

9 Oct3 min read

A motorbike taxi in Nairobi. Arc Ride, which rents out electric motorbikes with swappable batteries, closed the month’s third-largest round in Africa.

Analysis

Startups & Fintech

African startups raised $260 million in September, and ten deals took almost all of it

9 Oct5 min read

‘True or false?’: a demonstration of hyper-faking at an AI conference in The Hague in 2023. Google’s SynthID Detector tool scans files for an invisible signature left by certain AI systems.

Guide

Real photo or AI? How to use SynthID Detector, Google’s tool available to everyone

8 Oct6 min read

A First National Bank branch in Paarl, near Cape Town. Since 6 October, the South African bank has been offering the option to buy cryptocurrencies as part of its online trading services.

Digital economy

South Africa: FNB Bank opens up Bitcoin to its customers, but the cryptocurrencies remain with the bank

8 Oct3 min read

An electronics assembly line in Shenzhen, China (illustrative photo). Senegal wants to assemble its own computers, smartphones and tablets in Diamniadio.

Digital economy

Computers and smartphones ‘made in Senegal’: an assembly plant announced in Diamniadio

8 Oct4 min read