Technology
Connectivity, cloud, fintech infrastructure and the builders wiring the continent.
- Technology & AI
Mastercard is building Africa's cyber early-warning system — and starting where the attacks hit hardest
Mastercard has launched a pan-African Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence, starting in South Africa and Nigeria — the two markets its own data flags as the continent's most-attacked. Powered by threat-intelligence firm Recorded Future, which Mastercard bought for $2.65 billion, the shared-defence hub will run a first-year risk analysis across up to 50 banks, agencies and large firms as Africa's digital economy races toward a projected $1.5 trillion by 2030.
80d ago - Technology & AI
Abidjan invites Starlink in on a 12-month leash — and turns Côte d'Ivoire into Africa's satellite proving ground
Côte d'Ivoire has cleared SpaceX's Starlink to sell fixed satellite internet from July, becoming roughly the 28th African market to open its skies. But Abidjan is not rolling out a red carpet — it granted only a 12-month provisional licence with fees tied to local revenue, launched 5G the same month, and dropped Starlink into a market where Orange and MTN already sell satellite broadband. The result is the continent's most instructive test of how a state absorbs low-Earth-orbit connectivity on its own terms.
82d ago - Technology & AI
Visa and M-Pesa turn DR Congo into Africa's live lab for stablecoin-settled mobile money
Visa, M-Pesa and pan-African payments network Onafriq are piloting a system in the Democratic Republic of Congo that settles mobile money top-ups with stablecoins in the background — users see nothing change, but the dollar rails underneath their wallets just moved onto a blockchain.
84d ago - Technology
2Africa is finished: the 45,000km subsea cable rewiring a continent
The Meta-backed 2Africa cable — longer than the Earth's circumference — is complete, connecting 33 countries and reaching more than 3 billion people. For African internet, it changes the economics.
87d ago - Technology
How banks and fintechs became the engine of Africa's data-centre boom
Africa's data-centre market is set to roughly double by 2034, and the demand is coming from an unmistakable place: the banks, fintechs and mobile-money platforms now moving over a trillion dollars a year.
87d ago
