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According to INTERPOL's African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, AI is now enabling 55% of reported cybercrimes across Africa, making attacks faster and more difficult to…
An INTERPOL report highlights that AI is now responsible for 55% of cybercrimes in Africa, leading to a significant increase in financial losses to $484 million. The continent…
CcHUB and the Mastercard Foundation have selected 12 Nigerian EdTech startups for their latest fellowship cohort, with several explicitly leveraging AI. The program aims to…
A pan-African initiative, the Science Granting Councils Initiative (SGCI), has announced CA$12 million in research funding with a significant focus on Artificial Intelligence and…
The third Innovate Africa Challenge, a joint effort by FAO and Smart Africa, is pushing to deploy proven AI solutions for climate-smart agriculture across the continent. This…
This article advocates for redirecting concessional capital in African agrivoltaics projects to focus on the agricultural risks, such as crop trials and farmer aggregation, rather…
A Ghanaian developer has created Steward Vision Assistant, an AI-powered platform tailored for visually impaired African users, addressing the limitations of imported assistive…
A recent INTERPOL report indicates that artificial intelligence is now involved in 55% of cybercrime incidents across Africa, significantly escalating fraud, ransomware, and…
An INTERPOL report reveals that AI is now implicated in over half of all cybercrime cases across Africa, enabling more convincing and widespread digital scams. This surge in…
A new INTERPOL report highlights that artificial intelligence is now a critical enabler for 55% of cybercrimes in Africa, leading to a significant increase in financial losses and…
Tunisian agritech startup RoboCare secured a six-figure investment to scale its AI-powered precision agriculture platform across Africa and the Middle East. The company's…
ATLAS Umoja AI is a pan-African initiative launched by the GSMA and five African governments to develop AI models that support African languages, scaling Nigeria's N-ATLAS model…
The Boston Consulting Group warns that Africa risks becoming a 'digital colony' by supplying raw data for foreign AI models and then paying to access those technologies. The…
Ghana is launching a continental AI hackathon in Accra to move Africa beyond theoretical AI strategies to practical, implementable solutions. The event will bring together over…
Vodacom, the University of Johannesburg, and AWS have launched a joint program to build a comprehensive AI talent pipeline in South Africa, integrating students into live Vodacom…
Across Africa, the AI landscape is booming, with Nigeria pushing for inclusive African language models, Egypt attracting significant investment in AI centers and startups, and…
The ATLAS Umoja AI initiative has been launched by African governments and technology partners to accelerate AI development in African languages, aiming to embed local cultures…
Aletheia is an offline-first AI clinical decision support system designed specifically for low-resource healthcare settings across sub-Saharan Africa. It was fine-tuned on a…
Google has launched an Africa Applied AI Lab in Ghana, inviting entrepreneurs and researchers from across the continent to apply. The program aims to support the development of AI…
Nigerian fintech Nearpays has made history by becoming the first African startup to win the UN AI for Good Innovation Factory grand finale. Their AI-powered SoftPOS platform…
This research directly addresses the challenges of developing automatic speech recognition for low-resource African languages. The study utilized two Africa-centric datasets to…
The IMF projects that artificial intelligence could elevate Sub-Saharan Africa's economic output by 4% over the next decade, provided governments invest in electricity, broadband,…
A Boston Consulting Group report warns that Africa is falling behind in the global AI economy due to insufficient investment in infrastructure, data, and local innovation. The…
Egypt has launched a nationally contextualized AI competency framework for teachers, developed in partnership with UNESCO, to integrate AI responsibly into its education system.…
