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Egypt’s Fincart Raises $2.8M Seed to Scale AI Merchant Operating System, With 450 Merchants and EGP 1bn Processed

Egyptian startup Fincart has raised a $2.8 million seed round to scale its AI-powered operating system for e-commerce ...
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Konecta Opens First Global Generative AI Centre of Excellence in New Cairo, Part of $100 Million Egypt Investment

Spanish outsourcing group Konecta has opened its regional headquarters and first global centre of excellence for generative ...
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iHUB and Mastercard Foundation Back 12 Kenyan Startups Building AI and Assistive EdTech for Learners With Disabilities and Refugees

HUB and the Mastercard Foundation have selected 12 early-stage Kenyan startups for an 18-month EdTech fellowship offering ...
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GSMA and Five African Governments Launch ATLAS Umoja AI to Scale Nigeria’s Language Model Template Across the Continent

The GSMA and the governments of Benin, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria and Togo have launched ATLAS Umoja AI, a pan-African ...
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Egypt Launches Nationally Contextualized AI Competency Framework for Teachers Under UNESCO Partnership

Egypt has become one of the first countries in the world to launch a nationally contextualized AI competency framework for ...
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Vodacom’s AI Lab, UJ Centre for Applied Data Science and AWS Team Up to Build South African AI Talent Pipeline From Short Courses to PhD

Vodacom's AI Lab, the University of Johannesburg's Centre for Applied Data Science (CADS) and Amazon Web Services have ...
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Cencori and Spitch Partner to Give African Developers Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo and Amharic Voice AI Through One API

Nigerian AI cloud infrastructure company Cencori and African voice AI startup Spitch have partnered to make text-to-speech ...
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Huawei and Four SA IT Partners Launch Joint Industry Solution at Sandton Connect 2026, Positioning South Africa as African Pilot Market

Huawei has launched a Partner Joint Industry Solution with four of South Africa's largest IT services companies — CoCre8 ...
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Seychelles’ Fusepay Launches Fuse360, an AI-Native Operating System for African Wholesalers and Distributors

Seychelles-headquartered fintech Fusepay has launched Fuse360, an AI-native operating system built for wholesalers, ...
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Munich Startup Knowlix AI Enters 29 African Markets With AI SME Platform — But Zero Local Customers at Launch and Established Rivals in Its Path

Munich-based startup Knowlix AI has launched an AI-powered business platform aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises ...
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ZTE and MTN South Africa Scale AI-Native EnergyTurbo Across Western Cape After Cape Town Trial Lifts Site Energy Savings to 13.5%

MTN South Africa and Chinese ICT vendor ZTE have expanded a commercial rollout of ZTE AIR RAN EnergyTurbo — an AI-native ...
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Tijani Welcomes IMF’s Naming of Nigeria as a Leading African AI Economy, Points to Six-Initiative Build-Out

Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy Bosun Tijani described the recognition as an encouraging signal of Nigeria's readiness for the ...