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ITU and Senegal's telecom regulator just locked in a deal at the big telecoms conference in Baku to help young women get into digital commerce. Cosmas Zavazava from ITU and Dahirou Thiam from ARTP signed off on the partnership, which sets up training programs and digital tools for women...

UNICEF and TECNO Mobile are back for round two of their Learning Passport thing in Nigeria, and this time they're scaling up teacher training across six states. The whole point is getting educators comfortable with digital tools so kids can actually learn something useful instead of just staring...

Mastercard teamed up with AXIAN Group to roll out virtual cards, physical cards, and merchant payment tools across Tanzania, Madagascar, Togo, Comoros, and Senegal through the Mixx and MVola apps. The setup lets people pay from their phones, check live exchange rates, and cancel sketchy...

South Sudan's ICT Ministry is trying to make mobile and internet bills cheaper after sitting down with Zain's CEO to hash out why communication costs are so high in the country. Minister Ateny Wek Ateny basically said affordable internet matters for schools, businesses, and getting people online...

Botswana Telecommunications Corporation just connected 61 villages that were basically off the grid, and it's part of a massive government push to wire up over 500 rural spots under the SmartBots Village Connectivity project. These places had almost zero broadband infrastructure or even reliable...

CadRemit just scored an International Money Transfer Operator license from the Central Bank of Nigeria, and that puts them in the club with other CBN-regulated payment operators. The fintech company can handle inbound international transfers for Nigerians getting cash sent from overseas, which...

The Port of Douala just locked in a deal with INNOVENDI to roll out hybrid 4G/5G networks and Smart Port tech across its facilities in Bonabéri. Cyrus NGO'O from PAD and Joel MONEFONG from INNOVENDI signed off on the partnership, which gets fully funded by the private side without government...

Zimbabwe just hit foreign tech companies with a new withholding tax that's about to make your Bolt rides and Starlink internet more expensive. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube dropped this in the budget to replace the old VAT setup, and it covers everything from ride-hailing apps to satellite...

AMD has a couple of new workstation GPUs showing up in driver files, and they're called the Radeon AI Pro R9700S and R9600D. Driver mentions usually mean hardware is close to shipping, but AMD hasn't said anything official yet. The R9700S looks like the beefier option for mid-range workstation...

Qualcomm's next Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip is getting some early performance leaks, and the integrated GPU looks like a solid upgrade, but nothing wild. The company seems focused on better efficiency and steadier performance instead of trying to match Apple's mobile graphics or even low-end...

Colorful just dropped two AM5 motherboards under its CVN label, and they're calling them the B850 Battle-Ax and Meow editions. Both boards run on the B850 chipset, work with Ryzen 7000 chips, and should support future Zen processors down the line. The company is basically filling a gap for...

PPC Limited boss Matias Cardarelli basically shrugged off Aliko Dangote's $1 billion Zimbabwe investment announcement, saying there's a massive difference between press releases and actual money showing up. The billionaire signed deals with the government for cement and energy projects, but...

Renewable energy deals across Africa keep getting killed by financing setups that only work for massive builds, and everyone at this investor forum in Rabat keeps saying the same thing. ACWA Power exec Hashim Ghabashi pointed out that slapping the same requirements on a 30 megawatt project that...

Energy investors trying to make moves in Africa keep running into the same BS, according to Nkem Onwuamaegbu from the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, and she laid it all out at a forum in Rabat. Basically, the regulatory environment stays unpredictable, and most public utilities have...

Renewable energy rollouts across Africa keep getting wrecked by supply chain nightmares and red tape that drag projects way past their deadlines. Hussain Al Nowais from AMEA Power told a panel in Rabat that port jams, customs delays, and sluggish development finance institution approval...

Zimbabwe just tweaked its 2% transaction tax instead of killing it completely like business groups wanted, and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube dropped the rate on local currency deals to 1.5% while keeping the US dollar levy at 2%. The government is letting companies write off the tax as a...

Ethiopian Airlines is dropping $12.5 billion on a massive new airport that should handle 110 million people yearly when it's done, and the CEO Mesfin Tasew Bekele says a Chinese bank already threw in $500 million, with the African Development Bank matching that. The current Addis Ababa airport...

Zimbabwe's mining sector is on track to hit $7 billion in earnings by year-end and should climb to $7.5 billion next year, with gold and platinum group metals carrying most of the weight. Gold deliveries are expected to reach 45 tonnes as prices spike over 50% to about $4,160 per ounce, and...

Windows-G just dropped E-NoiseGate600, a noise gate plugin built for REAPER that handles everything from cleaning up recordings to ducking vocals. The thing runs on JSFX and can do rhythmic gating plus gated reverb effects with exponential attack and release curves that keep everything smooth...

New Sonic Arts just patched Granite to version 1.6931, and the biggest thing is they added this grain double-buffering trick that cuts down on clicks and glitchy sounds. The granular texture generator also got trackpad support for MacBooks, so you can scroll through waveforms sideways, and the...