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Nigeria Launches Coordinated Regulatory Framework for Virtual Assets
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed the Presidential Executive Order on Virtual Assets Coordination, 2026 , intro…
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Zambia Launches GovLink Private 4G Network to Strengthen Digital Public Services
Zambia has launched GovLink Private 4G , a government-owned digital connectivity network designed to improve interne…
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Nigeria Investigates Alphabet, Meta and X Over Use of Local News Content
Nigeria has launched an investigation into major global technology companies over allegations of anti-competitive p…
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India Just Banned Telegram, and Within 24 Hours Over 200,000 People Had Downloaded VPN
The Indian government restricted access to the messaging platform on Tuesday, citing concerns that fraudsters were usin…
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President Tinubu Just Ended a South African Firm's 12-Year Stranglehold on Nigeria's N3 Trillion Airtime Lending Market
For twelve years, a South African technology company called Optasia has quietly dominated one of the most lucrative cor…
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Ghana Halts MTN MoMo's New Transfer Fee Less Than 24 Hours After It Was Announced
Eid Mubarak to all our readers celebrating today. MTN Ghana attempted to introduce a new mobile money fee on Monday…
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Ghana Launches E-Visa Platform and Scraps Visa Fees for African Passport Holders
Passport Holders Ghana has officially launched a national electronic visa platform as part of a broader push to moder…
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Trump Pulls Back on AI Executive Order After Pressure From Musk and Zuckerberg
United States President Donald Trump has postponed signing a planned artificial intelligence executive order after la…
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NCC Moves to Overhaul Nigeria's 26-Year-Old Telecoms Policy as Fibre Cuts and Data Costs Mount
The Nigerian Communications Commission has begun a formal review of the country's national telecommunications polic…
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Zimbabwe Gives Content Creators Until June to Declare Earnings or Face Prosecution
Zimbabwe's tax authority has issued a deadline for online content creators and social media influencers to voluntar…
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Nigeria Customs Launches Digital Declaration System That Lets Travellers Clear Baggage Before Landing
The Nigeria Customs Service has launched a new digital platform that allows international passengers to declare their b…
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TikTok Removed 820,000 Videos in Kenya in Three Months and Banned Over 100,000 Accounts
TikTok has published its Q4 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, and the numbers coming out of Kenya alone tel…
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Pope Leo XIV Warns Against Overreliance on AI in Creative Work
Pope Leo XIV has spent the early months of his papacy warning about artificial intelligence, but his latest comments g…
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Kenya Proposes 25% Smartphone Tax That Could Reverse Years of Digital Inclusion Progress
Kenya's Finance Bill 2026, tabled on 13 May, has proposed a 25% excise duty on mobile phones, a measure that has …
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Uganda Just Approved Starlink. Here Is Why That Is a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds
Uganda has approved Starlink, SpaceX's satellite internet service, to operate within its borders, joining a growi…
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Ghana Just Ended Its 5G Monopoly Experiment and Opened the Race to Every Telco
Ghana has made one of the most significant telecommunications policy reversals in its recent history, abandoning a mo…
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