A global community built around AI-assisted software development has expanded into Nigeria, with the inaugural Lagos edition of Café Cursor connecting local developers to an international network that now spans more than 50 cities. Café Cursor is a city-based meetup format built around users of Cursor, an increasingly popular AI code editor that helps developers […]

MENA venture studio DeepMinds has launched DeepX, a regional deep tech venture-building summit aimed at converting scientific research into commercially viable businesses, with its inaugural event held in Algiers this week. The summit brought together researchers, AI experts, policymakers, founders and investors from the United States, Europe, Asia and across Africa. It is supported by […]

Egyptian artificial intelligence startup Sinai.ai has raised $1.45 million in a pre-seed funding round to develop a platform that converts traditional books into interactive digital formats, in a deal led by KAUST Innovation Ventures and DisrupTech Ventures. Maza Ventures, YOUXEL Ventures and a group of angel investors also participated in the round. The company was […]

South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has suspended two senior officials with immediate effect after AI-generated hallucinations were discovered in the reference list of its revised white paper on citizenship, immigration and refugee protection — the second cabinet-approved policy document caught with fabricated sources in less than a week. A chief director in the unit […]

A Malawian innovator has won the Best Social Impact Solution category at the 2026 National ICT Innovation Awards for developing an AI-powered eye-control system that enables people with severe motor disabilities to operate computers using only eye movements. Chimwemwe Liwonde, a first-class computing graduate, designed the desktop assistive solution to support individuals with conditions such […]

Africa’s AI Momentum Is Real. The Governance Beneath It Is Not. On 27 April 2026, South Africa’s Communications and Digital Technologies Minister pulled the country’s Draft National AI Policy after it emerged that its reference list contained fictitious academic citations, articles attributed to researchers who had never written them, on topics they had never studied. […]

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The South African Weather Service has issued warnings of severe thunderstorms that could cause infrastructure damage, flooding, and travel disruptions across at least four provinces, while coastal winds threaten beachfront activities in the Western Cape as a cold front moves along the south-west coast.

The Western Cape High Court has declared key tariff charges in the City of Cape Town’s 2025/26 budget unlawful and invalid.

Artificial intelligence and automation could put more than 1.3 million Moroccan jobs at net risk of displacement by 2030, according to a new report from the African Center for Strategic Studies and Digitalization, which frames the challenge as a structural transformation requiring urgent national coordination across education, industry and public policy. The report identifies nearly […]

Code for Africa has opened applications for the 2026 AI for Good Fellowship, a program supporting African technologists to apply artificial intelligence in strengthening the work of human rights defender organizations across the continent. The fellowship is offered under the Digitalize Youth consortium. The program will support six technologists to collaborate with human rights defenders […]

A Nigerian AI infrastructure startup has launched a platform designed to function as a security layer between AI applications and the models they depend on, addressing what its founders describe as a critical gap as African and global companies rush to ship AI-powered products without adequate guardrails. Cencori, founded in June 2025 by Bola Banjo, […]

The City of Cape Town’s push to manage passenger rail within the metropole received its strongest support yet from the national Department of Transport, with the launch of the draft National Rail Master Plan on 23 April.

AI clinical care platform Heidi has officially launched in South Africa following adoption by 15,000 clinicians in the country, as workforce shortages and administrative burden push healthcare systems toward AI tools that integrate with existing workflows. The launch comes after a wave of clinician-led demand, with adoption now extending beyond individual users into broader system […]

A new report from the Milken Institute argues that artificial intelligence and targeted manufacturing innovation are essential to unlocking Africa’s industrial transformation, with the continent on track to represent a quarter of the world’s population and $16 trillion in business and consumer spending by 2050 — but at risk of continuing to lag in production […]

A cold front is set to dust the Eastern Cape highlands with snow this Friday, and in KwaZulu-Natal, residents have been warned to wrap up warm as the mercury drops.

The Ekangala Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a 37-year-old man to life imprisonment for the rape of his 13-year-old stepdaughter.

In a crowded smartphone market, it’s easy for devices to promise everything and deliver very little. The HONOR 600 Lite takes a different approach—focusing on intuitive design, practical AI, and camera features that work in real life. To put that to the test, the device was placed in the hands of three women aged 70, […]