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A Kericho cyber café, a Kenyan smart farm, a Ugandan banker's rise and Tanzania's mega-port are among the East African stories now free to watch. NAIROBI, 17 October 2026 - Sending money by phone sounded too simple to matter. It turned airtime agents into a cash...
Mimosa Mine’s collaboration with Rockwell Automation and Mine Elect shows that connected operational technology has turned cybersecurity into a production and resilience issue.
Amazon Kuiper and Uber filed for Kenyan telecom and courier licences; the Communications Authority opened a 30-day objection window before deciding.
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.
China lists at least ten African uses for its BeiDou satellites, from precision farming to wildlife tracking. What the record does not yet list is the named centres to run them.
At the 2024 Beijing summit China named the digital economy its next African frontier – 20 projects inside a three-year RMB 360 billion (US$50 billion) package. The detail is thinner than the headline.
The headline China-Africa numbers are loans and ports. The quieter figure: 200,000km of optical fibre and broadband for six million households – infrastructure hard to see and hard to remove.
The visible China-Africa media story is towers and dishes. The quieter one is people and programming – journalist exchanges, training cohorts and co-production deals that shape how stories get told.
Continental pledges are hard to test. Uganda’s share of the satellite-TV rollout – 900 villages, 18,000 households – is small enough to count and large enough to judge the wider claim.