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Egyptian agentic AI customer-experience startup Tactful AI has secured investment from Hatem Dowidar, the former group chief executive of UAE telecoms group e&, as an extension of its pre-Series A round.
The amount was not disclosed. Tactful raised $1 million in February in a round co-led by Foras AI and M Empire.
Dowidar led e& from 2020 until Mar...
Uganda has launched a five-year National Data Strategy to overhaul how government collects, stores and shares information — work officials describe as the foundation for the country’s forthcoming National AI Strategy.
The starting point is stark. A baseline survey found Uganda currently holds data for only 36% of the indicators in its Fourth National Development Pla...
London-based SoleCrypt has announced plans for a 40MW AI campus in Bizerte, Tunisia, powered by solar energy and targeting operations in 2028.
The company unveiled the SoleCrypt AI Campus at NVIDIA GTC Berlin. Its first phase will deliver 7MW, built around NVIDIA’s HGX Rubin NVL8 platform with up to 1,728 GPUs.
SoleCrypt described the campus as a significa...
Nigeria has proposed that African countries pool their computing resources so researchers across the continent can run large-scale AI work none could manage alone, Communications Minister Bosun Tijani told the opening of BUILD 2026 in Abuja.
“Nigerian capacity might not be big enough, but over the night, maybe forty-eight hours, we could aggregate this for all of us...
Egypt plans to build five to seven “mega data centres” over the next four to five years and expects some to begin exporting services globally by 2030, Communications and Information Technology Minister Raafat Hendy told Egypt Forum 2026.
No capacity, cost or site details were given. Some facilities are expected to be operational and exporting by 2030, with work cont...