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PayPal has extended its dollar-backed stablecoin PYUSD into Uganda and Malawi, two new African markets it named as part of a 70-country global rollout announced on 20 May 2026.

The San Jose, California-headquartered payments group said users in newly supported markets can now buy, hold, send, and receive PYUSD directly from their PayPal accounts, and convert the sta...


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Angolan subsea cable operator Angola Cables has signed a strategic partnership with United States fibre provider Uniti Wholesale, integrating its SACS, MONET and WACS submarine systems with Uniti’s terrestrial network across more than 300 US metro markets.

The two companies announced the agreement in Washington DC on 20 May 2026. Uniti’s domestic backbone spans roug...


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South African platinum and chrome producer Tharisa Minerals has deployed RADWIN’s FiberinMotion adaptive wireless network across its Rustenburg open-pit mine, marking the first African implementation of the technology.

The deployment, delivered with hybrid ICT systems integrator Datacentrix, replaces a legacy 3G coverage arrangement that relied on SIM cards in selec...


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South Africa’s infrastructure investment will total $582 billion over the next 25 years, with transport, resources and power accounting for 63% of the spend, according to a long-term outlook from PwC.

The PwC Global Infrastructure Outlook 2025 to 2050, released on 20 May 2026, projects that South Africa’s annual infrastructure spending will grow by 39% from $19 bill...


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Google has reopened its Hustle Academy entrepreneur training programme across three African markets, framing the relaunch around a $100 billion gap that African economies could capture from generative AI.

The free programme began registrations on 11 May 2026 in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. It offers single-day bootcamps and 60-minute expert webinars for small-bu...


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