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Early this year, Google collaborated with African partners to launch WAXAL, a large-scale, openly accessible speech dataset aimed at addressing the persistent digital divide affecting African languages in artificial intelligence systems. Some of the newly supported languages include Kiswahili, Somali, Afrikaans, Akan, Amharic, Hausa, Kinyarwanda, Afaan Oromo, Sesotho, Wolof, ...

Africa Skills Hub (ASH), a Ghana-based organisation supporting youth, women, and small businesses, has rebranded to ASH Africa as it moves to scale operations across the continent and widen its development mandate beyond skills training. The rebrand, announced as the organisation marks its 10th anniversary, coincides with the launch of a 2026–2030 Strategic Plan targeting …

Kenya has edged past Nigeria in the Financial Times’ 2026 ranking of Africa’s fastest-growing companies, placing 17 firms on the 130-company list against Nigeria’s 16,  a first in the ranking’s history and a signal of shifting momentum across the continent’s business landscape. The FT ranking, produced in partnership with data firm Statista, measures compound annual …

East Africa is on course to be the continent’s fastest-growing sub-region in 2026, with GDP projected to expand by 5.8%, up from 5.4% in 2025, according to the United Nations’ World Economic Situation and Prospects 2026 report. The figure puts East Africa well ahead of Africa’s continental average of 4.0% and outpaces every other African …

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Kibo Africa is preparing a large-scale rollout of electric motorcycles in Kenya, setting a target of 10,000 units on the road over the next 12 months as competition intensifies in the country’s growing e-mobility market. The deployment plan is tied to a partnership with energy infrastructure company Powerhive, which will support the rollout through battery-swapping …

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