Oluniyi D. Ajao

South Africa’s communications regulator has fined a telecoms operator 6 million rand for misusing phone numbers, in a case that pulls back the curtain on the murky business of interconnect bypass fraud.

West Africa’s internet leans on a handful of coastal cable landing stations, and when one is cut, the region feels it. CSquared is trying to spread that risk.

Raxio, one of the pan-African independent data-centre operators, has lifted its committed capital to 380 million dollars as two of its long-term backers increased their stakes, a vote of confidence in Africa’s fast-growing appetite for computing space.

Forty-nine sites against a plan for 4,400. That gap has cost Next-Gen InfraCo (NGIC) the monopoly Ghana handed it two years ago.

African banks are still pouring money into artificial intelligence. What has changed is that their boards now want to see the receipts.

Johannesburg has become the first city in Africa to offer Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute Metro, the dual-site connectivity tier that until now existed only in Europe, the Americas and the Asia-Pacific.

The day after it ended NGIC’s monopoly, Ghana put the airwaves up for grabs. On 16 July 2026 the National Communications Authority (NCA) issued a Request for Applications for 5G spectrum across three frequency bands, open to any qualifying operator and, pointedly, to new entrants.

Two of Africa’s less-connected markets are gaining a new on-ramp to the global internet. AFR-IX Telecom has deployed its network inside Raxio’s data centres in Angola and Mozambique, the two companies announced on 22 July 2026.

Artificial intelligence is already changing how South Africa’s mines are run, but the executives using it are notably unromantic about what it can do. That is the through-line of a new study from PwC and the Minerals Council of South Africa, the third edition of their Fourth Industrial Revolution in Mining research, published on 23 July 2026.

Sub-Saharan Africa received more than US$205 billion in on-chain cryptocurrency value between July 2024 and June 2025, up roughly 52% on the year before, according to Chainalysis. That growth makes it the third fastest-growing crypto region in the world, behind only Asia-Pacific and Latin America.