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Prime Benin varsity gets Starlink installation

1 week ago | itweb.africa | Mthulisi Sibanda

The National Water Institute (INE) at the University of Abomey-Calavi in Benin has received a significant boost as charitable organisation, CoinEx Charity, provides Starlink satellite broadband connectivity to the institute. Limited internet connectivity has long hampered academic and research development at this West African university.
Cameroon plans to recover $52 million from telcos

2 weeks ago | itweb.africa | Amindeh Blaise Atabong

Cameroon's telecoms regulator is ready to launch a debt recovery operation to collect more than $52 million from several mobile network operators in the country, citing recurrent regulatory breaches and failure to comply with licensing requirements. An official from the Telecommunications Regulatory Board (TRB) told ITWeb Africa that the outstanding sum is due to unpaid license fees and different unpaid financial penalties stretching back years.
Kenya seeks to regulate crypto with new Virtual Assets Bill

2 weeks ago | itweb.africa | Nixon Kanali

Read time: 3 minutes Kenya is set to usher in new laws of digital asset regulations with the introduction of the Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) Bill, 2025. The legislation, which has been tabled by the country’s Treasury, is designed to bring comprehensive oversight to the country’s growing cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Ahead of G20 Summit, SA pushes for an innovation fund

2 weeks ago | itweb.africa | Samuel Mungadze

South Africa has called for the establishment of an innovation fund or facility to support digital entrepreneurship in underserved regions. Today, Solly Malatsi, South Africa’s minister of communications and digital technologies, made the plea as he welcomed the G20 Digital Economy Working Group and the Task Force on AI, Data Governance, and Innovation in Eastern Cape, South Africa. This comes as South Africa has become the first African nation to hold the G20 Presidency.
Peach widens African footprint with PayDunya acquisition

2 weeks ago | itweb.africa | Samuel Mungadze

Peach Payments, a South African fintech, is expanding its reach across Africa after agreeing to acquire West-African payment network PayDunya. The move announced yesterday allows Peach Payment to reach mainland Francophone Africa for the first time, following its expansion into Eswatini (2024), Mauritius (2021), and Kenya (2018). Peach Payments is an enterprise-grade payments gateway that facilitates online payments in Africa for businesses of all sizes.
Raxio gets $100m IFC funds to develop African data centre platform

3 weeks ago | itweb.africa | Samuel Mungadze

As the competition to develop data centres in Africa heats up, Raxio Group, a Sub-Saharan African data centre platform, has struck a $100 million financing arrangement with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group.
Social media makes $8.3bn for SA mobile operators

3 weeks ago | itweb.africa | Samuel Mungadze

The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), says telecom operators earned $8.3 billion (R159.3 billion) last year from customers who used their services to access social media platforms. According to ICASA’s latest State of the ICT Sector Report 31 March 2025, revenue generated by telecom operators through social media platforms has emerged as a significant driver of digital engagement.
Cameroon opens MTN’s frozen bank accounts after three years

3 weeks ago | itweb.africa | Samuel Mungadze

MTN Cameroon scored a victory in the Central African country, as the Littoral Court of Appeal in Doula lifted a garnishee order placed on the telco's bank accounts by the Bestinver group of companies. Cameroon's largest telecoms operator revealed the development on Tuesday evening, saying in a statement that the court unanimously decided – on 24 February – that the Bestinver group of companies was not entitled to impose these garnishees, which it had done since September 2022.
MTN picks Ankur Bajpai to oversee FTTH, FWA initiatives

3 weeks ago | itweb.africa | Samuel Mungadze

MTN Group, a pan-African telecom provider, is making a strong push to develop and implement its home broadband strategy, with a focus on Fibre to the Home (FTTH) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technologies. The telco has appointed Ankur Bajpai as executive group Home Broadband, where he will oversee the broadband strategy, with a particular emphasis on FTTH and FWA solutions.
African firms urged to bring cyber to the boardroom

3 weeks ago | itweb.africa | Samuel Mungadze

Read time: 3 minutes With rising cyber security threats, such as ransomware and data breaches, there is an increasing demand for stronger security discussions at the boardroom level. That’s according to Bernard Munyaradzi Chadenga, virtual CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) at the Cimplicity Institute, who recognises that to achieve this, the CISO’s focus and approach needs to change.