East African C community IA conference in Kigali calls for responsible development, regional collaboration
Speaking at the conference, Andrea Aguer Ariik Malueth, deputy secretary general for Infrastructure, productive, social and political sectors at the EAC, emphasised the transformative potential of AI for the region.
Report: Fragile media ecosystems undermine already stretched health systems across Africa
The report concludes with a call to action by governments, donors, media organisations and the private sector: invest in health journalism or risk weakening public health outcomes. Recommendations include funding newsroom capacity, improving access to reliable data, supporting specialised training and fostering stronger partnerships between journalists and health experts. For Mbori, collaboration is key.
Kenya’s Kisumu in Lake Victoria Basin to host Continental Smart Cities Summit in August
The summit will focus on practical solutions to challenges facing rapidly growing cities, with particular emphasis on smart healthcare systems, sustainable urban planning, climate resilience, affordable housing and digital governance.
Dominant Chinese Artificial Intelligence firms rake in huge profits in niche markets
China’s vast domestic market provides fertile ground for AI adoption. Tech giants like Alibaba have begun integrating agentic AI, linking it with their existing digital infrastructure – spanning payments, logistics, and cloud services – to convert algorithms into revenue.
WTO projects slow global trade growth in 2026 against backdrop of rising Middle East tensions
The WTO’s new chief economist Robert Staiger told a press conference that the “unusually strong trade growth” in 2025 was mainly driven by the frontloading of imports in North America in anticipation of higher US tariffs, as well as a surge in AI-related goods. But the two forces are “unlikely to persist through 2026,” said Staiger.
Electric motorbike company associated with President Ruto accused of killing businesses in western Kenya through rent non-payment
A storm is brewing in western Kenya as landlords who leased premises to electric mobility company Spiro (Africa Smart Mobility Solutions Kenya Limited) accuse the firm of breaching lease agreements barely months after its high-profile launch by President William Ruto. The landlords, who provided space for Spiro’s electric bike battery...
6G is coming at a time hype about 5G has not ebbed, raising questions if what to expect from the next-gen of cellular tech is anothr liee
When it succeeds 5G in 2030, the next-gen mobile network will focus on upload speeds, AI, and radar-like “sensing” of vehicles, devices and people. 5G came with many promises. Remote surgery, where surgeons operate thousands of miles away from patients; driverless cars talking to each other and autonomously navigating highways;...
Chinese ‘gravity-fed’ irrigation technology spurs hopes of three crop seasons in Busia, Siaya in Lake Victoria Basin
According to data from Kenya’s National Irrigation Authority (NIA), the project has directly benefited more than 12,500 farming households in Siaya and Busia counties, securing irrigation for 11,000 acres (about 4,451.5 hectares) of agricultural land and providing a strong guarantee for local food security.
Inside China’s robot boot camp where robots are trained to performs tasks as race to feed hungry AI heats up
Ye Yangsheng, co-founder of Shanghai-based SEER Robotics, already noted at the 2025 Zhangjiang Embodied AI Developer Conference in May that humanoid robots require massive amounts of data for training, but collecting data in real-world environments is extremely costly.
Security news: How a hacker accidentally broke into the FBI’s Epstein files
The US Department of Homeland Security quietly ousted two of the agency’s privacy officials after they questioned the mislabelling of certain records related to surveillance technologies and other tech in ways that would prevent their release to the public.
