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In March 2025 Cassava Technologies said it would build Africa's first AI factory with NVIDIA, starting in South Africa and then expanding to Egypt, Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria. Deployment in South Africa has since begun, but the other countries remain a plan, not a finished build.
Nigeria's biggest fintech by merchant footprint closed one of Africa's largest funding rounds. The cash is verified; whether a private valuation makes a 'unicorn' worth a billion dollars is the argument the sector is still having.
South Africa's neighbours connect through Starlink; South Africa argues about it. The blocker is an ownership law written to correct apartheid-era exclusion, and the fight is now between the minister who wants an exception and the regulator who says only Parliament can make one.
Google's Equiano cable to South Africa has been launched and is carrying the promise of more capacity on the west coast. Meta's 2Africa core system was reported complete in November 2025, while Google's Umoja link to Australia still had no confirmed completion date when it was announced.
Mobile and broadband services stuttered across several West African countries after damage to undersea cables off the coast. Operators agree on the disruption. Nobody with evidence has yet confirmed what cut the cables.
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Cassava announced on 24 March 2025 that it planned to build Africa's first AI factory, powered by NVIDIA technology.
From: Cassava's AI factoryThe plan was to deploy in South Africa by June 2025, with expansion planned in Egypt, Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria.
From: Cassava's AI factoryCassava has begun deploying its AI factory in South Africa.
From: Cassava's AI factoryAI factories are now operating in Egypt, Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria.
From: Cassava's AI factoryCassava had acquired 12,000 NVIDIA GPUs.
From: Cassava's AI factoryGoogle launched the Equiano cable, which runs about 15,000 km from Portugal to South Africa with a design capacity of 150 Tbps.
From: Which big subsea cables landing in Africa are live, and which are still promisesMeta completed the core 2Africa system, spanning about 45,000 km with 46 landing points and up to 180 Tbps on key routes.
From: Which big subsea cables landing in Africa are live, and which are still promisesThe first live 2Africa segments were expected to go live in September 2025, including routes involving Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa.
From: Which big subsea cables landing in Africa are live, and which are still promisesUmoja will be the first subsea cable directly connecting Africa with Australia, running on land from Kenya through Uganda, Rwanda, DR Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe to South Africa, then across the Indian Ocean to Perth.
From: Which big subsea cables landing in Africa are live, and which are still promisesUmoja is finished and carrying traffic to Australia.
From: Which big subsea cables landing in Africa are live, and which are still promisesMultiple undersea cables serving West Africa were damaged in the same period.
From: Internet slowed across West Africa after undersea cable damage — cause still not confirmedThe cables were cut by a ship's anchor.
From: Internet slowed across West Africa after undersea cable damage — cause still not confirmedThe Grand Egyptian Museum opened beside the Giza Plateau on 1 November 2025, displaying King Tutankhamun's complete collection together for the first time. A year on, the museum is a global draw — though Egypt's own official counts of its visitors disagree with each other by millions, and ticket prices rise on 1 November 2026.
Zanzibar received 917,167 international visitors in 2025, up 24.5% on 2024 and the highest total in its history, on official statistics. December alone brought more than 100,000 arrivals. Now operators and officials are debating whether the island should chase a million visitors — or chase higher spending per visitor instead.
The Victoria Falls area received a record combined 565,083 visitors in 2024, passing the pre-pandemic 2019 total, and its airport broke the half-million passenger mark the same year. Growth continued into 2025. Conservation specialists are asking what the ceiling should be for one of the world's great waterfalls.