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		<title>R4.54B in a Week: Who Is Paying for Africa’s Fibre Build-Out?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Averie Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In one week, Washington committed more than R4bn to African networks. The money flows into undersea cables, backbone fibre and data centres. We look at who is paying, what they expect in return and why broadband internet in South Africa still stops at the suburbs.
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		<title>WSO2 Agent Manager Brings Sovereign AI Governance to Enterprise Agent Sprawl</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Averie Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[WSO2 today announced the general availability of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open control plane that governs AI agents across any framework, model, or deployment, helping enterprises put agents in production with confidence and regain control of agent sprawl. Fully open source and deployable anywhere, Agent Manager gives enterprises complete sovereignty over how they manage their [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How edge intelligence and AI mobility are reshaping Africa’s next digital economy</title>
		<link>https://www.itnewsafrica.com/2026/08/how-edge-intelligence-and-ai-mobility-are-reshaping-africas-next-digital-economy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Averie Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For years, artificial intelligence has largely been associated with hyperscale data centres and cloud computing environments. But the next phase of AI innovation is moving much closer to where decisions need to happen at the edge of the network. This shift is being driven by a new generation of applications that cannot afford delays. Whether [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Closing South Africa’s Healthcare Data Gap</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Averie Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When patients move, their healthcare data should move with them A patient in an underserved community may begin their care at a local clinic, be referred to a district hospital, have tests processed elsewhere, and later need specialist treatment or follow-up in another province. At every handover, the next care team needs enough context to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ventures Platform closes Fund II at $84M amid global venture slowdown</title>
		<link>https://www.itnewsafrica.com/2026/08/ventures-platform-closes-fund-ii-at-84m-amid-global-venture-slowdown/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Averie Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Startups]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ventures Platform, Africa’s leading seed-stage fund, has announced the final close of its second institutional fund – VP Pan-African Fund II (VP PAF II)– at $84 million, exceeding its original target of $75 million.&#160; Achieved just three years after the close of Fund I and against a markedly more cautious global venture backdrop, the oversubscribed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AVEVA announces appointment of new Chief Revenue Officer, Brock Ballard from 1 October 2026</title>
		<link>https://www.itnewsafrica.com/2026/08/aveva-announces-appointment-of-new-chief-revenue-officer-brock-ballard-from-1-october-2026/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Averie Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software, today announced the appointment of Brock Ballard as Chief Revenue Officer effective 1 October 2026. Brock joins the team from Bentley Systems following an extensive recruitment process led by AVEVA; he will succeed Sue Quense in the role as she steps into an advisory capacity. Brock brings over [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MTN Group advances Africa’s AI-ready digital infrastructure ecosystem through strategic partnership</title>
		<link>https://www.itnewsafrica.com/2026/08/mtn-group-advances-africas-ai-ready-digital-infrastructure-ecosystem-through-strategic-partnership/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Averie Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Transformation]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, economies and societies at an unprecedented speed. As demand for cloud computing, AI workloads and data-intensive digital services accelerates, access to resilient, scalable and locally hosted digital infrastructure will become increasingly critical to Africa&#8217;s competitiveness and economic growth. Against this backdrop, MTN Group today announced that MTN Digital Infrastructure has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kenya Built a Currency Control While It May Not Need One</title>
		<link>https://www.itnewsafrica.com/2026/08/kenya-built-a-currency-control-while-it-may-not-need-one/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Averie Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[EBC Financial Group notes that Kenya&#8217;s new virtual asset regulations created a restriction on local access to foreign dollar-linked stablecoins before the shilling came under pressure, giving the Central Bank of Kenya a way to limit that access if demand for US dollar-linked assets rises later. EBC Financial Group (EBC) highlights that Kenya gave the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Samsung Galaxy S26 FE Lands with Exynos 2500, One UI 9 and Smarter Camera AI</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Staff Writer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S26 FE, the latest addition to its Galaxy S26 family, bringing upgraded artificial intelligence, camera capabilities and performance to the company’s more accessible Fan Edition range. The Galaxy S26 FE is the first device in the S26 line-up to launch with Android 17 and One UI 9, Samsung’s latest interface, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Microsoft announces East Africa Country Lead</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Averie Walsh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has announced the appointment of Angela Nganga as the Country Lead for East Africa. A long-standing member of the Microsoft Middle East and Africa (Emerging Markets) leadership team, she brings extensive experience in government engagement, strategic business development, stakeholder management and digital transformation to the role. Nganga will advance Microsoft’s commitment to empowering people, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>MoMo Payment Service Bank (PSB) appoints Bode Abifarin CEO</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Staff Writer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 05:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Finance]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[MoMo Payment Service Bank (MoMo PSB), the fintech subsidiary of MTN Nigeria licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria to provide digital financial services, money transfers and bill payments via mobile devices, is pleased to announce the appointment of Bode Abifarin as its Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 September 2026. Bode joins [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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