DRC youth push back on digital dependency 🇨🇩
Cliquez ici pour lire en français On August 20, 2026, Silikin Village in Kinshasa hosted the fourth edition of Youth IGF DRC, the local branch of the global Internet Governance...
Tag: Digital Sovereignty
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Why CAMTEL just became Cameroon’s digital backbone 🇨🇲⚙️
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Cameroon wants its government agencies and digital services to finally talk to each other. Behind that ambition sits a genuinely hard technical problem: building...
Senegal’s parliament unanimously passes critical infrastructure cybersecurity law 🇸🇳 🛡️
Cliquez ici pour lire en français On Thursday, August 20, 2026, Senegal’s National Assembly unanimously passed Law n°25/2026 on the protection of critical information infrastructure and digital security — a...
Algeria moves from AI strategy to public-sector rollout 🇩🇿🤖
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Algeria wants to move from AI strategy to execution. Authorities have kicked off the first phase of the national AI strategy’s rollout, with an...
Côte d’Ivoire unveils two cybersecurity master’s programs to close its...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français As cyberthreats mount and public administrations and businesses alike race to go digital, Côte d’Ivoire is stepping up its cybersecurity workforce plans. On July...
Cybersecurity : Côte d’Ivoire activates its national PKI🔐🇨🇮
Cliquez ici pour lire en français On July 23, 2026, in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s Minister of Digital Transition and Technological Innovation, Djibril Ouattara, announced the commissioning of the country’s national...
France bets on sovereign AI cloud with Mistral-Microsoft tie-up 💶🤖
Cliquez ici pour lire en français French AI startup Mistral and US tech giant Microsoft announced on July 21, 2026 a major deepening of their strategic partnership, first struck in...
Burkina Faso trains lawmakers on artificial intelligence 🖥️🇧🇫
Cliquez ici pour lire en français In Ouagadougou, around thirty members of the National Assembly (Assemblée législative du peuple, or ALP) took part in an AI training session on July...
Mali eyes a national space agency, alongside Burkina Faso and...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Mali is exploring the creation of a national space agency. The prospect was raised by the country’s Minister of Communication, Digital Economy, and Administrative...
West Africa’s six-country push for a common AI rulebook 🌍🤖
Cliquez ici pour lire en français On July 6, six West African countries reached a milestone few outside policy circles noticed. Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea, and Benin...