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Ministry of Digital Economy and Digital Transformation (Observatoire national du numérique) — The Observatoire national du numérique platform now offers a public AI assistant from the Ministry of Digital Economy and Digital Transformation. Ask about internet penetration or mobile usage in plain words and the conversational tool returns the indicator. Researchers, firms, policymakers and citizens are invited to test the service.
Observatoire national de la communication (ONC) — Department heads at the Observatoire national de la communication (ONC), the media regulator chaired by Ibrahim Manzo Diallo, received generative AI training for media regulators after the ONC's central directors did. Vision Talent, led by Ousmane Ali Saley, covered useful applications in communication work, the tools' limits, fact-checking machine output, confidentiality and human oversight, as part of wider AI upskilling.
Rising Academies — Government schools in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Rwanda and Ghana are getting Rori, the AI maths tutor Rising Academies delivers over WhatsApp, chief technology officer Shabnam Aggarwal told Semafor. The adaptive tutoring service adjusts to each pupil, copes with weak connectivity and backs classrooms short of staff. In a 2023 Oxford and J-PAL study of 500 students over eight months, two 30-minute weekly sessions beat a control group by about a year's schooling.
Bayelsa Medical University — Bayelsa Medical University, Yenagoa, now uses AI-powered robotic tutors in AI medical education, unveiled by Governor Douye Diri with its 2025–2029 Strategic Plan as a support for lecturers. Dimie Ogoina, the vice-chancellor, added a studio for virtual reality, AI and mixed reality, plus simulation in the clinical skills laboratory, as wider AI-assisted training takes shape.
Labour Court (Johannesburg) / CCMA — Acting Judge Sean Snyman of the Johannesburg Labour Court overturned a CCMA decision because commissioner Menzi Fakude cited a [2023] ZACC 40 judgment that never existed, an AI hallucination in arbitration Snyman branded a fundamental failure of justice. Fakude had let six former South African Post Office workers pursue unfair dismissal claims; the court declared that finding a nullity. Arbitrators using these tools must confirm every AI-generated citation exists and read the judgment itself.
Mogo Kenya — Mogo Kenya's AI customer service tool, an English and Swahili voice agent, settles up to 80% of handled calls without staff at this Eleving Group motorcycle and smartphone lender. Human-queue traffic dropped from 70,000–80,000 to below 60,000 while 100,000 extra borrowers joined. Roughly 1,000 people daily fetch handset-unlock PINs through an automated phone menu; Mogo states its models never learn from customer data.
South African Revenue Service (SARS) — The South African Revenue Service will assign AI agents to small arrears, around R5,000, later this financial year, Commissioner Johnstone Makhubu said. That use of AI in tax debt collection frees officials for larger accounts. Makhubu linked the automated collection plan to Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement projections: R2.14 trillion in 2026/27, R2.53 trillion by 2029/30.
Ministry of Education / Rwanda Basic Education Board — Over 90,000 participants have joined AI English training from the Ministry of Education and Rwanda Basic Education Board on Efekta Education's platform, aiming for 150,000. Begun in July 2025 with 16,000, the scheme is funded by the Mastercard Foundation and World Bank's Quality Basic Education for Human Capital Development programme. Company data show AI-assisted coaching lifting first-cohort learners from A2 to B1, many to B2 or C1.
South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) — The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) wants comment by 10 November 2026 on draft South African AI standards covering transparency, data quality, human oversight and environmental impact. Committee SABS/TC 001/SC 42 would adopt ISO/IEC texts verbatim, including SANS 12792 and SANS 2620, drawn from ISO/IEC 5259. Though not legally binding, these voluntary benchmarks are likely to become the domestic yardstick for responsible AI.
Discovery Green (Discovery Group) — Discovery Green, the electricity-trading arm of the Discovery Group, applies AI in renewable energy procurement through EnergyOS, a proprietary engine predicting generation, demand and market prices. Combining that AI risk modelling with actuarial expertise, the service allocates power across a customer's sites; Andre Nepgen, chief executive, unveiled EnergyOS in Johannesburg in September. Company simulations claim 88% less risk and 105% more savings than conventional buying, unverified independently.
INTIC and Comissão Nacional de Eleições (Mozambique) — INTIC and Mozambique's National Elections Commission opened a Training of Trainers in Artificial Intelligence in Electoral Administration at Macaneta, Maputo province, on 19 October 2026 with the United Nations Development Programme, a government AI training running to 23 October. Its 26 institutional trainers learn to use, assess and oversee AI tools, via modules from ethics and AI governance to data protection and doctored content. INTIC's Constantino Sotomane expects election AI skills to aid planning and civic education, warning of false information and personal-data abuse.
WHO Regional Office for Africa — World Health Organization Regional Office for Africa runs its Preparedness Data Exchange (PDX) in DR Congo, the first country with the AI epidemic early warning platform. PDX pools health and risk signals via artificial intelligence, giving national teams preparedness intelligence linked to a regional network for all 47 Member States of the WHO African Region as Ebola spreads. Dure Technologies and WHO fitted Voyage Santé border screening at N'djili International Airport and the Nord Bangui border post.
Coursera — AI micro-credential enrolment rose 93 per cent and critical thinking certification 113 per cent, Coursera's Global Skills Report 2026 (released 28 September 2026) shows, the strongest AI skills in Nigeria figures. AI security sign-ups jumped 137 per cent, generative AI 126 and AI courses 28 per cent year on year. On the new AI-Human Skills Synergy Index, drawn from 300 million Coursera and Udemy learners, the country ranks fifth of 11 Sub-Saharan African countries and 81st worldwide for AI learning uptake.
Coursera — AI course enrolments grew 75% year over year and critical thinking enrolments 132%, Coursera's Global Skills Report 2026 (released 28 September 2026) shows, the headline AI skills in South Africa figures. AI security enrolments surged 236%, agentic workflows 195%, generative AI 161%, complex problem-solving 28%, innovation 19%. On the new AI-Human Skills Synergy Index, drawn from 300 million-plus Coursera and Udemy learners, the country ranks second of 11 Sub-Saharan African countries and 73rd worldwide for AI learning uptake.
Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) — The Electoral Commission of South Africa has brought in Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok and Moxii Africa to counter disinformation, AI-generated content included, before the 4 November 2026 local government elections, a South Africa AI regulation move announced on Monday 19 October 2026. The five were due to sign the IEC's voluntary cooperation deal against disinformation. Google cited its SynthID tool for separating real from AI-made material, and Meta's Thabo Makenete said the election deepfake framework, though voluntary, is taken seriously.
Five Ugandan universities (Discover Artificial Intelligence study) — Students who leaned on generative AI often reported markedly better grades, but heavy use showed almost no measurable link to the deeper competencies the competence-based education reform targets, a survey of 565 respondents (513 students, 52 academic staff) at five universities found, rare AI in higher education evidence. Mabirizi and colleagues published the cross-sectional study in Discover Artificial Intelligence on 23 September 2026, sampling Kabale University, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Bishop Stuart University, Uganda Martyrs University and Busitema University. They warn that online convenience sampling may bring self-selection and technology-access bias, a limit on the university AI findings.
Ministry of Basic Education (MINEDUB) — Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa, Minister of Basic Education, has barred nursery and primary pupils from ChatGPT, Meta AI on WhatsApp, Gemini, Copilot and similar apps for classwork and homework, a Cameroon AI regulation effective at once in state, private, international and faith schools. Regional delegates relay the circular. Officials argue children who outsource answers lose the effort behind literacy, numeracy and reasoning; teachers may still plan lessons with AI.
University of Ghana — More than 96,000 Gemini for Education licences now cover University of Ghana students and faculty under a Google partnership, an AI in higher education rollout. Lecturers and administrators spent two days practising with the AI assistant on teaching, research and office tasks, and will now coach peers and students as departmental champions.
Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism (Somalia) — Twenty-seven officials from Somalia's Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism have started a 21-day course in Jinhua, Zhejiang province, China, a government AI training covering media strategy, management and misinformation. Zhejiang Normal University experts teach the directors, department heads and other staff; China's Ministry of Commerce pays. Abdishakur Ali Ahmed, Director of Communication Strategy, called it a chance to learn from China's media modernisation and gain AI skills for civil servants.
Conseil d'État (Madagascar) — Madagascar's Conseil d'État has given every magistrate an anonymiser that deletes litigants' personal details from case files before any AI in courts tool sees them, shown at a Supreme Court AI workshop on 15 and 16 October 2026. Conseil d'État president Andry Rabarisoa and AI specialist Andy Marlon Bourgeon wrote it without public funding. A judicial AI course run with ENMG, the national magistrates' and clerks' school, follows.
Nigeria Immigration Service — The Nigeria Immigration Service has switched on AI-assisted tools and digital audit trails, an AI in border control rollout that flags suspicious migration patterns and makes each officer's action reviewable. Comptroller-General Kemi Nandap told 87 officers finishing a course in Abuja on Friday 16 October 2026 that linking the Border Management Information System and the Migration Information and Data Analysis System had pooled over 15 million records. Alerts never replace judgement, she said; misuse of the immigration AI system means investigation.
ORT South Africa — ORT South Africa has released Funda Nam, 'Study with Me', an AI study companion reserved for beneficiaries of its Big Data Analytics course for young people from underserved communities. GAS Marketing Automation supplied the infrastructure and know-how; the web platform draws on the programme's own curriculum, works in English, isiZulu and isiXhosa, and lets learners revise at their own pace, any hour, with the AI tutoring tool.
Nigerian Communications Commission — 73 percent of licensees polled by the Nigerian Communications Commission run or pilot artificial intelligence in live operations and 27 percent have no governance arrangements for those systems, an AI in telecoms snapshot presented by NCC Internet Governance head Ibiso Kingsley-George at the Internet Governance Symposium in Lagos, Nigeria, on Thursday 15 October 2026. The poll covered 47 organisations, from mobile operators to academia and civil society. 94 percent back telling consumers when AI is on the line; which telecom AI applications they run was not asked.
ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions (ECONEC) and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) — INEC, Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission, and ECONEC, the ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions, approved a regional framework for AI in electoral processes when a two-day Abuja validation session closed on 13 October 2026. ECONEC formed the drafting team after a November 2025 Dakar symposium on AI and election integrity. Serigne Ka, ECONEC's Permanent Secretary, names applying this election AI guidance across West Africa as the next step.
Ministry of Public Service Efficiency and Digital Transformation (Togo) — Togo's Ministry of Public Service Efficiency and Digital Transformation has opened a platform where citizens record speech, transcribe clips and translate passages to feed artificial intelligence models for national languages, a government AI programme Minister Cina Lawson launched in Lomé in early October 2026 as the National Local Language Challenge, opening the three-year Voix du Togo scheme. A one-month pilot covers Ewe, Kabiyè and Moba, targeting per language 50 hours of validated audio, 6,000 translated sentence pairs and 500-plus speakers. Public services, health and justice in a person's own tongue are the goal; partner Togo AI Lab ran public tests of the local-language AI platform in Lomé in September 2026.
École nationale d'administration (ENA) de Guinée — Guinea's École nationale d'administration is running AI training for public administration for 30 top civil servants, including national directors and directors general, from 13 to 15 October 2026. Five modules cover the digital state, AI use in government, data governance with cybersecurity, e-services and leadership.
National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire — The National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire ran AI training for MPs, led by speaker Patrick Achi with minister Djibril Ouattara and Ghita Mezzour, a former Moroccan digital minister. Achi sees the tools speeding dossier analysis and scrutiny of ministers, while elected members keep political calls. Aya, a WhatsApp bot answering in Baoulé and Malinké, showcased parliamentary AI use.
Ministry of Telecommunications, Digital Economy and Digitalisation (Chad) — Chad's Ministry of Telecommunications, Digital Economy and Digitalisation began pre-validating the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for 2026–2030 on 8 October, joined by state bodies, experts and the UN Economic Commission for Africa. The Chad AI policy roadmap, unadopted so far, follows technical sign-off of the National Data Governance Strategy.
Kilimanjaro and Arusha diabetic clinics (Lancet Global Health trial) — AI diabetic retinopathy screening with an instant result and face-to-face counselling almost doubled specialist follow-up across 24 Tanzanian hospitals in Kilimanjaro and Arusha, The Lancet Global Health reported on 12 October 2026. Of 2,378 enrolled people with diabetes, 904 had true referable disease: 157 of 437 (35.9%) in the AI arm reached the central ophthalmology clinic within 8 weeks, versus 85 of 467 (18.2%) under standard care with deferred grading and a phone call, a 17.7-point gap and odds ratio 2.52. Charles Cleland's AI eye-screening trial ran from March 2023 to August 2024, funded by the British Council for the Prevention of Blindness, Christian Blind Mission and the Sir Halley Stewart Trust.
Bank of Ghana — The Bank of Ghana is preparing a directive on artificial intelligence in banking and finance, Governor Johnson Pandit Asiama told the 43rd Annual General Meeting of the Ghana Association of Banks in Accra. As Ghana AI regulation, the rules would allow supervised trials under lifecycle oversight and target consumer protection, cybersecurity, model risk and data quality. No draft timetable exists.
Kenya School of Government — The Kenya School of Government has opened an e-Learning and Information Technology Institute for AI training for civil servants, as 1,239 learners graduated from the first DigiKen cohort. DigiKen, built on the UNESCO-Oxford course on Digital Transformation and AI in Government, enrolled 2,730 public officers and other public- and private-sector learners.
Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Development and Vocational Training (Zimbabwe) — Zimbabwe's government has opened the country's first rural AI hub, an AI, digital and innovation centre at Nyamuroro Vocational Training Centre in Gokwe North, Midlands province, with the United Nations Development Programme and Uncommon.org. 52 young people are enrolled, the Ministry of Information Communication Technology has supplied 20 laptops, and trainees get AI, coding and innovation tuition plus a path into the 1.5 Million Coders Programme. Deputy Minister of Youth Empowerment, Development and Vocational Training Kudakwashe Mupanhanga cast the rural AI training centre as digital transformation for countryside youth; cost and further hubs are undisclosed.
Government of Ethiopia — Government of Ethiopia leaders are receiving AI training for government leaders from the UAE Government Experience Exchange Office at the Ministry of Cabinet Affairs with Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University. The AI Executive Leadership Programme blends knowledge-sharing visits, practical workshops and training sessions on governance, capacity building, AI strategies and government applications. In the UAE the cohort toured 15 government institutions and organisations, including the Prime Minister's Office, the Artificial Intelligence Office, the Dubai Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, and met Minister of Cabinet Affairs Mohammad Al Gergawi, a public-sector AI capacity building exchange.
Government of Mozambique (Ministry of Economy and Finance) — Mozambique's government will apply AI in public finance under its new Public Finance Management Strategy 2026-2035. Its Digital Transformation Plan for Public Finances 2026-2030 earmarks AI, machine learning, data mining and the Internet of Things for treasury, public debt and state assets, and a public-finance AI chatbot. It also targets cost-benefit tests on 80% of public investment projects and audited accounts at 100% of state-owned companies, up from 20%, by 2035.
Actuarial Society of South Africa — The Actuarial Society of South Africa now treats artificial intelligence as a standalone practice area, ASSA President Nalen Naidoo told its annual convention in Cape Town on 8 October 2026, a shift in AI for actuaries. An AI Practice Area Committee under Ronald Richman, formed in March 2026, maps AI use across pricing, reserving, valuation, risk, capital and financial advice. Data analytics and actuarial AI skills are also entering the qualification pathway.
Target Sarl — Target Sarl's second study across 26 provincial capitals of the Democratic Republic of the Congo finds AI use up 23 points and awareness up 7 between 2025 and 2026. ChatGPT holds 59% of AI apps in use. Adoption spans 63% in Grand Katanga to 24% in Kongo Central, Kinshasa 34%; 73% of respondents view AI favourably.
Tribunal de grande instance de Pikine-Guédiawaye — Senegal's Tribunal de grande instance of Pikine-Guédiawaye started installing an on-site AI for judicial archives on 5 October 2026, partnering the UN Development Programme and the Republic of Korea. The Directorate of Dematerialisation and Automation now holds an NVIDIA DGX Spark, scanners and storage units, so judgments and case files can be converted and loaded. Employees get training first; should the trial succeed, AI-assisted court records should gradually spread to other jurisdictions nationwide.
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) — Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is bringing AI analysis of youth submissions to the maiden National Youth Conference in Abuja, with software clustering delegates' ideas by topic. Director General Kashifu Inuwa said NITDA and the relevant ministry would pass grouped findings to a panel weighing priorities before policy proposals. Zonal rounds, 5 to 17 October 2026, add AI-sorted youth input from 360 federal constituencies, six geopolitical zones and diaspora members.
Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations (Ghana) — Samuel Nartey George, Minister for Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, will route all public-body AI purchases through technical review, tightening Ghana AI regulation, he told the US Embassy AI Forum in Accra. For public-sector AI procurement, the National Information Technology Agency (NITA) scopes proposals as the ministry tests interoperability, cybersecurity, sustainability, data protection and local skills transfer.
Ministry of Digital Economy (Gabon) — Seven Gabonese Ministry of Digital Economy officials spent 2 to 16 September 2026 in Beijing on AI training. Robotics, smart mobility, intelligent manufacturing, AI applications, emerging technologies and digital transformation were seminar topics, alongside a Beijing E-Town Robot World visit.
Ministère de l'Éducation nationale — Senegal's Ministry of National Education will give 105,000 teachers AI training under the FORCE N programme, Minister Moustapha Guirassy said on 30 September 2026. The Université Numérique Cheikh Hamidou Kane runs it with the Mastercard Foundation, building artificial intelligence skills nationwide. Guirassy also handed 5,000 computers to secondary pupils.
Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) — Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) has adopted a university AI policy, the Directive for the Use of Artificial Intelligence, setting norms for accountable use across teaching, research and management. Leaders disclosed the decision at a 30 September–1 October workshop in Mozambique that began mapping an institution-wide rollout. Officials call this campus AI governance move a start, with duties, procedures and means yet undefined.
Ministry of Digital Economy, Digitalization and Innovation (Gabon) — The Ministry of Digital Economy, Digitalization and Innovation opened drafting on Gabon AI policy at the Cité de la Démocratie in Libreville, steered by the United Nations Development Programme with the AILA method. For three days, officials, watchdogs, operators, academics, businesses and community groups weighed training, data, networks, oversight, cyber risk and rights. Private talks come next; no date to adopt the artificial intelligence plan has been published.
University of Cambridge — Tessera, an open-source University of Cambridge model fed satellite imagery, got AI crop mapping right 84% of the time in Senegal's groundnut basin, Environmental Research: Food Systems reports. The satellite-based crop identification beat the next-best model by 28% in one test on far less labelled data and compute. The World Food Programme's country team weighs geospatial data and AI for food-security checks.
Togo AI Lab (Ministry of Public Service Efficiency and Digital Transformation) — Togo AI Lab invited testers in Lomé to try Voix du Togo, a local-language AI platform for reaching public services, starting with Kabiyè, Ewe and Moba speakers. The mother-tongue AI may later stretch to roughly 50 national languages. The Ministry of Public Service Efficiency and Digital Transformation backs the work under its National Challenge for Local Languages, alongside Zindi, Umbaji and UC Berkeley's CEGA; no launch date exists yet.
Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) — The Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) is putting 762 headquarters and Kinshasa provincial staff through AI training for election officials in waves, linked to digitising CENI archives. Modules span electoral law, cycle basics, institutional history, artificial intelligence applied to electoral processes and train-the-trainer sessions, opened by president Denis Kadima.
Ministry of Higher Education, University, Scientific Research and Innovations (DR Congo) — The Council of Ministers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo approved PURE, an AI English learning scheme for universities and research institutes, at the 99th session. Higher Education Minister Marie-Thérèse Sombo's plan seeks stronger English among Congolese students, teachers and researchers for jobs, mobility and international science. Phased rollout pledges access to every student; the artificial-intelligence language tuition has not begun.
University of Technology and Applied Sciences — SafeSiso delivers confidential reproductive guidance to Ghanaians aged 10 to 19, an AI chatbot for adolescent reproductive health built by two University of Technology and Applied Sciences students on WhatsApp. Launched in Navrongo, it now runs across Upper East Region schools with a referral link to health professionals. Girls needing judgement-free health answers form the core audience for this adolescent health chatbot.
University of Eswatini (UNESWA) — Generative AI training programmes at Eswatini's UNESWA AI Academy produced 480 graduates in 2026. 350 completed Mastering Generative AI for Professionals and roughly 130 finished Generative AI for Educators, out of over 570 sign-ups for these applied AI skills courses.
WHO Regional Office for Africa — With Anthropic's Claude, the World Health Organization's Regional Office for Africa now compiles daily Ebola situation reports for the Democratic Republic of the Congo in under an hour instead of a full day, Anthropic says. Claude pulls numbers from district returns, sets them against the last edition and highlights shifts. CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, convened Anthropic, WHO Africa and the DRC's Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale on this outbreak reporting in September.
Octaplus Health — Octaplus Health has launched an AI customer engagement character, Xaida, designed to make health insurance easier to understand for younger, digitally connected members. Dr Dan Vincent Armooh said the teenage digital persona will feature across the firm's communications and digital content as a virtual interface for engaging members.
Ondo State Government — Ondo State Government runs AI in civil service payroll, staff files and retirement through Ondo AI, unveiled by Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa at the Governor's Office Cocoa Conference Hall, Akure. Forerunner Ondo Pay, an AI-enabled HR platform, has paid 2,802 recipients N9.7 billion in pensions and gratuities via automated pension processing.
Ministère de la Transition Digitale du Burkina Faso — Every ministry in Burkina Faso sent its secretary general to Ouagadougou for a two-day programme in AI training for government officials, run by the Ministry of Digital Transformation. Sessions spanned generative tools, data protection and best practice, strengthening departmental AI oversight and embedding AI literacy in public administration at the senior level.
Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar — Zanzibar's Revolutionary Government unveiled its AI and Digital Policy, a framework for the archipelago's digital growth and artificial intelligence uptake. Officials presented this AI governance framework at the Tech & AI International Expo 2026, organised by Africa Business Inc with Zanzibar's Ministry of Communications, Information Technology and Innovation.
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (Cameroon) — Cameroon's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications opened train.patnucelearning.cm in Yaoundé, giving 15,000 state employees AI training for civil servants plus blockchain, records handling, steering change and project delivery. Five ten-day modules, wholly remote and backed by the World Bank through the PATNUC scheme, let staff gain public-sector AI skills while staying at work.
Ministry of Digital Transition, Posts and Electronic Communications (Burkina Faso) — Burkina Faso's Ministry of Digital Transition, Posts and Electronic Communications put secretaries-general from ministries and institutions through two days of AI training for senior civil servants in Ouagadougou. Rodrigue Kafando taught today's tools, generative AI and sound habits after chief of staff Abdoulaye Mamboné opened proceedings. Shielding administrative data from outside exploitation topped the dangers flagged for government AI use.
National Commission on Research, Science and Technology (NCRST) — The National Commission on Research, Science and Technology (NCRST) created the National Artificial Intelligence Institute under Cabinet Decision No. 14th/23.08.22/001, advancing Namibia AI policy. Four units (Development, Datasets, AI Innovation, Research and Development) steer this national AI hub's studies, ideas, data and homegrown tool rollout for ministries and firms.
Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities (Uganda) — Uganda's Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities plans AI-powered CCTV for wildlife tracking and park security, digital content hubs for marketing the destination and predictive analytics on visitor data, an AI in wildlife conservation agenda set out at the World Tourism Day 2026 Thematic Conference at the National ICT Hub in Nakawa, Kampala. Permanent Secretary Doreen Katusiime, in a speech read by Under Secretary Geoffrey Sseremba, said AI can reshape the entire tourism chain, going well beyond a marketing role. The Ministry of ICT and security agencies are helping build the park surveillance AI.
Ministry of Health (Côte d'Ivoire) — Côte d'Ivoire's Ministry of Health will widen AI health logistics from one Zipline hub at Daloa to ten, following government sign-off on an eight-year public-private partnership. Planners expect 2,200-plus clinics and upwards of 12 million residents to be reached once complete. The US State Department puts up US$150 million, paid for performance, towards construction; the treasury meets running costs of this drone-based medicine distribution.
Unistar Inks — Unistar Inks mined twenty years of spectrometry data to build an AI quality control manufacturing tool tracing colour faults to root cause. Now running at converter customer sites too, it recommends fixes and speeds diagnosis via this AI-based quality control method.
Government of Mali / CIAR-Mali — President Assimi Goïta opened the Mali Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, CIAR-Mali, at Kati-Sirakoro Niaré outside Bamako on Monday 21 September 2026, a national AI centre costing CFA3.3 billion ($5.7 million) on a 50-hectare site built by a Malian firm. 40 students begin an integrated preparatory programme in 2026-2027 ahead of courses in robotics, data science, intelligent systems engineering and artificial intelligence. The government AI institute will also build technology for data, agriculture, industry, healthcare and environmental management.
Angra Pequena Senior Secondary School — Angra Pequena Senior Secondary School in Lüderitz has opened two AI tutoring labs worth N$1.15 million, funded by BW Kudu (N$900,000) and the Namibian Ports Authority (Namport) (N$250,000). YYeni AI's software coaches pupils step by step and doubles as a classroom helper for staff, backed by teacher training and a resident support specialist. YYeni counts over 4,940 tutoring hours and 2,253 practice tests logged in the machine-guided study rooms.
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications — Cameroon's Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications opened train.patnucelearning.cm for AI training for civil servants, part of a digital skills programme for public officials reaching 15,000 workers via PATNUC with World Bank funding. Five certified modules cover blockchain, digital transformation and large language models.
Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority — Fabricating content with artificial intelligence tools now risks prosecution in Malawi under a September 2026 caution from the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA). Officials cited Section 60 of the Penal Code, which bans publishing statements capable of provoking public alarm, and framed this AI misinformation warning around any digitally manipulated material. MACRA is tracing those behind such posts, noting exposure to criminal and civil penalties for AI-generated disinformation.
Ministry of Technical Education (Côte d'Ivoire) — Minister Jean-Louis Moulot rolled out AI training for teachers in Côte d'Ivoire's technical and vocational schools, aiming at 3,000 staff via a UNESCO co-designed scheme. A first cohort of 1,000 trials it from 1 October to 30 December 2026, practising classroom AI skills: lesson planning, worksheets and marking.
Nigerian Defence Academy — Chief of Defence Staff General Olufemi Oluyede has commissioned the Nigerian Defence Academy Command Centre in Kaduna, built around AI CCTV surveillance. The cameras should sharpen situational awareness and better shield cadets, staff and critical infrastructure. Oluyede urged the armed forces to adopt AI-assisted security monitoring faster as threats shift.
Djibouti Telecom — Djibouti Telecom has certified 35 engineers after AI training, with Communications, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mohamed Abdoulkader Moussa Helem presenting the certificates. Helem expects the upskilling to bring better networks, tighter cybersecurity and broader data analysis.
H5 Resources — H5 Resources runs agentic AI mining tools at Mwerasandu mine in Ntungamo District, including an edge agent handling 1,300 sensor snapshots daily since February 2026. The Ugandan tin firm built its own AI in mining for IoT monitoring, document analysis and operational intelligence, earning it OpenAI Select Partner status in September 2026.
Ghana Revenue Authority — Ghana Revenue Authority customs takings leapt from roughly US$350 million to as much as US$450 million monthly, up to about US$100 million more, after AI customs valuation switched on in April. Commissioner-General Anthony Kwasi Sarpong cited the figures at the West African Tax Administrators Forum. No independent evaluation has isolated how far machine-assisted import pricing, rather than other reforms, drove the leap.
Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation — The Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI) has begun the National AI and Deepfake Awareness Campaign in Freetown, a two-phase drive across all 16 districts, alongside the Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation, the Ministry of Information and Civic Education and the World Bank's Sierra Leone Digital Transformation Project. Stage one runs workshops plus radio and TV shows, reaching people offline, so residents can check doctored media before passing clips on. Stage two will hand citizens checking tools.
Ministry of Information, Communications and Technology (Eswatini) — Eswatini's Ministry of ICT has hired a consultant to draft the nation's first National AI Strategy. Minister Savannah Maziya announced this at a regional validation workshop in Ezulwini, calling it timely for building a framework guiding AI adoption and development, alongside a parallel COMESA-led regional initiative.
Ministry of Education and Culture (Mozambique) — The Ministry of Education and Culture plans to put Mozambique AI regulation for classrooms and campuses before the Council of Ministers by year end, Minister Samaria Tovela told the 4th National Conference on Distance Education in Maputo. Drafting is far along. The artificial intelligence rules will apply nationwide, from primary to higher education, with generative tools a chief concern.
Ministerio de Transportes, Telecomunicaciones y Aviación Civil (Ministry of Transport, Telecommunications and Civil Aviation) — Equatorial Guinea's Ministry of Transport, Telecommunications and Civil Aviation closed an internal AI training for government staff with a certificate ceremony in Malabo. DotMatrixEngineering Ltd (DMEL) ran the two-month executive programme in AI and cybersecurity for officials, covering machine learning, predictive analytics, advanced prompting, threat prevention, data protection and multi-factor authentication. Officials called it part of a push to build digital skills and institutional capacity.
Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale — Anthropic's Claude now underpins AI outbreak reporting at DRC's Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, cutting Ebola sitrep turnaround in the Bundibugyo outbreak to under an hour, down from a full day. A skill built by WHO AFRO pulls case counts from health zone PowerPoint slides, flagging emerging trends in this AI disease surveillance push. Claude Science tools also help INRB assemble viral genomes and chart family trees from sequencing data.
UEMOA Commission — The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) Commission showed member-state journalists a draft regional AI strategy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, at a 14 to 18 September 2026 session. The draft targets one ethical, inclusive and harmonised normative, regulatory and institutional AI governance framework, plus local skills, research and IT infrastructure.
Ghana TVET Service — UNESCO has signed the Ghana TVET Service and the Ghana Education Trust Fund into phase two of AI EmpowerED, carrying AI skills training for TVET to roughly 140 vocational colleges. A pilot at AAMUSTED University has already certified more than 30 master trainers and about 3,300 learners through Microsoft. By 2027 the target is a million TVET teachers and students holding digital and artificial intelligence credentials.
Direction Générale du Trésor (Madagascar) — Madagascar's Public Treasury head, Director General Mbinison Dorette Ratsiavahana, and several colleagues took AI training for Treasury officials from the Pôles Intégrés de Croissance (PIC) project. Lessons spanned AI-assisted writing, research, summaries, document review, prompting, LLM basics and vetting machine answers under confidentiality and control rules: public-sector AI skills.
Central Bank of Kenya — Central Bank of Kenya wants prior sign-off from any lender letting models settle loan decisions, extending Kenya AI regulation to the credit desk. Its own 2025 count put half of licensed institutions on AI, while one tier-one player pushes Sh1.5 billion daily through machine-learning mobile lending, squarely inside Kenyan AI oversight.
Banco Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial — Banco Nacional de Guinea Ecuatorial has sent the entire payroll, every department included, through AI training for bank staff, delivered by BANGE Business School with Spanish education group CEF.-UDIMA. Jorge Lucio Sánchez Galán, who holds a doctorate in the subject, leads sessions covering banking applications, automated workflows, data work, fintech, cybersecurity, risk and responsible handling of digital tools. The lender expects this AI upskilling to surface efficiencies, lift output and quicken customer service across Equatorial Guinea.
Government of Côte d'Ivoire — Minister Djibril Ouattara presented the Plan d'accélération 2026–2028 as Impact IA's second edition got under way in Abidjan, placing national AI policy centre stage. The 40 priority schemes hang on seven pillars, one pledging a home-built artificial intelligence for citizens' wellbeing. Broadband, e-government, innovation, cybersecurity, digital skills and postal e-commerce fill out this state AI programme.
Development Bank Ghana — Development Bank Ghana (DBG) has rolled out Boa Mi, a WhatsApp-based AI-powered agricultural finance platform, alongside Opportunity International and the Ghana Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (GIRSAL). Smallholders and extension officers get AI farm advice instantly; lenders see live portfolio data. A rice trial logged 8,500-plus queries over three months at 75 per cent satisfaction, with six more commodities next for this WhatsApp crop guidance.
Anthropic / Agence Nationale de la Sécurité d'État (Mali) — Anthropic discovered that one Claude customer in Mali created Lakana 360, a national interception and AI mass surveillance tool able to track 25 million SIM cards across the country's three cellular operators. This AI-powered surveillance sifted call logs, SMS and phone conversations, circumventing statutory disclosure rules so the Agence Nationale de la Sécurité d'État received intelligence dossiers without warrants. Activity ran November 2025–August 2026.
Sociedade Médica Cabo-verdiana Americana (CVAMS) — Sociedade Médica Cabo-verdiana Americana, CVAMS, has run the Continuidade project in Cabo Verde for six years, and AI diagnosis in Ophthalmology now enables nurses, not doctors, to pin down cataracts, glaucoma and retinopathy. Cloud-linked machines generate automatic diagnoses, aimed at Oncology and Cardiology, the specialities where local capacity is thinnest, under surgeon Júlio Tavares. The current mission, 10 to 24 September, fields over 70 doctors, surgeons, nurses, psychologists and further health workers drawn from leading United States institutions. CVAMS casts its Artificial Intelligence diagnostic equipment as a weapon against the archipelago's foremost killers; no independent evaluation of accuracy has been published.
Direction Générale de la Comptabilité Publique et du Trésor — Direction Générale de la Comptabilité Publique et du Trésor sent accountants to a three-day AI training for civil servants at the Centre Gabonais de l'Innovation, Libreville, joined by the Ministry of Communication and Media and the Direction Générale du Budget. Sessions covered tools for quicker paperwork, Gabon's public-sector AI upskilling.
Independent National Electoral Commission — The Independent National Electoral Commission has rolled out an intelligent Results Management process for AI election results verification, flagging clashes between polling-unit tallies. Chairman Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, at the Global Conference on Responsible AI and Elections in Ottawa, said machine reasoning should fortify, never supplant, voting bodies. Nigeria targets 2027.
MTN South Africa — MTN South Africa has set telecom AI fraud detection onto behaviour patterns to pinpoint likely data tunnelling, chief executive Ferdi Moolman says. Tunnelling dresses billable traffic up as visits to zero-rated sites; network traffic screening raises anomalies for investigators, sparing analysts a manual sweep of each exempted destination.
Government of Senegal — Senegal has signed off a national digital training plan for public-sector staff, naming AI skills for civil servants. Coverage runs to cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, online public services, information systems, data handling and digital tools, pitched by grade and trade. The scheme belongs to the New Deal Technologique, opened February 2025.
South African Police Service — South African Police Service (SAPS) officers would wear body cameras capable of facial recognition under RFB 3286-2026, a tender issued through the State IT Agency (Sita). Also covered for three years: patrol-vehicle dashcams whose embedded AI must read number plates and spot blue lights, opened doors or crashes, plus supporting software. Face-matching is compulsory, so non-compliant bids are rejected before scoring. Submissions close on 29 September.
Agence Nationale de Sécurité d'État (ANSE) — Mali's ANSE runs mass SIM surveillance over roughly 25 million subscribers on three domestic networks; a linked consultant used Claude AI as the main build tool, Anthropic found. The telecom monitoring platform 'Lakana 360' harvests call logs, SMS, and voice data, spots speakers by voice, flags VPN use, and matches citizens against the biometric registry — no court approval needed.
Liberia Revenue Authority — The Liberia Revenue Authority is building an AI-powered contact centre for tax enquiries, aiming to give people answers on customs and duties without a manual lookup. Staff from the Taxpayer Services Division met partner Kwagei Group at a Margibi County retreat to shape the underlying knowledge base, overseen by the LRA Tax Knowledge Governance Committee. Complaints and service questions will also route through the new AI customer service system once live.
Ministère de la Justice du Sénégal — Senegal's Ministry of Justice launched two digital court platforms, e-Justice and Jokko ak Yoon. e-Justice standardises and traces court case processing; Jokko ak Yoon gives citizens SMS and audio access to the justice system in national languages. UNDP supported court digitisation built by the Direction de la Dématérialisation et de l'Automatisation numérique.
Timbuktu Institute — Every armed faction in Mali's conflict now uses generative AI propaganda, a Timbuktu Institute study finds. The Dakar-based think tank's report, "Algorithms at War: How Generative AI is Reshaping the Malian Conflict," cites JNIM jihadists circulating AI-generated posters, FLA separatists promoted via a synthetic TikTok persona, the invented fighter "Azzghim," and Russia's Africa Corps running AI disinformation operations at scale. Researchers say the tools cut technical barriers and quicken output for every side involved.
Nigerian Army — The Nigerian Army is broadening data analytics, artificial intelligence and simulation technology into military AI decision support, for sharper battlefield judgement. Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant-General Waidi Shaibu billed simulation a critical command instrument behind predictive capabilities. Shaibu opened a Simulation Training Seminar at the Land Forces Simulation Centre Nigeria, Giri, Abuja.
Shoprite Group — Shoprite Group deployed generative AI in retail for roughly 12,000 workers via Shoprite AI, a homegrown tool with a ChatGPT-style interface that automatically routes each request toward whatever model works best and cheapest. CTO Chris Shortt framed it as an operational rollout, not a pilot, touching general workplace output and merchandising judgement calls including category management, pricing and replenishment.
Uganda Airlines — Amadeus will supply Uganda Airlines with SkyWORKS, an AI scheduling in aviation platform, making the carrier the first in Africa to adopt the system. It brings schedule editing, feasibility checks and AI-driven flight planning to support the airline's growing regional and long-haul routes.
Benin National Malaria Control Programme — Benin gave South Korean diagnostics supplier Noul a public tender for 20 AI malaria diagnosis analysers for severe-malaria hospitals, and the National Malaria Control Programme has endorsed the miLab MAL platform as a point-of-care device. The system handles each step from blood-smear preparation to digital imaging and AI analysis, making AI-assisted testing quicker and more consistent, Noul says. The purchase followed a 2025 clinical evaluation of 211 children with suspected severe malaria at northern and southern university hospitals.
UN Development Programme — A UN Development Programme pilot, backed by the Japanese government, blends satellite observation, field data and AI crop risk monitoring in Togo's Savanes region to catch crop threats before damage shows. Solafune, a Japanese satellite and geospatial data specialist, runs it over a 1,000 km2 pilot zone in the Cinkasse and Tone prefectures. In Lome, a Solafune team showed Togolese stakeholders early results and a test build of the satellite early-warning platform.
Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics — Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics unveiled Digital ESL, an AI logistics platform for web and mobile, in Addis Ababa. Importers, exporters and partners place orders, schedule container loading and follow cargo any time, anywhere; the state-owned operator says AI algorithms remove human handoffs. The self-service system replaces paper clearance at Ethiopia's dry ports and sea supply routes.
Botswana Minerals — Botswana Minerals has outlined nine main exploration corridors across licences in the south, after an AI mineral exploration analysis merged decades of data over about 95,000 square kilometres. Sampling begins on the AI-picked prospects of highest priority, focusing corridors towards individual drill sites. The eight prospecting licences, some 7,000 square kilometres in the country's north-west, date from January 2026.
Government of Djibouti — Officials outlined directions for the first National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (SNIA) for 2026–2030, the core of Djibouti AI policy. Six pillars shape it: governing data and AI, cybersecurity, skills, research, innovation and inclusion. Only a sketch of this AI roadmap is public.
Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) — The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) held two-day talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, towards a Regional Artificial Intelligence Framework and Strategy and shared regional AI policy. Executive Secretary Workneh Gebeyehu opened discussions meant to yield a draft steering Member States on AI for sustainable growth. The Food Systems Resilience Programme for Eastern and Southern Africa underwrites the cross-border AI governance.
Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources — Rwanda's Ministry of Agriculture is trialling Tunga, an AI farm advisory voice assistant on the ministry's call centre taking farmers' questions in Kinyarwanda. It draws on a ministry, Rwanda Agriculture and Animal Resources Development Board and partner knowledge base, handing unresolved queries to a human expert. ICT and Innovation Minister Paula Ingabire says Tunga got 60% of test-phase questions right.
Chil Group — Chil Group's new E-Ward Round Platform brings AI-powered triage in healthcare to nearly 400 rural Ugandan facilities. Remote clinicians now consult city-based specialists through shared virtual rounds, as software scans vital signs to spot and rank urgent cases automatically. Linked devices and digital records drive this AI-driven patient prioritisation.
MTN Nigeria — MTN Nigeria launched Zigi Voice, an AI voice assistant letting customers talk live in the myMTN NG app. Requests include NIN enquiries, data purchases, balance checks and personalised recommendations. Spoken AI support runs in English and Pidgin, with more local languages being developed.
Ministère délégué chargé de l'Économie numérique et de l'Innovation (MDENI) — The Ministry Delegate for Digital Economy and Innovation (MDENI) unveiled the first National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (SNIA) 2026-2030, which sets the direction of Djibouti AI policy, on day two of the first National AI Forum, with UNESCO and ESCWA backing. The national AI policy roadmap prioritises inclusion, innovation, research, training, cybersecurity and governance.
SIMAD University — OGAAL SIMAD Chat, from SIMAD University's AI Institute, handles queries on admissions, tuition, courses and services. Built from 63-plus documents plus 1,250 data points, this AI chatbot in higher education serves staff, families and learners bilingually, functioning as a Somalia AI university assistant reachable without campus trips or lines.
Djibouti Ports and Free Zones Authority — Djibouti Ports and Free Zones Authority has revealed DPCS Foresight, an AI port logistics tool that reads supply-chain records, history and operational performance to forecast when importers will fetch containers. Yards park imminent departures nearest the gate, burying slower boxes, so container pick-up prediction trims re-handling and dwell times. The reveal came at Djibouti's debut national artificial intelligence forum.
Uganda Police Force — An AI chatbot for police services is planned by Uganda Police Force, speeding citizens' access to emergency guidance and general information. Dr Aisha Kayongo unveiled the plan at the Wakiso District ICT facility, framing it as a simpler route for people confused about crisis response. This AI-powered policing assistant supplements 999 rather than replacing it.
Ministério das Telecomunicações, Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação Social (MINTTICS) through Gabinete de Gestão do Programa Espacial Nacional (GGPEN) — MINTTICS has rolled out AI agriculture monitoring at the Instituto Técnico Agrário do Quéssua in Malanje, using satellite imagery to track crop conditions and climate shifts through the Observa Mais platform. Built by the GGPEN space office, the system now reaches a third province after Luanda and Bengo, with fifteen students and one teacher trained to pass on the know-how. Uíge, Zaire, Lunda Norte, Lunda Sul and Cabinda are earmarked next, widening Angola's push for satellite-based farm and weather tracking.
University of South Africa — Unisa has rolled out EduBot, an AI chatbot for student support that answers queries typed in a student's own words and preferred language. Unresolved cases pass to a live agent who sees the prior conversation. Unisa calls it a complement to existing support services, an AI-powered online assistant rather than a replacement.
Direction Générale des Douanes du Niger — Niger's customs authority enrolled 30 officers in AI for customs revenue mobilisation, a fortnight course sharpening fraud detection and irregular-pattern flagging. Predictive algorithms now guide targeted inspections as the Direction Générale des Douanes pivots toward algorithm-driven tax collection.
BME — BME, an Omnia Holdings company, applies AI drill-and-blast optimisation and data analytics through a mining-specific 'vertical' AI model covering survey and planning to blast design, drilling, loading and hauling. Built into Xplosmart with BlastMap and the Xplolog drilling-data system, it uses digital twins and machine vision to follow rock from blast to crusher.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology — A tie-up between Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and Google for Education has extended AI tools in higher education to 95,000 people, with Google Workspace for Education Fundamentals licences reaching students, staff and administrators. Recipients gain entry to Gemini and Gemini Notebook, forming a Gemini AI rollout for university communities. Online preparation for lecturers launched September 2026, with a Gemini Academy following in November.
Discovery Bank — Discovery Bank now handles over half of client interactions through its in-app AI banking channel, which works in natural language, chief executive Hylton Kallner told an African business AI summit. He said the in-app assistant was delivering the bank's highest customer-satisfaction scores yet.
PwC Africa — PwC Africa has built an AI sustainability reporting tool that chief executive Dion Shango says shrinks two weeks of work to a couple of hours. He presented the reporting software at an African business AI summit as proof of AI moving from ambition into everyday operations.
National Police Service, Ministry of Interior — Kenya's Interior Ministry will deploy AI-powered police deployment technology to direct officer placement nationwide, per Kipchumba Murkomen. Data analytics will drive the AI-driven officer staffing, linking digital occurrence books and command centres across six cities, with CCTV cameras at 1,200 police stations. Completion is targeted for December 2026.
Garden Grid — Mali's Garden Grid built Timbuktu, an AI crop monitoring tool pairing sensors and cameras to gauge soil temperature, humidity and light, spotting disease early and texting growers tailored advice. It also reads distant garden photos and links farmers to buyers via a paired B2B marketplace. The farm-monitoring technology is still trial-stage.
Bank of Ghana — The Bank of Ghana is applying AI, big data and machine learning to quicker economic intelligence, AI inflation forecasting, growth projections and earlier financial-risk spotting. First Deputy Governor Dr Zakari Mumuni outlined it at the Ghana Statistical Association's 4th Annual Statistics and Data Science Conference in Tamale. Fuzzy definitions, mismatched categories or badly checked data, he cautioned, can mislead even the most advanced forecasting models.
Reunert Group — Anthonie de Beer, group CEO of JSE-listed Reunert, has pushed AI in corporate business units across 17 divisions, leaning on Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot. His goal: grow revenue, not cut jobs — staff now move faster through decisions, research and meeting prep. Engineering teams have added AI-powered analytics too, an AI adoption across company divisions finishing jobs far quicker.
Presidente da República / Instituto de Modernização Administrativa (IMA) — Presidential approval has cleared a $6 million outlay for an AI platform for public administration in Angola, formalised through Despacho Presidencial n.º 342/26 under President of the Republic João Lourenço. The order launches a competitive bidding process alongside a governance framework, formal policy and countrywide programme to prepare civil servants for embedding AI into government services. Once live, the system will handle virtual assistants and automate routine administrative workflows.
Ghana Ministry of Finance — Ghana's Ministry of Finance has given its Legal Directorate Kwame AI's Eskwai system for AI legal research across Ghanaian case law and legislation, Kwame AI says. The directorate researches and advises on law for the ministry and other economy-managing state bodies, now backed by the legal AI tool.
French government — Mayotte will gain new AI coastal surveillance under a French plan Sébastien Lecornu confirmed, aimed at curbing seaborne illegal immigration. Radar upgrades, a fixed lookout base at M'tsamboro, long-range drones and trial balloons for constant altitude watch make up the toolkit. Officials called it a move toward stronger "militarisation" defending the island's sovereignty, part of wider AI-assisted border surveillance efforts.
Uganda Ministry of Health — AI febrile illness surveillance is under trial by Uganda's Ministry of Health with partner Medic, running Audere's HealthPulse AI Interpreter in Mpigi, Moyo, Buikwe and Lira districts. Over a silent four-month stretch, Phase I let the tool operate unseen next to Village Health Teams (VHTs); outcomes revealed strong matching between computer-generated and human calls. Phase II now lets VHTs weigh their own judgement against the machine's suggestion, checking whether visible AI-assisted illness detection boosts ground-level choices.
Tanzania Police Force — Tanzania Police Force runs AI cybercrime investigation tools to trace online offences, says Joshua Mwangasa. Syndicates faking voices with AI drove the shift toward automated cybercrime tracking. Five hubs opened in Mwanza, Mbeya, Arusha, Dodoma and Zanzibar, broadening coverage past the capital.
JAZA Supermarkets — Discount chain JAZA runs AI for pricing in retail alongside stock control and delivery routes across Kenya, a 2026 KPMG case study found. Real-time rival comparisons and behaviour tracking feed a central warehouse linked to branches for faster restocking. Founder Willy Kimani said the same data guides marketing and new site choices, echoing AI-driven inventory management.
Bile Initiative / Tabaarak ICT Solutions — Tabaarak ICT Solutions and SomaliREN enrolled 160-plus final-year ICT students from 22 Mogadishu universities in round three of the Somali-run Bile Initiative, an AI training for university graduates scheme also covering cloud computing, software development and analysis. Hormuud Salaam Foundation funds it, steering graduates toward tech jobs. Women form 43 per cent of the cohort — an AI skills programme for ICT students too.
Absa — Absa's agentic AI customer service chatbot, which understands natural-language queries and asks follow-up questions, has topped 1.6 million users and handles over 100,000 queries a month. Group chief information and technology officer Johnson Idesoh reported the agentic assistant's figures.
Government of Namibia — Namibia's Cabinet told officials to scrap a N$40 million deal with US agritech company 6th Grain Corporation for countrywide AI crop monitoring by satellite. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Land Reform then ended the Remote Sensing Agricultural Services Agreement, saying the satellite-monitoring deal broke the legal and procedural rules for state contracts. Earlier press coverage had queried how the tender was granted and whether an overseas company should oversee the nation's food production.
City of Kigali — Kigali now machine-sorts rubbish: the City's pilot runs an AI waste sorting system that scans waste, flagging it hazardous, plastic, e-waste, paper, organic or otherwise. Built on the Smart Eco-Platform, it links an app to IoT smart bins and an admin portal. COPED Ltd's Buregeya tested the AI-powered waste sorting system at Kigali's 29th International Trade Fair, now expanding to top refuse sites.
Government of Guinea / UNDP — Hiring is underway for Guinea AI strategy work, backed by the United Nations Development Programme. TREMPLIN, UNDP's local project, wants a consultant to write the National Artificial Intelligence and Data Strategy (SNIAD 2026-2031), building on the AILA diagnostic method and a 10-year roadmap agreed in December 2025. Applications closed 31 August 2026, starting the process that shapes how Guinea manages AI and data policy.
Ministry of Agro-Industry, Food Security, Blue Economy and Fisheries — Mauritius backs AI-driven precision farming via the Precision Farming and AI-Driven Food Production Scheme, paying half of project costs, capped at MUR 2 million per farmer. Robotics, IoT soil sensors, automated watering, vertical farms and precision agriculture technology qualify, part of a push for food security and higher harvests countrywide.
MINESEC — MINESEC assembled over 250 bilingual AI lab simulations in under a month, free and runnable offline, unveiling the secondary-school programme at the Centre AIDL on 17 August 2026. Muluh Godson, National Pedagogical Inspector for Computer Science, gave those figures; Chemistry, Biology, Arts and Letters and Industrial Techniques staff ran demonstrations, and Inspector General Adjaba Biwoli Jean Pierre cast the purpose as learning made interactive, practical, reachable. Minister Nalova Lyonga cautioned that AI stays a tool, pressing structuring, reasoned use and prompting, and asking teachers to raise pupils as creators. Cameroon aims these AI-generated science experiments at schools holding no physical laboratory.
Lesotho17 Aug 2026Ministry of Information, Communications, Science, Technology and Innovation (MICSTI) — Lesotho now has a finalised national AI policy, giving the country rules for building, rolling out and using artificial intelligence responsibly. Under Lesotho AI policy, priorities include boosting the economy, sharpening public-service delivery, driving innovation, expanding infrastructure, building skills, integrating AI across sectors, and protecting ethics and human rights. A three-tier national AI framework backs this up: a policymaker, an independent regulator, and a Data and AI Committee.
Kakuzi Plc — Nut grading at Kakuzi Plc's macadamia processing plant now runs through an Intelligent Optical Sorting system, part of an AI optical sorting macadamia rollout that keeps output quality consistent without manual checks. Drones scan the Kenyan firm's fields for pest problems and crop condition, feeding analytics that shape when farmers plant and when they harvest. This AI-powered nut grading push sits within a broader shift toward machine learning and aerial monitoring as Kakuzi adapts to climate pressures on agriculture.
Airtel Money Uganda — Fraud detection in financial services now relies on machine learning at Airtel Money Uganda, which flags risky wallets for human checks rather than freezing them outright. A robotic process automation tool reconciles balances, and staff view product results through a live dashboard. This AI-driven fraud monitoring covers reconciliation and analytics alike.
SIMAD University — SIMAD University has approved an Artificial Intelligence Policy Framework covering AI in higher education for teaching, research and administration. Drafted by the SIMAD AI Institute and endorsed by the University Council, the AI policy for universities aims to support responsible adoption while upholding academic integrity, transparency, privacy and oversight by humans.
Pigé survey for Le Quotidien — AI tools Réunion adoption stands at 73% of internet users, a survey by Pigé for Le Quotidien found, matching levels seen in mainland France. The poll of 663 respondents aged 15 and over found artificial intelligence use has overtaken e-commerce in uptake speed, despite arriving on the island only in late 2022. Convenience and performance ratings for AI beat search engines, though trust and reliability lagged by up to 25 points.
SBS Bank Eswatini — SBS Bank Eswatini runs treasury work on Intellect Design Arena's eMACH.ai Treasury platform, an AI-powered banking treasury tool covering money markets, foreign exchange and fixed-income securities at 100% automation. Automated SWIFT messaging cut manual effort by 90%. The move backs growth from building society into commercial bank, after a provisional licence from the Central Bank of Eswatini.
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) — Commercial Bank of Ethiopia now runs AI-driven fraud detection in banking, scoring each payment for risk via an AI-powered fraud management system built on behavioural analytics. A flagged score triggers a freeze, decline or extra check, spotting hijacked accounts, mule networks and coordinated fraud rings. Models keep updating as tactics evolve.
Centre National des Curricula (CNC) — Chad's Centre National des Curricula delivered AI training for education to roughly 60 curriculum designers, backed by UNESCO's International Bureau of Education. Held in N'Djamena, French sessions ran 10-12 August and Arabic sessions 13-15 August, covering summarising, curriculum review, assessment-grid design, translation and fact-checking. The work supports the 2025-2029 Projet de refondation de l'école tchadienne, building capacity for responsible AI use in curriculum design among national teaching-resource teams.
SafeSip — Rural Tanzania now gets round-the-clock AI water purification via SafeSip's solar-powered "water banks" — AI-enabled water filtration units that run unstaffed. Built-in algorithms flag clogging filters, warning technicians before failure. Each 20-litre container costs 250 Tanzanian shillings.
International Press Centre — The International Press Centre piloted WAFLO, a WhatsApp-based AI election incident reporting system, during the Osun State governorship election. Journalists on duty logged harassment, intimidation, assaults, threats and other press freedom violations live over the WhatsApp line for monitoring and documentation. It runs under Component 4 of the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria Phase Two programme, with the Centre for Media and Society.
Government of Zimbabwe — Harare's Smart Traffic and Crime Management System, 24-hour AI traffic cameras at major intersections, has logged over two million violations, the government says, with ticketing to start after two weeks' warning. The camera network catches speeding, ignoring road signs, phone use at the wheel and unbelted travel. Telecoms parastatal TelOne delivered the project under the Mutapa Investment Fund.
Mogadishu University — Somalia now has its first cybersecurity and AI degree, launched through Mogadishu University's Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology. The new qualification targets Somali graduates entering emerging-tech careers, part of a push to grow local capacity for the country's expanding digital economy.
University of Johannesburg — University of Johannesburg has equipped MoUJi, its multilingual AI chatbot, with large language model capability for isiZulu, Afrikaans, Sesotho and English conversations. Users can sort admission checks, Admission Point Score sums, class sign-ups and financial aid enquiries whenever suits them, in their chosen tongue. UJ links the AI-powered chatbot to lighter contact-centre load and fewer temporary registration-period hires, an unverified institutional claim.
Government of Rwanda — The Government of Rwanda has started a nationwide satellite-data programme with Planet Labs through the Rwanda Space Agency, billed as Planet's first in Africa, serving agencies, public universities and selected startups. The near-daily imagery and data will aid disaster preparedness, urban planning, forest-health tracking and agriculture and food-security monitoring.
City of Cape Town — The City of Cape Town has unveiled Maya, an AI investment guide for firms eyeing the city, launched by Mayoral Committee Member for Economic Growth Alderman James Vos under the City's Cape Town. Built for Business campaign. Open 24 hours a day in eight languages including Afrikaans and isiXhosa, the AI guide takes users through municipal processes, investment openings and business support programmes and links them to relevant City officials.
World Bank / Teachers in Sierra Leone — World Development Report 2026 counts more than 500 Sierra Leone teachers on TheTeacher.AI, a WhatsApp-based AI chatbot for teachers covering lesson plans, subject content and differentiated teaching. Blinded evaluators judged TheTeacher.AI answers more helpful and relevant than standard web search, while each reply needs 98% less data than a typical web page, so the teaching bot stays affordable on mobile.
Uganda Ministry of Health — Uganda's Ministry of Health has launched Nurse Lina, a WhatsApp AI chatbot for family planning giving immediate, private answers on contraceptive choices, side effects and closest service points. This family planning assistant uses ministry guidelines and common queries within a wider reproductive health information push. It improves with use, referring users to face-to-face care where needed.
Absa Bank Kenya — Credit risk cycle times at Absa Bank Kenya dropped 80 to 90 percent, hours standing in for weeks, since SAS Viya launched atop Amazon Web Services. A new Centre of Excellence ships models 50 percent sooner under this AI credit risk management drive, phasing out scripts once spread across 500-plus tools. Retail lending signals a pivot toward AI-driven credit risk modelling.
NCBA Group — PropwizAI, the assistant embedded in NCBA Group's new PropertyDuka platform, studies a buyer's income and tastes to suggest fitting houses, mortgages and repayment routes. Billed as East Africa's first AI-powered property marketplace, PropertyDuka merges listings, construction loans, insurance and legal aid into a single online hub, an AI-driven property platform spanning the whole home-buying journey. NCBA's wider digital marketplace has already signed up almost seven million users and moved about KSh4 billion in transactions.
Ministry of Health, Ghana — Ghana's Ministry of Health is drafting a National Artificial Intelligence Health Policy and Guidelines: legal, ethical, operational healthcare AI rules. The healthcare AI policy spans governance, regulatory oversight, data protection, workforce readiness and digital infrastructure, aligned to WHO, OECD and EU standards. The health AI framework debuted at Ho's International Conference on AI in Healthcare and Pharma.
Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Irrigation — The Ministry of Agriculture's Malawi Digital Plant Health Services project reached about 157,000 unique farmer listeners with roughly 400,000 AI agricultural advisories by February 2026, via the PlantVillage app and Viamo voice service. Piloted since 2022, AI analyses field surveys for crop pests and diseases, reporting to a centralised AI observatory at Lilongwe headquarters. Lead farmers relay AI farm advice to smartphone-less neighbours.
Ministry of Information and Communications Technology — Malawi's Ministry of Information and Communications Technology is pushing an AI Bill covering artificial intelligence use in government and private firms, part of a fresh Malawi AI policy. Minister Shadric Namalomba disclosed the move at a Heads of ICT meeting in Lilongwe, linking it to an upcoming National AI Strategy, with lawmakers due to see it before December 2026. Officials frame the regulatory framework for AI as balancing innovation, privacy and accountability.
Absa Bank — Absa Bank's credit risk management AI slashed model reporting timelines by 80 to 90 per cent, compressing weeks into hours, since SAS Viya went live on Amazon Web Services. Fresh models now enter service 50 per cent quicker, spanning upwards of 500 models within Absa's retail lending portfolio, while live dashboards and built-in guidance sharpen credit risk assessment in banking.
Ministry of Digital Economy — The Ministry of Digital Economy brought the Democratic Republic of Congo its first DR Congo AI policy on 4 August 2026: officials, donors and specialists convened at Kinshasa cleared twin texts charting course to 2030, the Politique sectorielle de l'economie numerique alongside the Strategie nationale de l'intelligence artificielle. Minister Augustin Kibassa Maliba unveiled them. The national AI roadmap leans on competence, research, mining data and homegrown builds, reaching agriculture, health, education, security, transport, natural resource management and public services. Ratification awaits the Council of Ministers.
Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy — Kenya AI regulation takes a new shape in the draft Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies Policy, 2026, now open for comment and grounded in the National AI Strategy 2025-2030. Foreign AI providers face extraterritorial reach, liability runs across the full AI value chain, and Sovereignty and Strategic Autonomy anchors this AI governance framework, mandating local storage of sensitive datasets. The draft carries no binding force; it signals direction only.
Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg (full bench) — At least 11 invented or wrong citations in Acting Judge Themba Khaba's schooling-dispute ruling at Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg leave him answering to the Legal Practice Council over possible AI hallucinations in a judgment. Judge Ingrid Opperman found the flaws consistent with machine-generated text and referred him, yet his conclusions survived.
World Food Programme — The UN World Food Programme (WFP) uses AI food aid targeting in Somalia through its HungerMap Live platform, forecasting hunger hotspots and pre-positioning resources before conditions worsen. In Burhakaba district, this predictive humanitarian AI approach enabled WFP to deliver food assistance for 48,000 people and nutrition support for 3,000 women and children. HungerMap Live 2.0, launched April 2026, added forecasting features guiding priority decisions for communities.
Ministère de la Santé du Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso's Ministry of Health delivered AI training for administrative secretaries to 72 headquarters and regional health directorate staff on 3–7 August 2026. Content spanned Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, advanced Excel and Word functions for drafting, filing and reporting, data security and AI ethics. The ministry's IT experts delivered the AI upskilling.
Dept of Public Service & Administration — South Africa's Department of Public Service and Administration has launched the 'Batho Pele' AI government chatbot with Meta and Juicetel, offering citizens and public servants instant answers on policies, circulars and legislation. Unveiled by Minister Mzamo Buthelezi on 31 July 2026, the policy assistant will grow to answer in nine official languages and backs human judgement rather than replacing it.
Liblaw — Liblaw has rolled out CJ Lewis for AI legal education in Liberia, the country's first legal-learning AI platform. Drawing on Liberian Supreme Court rulings from 1861 to 2026 alongside statutes and regulations, it turns complex law into plain explanations reachable by phone or computer for market women, farmers, students and journalists. Liblaw is Liberia's biggest digital law library.
American International University West Africa — Gambia now hosts a female AI-powered robot for STEM education, built by American International University West Africa for schools short on science and maths staff. Dr Shukla, university president, called it a machine that answers instantly and behaves naturally with those it meets, an AI robot in science and maths classrooms rather than a stand-in for scarce teachers. Maker Labs supplied the software and AI layer; engineers in Bangalore, India built the physical frame.
UCT Online High School — UCT Online High School has launched Msizi, an AI in education assistant answering routine questions from parents and learners so staff can tackle harder cases. It scans pupil results to build resources like study guides for 4,000-plus registered pupils. Academic head Tessa Venter described the tool as boosting teachers within remote schooling, not replacing them.
Federal Supreme Court of Ethiopia — More than 35 courtrooms in Ethiopia's federal high courts and first-instance benches now run smart-court upgrades, after the Federal Supreme Court switched on extra units backed by the European Union. AI-powered voice-to-text transcription in the judiciary, or speech-to-text conversion in court proceedings, turns testimony straight into text, replacing headphone-and-typing work by staff. President Tewodros Mehret tied this to faster, accessible justice.
University of Ghana — Ghana's University of Ghana will require AI training in higher education for every incoming undergraduate, folded into a compulsory Level 100 module from next semester. The One Million Coders Programme supplies four credentials: Prompting Essentials, AI Essentials, AI Professional and Digital Literacy. Ghana's Ministry of Communication donated 2,000 laptops to back the mandatory AI education drive.
Société Nationale de Développement Informatique (SNDI) — SNDI delivered AI training for civil servants across 35 agencies in Côte d'Ivoire's Hambol region, handing certificates to 192 participants after a five-week course backed by the Ministry of Digital Transition and Technological Innovation. Curriculum topics ranged from artificial intelligence fundamentals through basic computing, web browsing and office applications, spanning 22 June to 29 July 2026. Katiola hosted the closing event marking completion, extending digital skills for government workers outside the capital.
I&M Bank Rwanda — Pindo built the Kinyarwanda Voice AI Banking Agent for I&M Bank Rwanda, the country's first such tool, so customers now bank purely by talking, in Kinyarwanda or English, over an ordinary phone call, no app or data connection needed. This voice banking service launched under the 'Tsinda na Banki Muhorana' campaign.
Department of Home Affairs — South Africa's electronic travel authorisation system has rejected over 5,500 travellers flagged as fraudulent or suspicious and approved over 85,000 since an October 2025 trial began, per home affairs minister Leon Schreiber. AI visa screening handles about 85% of applications automatically through AI-driven risk assessment and passport face-matching.
Federal Government of Nigeria — Nigeria's Federal Government unveiled NAPS, a national AI crop monitoring system built with OCP Africa and Ground Truth Analytics that reads satellite images refreshed every five days and pinpoints individual farms. Satellite farm mapping will spread in phases under a memorandum of understanding, from one state towards 15 priority states, following pilots the partners say reached 13 states and over 250,000 farmers.
e-Government Authority (e-GA) — Msaada AI, Muhtasari AI and Tafsiri AI — three tools from Tanzania's e-Government Authority and its Research, Innovation and Development Centre — bring AI-powered government services to queries, summaries and translation. Citizen feedback drives refinements as the Tourism Board website and President's Office e-Mrejesho tool already run this AI chatbot for public services daily.
Access Bank Plc — Access Bank Plc's Access SME App gives Nigeria's micro, small and medium enterprises an AI-powered SME management app with embedded funding. Record-keeping, stock oversight and staff supervision run unattended, feeding owners an AI-generated business insights tool, launched at its MSME Digital Growth Conference.
Eskom — Eskom runs 20 AI initiatives across eight business areas — customer engagement, predictive maintenance, cybersecurity, energy trading analytics, workforce optimisation, AI infrastructure — plus 220-plus pilots, part of its AI in energy utilities push. Drones survey its 33,369 km grid, aiding repair crews: AI-powered grid maintenance underway.
Government of Seychelles — Cabinet has cleared Seychelles' National Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education Framework 2026–2030, the country's first roadmap for AI in education in state schools. A four-tier National Teacher AI Competency Framework, a required AI micro-credential, and an AI Champion per school drive this push for AI adoption in classrooms, spanning teaching, leadership and administration.
Ministry of Health of Rwanda — An AI-enabled camera now links doctors at Nemba Hospital in Gakenke District with specialists based at Rwanda's Ministry of Health headquarters, forming the backbone of a new AI telemedicine for maternal health initiative meant to cut deaths during childbirth. Rather than requiring travel, this AI-powered remote consultation in childbirth lets a distant specialist guide a local doctor through delivery complications in real time. Ten additional hospitals with high maternal and infant mortality are next in line for the rollout.
Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority — The Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority has commissioned a Philips Incisive 128-Slice CT Scanner with AI CT scanning at Tema's International Maritime Hospital, restoring CT scan services there. Its AI-supported diagnostics cover advanced cardiac imaging, stroke assessment and lung nodule detection.
Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation — The Republic of Congo's Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation delivered AI training in public administration to its staff. The session built practical skills in artificial intelligence for government work, part of a broader push toward AI skills for government staff.
Direction Générale des Impôts et des Domaines (DGID) — Senegal has scrapped paper tax stamps: DGID now channels purchases through SenTimbre, its digital tax stamps platform. A secure QR code on each stamp blocks the forgery that plagued the old paper-based electronic stamp duty system, part of the state's New Deal Technologique drive to digitise public services.
Djibouti National Meteorological Agency — Djibouti's National Meteorological Agency received MAZU-Djibouti 2.0, an upgraded AI weather alert system, on 17 July 2026. AI-driven forecasts merge satellite and surface data three days out at 3 km resolution (was 9 km), update six-hourly and offer one-click warnings. It backs December 2025's urban multi-hazard early-warning network.
Malawi University of Science and Technology — The Malawi University of Science and Technology (MUST) has introduced AI-powered fertigation, starting at a Thyolo campus greenhouse of tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers, under the TagDev 2.0 programme. Real-time crop growth readings trigger automatic irrigation and fertiliser dosing, continuously tuning water and nutrient levels. Automated fertigation should cut waste and raise efficiency.
Université d'Abomey-Calavi — Benin's Université d'Abomey-Calavi has adopted SIAUAC, a university AI policy pairing strategy, usage charter and ethics framework. The AI usage charter fixes principles, rules and duties for students, lecturers and administrators. The ethics framework adds obligations, technical requirements and governance wherever AI touches teaching, research, innovation or administration. By 2030 it wants standing as an African benchmark for artificial intelligence that is responsible, inclusive and sovereign.
Administração Geral Tributária (AGT) — Angola's General Tax Administration uncovered through AI tax audits that 15,000 of the 40,000 firms declaring no 2025 revenue on Industrial Tax returns had logged transactions. The authority began testing machine learning in 2024 and now compares what businesses declare; chair José Leiria says those firms were informed and several amended filings.
Cabinet of Seychelles / Ministry of Education — Seychelles' Cabinet has approved the National AI in Education Framework 2026–2030, requiring an AI micro-credential of every teacher. Schools each get an AI champion under a four-level teacher AI competency framework; a national steering committee will list approved and banned tools, and final grading and other high-stakes decisions keep human oversight in early phases.
Ministry of Transport, Telecommunications and Civil Aviation — Equatorial Guinea's Ministry of Transport, Telecommunications and Civil Aviation has begun AI and robotics training in Malabo alongside UNESCO. Instructors are being taught machine-learning software, 3D modelling and 3D printing before passing the skills to school-age learners. Between 2026 and 2028 the wider scheme aims to reach 1,000 youngsters and 400 trainers, delivered with the Ministry of Education; agriculture and healthcare are the first targets of this AI upskilling drive.
Ministry of National Education of Senegal — Senegal's Ministry of National Education has rolled out Allô Gorgui, an AI assistant for students and teachers, developed with local startup Andakia and unveiled at the Concours général 2026 awards ceremony. It is an AI-powered educational assistant that gives spoken lesson explanations and exercise help in French, with Wolof support being added gradually, over an ordinary phone line with no smartphone or internet connection required. Coverage is set to widen to further national languages later on.
CCI Mayotte — CCI Mayotte now offers AI business creation support via IDcreaCCIon, a digital platform from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Belfort steering founders from concept to launch. Advisors pair the software's output with their own know-how, covering funding, legal structure, financial forecasting and market study. Mayotte is the tool's first outpost beyond mainland France, already relied on by several French chambers for entrepreneurship support.
Office of the Data Protection Commissioner — AI governance in Kenya now carries a formal framework: the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has released its Guidance Note on Artificial Intelligence, binding banks, insurers, schools, hospitals, employers, retailers, telecoms operators and government bodies to the Data Protection Act wherever they process personal data through AI. Rather than new rules, it maps AI data protection compliance onto existing duties, effective 4 September.
Orange Liberia — Orange made Lorpu AI reachable by basic call or SMS, skipping smartphones and data plans entirely. The AI voice assistant Liberia now hosts spoken lessons and live commodity prices for students and small business owners, priced at L$0.5 once LAD is texted to 2026.
King Price Insurance — Half the wait has vanished from routine personal lines claims at King Price Insurance since a new engine took over deciding how each case gets handled, sending turnaround times down 50 per cent. This early instance of AI claims processing in South African insurance sits inside a broader enterprise AI division backing every claim, built around the AI-driven claims risk engine. Overhauled optical character recognition and purpose-built fraud detection models round out the shift, catching syndicate behaviour nobody had spotted before.
Assemblée législative du Peuple du Burkina Faso — Roughly 30 lawmakers from Burkina Faso's National Assembly gained grounding in artificial intelligence during a joint session staged by the Legislative Assembly of the People with the Permanent Secretariat for Innovation and Forecasting on Emerging Digital Technologies (SPIVTEN) in Ouagadougou. Organisers designed the AI legislation training to sharpen deputies' capacity to comprehend, draft rules for and monitor emerging systems, an area officials have elevated to the 11th pillar within the nation's broader digital transformation agenda, closely tied to artificial intelligence oversight training goals.
Central Bank of Liberia — Helen Momo built the Central Bank of Liberia's new AI macroeconomic forecasting system, calling it the region's "First Sovereign AI Infrastructure for Predicting Macroeconomic Forecasting and Financial Intelligence in the Region." Shown publicly at the Liberia Technology Summit, the tool generates financial intelligence and projects economic trends for the bank. Momo, a Harvard-educated technologist from Liberia, designed it to serve the institution directly, giving the country a homegrown alternative for economic trend prediction rather than relying on outside systems.
Ghana Health Service — PROMPTS, an AI maternal health platform nicknamed Nurse Mary from Ghana Health Service and Jacaranda Health, now serves over 7,000 mothers at Greater Accra Regional Hospital. Via SMS, pregnant women and new mothers submit queries sorted by urgency, answered or forwarded to a clinic. It extends AI-driven maternal care tools across Ghana.
Primature du Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso's Prime Minister's Office put senior managers through ethical AI training in Ouagadougou, under the banner 'Management tools for ethical and responsible AI'. Chief of staff Mamadou Dembélé launched the two-day workshop, expanding on instruction previously delivered to rank-and-file staff. Participants rehearsed crafting safe AI prompts that protect sensitive information and detecting bias within AI-generated results, reflecting a broader push toward responsible AI use in government.
Wezi Medical Centre — Wezi Medical Centre has Malawi's first wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) system with AI heart attack detection, a gift from Taiwan's Pingtung Christian Hospital backed by Taiwanese firms. Readings reach doctors' phones or tablets immediately, where embedded software grades each trace and shows colour-coded warnings of elevated risk. The AI cardiac screening targets cardiovascular disease, a major national killer.
Netzence Sustainability Limited — Netzence Sustainability Limited debuts KlimateRide in Lagos, Nigeria's first AI-driven ride-hailing platform. Onboard software runs allocation, routing and live tracking, plus ID checks, an SOS button and route analysis under this AI ride-hailing and delivery service. Drivers keep 92 percent of each fare.
Eswatini Revenue Service (ERS) — Eswatini Revenue Service will trial AI tax audit risk detection across a 12-month span, singling out suspect filings for deeper checks. Brightwell Nkambule unveiled the push at the 4th Annual ERS Client Appreciation Day, calling AI-driven tax return risk flagging backup for auditors rather than their replacement.
National Assembly of Nigeria — Nigeria AI regulation nears enactment via the National Digital Economy and E-Governance Bill, now at third reading. Lawmaker Shuaib Salisu says the draft grades AI systems by risk, tying deployment duties to each grade. Oversight would pass to the National Information Technology Development Agency, part of a wider AI governance framework taking hold nationally.
Ministry of Agriculture of Zambia — Zambia's Ministry of Agriculture has switched on Mulimi360, an E-Extension Platform built around e-Mulangizi, an AI chatbot for farmers meant to replace scattered, face-to-face guidance with on-demand support. The rollout gives rural producers and extension officers one shared digital agricultural extension platform for crop advice, weather forecasts, early warnings, price trends and mapped land data. Authorities launched the sensitisation drive at the Mulungishi International Conference Centre, part of a broader effort to shift farming extension work online nationwide.
M-PESA Foundation and Kilifi County Referral Hospital — M-PESA Foundation and Proximie, a UK health technology firm, opened a Digital Operating Room at Kilifi County Referral Hospital for AI in surgery, targeting obstetric and neonatal emergencies in Kenya. Cloud AI and augmented reality let outside experts direct local teams live, cutting transfers. The Uzazi Salama Programme runs this AI-powered digital operating room for a year to lower referrals and widen specialist access on the coast.
French Southern Territories9 Jul 2026Cap Bourbon — OceanLive, an AI video analysis for toothfish system built by Thalos, now runs on Cap Bourbon's longliner Cap Kersaint in the French Southern Territories. Onboard sensors feed AI fish monitoring software that spots species and tallies légine australe as crews haul lines, tightening traceability. TAAF then picked Thalos to roll the setup out fleet-wide.
Niyel / Governments of Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Benin — Niyel, a West African advocacy group, has led six nations—Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea and Benin—into a joint framework for Mali AI governance and regional artificial intelligence policy. It urges transparent systems, stronger data protection, homegrown innovation and digital sovereignty, meant to supplement rather than replace each country's own strategy, and went to the UN, the United Nations, as a written submission at its first Global AI Dialogue in Geneva.
Government of Burkina Faso — Six West African states—Burkina Faso, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea and Benin—now share a common Burkina Faso AI policy: Guidelines for Ethical, Inclusive and Responsible Artificial Intelligence, lodged with the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance. It demands accountable, transparent, sovereign, inclusive systems reflecting local languages and African realities.
Pick n Pay — Pick n Pay's asap! arm has switched on Penny, an AI grocery shopping companion built on Google's Gemini AI models, billed as a South African first. Customers speak, type or send a photo instead of clicking menus; the AI-powered shopping assistant draws on Smart Shopper loyalty history to shape suggestions.
Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute — Ethiopia's federal government finished an AI for government training programme on generative AI, prompt engineering and applied-AI tools. The Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute led it with Addis Ababa University and the United Nations Development Programme under the AI UniPod framework, following government AI training already run in Dire Dawa and Sidama, with nationwide expansion planned.
ZamZam Bank — ZamZam Bank and the Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce now back small firms lacking pledgeable assets, using AI-based SME lending to judge applicants purely on repayment capacity. Loans of 60,000 to 1 million birr flow to chamber members via Ansar Digital Financing, built with Kifiya Financial Technology. This algorithm-driven credit assessment had already reached over 10,000 SMEs with more than 1.1 billion birr beforehand.
Government of Guinea / Ministry Secretary General — Tamba Benoît Kamano, Guinea's Minister Secretary General of the Government, launched a Maferinya workshop teaching AI in public administration to Secretaries General across every ministry, backed by the UNDP. Over three days, officials explored artificial intelligence in governance to sharpen state performance, framed around responsible, effective public action.
South African Revenue Service — The South African Revenue Service selects 100% of verification cases and 88.41% of complex audit cases by automated AI tax risk assessment, as machine learning checks declarations against third-party data from banks, employers, retirement funds, medical schemes and crypto reporting frameworks before returns are processed. More than 1.9 million taxpayers were auto-assessed, and about R8 billion refunded within 72 hours. Communications head Siphithi Sibeko says human oversight and governance processes review the models' risk indicators before any enforcement.
Stanbic Bank Ghana — Stanbic Bank Ghana is countering financial crime through AI fraud detection in banking, deploying tools that track spending habits and flag irregularities before damage spreads. Felicity Osafo Sampong said the technology reads shifting customer patterns to catch suspicious activity as it happens, replacing after-the-fact review with real-time transaction monitoring powered by AI.
Sao Tome and Principe1 Jul 2026Instituto de Inovação e Conhecimento (INIC) — The Institute of Innovation and Knowledge (INIC) put roughly forty officials from Sao Tome and Principe's public administration through a four-hour course on AI in public administration, taught by Dalila Rita, President of INIC's Board of Directors, at the Centro de Formação Profissional Brasil. Titled "Artificial Intelligence in Public Administration: Transforming the Future of Work and Innovation", it covered anti-corruption tools, citizen services, efficiency, data ownership and compatibility across government agencies.
Benin Ministry of Health — Benin's Ministry of Health has switched on AI malaria vector control in six communes: Copargo, Djougou, Tchaourou, Ouidah, Abomey-Calavi and Cotonou, about 336,000 residents. Geospatial mapping plus artificial intelligence flag probable mosquito breeding pools; drone crews douse the water with larvicide. Health Minister Benjamin Hounkpatin ties drone larviciding to tighter aim and quicker turnaround. Japan bankrolls the 2.3 million dollar pilot with UNICEF and the World Health Organization.
Cabinet of Kenya — A new Standing Cabinet Committee on Artificial Intelligence, formed under William Ruto, will now steer Kenya AI policy. Its brief covers building safe-rollout governance frameworks, lifting productivity via AI adoption, and reinforcing public services, plus a broader Kenya AI regulation drive backing job creation and inclusive growth.
BusinessDay — BusinessDay has unveiled Nigeria's first AI news assistant, SIA (Strategic Intelligence Assistant), becoming the first newspaper AI chatbot in the country. Readers pose questions in ordinary language and get responses pulled straight from the paper's own articles, with the tool condensing dense subjects and locating pertinent pieces across markets, policy and companies. No other Nigerian title had rolled out such a tool before.
Ministry of Economy, Finance and Budget (MEFB) — A Moroccan specialist guided officials through AI training in public finance at Conakry's Centre de Perfectionnement en Finances Publiques, commissioned by Guinea's Ministry of Economy, Finance and Budget. Attendees explored AI-driven administrative optimisation to pursue leaner workflows, cleaner oversight and stricter budget discipline nationwide.
MTN South Sudan, Ministry of General Education and Instruction, Educare Organization South Sudan — MTN South Sudan has launched Junub Academy, a national e-learning platform providing AI-supported education in South Sudan free of data charges. Partners are the Ministry of General Education and Instruction, the Ministry of ICT and Postal Services, and Educare Organization. Students and teachers gain curriculum materials, teacher training, digital skills courses and AI-driven learning tools, backing the government's Free Education Policy.
First City Monument Bank (FCMB) — First City Monument Bank has built AI chatbot in banking functionality into its app, naming the tool Temi. The bank paired this with reward points, mutual fund access and instant virtual cards, sharpening its digital-first edge in Nigeria's crowded online banking market; Temi acts as an AI-powered banking assistant for routine support.
Niger Delta Power Holding Company — Nigeria's Niger Delta Power Holding Company runs predictive maintenance AI in power generation, tracking gas turbine vibration, heat and part wear to flag deterioration before an unplanned shutdown. This AI-driven turbine failure prediction replaces fixed-schedule servicing with condition-based alerts.
Ethiopian Electric Utility — Preventing blackouts nationwide now hinges on an AI power grid rollout by Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU). Vulnerable sections are flagged automatically, and emerging faults get diagnosed on the spot, swapping reactive fixes for predictive fault detection. Getu Geremew tied the shift to fresh handheld kit for field crews plus a Huawei tie-up modernising backbone communications.
Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation (MoCTI) — Sierra Leone's Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation and Ministry of Public Administration and Political Affairs will train 1,000 civil servants under a partnership agreement. The nine-month AI training for civil servants, via the Civil Service Training College, reaches 29 ministries, departments and agencies. Lessons span public sector AI skills, everyday digital tools, data management and cybersecurity under a wider digital transformation agenda.
Sierra Leone Police — A joint AI training for police pulled Sierra Leone Police staff nationwide together with Victory Teens Organisation instructors, covering cybercrime detection, digital probes and AI-driven policing tools. Deputy Inspector General Sahr Yomba Senesi wrapped things up, telling attendees to put lessons into action and pass them onward.
Ministry of Health, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health, working with the Gates Foundation and China CDC, has launched an AI mosquito surveillance device that snaps images, sorts mosquitoes by species and tallies numbers on its own, instantly. The three-year initiative's first stage kicks off 1 July 2026, arming officials with a real-time activity map to sharpen where vector control efforts land. This automated insect-borne disease monitoring approach could reshape how the country tracks malaria risk.
Judicial Service of Ghana — Ghana's Judicial Service will equip all 445 judges and magistrates with Eskwai Clerk, an AI judicial assistant built alongside Kwame AI for legal research, reviewing documents and writing rulings and judgments. Training will frame the AI helper for the bench as an aid that leaves judicial discretion intact.
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research — Early Newcastle warnings, enset bacterial wilt flags and chicken growth tracking now fall under one AI agriculture systems effort from the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), built alongside the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute and GPS PLC. Dairy tools and poultry stress sensors join the trial at Holeta Agricultural Research Center, backing smarter livestock and crop disease detection nationwide.
Coronation Insurance Plc — Nigeria's Coronation Insurance Plc now offers AI vehicle inspection on its digital onboarding portal, where motor insurance buyers photograph their cars rather than awaiting a manual check. This photo-based inspection relies on image recognition technology, speeding underwriting and claims assessments.
Ministry of National Education and New Citizenship — Snote Manager, swapped in by the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ministry of National Education and New Citizenship for the retired Data Scan, brings AI-assisted exam marking to the 2026 Examen d'Etat. At 10 to 15 times its forerunner's speed in pulling in answer sheets, the package embeds automated script processing. Capture sites multiplied from one to six, so papers are read close to candidates then moved under encryption onto central servers rather than hauled overland to Kinshasa. Sheet capture opened 22 June; Inspector General Hubert Kimbonza counted Haut-Katanga 1 and further educational provinces cleared.
Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute — One app now handles Ethiopia's AI public services: the Unified MESOB Platform, built by the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute, merges federal agency functions into a single web and mobile portal. Abiy Ahmed opened it, while Worku Gachena credits it with cutting red tape and sharpening openness, part of a broader shift toward digitised citizen access nationwide.
Government of Mauritius — Mauritius's National Electronic Licensing System (NELS) will gain an AI chatbot for licensing, guiding businesses and citizens through licensing steps in several languages. The 2026/27 budget also funds AI tools for the Financial Services Commission and a new Healthcare Innovation and Artificial Intelligence Unit to judge clinical AI rollout.
Banco de Moçambique — Mozambique AI regulation gains a formal footing at Banco de Moçambique, which has adopted its own Artificial Intelligence Policy for safe, transparent, responsible internal use. Rogério Zandamela linked it to the bank's digital transformation drive and an earlier AI task force. Central bank AI governance is aimed inward here, not at the wider financial sector.
Nutun — More than R40 million in outstanding balances across over 80,000 accounts has already been cleared by Zoey, the automated voice system built by Nutun for AI debt collection. Unveiled alongside the firm's new AI Operations Centre in Sandton, Johannesburg, the locally developed assistant now handles repetitive recovery calls on its own. Staff have shifted into roles overseeing and reinforcing the technology, an AI voice agent for debt recovery, instead of losing their jobs to it.
French Southern Territories17 Jun 2026French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF) — Sorting terrain across Amsterdam and Saint Paul Islands into 55 distinct categories at 92.6% accuracy, France's TAAF (French Southern and Antarctic Lands) now runs AI habitat mapping through its Cartovege2 machine learning tool, drawing on Pleiades pictures shot from orbit at 50cm resolution. Built alongside the University of Rennes and the French Polar Institute, the system converts raw imagery into usable conservation data, advancing satellite habitat classification from research project to working instrument. Staff had already leaned on it to gauge harm after fire tore through half of Amsterdam Island in January 2025.
Ministère de la Transition digitale, des Postes et des Communications électroniques — Burkina Faso's Ministry of Digital Transition, Posts and Electronic Communications, through SP-IVTEN, finalised a national AI roadmap covering 2026-2030. Six focus areas structure the plan: oversight, infrastructure, safeguarding information, skills-building, entrepreneurial research, and fair, inclusive deployment. The strategy links to RELANCE 2026-2030 and the 'AI for All' scheme, embedding AI policy in broader growth ambitions.
Côte d'Ivoire National Tuberculosis Programme (PNLT) — Côte d'Ivoire's National Tuberculosis Programme and research partner PAC-CI began trialling eHealth4Child-TB in Sassandra on 16 June 2026, bringing AI chest X-ray reading to childhood tuberculosis care. Health workers get AI-analysed radiography plus treatment decision-support algorithms, now spreading across the Abengourou, Agboville and Sassandra health districts.
Investec — Investec has given all 8,000 employees Microsoft Copilot across South African, UK and wider overseas businesses, calling it the country's first whole-workforce Copilot launch. More than 800 AI agents in banking now handle everyday analysis, drafting, reconciliation and admin work group-wide, saving over 350,000 staff hours annually by Investec's estimate. Lyndon Subroyen, global head of digital and technology, backs the bank-wide AI programme with training and an AI governance framework.
Waspito — Waspito opened AHIM, the African Health Intelligent Model, as an AI health assistant answering 24/7 on WhatsApp in English and French from any country. The Africa-focused platform channels queries, laboratory orders, prescription and record uploads, cover purchases and doctor referral through that WhatsApp health chatbot, while stressing AHIM supplants no clinician: consultation, diagnosis and treatment stay with qualified physicians on its roster. Entry costs nothing; billing falls on whichever care is taken up, from 3,000 FCFA with a general practitioner and 6,000 FCFA with a specialist doctor. Begun 2020 in Cameroon, Waspito reports its own totals: more than 1 million users, over 250,000 patients served, upwards of 2,000 licensed doctors.
WETECH — WETECH carried Alert GBV Lite, an Android app for AI gender-based violence reporting, into 11 communes of Cameroon's Far North via an outreach drive from 1 to 27 June 2026 with associations ADELPA and ALVFF. Its AI companion for survivors runs psychosocial orientation and structured reporting beside a geolocated SOS button capturing evidence mid-incident, a live service directory, anonymised secure case reporting, offline essentials, and French, English, Pidgin and Fulfuldé screens; without a smartphone or data, USSD code #080# takes a report. Project UNJP/CMR/061/EC, funded by DG ECHO and run by UNFPA Cameroon with FAO, covers it.
Conseil d'État Malagasy — Madagascar's Conseil d'État Malagasy and 85 magistrates adopted an Ethical Charter for AI use in courts at a UNESCO seminar on artificial intelligence and the rule of law in Antananarivo. It sets out permitted and forbidden applications for AI in judicial decision-making by magistrates, closing a gap left by prior unguided use, and rests on the magistrates' code of ethics.
Government of Niger and United Nations System in Niger — One hundred (100) officials across Niger's public sector completed applied AI for crisis management coursework in Niamey during a two-week programme in June, organised jointly by the national government and the United Nations System with financial backing from the UN Trust Fund for Human Security. Representatives came from bodies including the High Authority for Peacebuilding, the Ministry of Interior and the National Institute of Statistics, gaining hands-on practice in artificial intelligence in emergency response through exercises in analysing datasets, compiling written reports and managing rapid-onset incidents. Branded ILLIMI Niger, the scheme sits within a broader push to build technical capacity inside government agencies.
UNESCO Namibia — UNESCO Namibia trained 22 judges, magistrates and legal officers on Artificial Intelligence and judicial decision-making at a Windhoek workshop with the National Commission on Research, Science and Technology and the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, running 23 to 25 June 2026. Topics included algorithmic transparency, machine-generated evidence, data safeguards and judicial independence, drawing on UNESCO's Global Toolkit on AI and the Rule of Law. Namibia's courts face growing exposure to AI in judicial processes.
Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services — Zimbabwe now has two new bodies overseeing its Zimbabwe AI policy: the National AI Council and the AI Strategy Implementation Office, both created by the Ministry of ICT, Postal and Courier Services. Their mandate covers the National AI Strategy 2026-2030, with the Council steering strategic direction and the Office running monitoring and stakeholder coordination on the ground. Together they form the backbone of the country's AI strategy governance across every sector.
Agence des Systèmes d'Information et du Numérique (ASIN) — Benin's Agence des Systèmes d'Information et du Numérique (ASIN) has set generative AI public agents rules for civil servants in a June 2026 bulletin, 'Billet juridique sur l usage des outils d intelligence artificielle générative par les agents publics au sein de l administration', covering data protection, digital sovereignty, cybersecurity and vendor contract safeguards. Standards include sovereign data hosting, full encryption and ISO/IEC 27001, 27701 and 42001 compliance. ASIN also recommends mapping AI tools in government administration, moving staff off personal accounts onto secured professional subscriptions, and adopting one binding charter.
Jigawa State Government — Jigawa State will offer AI home learning to state-school pupils who miss class through farm labour, poor weather or other interruptions, via the JigawaUNITE programme with NewGlobe. Officials say the AI-powered education system will also coach teachers in class, guide instruction live and track performance.
Moov Africa Malitel — Moov Africa Malitel, Mali's biggest telecom carrier, unveiled an AI voice assistant called MIA (Moov Intelligence Artificielle) on 12 June 2026, reachable by dialling 35201 even from basic handsets lacking internet. Callers get instant guidance on farming, schooling, wellbeing and daily needs, billed from 25 FCFA per minute. The voice-based AI assistant push targets broader digital access nationwide.
Centre national d'investigations numériques — A Beninese TikToker posting as Fresnel was detained on 11 June 2026 over an AI-generated image pairing him with former head of state Patrice Talon. Article 576 of the Code du numérique criminalises malicious doctoring of photographs, audio or video, drawing five years' jail and a 25 million CFA franc fine. The Centre national d'investigations numériques had warned days before against exactly this synthetic likeness.
Mangochi District Hospital / Kamuzu University of Health Sciences — IMPALA, an AI patient monitoring platform in over 20 Malawian hospitals, cut child deaths 40 to 51 percent at two sites in 2023-2024 versus the prior year. It flags deterioration three hours early via nurse tablet alerts. Over 100,000 patients have used wards with the tool, now also in Tanzania, Rwanda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Gabon, extending AI-powered patient deterioration prediction regionally.
MTN Nigeria — MTN Nigeria runs 13 AI agents for SIM registration verification, work more than 200 workers did by hand. Using computer vision, the agents beat manual processing on speed and accuracy. MTN is extending automated SIM checks to Ghana, Cameroon and Zambia, among other African markets.
Uganda government — Ugandans now get AI government services Uganda-wide through UGGov Agent, one channel to reach state bodies, follow public project progress and get help in 16 local languages over WhatsApp, Telegram and USSD. AfroSoft IT Solutions built this citizen-facing government AI assistant with presidential backing, drawing data from various ministries, departments and agencies for owners of smartphones and basic feature phones alike, sparing them an office trip.
Visa — Visa's Stay Secure study by Wakefield Research found 89 percent of Kenyan consumers used AI shopping tools: 60 percent checking reviews, 55 percent finding gift ideas, 53 percent comparing prices. Though 91 percent say AI-powered tools speed up and simplify buying online, only 29 percent would let AI agents complete checkout. Sample: 5,800 adults across 17 CEMEA markets.
Government of Rwanda — A National Artificial Intelligence Agency has cleared Cabinet in Rwanda, standing as the nation's first body built solely for AI regulation in Rwanda. President Paul Kagame chaired the 8 June 2026 meeting that formed it, charged with driving faster innovation, adoption, investment and oversight. Anchored in the 2023 National AI Policy, it will link efforts on AI governance spanning ministries, business, universities and outside partners.
Government of Niger — President Abdourahamane Tiani's Décret n° 2026-310/PRN/PM abolishes nine public bodies, among them the Haute Autorité de Protection des Données à caractère Personnel (HAPDP). HAPDP enforced Niger AI regulation, namely Loi 2022-59's automated-decision and AI rules. Its data protection duties pass to the Ministries of Justice and Interior.
Dangote Cement — Crashes involving Dangote Cement lorries dropped 56 percent from 2025 to 2026, by the firm's own count, following AI fleet safety tools plus upgraded GPS and telematics in Nigeria. Drivers are watched live and automated inspection technologies check vehicles, an AI-led haulage safety push aimed at efficiency.
Nedbank — Nedbank's Quick Loans, short-term lending in the Money App, takes credit decisions from fintech Jumo's engine for AI credit scoring. Affordability checks run live on alternative financial data, with loans of R500 to R50,000 paid in as few as five minutes, for clients with thin or no credit bureau history too.
National Bank of Rwanda — Rwanda AI regulation now covers all licensed banks, insurers, payment providers, pension schemes and microfinance institutions under the National Bank of Rwanda's Guidelines No. 52/2026 on Artificial Intelligence Risk Management for Financial Institutions. Firms must set up board-level governance, validate models and keep humans in the loop, with tighter rules where systems flag suspicious transactions or assess borrower risk. This risk management approach reaches further into fraud screening and anti-money laundering monitoring than most comparable frameworks in the region.
Universite Technologique du Congo — 125 semi-structured interviews in Kinshasa, Lubumbashi and Goma reveal youthful Congolese running micro-businesses on AI in the informal economy: ChatGPT and other large language models, picture generators and chatbot apps shoulder translation, logo work, automatic customer replies, marketing copy, stock ledgers and crop planning. Delphin B. Kyubwa of the Universite Technologique du Congo credits swapped tips in WhatsApp groups, YouTube clips and tinkering, never a classroom; his coinage is compressed professionalization. Creaking infrastructure throttles informal-sector AI use worst: pricey bandwidth, erratic current.
South Sudan Media Authority — AI in newsrooms now has official backing in South Sudan, as the Media Authority tells outlets to embrace the technology carefully. Speaking in Juba, Sapana Abuyi said nothing bars its use, but pushed for training staff on verifying AI-generated material before publishing. News came via a gathering run by the Union of Journalists of South Sudan and Norwegian People's Aid.
Centre national d'investigations numériques — Benin's Centre national d'investigations numériques has spelled out penalties for AI image manipulation: reshaping, inventing or circulating another's likeness without consent. Such AI-altered likenesses breach image rights and draw prosecution under article 576 of the Code du numérique, which permits five years' jail and a 25 million FCFA fine, about 44,400 dollars.
National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) — Ghana's National Disaster Management Organisation introduced a WhatsApp tool for AI disaster alerts on 27 May 2026, developed by UNESCO with Government of Japan backing. The flood and drought chatbot sends forecasts, warnings and advice, and residents flag hazards and updates to disaster agencies. NADMO's Director-General wants responders using it daily.
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence — Generative AI for agricultural extension went with measurably stronger advisory work among 240 extension agents sampled across six districts of northern Benin (β = 0.411, t = 8.229, p < 0.001). Agents carrying heavier caseloads and tighter deadlines picked up AI advisory tools more readily. Enthusiasm came hedged: respondents balked at leaning wholly on the technology, naming professional judgment, accountability and trust in AI outputs; the questionnaire was fielded March to May 2024.
Lafto Specialized Hospital — East Africa's first AI-powered hospital, Lafto Specialized Hospital, opened with 500 beds in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Oncology and heart patients get an AI-assisted PET unit and 3D mammography, while lab testing runs fully robotic — medicine built on AI in healthcare.
Jubilee Holdings — Jubilee Holdings' AI fraud detection insurance push stopped KES 1.28 billion (Sh1.28 billion) in fictitious claims for the year ended December 2025, nearly triple the prior year's total. AI-driven claims adjudication tools, including Curacel, traced KES 750 million (Sh750 million) of that sum and flagged 449 suspicious cases. It sits within Jubilee's Changamk@ programme, cutting over 96,000 man-hours of manual work a year.
Government of Benin / Presidency of the Republic — President Romuald Wadagni has given Benin a dedicated AI ministry, the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Innovation (MTDI), tasked with the national AI strategy. Mahuna Akplogan, a technologist with a PhD in AI, becomes Benin's first minister holding formal AI policy mandate responsibility. The move underlines Benin's bid to lead AI governance across the region.
Judiciary of Eswatini — Eswatini's judiciary became Africa's first to run a pilot AI and electoral justice training for judges, with the Africa Electoral Justice Network. Sessions covered deepfakes, disinformation, digital evidence and remedies for election disputes tied to artificial intelligence, drawing on the AEJN Toolkit on AI, Elections and Electoral Justice.
Gouvernement de la République Gabonaise / Conseil des Ministres — Gabon's Conseil des Ministres approved a decree creating the Direction Générale des Technologies Émergentes (DGTE), part of a wider Gabon AI regulation push under the Ministry of Economie Numérique. The DGTE will draft and oversee public policy on digitalisation, technological innovation, and responsible use of artificial intelligence across République Gabonaise, with central departments and decentralised offices in every province.
Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy — Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy launched GovGuide Nigeria, an AI chatbot for government services answering citizens by voice or text in English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. Local firm Publica AI built the voice-and-text assistant on Meta's open-source Llama models with the National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics.
Zyterra — Zyterra, a Zimbabwean agritech firm, built VerdantIQ, an AI farming platform pairing satellite crop data with weather forecasts and agronomic tips for smallholder farmers, aiming to sharpen everyday planting and harvest choices. WhatsApp and web access bring Mudhumeni Hungwe, a multilingual digital agronomist, straight to growers, widening reach for AI-driven agriculture support beyond costly apps. The firm aims to sign up 10,000 farmers free within 18 months.
Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation (MoCTI) — Sierra Leone AI strategy plans advance under the Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation with the World Bank Group, building the nation's first such blueprint. A draft AI Readiness Diagnostic Report measures preparedness. Media, civil society, government and business spent three days shaping this national artificial intelligence policy around homegrown culture.
Kenya Airways — Kenya Airways has taken on Jupiter 5.0, FlyNava Technologies' system for AI fare pricing. With the AI-driven pricing tool, the airline's revenue team models new fare structures before rollout and responds quicker to shifting demand while pricing calls stay visible.
Western Cape Department of Infrastructure — The Western Cape Department of Infrastructure watches about 5,000 km of strategic provincial roads with Bentley Systems' Blyncsy, the technology's first African use, per Bentley. The AI road inspection tool runs machine learning over crowdsourced dash-camera footage to flag damaged guardrails, missing signs, broken streetlights, debris and encroaching vegetation. Maintenance crews now go where most needed, says the chief engineer for the province's transport infrastructure systems.
Ministry of Education — Ethiopia's Ministry of Education is drafting a National Artificial Intelligence and Education Policy with UNESCO, covering AI in education policy nationwide. UNESCO's international experts are helping shape ethical, inclusive standards for AI adoption across education levels.
Civil Service College Uganda — More than 1,000 government secretaries across Uganda attended AI training for government secretaries at the Civil Service College in Jinja City, run by the Association of Secretaries and Administrative Professionals in Uganda (ASAPU). Kathay Technologies led sessions covering productivity, reporting, data analysis and research using artificial intelligence tools for administrative work.
Judiciary of Kenya — Kenya's Judiciary has moved from trial to routine AI court transcription, capturing proceedings electronically with transcripts ready overnight. Supreme Court Judge Isaac Lenaola presented it at the AI Everything Summit at Gitex Kenya in Nairobi, adding that the Judiciary plans a countrywide hub to pool transcription for all courts. A Judiciary chatbot also responds to public legal queries.
Judiciary of Kenya — Fabricated citations from AI in court proceedings have pushed Kenya's Judiciary to draft a Judiciary Artificial Intelligence Policy setting practice directions for lawyers and judges. Under the proposed rules, anyone submitting AI-assisted filings must verify content beforehand and disclose the tools used, with applications graded by risk level. Public comment is open before the policy takes final form, addressing cases where AI-generated legal documents contained invented case references.
Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development — Seychelles' Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development and the World Bank are running two pilots of AI in schools. The AI Teacher Coach Programme helps Primary 5 and Primary 6 teachers at six schools plan lessons and grow professionally. The AI Student Tutor Programme gives Secondary 3 learners at four schools personalised classroom AI support in Mathematics and Geography.
Primature du Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso's Prime Minister's Office ran three-day AI training for public servants from its Ouagadougou central structures, 19 to 21 May 2026. Artificial intelligence's promise and dangers for state administration framed the course, in which volunteer Oumar Karaga, a Google Canada senior software engineer, taught civil service staff data analysis, AI fundamentals, digital writing tools and generative content's legal and ethical questions.
Government of Madagascar (National Gendarmerie and Police) — Thirty Madagascar officers completed a regional course covering AI child protection tools under UNICRI's AI for Safer Children scheme, delivered alongside the UAE Ministry of Interior and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. The Antananarivo programme, spread across three days, built skills in flagging abuse reports, connecting evidence trails and managing digital exhibits through AI-assisted investigation techniques, backed by practical exercises. A further 140-plus investigators from 16 additional nations followed remotely.
Ethiopian Ministry of Education — Ethiopia's Ministry of Education and Huawei began trialling a national-curriculum AI teacher assistant for grades 9 to 12 on 14 May 2026. Working entirely without internet access, the classroom AI lets teachers draft exams and lesson plans faster where networks are weak.
Judiciary of Seychelles — Judicial College (JUCOS), led by Supreme Court Judge Melchior Vidot, ran a two-day workshop for Seychelles' court staff on handling AI in judicial work responsibly. Judicial Officers, Judicial Research Councils and administrative personnel examined disclosure duties, accountability questions, ethical pitfalls and courtroom disputes tied to artificial intelligence in the justice system, building literacy around emerging tools. Organisers framed the sessions as groundwork for a Judiciary-wide strategy on managing AI going forward.
Zanzibar Ministry of Health (ZAMEP) — Zanzibar's Ministry of Health, through the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Programme, has launched AI drone mosquito control to find and treat breeding sites, with WHO, Japan's SORA Technology and the Ifakara Health Institute, funded by the Government of Japan. Drone surveillance reaches places conventional methods miss and lets health teams treat breeding sites on detection, officials say. Malaria prevalence on the islands is 0.04 percent.
CANDI (private company) / Magistrates of Kankan — Magistrates and civil society figures in Kankan joined a 13 May 2026 workshop on AI in the judicial sector, run by Guinean firm CANDI under the banner 'Artificial Intelligence and Justice in Guinea'. First President Pierre Lamah, heading the Kankan Court of Appeal, praised the push, arguing that judges armed with artificial intelligence in justice work could produce rulings faster and lift overall court performance. Guinea's public administration was named as the broader target for such tools.
Heirs Insurance Group — Heirs Insurance Group has introduced Prince AI, an AI insurance assistant answering queries in languages such as English, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, French and Chinese. On WhatsApp, the SimpleLife mobile app and the insurer's site, the generative AI handles policy purchases, renewals, and filing and tracking claims.
Ministry of Health of South Sudan — South Sudan's Ministry of Health launched the WHO-backed Digital Care Companion (DCC), giving frontline health workers in remote Maiwut County, Upper Nile State, AI clinical decision support under the Minister's Special Initiative on Maternal and Newborn Health. The DCC, a symbolic AI diagnostic aid using ICD-11 standards, works fully offline in low-literacy settings, guiding diagnosis and management.
Kriol Think — Kriol Think fielded 802 queries over a 14-day run at 100% uptime through the AI electoral assistant Nós AI Eleitor 2026, built by Edson da Veiga for Cabo Verde's legislative elections. Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 drafted every reply strictly from the parties' own electoral programmes, three loaded, MpD, PAICV and UCID, while PTS and PP awaited release, and each response pinpointed the underlying passages. Guardrails barred political views, party endorsements and fabricated material, obliged the assistant to concede gaps, and excluded identifiable personal data, stored query wording and tracking cookies. Unaligned and free, this election AI tool emerged from a non-profit civic venture whose running costs Edson da Veiga chased via GoFundMe; the usage totals are Kriol Think's own, surfacing on an archive page after the ballot.
Ministry of National Education, Literacy, Technical Education and Vocational Training of Guinea — Guinea's Ministry of National Education will launch an AI exam-prep tool called Barrin to support baccalaureate candidates preparing for their exams. Minister Alpha Bacar Barry revealed the AI-powered study companion at a STEM teacher training session, saying it would go live the following week. Students will gain access to educational resources, including worked solutions drawn from earlier mathematics papers and other subjects.
Government of Cabo Verde — Cabo Verde AI policy now runs through Resolution No. 72/2026, which the Government cleared via the Council of Ministers to lay out Agenda Digital 2035 as the country's blueprint for weaving AI, data-driven industry and automation into state functions. The resolution sets eight strategic axes meant to push the archipelago toward becoming a forward-looking, adaptable digital nation by 2035, spanning economic growth, e-government, social equity and green sustainability. The broader push for AI-driven digital transformation sits within this wider national plan rather than as a separate initiative.
Office of the Chief Justice — Clerical chores yes, rulings no: that's the line South Africa's Office of the Chief Justice draws in its new AI policy for the judiciary, the Draft Policy on Artificial Intelligence. Generative AI may assist with scheduling, case-flow tracking, summarising documents and translating, but stays away from weighing evidence, judging witness honesty, reading statutes, or fixing bail, sentences and risk scores. Anyone relying on it must disclose that, cross-check against trustworthy sources, finish risk training beforehand, and face review at least every two years.
Government of the Republic of Congo — A half-year deadline now governs eleven strategic outputs due from Republic of Congo's newly installed technical panel, tasked with shaping the country's national AI strategy. Frédéric Nzé heads the group, backed by the United Nations Development Programme. Aims include a Lingala and Kituba language dataset for local-language AI tools, costed at 150 to 200 million FCFA as part of wider artificial intelligence policy development.
Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation — Nigeria's Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation has begun AI literacy training for civil servants: a three-day Programme in Abuja, backed by UNESCO and the European Union. Didi Walson-Jack calls it a lever for faster AI-driven change across the Federal Government. Trainers under UNESCO's ethical AI framework will carry AI skills training for government workers on to ministries and agencies.
Instituto Nacional de Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação (INTIC) — INTIC opened public consultation on version one of the Proposal for the National AI Strategy, a Mozambique AI policy draft linking AI to digital transformation. Priority pillars span health and science, innovation and infrastructure, governance and public services, education and skills, entrepreneurship and economy, climate and agriculture, energy and environmental impact and culture and tourism. Comments closed 4 September 2026; the national AI strategy awaits adoption.
Government of Mozambique (INTIC) — A draft Mozambique AI policy has been thrown open for public comment by INTIC, Mozambique's National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies. Universities, firms, government bodies and ordinary citizens can respond to the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, pitched as a means to lift innovation, productivity and the quality of public services.
Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe — The Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) has begun AI vehicle monitoring that captures registration marks instantly, matching each against several record sets and flagging offending cars. A high-definition lens feeds AI software able to fine motorists immediately for unpaid licensing fees. Trialled during April 2026, the plate-scanning road surveillance featured at Mucheke River Bridge's Masvingo opening.
CUBE The Gambia — CUBE The Gambia is piloting its home-built CUBE AI Tutor on 150 secondary pupils across three Region 1 schools, trialling AI tutoring in Gambian classrooms: St Augustine's Senior Secondary School, St Joseph's Senior Secondary School and Charles Jow Memorial Academy. The offline-ready, curriculum-matched tool, an AI learning platform for secondary students, adds speech-to-text and text-to-speech. Pupils trial it for two months, then give feedback.
Uganda Ministry of Health — Uganda's Ministry of Health has introduced AI handheld ultrasound in Kampala, so midwives and nurses can examine pregnant women and read results without advanced radiology training. Nicosam Healthcare delivered fifteen Gates Foundation-funded devices; over 300 health workers are trained, with at least 600 targeted by the end of 2026. Midwives at lower-level facilities can consult referral-hospital specialists on AI-assisted scans; the ministry says only about 28% of pregnant women in the country currently get even one ultrasound.
Lagos State Government — The Lagos State Government's Lagos Emergency Responders Management System went live on 27 April 2026, connecting the state ambulance service, LASTMA and the fire service to the Lagos State Command and Control Centre. AI emergency call screening checks reports live, acting as a prank-call filter against false alarms, and pinpoints callers automatically.
Government of The Gambia — The Government of The Gambia has commissioned the National Misinformation and Disinformation Response Centre, an AI-powered misinformation detection platform under the Ministry of Information that scans online conversations, spots emerging false-content trends and verifies claims against trusted sources, functioning as an AI-driven disinformation monitoring hub. Officials call it West Africa's first such centre, built by Gambian firm Dundal Systems with ECOWAS backing and unveiled at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre.
Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations — A decade-long Ghana AI policy took effect with Cabinet backing: the Republic of Ghana National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025-2035, unveiled 24 April 2026 by Minister Samuel Nartey George's Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations. Funding comes via a National AI Fund rising from GHS 5 billion to GHS 15 billion, aimed at fair, ethical uptake spanning education, health, farming, banking and government services. Workforce skills, data rules and infrastructure spending anchor the national artificial intelligence strategy's foundations.
Prudential Authority, South African Reserve Bank — South Africa's Prudential Authority told banks to brace for AI cyber risk in banking, under guidance titled Preparing for Frontier AI and AI Accelerated Cyber Risk. Frontier systems let attackers strike almost as soon as a flaw surfaces, collapsing the gap between discovery and breach.
Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations — Ghana is drafting an Emerging Technologies Bill, a step toward formal AI regulation for rolling out artificial intelligence alongside other advanced technologies. Minister Samuel Nartey George revealed the plan at the National AI Strategy launch, calling it the legal backing needed for safe, effective use while curbing risks. The bill sits within a broader legislative overhaul and will pair with the incoming Data Protection Bill for fuller AI oversight nationwide.
Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM) — IPAM, Sierra Leone's Institute of Public Administration and Management, built Academic Hub, an AI essay marking and online exam platform, to boost integrity and transparency in higher education. Trials with students went well, so officials plan wider rollout, including at the University of Sierra Leone. The AI-supported online examination system should improve grading accuracy and cut result delays.
Capitec Bank — Capitec Bank has equipped almost 5,000 employees with AI tools and runs agentic AI in credit processing for business banking, Capitec's 2026 integrated annual report says. Capitec Pulse AI, built in-house, feeds client support agents live client information, and generative AI now works in production for compliance. The bank says the rollout is well past the experimental stage.
Ministry of Finance, Budget and Digital Economy / UNDP — Burundi's Ministry of Finance, Budget and Digital Economy, with the United Nations Development Programme, cleared the Stratégie nationale de l'intelligence artificielle, or SNIA, on 21 and 22 April 2026. Six pillars carry the Burundi AI policy: public leadership, data plumbing, schooling, invention, high-impact uses, ethics, inclusion. The national AI roadmap promises 1000-plus state employees trained, fifteen trial schemes in agriculture and health, incubators at Bujumbura, Ngozi and Gitega, and by 2030 a driver of fair growth and youth work.
Ministry of Finance, Budget and Digital Economy — Burundi AI strategy has cleared final approval: the Ministry of Finance, Budget and Digital Economy, backed by the UNDP, signed off on the Stratégie nationale sur l'intelligence artificielle in Bujumbura. Running 2025-2030, six pillars underpin it — oversight via a new National AI Commission and ethics code, data systems, workforce skills (1,000-plus officials trained), entrepreneurship, farming and health trials, and sustainability. Government and priority sectors nationwide will follow this roadmap for AI adoption.
3Farmate — 3Farmate's FAMA, billed as Ghana's first AI-powered autonomous farming robot, was unveiled before Deputy Minister for Food and Agriculture John Dumelo. Computer vision replaces GPS for guidance, letting the machine plant seed, spread fertiliser, weed and spray while one worker oversees several units across 27 to 35 acres daily. Savings of 60% versus hand labour are expected, with design, engineering and assembly done locally. Officials pledged backing to expand this AI farming automation nationwide.
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe — An AI platform for farmers named EcoFarmer AI has gone live in Zimbabwe, built by Econet Wireless Zimbabwe as an artificial intelligence-powered agriculture platform to sharpen decision-making. It uses exact field coordinates to model conditions up to 100 days out, then suggests planting, watering and input timing from soil readings and local forecasts. The launch sits under Econet AI, the firm's AI arm set up April 2026.
Netcampus — Roughly 6,000 South African public-sector leaders have completed AI training for government officials delivered by Netcampus through Microsoft's Elevate programme. Participants spanned the Gauteng, Western Cape and Eastern Cape provincial administrations, the Department of Higher Education, TVET colleges, the South African Revenue Service, the University of Venda and the National School of Government. Netcampus combined virtual sessions, face-to-face workshops and a learning management system to deliver the artificial intelligence upskilling programme.
MobileMoney Fintech Limited — MobileMoney Fintech Limited has built AI fraud detection in mobile payments into Ghana's top mobile money service. Chief Executive Shaibu Haruna said the tool tracks spending patterns continuously, retracing payment paths to flag anomalies that static, rule-based checks miss. That signals a move toward AI-driven transaction monitoring platform-wide.
Murang'a County Government — Murang'a County's MyMurang'a app puts every county department in one place, adding an AI legal chatbot for on-the-spot answers and pro bono referrals. Residents can book clinics, search land records and seek business permits or bursaries; farmers get AI tips on pests and plant diseases. Governor Irungu Kang'ata unveiled the legal-AI app in Kenol.
Ministère de la Transition Digitale du Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso's Ministry of Digital Transition delivered AI training for government workers to cabinet directors across all ministries and public institutions on 16 April 2026 in Ouagadougou. Minister Aminata Zerbo/Sabané and the President's chief of staff launched the single-day session, which covered core AI concepts, applying artificial intelligence within cabinet duties, sovereignty over digital systems, and managing associated risks. Officials frame the workshop, built around artificial intelligence instruction, as the opening step of a larger civil service training push.
Ethiopian Ministry of Health — Ethiopia's Ministry of Health and US-based Last Mile Health have introduced HEP Assist, an AI assistant for health extension workers serving remote communities, across seven regions and 15 woredas. Answers come solely from 100 Ministry of Health guidelines through retrieval-augmented generation. Officials credit the workers' AI tool with over 6,000 consultations since January 2025, initially via call agents, now hands-on.
Medfam Holdings (Rhino Park Private Hospital, Welwitschia Hospital) — AI patient experience agents now handle admissions and support at two Namibian hospitals run by Medfam Holdings, the country's largest private hospital network: Rhino Park Private Hospital in Windhoek and Welwitschia Hospital in Walvis Bay. Patients reach the system via WhatsApp or webchat in Afrikaans, English and German for intake data, complaints, surgical guidance, specialist lookups and quote requests. One shared platform links both sites, so a patient can move between hospitals without repeating details, an early case of AI in healthcare administration.
Direction Régionale des Finances Publiques (DRFiP) de La Réunion — Direction Régionale des Finances Publiques (DRFiP) Réunion applies AI to aerial photographs, uncovering over a thousand unreported swimming pools for property tax purposes. This AI tax fraud detection effort, running since 2025, is expanding to catch unpermitted building work like garages and terraces, with AI-assisted tax compliance also helping agents verify claimed expenses during income tax filing periods.
International Water Management Institute and Limpopo Watercourse Commission — Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe gained two fresh AI systems for overseeing the Limpopo River Basin on 15 April 2026, once the International Water Management Institute and the Limpopo Watercourse Commission switched on WaterCopilot and the Limpopo Digital Twin. Built alongside Microsoft, WaterCopilot responds to officials' everyday-language queries by drawing directly from hydrological records, serving as a conversational AI water management tool. Meanwhile its counterpart keeps continuous watch over the basin, feeding climate adaptation efforts and joint cross-border choices on shared water resource planning.
Government of Burkina Faso (via CITADEL) — CITADEL researchers built the AI voice translation Mooré tool now live on Burkina-en-marche.gov.bf, delivering spoken health and education content rather than written text. Converted French speech hits a 4.24% word error rate, a standard 77.8% of tested native speakers accepted. This French-to-Mooré speech translation reaches those who never learned letters.
École nationale supérieure des travaux publics (ENSTP) — ENSTP (École nationale supérieure des travaux publics) ran generative AI training administrative staff sessions from 15 to 17 April 2026, focused on practical uses to lift productivity and efficiency. Its deputy director general said more rounds would follow, aiming to embed AI tools in administrative services long-term.
Sao Tome and Principe2026-04United Nations Development Programme (with KOICA) — Senior Sao Tome and Principe officials completed AI training for civil servants, a two-day United Nations Development Programme course funded by the Korea International Cooperation Agency. Aims included digitalisation and AI capacity-building for government officials, sharpening how public services reach citizens, how decisions draw on data and how agencies answer for outcomes. A Director of Justice Policy and UNDP's Deputy Resident Representative opened proceedings.
Somali Disaster Management Agency (SODMA) — Meteorological drought conditions across Somalia can now be flagged three months ahead of rainy seasons, thanks to a machine learning drought prediction tool handed to Somalia's Disaster Management Agency and Somaliland's disaster authority. FutureWater and Galayr built the drought forecasting model under a project commissioned by the World Food Programme, shifting response away from reactive crisis handling toward anticipatory action.
Ministry of Public Service Efficiency and Digital Transformation (Togo AI Lab) — Togo AI Lab is training 260 people, including 60 public administration staff, through a six-week data science certification with Simplon from 13-14 April 2026. This machine learning training for civil servants covers Python and data processing. The Ministry of Public Service Efficiency and Digital Transformation organised this public-sector upskilling with GIZ.
Government of Djibouti — The University of Djibouti gains a national Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence and Data Modelling, regulated by President Ismail Omar Guelleh's Decree 2026-092/PR/MENSUR. The two-year AI higher education programme, worth 120 ECTS credits, spans deep learning, machine learning, natural language processing and postgraduate AI study for health, banking and port logistics.
KoBold Metals — KoBold Metals, bankrolled by US billionaires Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, has begun what the firm bills as history's biggest AI mineral exploration drive: 13 permits spanning 3,000 sq km of the Democratic Republic of Congo's Manono belt, set to widen to 5,000 sq km by December. Over $50 million is committed through early 2027, funding aerial coverage of 30,000 sq km and beyond 30,000 soil assays. Machine-guided prospecting redirects crews weekly towards the strongest lithium ground, and the MetaLab container laboratory pulverises, dries and tests samples on site within days. Chief executive Kurt House says a year back the outfit owned no acreage and employed nobody there; it now ranks as America's biggest investor in the country.
Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism (Somalia) — Somalia's Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism now uses AI translation for government media, folding automated content generation for public broadcasting into one digital distribution pipeline. A ministry communications consultant told the East Africa Science and Technology Commission summit the shift has cut editorial production time sharply, replacing manual steps with a faster information network.
Ministry of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation / AI Unit — Mauritius's Ministry of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation unveiled the FAIR Guidelines on 10 April 2026, pairing them with the National AI Strategy to shape Mauritius AI governance nationwide. Four pillars—Fairness, Accountability, Inclusiveness and Integrity, and Responsibility—anchor this voluntary code, steering responsible artificial intelligence adoption, design and deployment across industries. Regulators intend the code to harden into binding rules once the sector matures.
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-INSTI) — Snap a leaf, get an instant reading: CSIR-INSTI, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research's Institute for Scientific and Technological Information, has built AI crop disease detection apps for Ghanaian growers. Its Maize Leaf Disease Detection App and Tomato Leaf Disease Detection App flag infections from one image, speeding up treatment. A companion Cropping Calendar tool adds locality-based sowing, watering, pest control and harvest advice, feeding wider AI-driven precision agriculture nationwide. Dr Paul Asante Danquah confirmed free, open online access.
Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute — The Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute in Dar es Salaam opened a laboratory with AI lab automation and robotic sample processing, cutting test-result waits from three hours to one, chief executive Peter Kisenge says. Samples are analysed precisely, and the lab doubles as a live training site for local health professionals.
Shoprite Holdings — ShopriteX built Pixie, an AI shopping assistant for the Shoprite Group's Sixty60 app. Machine learning lets it study buying habits and flag restocks, unfamiliar products and deals automatically. Now in beta for Xtra Savings Plus members, it makes Sixty60 the country's first online grocer with a personalised AI shopping tool.
National Assembly of Congo — The National Assembly of Congo passed a bill steering scientific research and technological innovation, a text carried by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation to modernise the sector and absorb what artificial intelligence now demands. This Congo AI regulation writes an ethical framework around such technologies and stands up a national committee accountable for responsible use, answering to norms in force and to social values. Caria is also foreseen to organise work in the field. Jean-Luc Marcel Mouthou, whose portfolio covers preschool, primary and secondary education plus literacy, presented these AI governance rules to deputies, calling them an important step.
Government of Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe will launch AI fraud detection financial services through the Zimbabwe AI Cyber Shield, a national programme under the country's National AI Strategy. ICT Minister Tatenda Mavetera outlined a 12-month rollout at the Cyber Fraud and AI Summit, alongside training for 10,000 cybersecurity professionals in AI-powered fraud prevention and a legal framework for ethical AI use in cyber defence. Mobile money fraud driven by AI drains US$30 million from Zimbabwe each year, the reason behind the push.
Botswana Medical Aid Society — Botswana Medical Aid Society's 90,000 members can now unlock a face-scan health score via Thrive with Bomaid, an AI wellness app on ordinary smartphone cameras. Over 70 biometric inputs, spanning heart rate, stress and blood pressure, generate a VivaScore, paired with automated nudges, reports and goals inside this AI health scoring platform. Debswana and Engen tested it for three months first.
Telecommunications Regulatory Board — Cameroon's Telecommunications Regulatory Board held a three-day expert-led seminar on AI in telecoms regulation for staff, 8–10 April 2026. Topics: everyday AI tools and AI-supported regulatory monitoring.
Burkina Faso Ministry of Security — Burkina Faso's Ministry of Security started a nationwide video-ticketing trial in Ouagadougou on 7 April 2026, with high-definition AI traffic cameras spotting red-light, seatbelt, phone and speeding offences. Each flagged vehicle's owner gets an SMS with a link to pay; camera-based enforcement was scheduled to run fully from 1 August 2026.
Radio Ndeke Luka — Radio Ndeke Luka's Bangui verification desk, #StopAtenè, ran AI deepfake detection, the tool Hive Detection, against a clip alleging Kim Jong-un's pledge of North Korean military backing for Iran. It measured a 98.5% probability the clip's voice was synthetic, with manipulation markers elsewhere in the footage, and separately caught the clip misdating a Kim address to 25 March 2026 against his genuine 23 March appearance. #StopAtenè's verdict, published 2 April 2026 through AI-generated video verification, found no proof behind the claim.
Ministry of ICT and National Guidance — Uganda AI strategy work is nearing completion under the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance, which is finalising a National AI and Emerging Technologies Strategy, an AI and emerging technologies policy meant to steer artificial intelligence, blockchain, IoT and robotics uptake across sectors. Nationwide consultations closed in March 2026, with sign-off expected by June 2026 and agriculture, health, education and public administration named as early focus areas. Ethics and oversight provisions will follow Uganda's Data Protection and Privacy Act.
Chad Ministry of Public Health and Prevention — Health authorities in N'Djamena are piloting Vacci360, an AI vaccination system that extends immunisation to remote corners of Chad. Built atop DHIS2, it flags where terrain limits clinic reach, auto-generates mobile team routes, tracks shifting human and livestock populations, and guides staff through dense data via chat. Lac, Kanem and Hadjer Lamis provinces run the scheme, funded by the Gates Foundation, WHO and UNICEF.
Safaricom — Agentic AI customer service now powers dozens of workflows at Safaricom, letting users finish tasks on digital platforms rather than queuing at a shop or calling in. Dilip Pal, the firm's finance and innovation chief, told Nairobi's De{c0}dE 4.0 summit that cutting friction across multi-step journeys was the goal. Fraud checks, tailored engagement and energy management round out its wider AI push in Kenya.
Ethio Telecom — Ethio Telecom's new teleSign platform verifies users through AI identity verification, matching facial biometric verification via liveness-detection video against the Fayda National Digital ID instead of an office visit. Citizens and diaspora Ethiopians use it to confirm paperwork, assign or withdraw legal representation, and apply for professional licences from a phone or browser. Ethiopia's Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Federal Documents Authentication and Registration Service partnered on development.
Ministry of Modernisation of the Administration and Public Service / ENA de Guinée — ENA de Guinée (École Nationale d'Administration) gave 35 hours of AI for public administration training via the FEMS+ tie-up with Quebec's ENAP. In Conakry, the module on Artificial Intelligence and administrative performance built 'manager-leaders' for Guinea's Simandou 2040 drive, covering generative AI in government administration, ethics, transparency and data protection.
Judiciary of Uganda — Uganda's Judiciary now runs AI legal research software to sift case files, cutting the time judges once spent digging through records. Uganda Legal Information Institute (ULII) added a matching tool that reads filings and condenses long rulings into short summaries, an early example of AI-powered case analysis in the courts. Paper filing disappears by 1 July 2026 under the Electronic Court Case Management Information System (ECCMIS).
Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations — Ghana's Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, with UNESCO, is delivering AI literacy training for civil servants nationwide, an AI skills training for government staff effort built on a train-the-trainer model. An Accra-based group learns first, then passes the material to colleagues across ministries and agencies, one of four rounds finishing by May 2026. Machine learning, generative AI, algorithmic bias and data privacy make up the curriculum.
Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT) — The Ministry of ICT and Innovation ran a multi-day Artificial Intelligence Trust and Safety Workshop on responsible AI in the judiciary, co-organised with UNDP Rwanda and supported by the Government of Canada. Specialists in finance, telecommunications, IT and cybersecurity worked on frameworks to keep judicial AI ethical and accountable.
Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations — Ghana's Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations has opened a second National AI Masterclass cohort in Akuse, part of its ongoing AI training for government officials, running to 25 March 2026. Deputy Directors and similar ranks build skills in AI, policy formulation and evidence-based decision-making. Around 100 officials across various ministries and agencies have already gone through this public sector AI capacity-building push.
Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT) — Rwanda's Ministry of ICT and Innovation ran AI training for chief digital officers drawn from government agencies nationwide. Cenfri delivered this public-sector AI upskilling, covering generative AI, practical use cases in government and the governance principles behind responsible deployment.
Parliament of Chad (National Assembly and Senate) — Chad places artificial intelligence under ANSICE's formal AI oversight through Law No. 003/AN-SENAT/2026, promulgated by Decree No. 148/PR/2026, ratifying Ordinance No. 001/PR/2026. The reform extends the national agency beyond information security and electronic certification into an expanded AI regulatory field, folding in digital platforms, social media and AI systems, while sharpening its powers over cybercrime, data protection and cybersecurity.
eHealth Africa and Jacaranda Health — eHealth Africa and Jacaranda Health extended PROMPTS, an SMS-based AI maternal health platform, to Kano State for 25,000 mothers in underserved communities. Hausa and English texts deliver pregnancy and newborn guidance to phones. Nigeria follows Kenya, where the same AI-enabled maternal health messaging tool had already reached over 3.8 million mothers.
Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Education — Akwa Ibom State launched an AI teaching programme in public primary schools with EIDU and the state Ministry of Education, offering pupils personalised learning and teachers structured lessons. Phase one targets about 6,000 pupils in 67 schools in 2025/26, and live data lets teachers and heads spot learning gaps early.
Government of Côte d'Ivoire — The Ivorian government has launched EMY 101, an AI government chatbot on WhatsApp and Messenger that explains state policy and official formalities, from civil registration to tax. Users can also voice worries, flag alerts and find the correct public-service contact through the citizen assistant, supported by the free 101 line.
Haute autorité de l'audiovisuel et de la communication — The Haute Autorité de l'Audiovisuel et de la Communication forbade newsrooms to doctor what goes to air, or what candidates say, using “uncontrolled and irresponsible” artificial intelligence. That Benin AI regulation shaped the presidential ballot of 12 April 2026, the opening round's canvassing window running 27 March to 10 April. Outlets straying from the AI campaign rules risk penalties reaching instant removal from official election coverage.
Centrafrique Check — Centrafrique Check, a Bangui fact-checking outlet, ran AI image detection with two tools, MyDetector and TruthScan, on a photo attached to claims a French national had been arrested in Zémio, Haut-Mbomou, circulating from around 7 March 2026. Médecins Sans Frontières had confirmed the detention, around 4 March 2026, of two of its own staff, one French and one Central African, taken to Bangui. Both tools put roughly 98% odds on artificial generation, pointing to a skin-tone mismatch on the soldier's hand where it gripped the detainee. AI-generated photo verification found the arrest genuine, the picture false.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute — AI adoption in the Central African Republic reached 8.7% of the working-age population in the first quarter of 2026, 0.9 points above 7.8% for the second half of 2025 and 7.0% for the half before. Worldwide the share moved from 16.3% to 17.8% over those months, on the Microsoft AI Economy Institute count. Its gauge tracks generative AI use among 15- to 64-year-olds, from pooled, anonymised Microsoft telemetry corrected for operating system, device-market share, internet reach and population.
Microsoft AI Economy Institute — AI adoption in Chad stands at 8.7% of the working-age population for the opening quarter of 2026, a gain of 0.9 points on 7.8% across late 2025 and 7.0% earlier that year. The world average climbed 16.3% to 17.8%, the Global South 14.1% to 15.4%. Microsoft's AI Economy Institute derives generative AI use among 15- to 64-year-olds from pooled, anonymised telemetry, corrected for handset and operating-system mix, connectivity and headcount.
Sam Okudzeto & Associates — One of Ghana's oldest legal practices, Sam Okudzeto & Associates, now handles research, drafting and document review through Kwame AI's Eskwai AI across its entire staff. Spanning over five decades, the historic outfit's move exemplifies AI adoption by law firm trends nationwide, pointing to broader momentum behind AI-assisted legal work.
National Information Technology Authority-Uganda (NITA-U) — Uganda's National Information Technology Authority (NITA-U) has rolled out UG Support, combining service requests, incident management, asset tracking, system monitoring and AI-assisted ICT service management in one interface. Proactive issue detection lets technical teams fix problems before users report them, linked into Uganda's e-citizen ecosystem via an AI-assisted support platform.
Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) — Sierra Leone's Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education finished EDITH (Education Digital Information Tool Helper), an AI in education management platform turning days or weeks of administrative work into minutes. Development followed selection for the EdTech Hub Ministerial AI Challenge. The Ministry's IT department is set to take over the AI-assisted education administration tool permanently.
Legal Aid Commission, Ghana — Kwame AI has made Ghana's Legal Aid Commission its debut partner for Eskwai Pro Bono, opening a legal AI platform to 190 staff for research, drafting and file review. The aim: stretch 45 salaried lawyers across a country of over 30 million. It signals a fresh push to fuse free AI legal tools with public defender work nationwide.
Liberia Revenue Authority — Liberia Revenue Authority staff learned AI tools for tax communication at a three-day retreat held by its Communication, Media and Public Affairs Section. Employees from Taxpayer Services, Customs, Domestic Tax and other units trained in artificial intelligence for institutional communication, covering research, content creation and media monitoring.
Togo Ministry of Economy and Strategic Oversight — Togo's economy minister Badanam Patoki unveiled the Digital Market Intelligence platform in Lomé on 12 March 2026, bringing AI fraud detection and data analysis to automated product-marking enforcement. SICPA's Togolese subsidiary built the tool, which flags potentially counterfeit consumer goods so Office Togolais des Recettes agents and Ministry of Commerce inspectors can aim inspections and market surveillance.
KoBold Metals — KoBold Metals has started AI mineral exploration over Burundi's geoscientific archives, a three-year job commissioned on 12 March 2026 and paid for by the firm. Holdings from national services and the Royal Museum for Central Africa are going digital, targeting scandium, nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group metals. The government keeps ownership, local technicians are in training, and some material was due on the web by July 2026, with machine-learning prospecting sifting the files.
Central Bank of Nigeria — The Central Bank of Nigeria's baseline standards oblige banks, fintechs and payment firms to adopt automated anti-money-laundering systems, the bank's first AI AML rules. They favour automated risk scoring, anomaly detection and behavioural pattern recognition, demand at least yearly independent validation of machine-learning models and require explanations for every alert.
Akwa Ibom State Judiciary — Among six states trialling courtroom AI for the National Judicial Institute, Akwa Ibom State Judiciary now applies AI in court proceedings, recording and converting hearings into written form without manual effort. LexScript AI built the underlying tool, delivering finished transcripts inside 24 hours. Justice Ekaete Fabian-Obot, the Chief Judge, foresees swifter case handling as this courtroom transcription pilot spreads further.
High Court of Kenya (Milimani) — AI-drafted court filings fell foul of the High Court at Milimani, which threw out an application and supporting affidavit lodged in a Kenya Psychiatric Association dispute. Under current law, the judge found, machine output cannot replace papers a litigant or advocate writes, and amending them would not fix that.
Armauer Hansen Research Institute / Ministry of Health — AI-PRESCRIBER decision support in Ethiopian hospitals begins operating at 13 sites after specialists finished joint instruction from the Armauer Hansen Research Institute and Ministry of Health. Each facility sent one trained clinician back to embed the AI clinical decision support system into routine care, aimed at lifting adherence to Standard Treatment Guidelines.
Kenya Ministry of Health — Kenya's Ministry of Health will put AI in community health through Causal Foundry, an adaptive-intelligence specialist in medical care. Causal Foundry is to draw patterns from live household records gathered by the 100,000 community health promoters given smartphones by the state, directing care and resources where demand is highest. Ministry officials have already discussed rollout with the firm.
Nigeria Immigration Service — Ten years of traveller records are now searchable via AI visa overstayer tracking, thanks to the Nigeria Immigration Service's new Integrated Operations Centre. Minister Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo said the AI-driven immigration records system grants officers live history lookups, letting NIS catch overstaying foreigners nationwide amid wider border reform.
SanlamAllianz General Insurance Ltd — Customers of SanlamAllianz Mauritius can now message MIRA (My Insurance Robot Assistant) on WhatsApp for 24/7 help in English or French. Built as an AI insurance assistant, the bot fields common policy queries and steps in when staff are unavailable outside office hours, giving round-the-clock support via an AI conversational assistant for insurance queries. SanlamAllianz paired the debut with Zinsure, a fresh digital-first insurance product line, on 5 March 2026.
Uganda Judiciary — An AI judgment writing tool now belongs to Uganda's Judiciary, co-created with the Lexis-Nexis Rule of Law Foundation. Slotted into Microsoft Word, it stocks templates, statutes and prior rulings, trimming research hours so decisions get drafted faster. Judge Geoffrey Kiryabwire dreamed up the concept and flags more AI-assisted judicial decision drafting capability on the way.
Bowmans — Pan-African law firm Bowmans is rolling out Legora's legal AI platform after a successful pilot, Legora says. Bowmans lawyers now review documents faster, draft, and build and embed AI-driven workflows.
Irembo — An AI chatbot government services tool now answers Rwandans in Kinyarwanda, English or French on the IremboGov portal, live and fielding queries. The launch follows the platform's GovTech Prize win for Best Government Service in the World at the World Governments Summit in Dubai, and engineers are building a voice-based AI virtual assistant for citizen support next.
Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation (MoCTI) — Sierra Leone's Ministry of Communication, Technology and Innovation delivered AI training for civil servants: over 50 senior leaders from ministries, departments and agencies. Qhala, the National Cybersecurity Coordination Centre and the Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation co-ran the Miatta Conference Hall leadership course on cybersecurity, AI and emerging technologies. Aim: civil service AI skills so policy and strategic choices serve the public interest.
Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations — Samuel Nartey George, Ghana's Communications Minister, unveiled a draft law for AI regulation Ghana needs, covering automated decision-making, deepfakes, and data transfers across borders. Speaking at Accra's Data Protection Conference, he framed it as overhauling enforcement as AI spreads across health, finance, telecoms and government. A parallel Emerging Technologies Bill would extend AI systems oversight to advanced analytics and digital assets.
Council of Ministers of Ethiopia — Ethiopia's Council of Ministers cleared rules creating the Medemer Artificial Intelligence University, a self-governing state campus in Addis Ababa for AI higher education and advanced computational sciences. The measure fixes its leadership, independence and teaching remit. Under Digital Ethiopia 2030, its AI tertiary education prepares graduates in robotics, machine learning, advanced computing and data science.
Bank of Ghana — The Bank of Ghana has made AI governance in banking central to its revised Cyber and Information Security Directive (CISD) 2026, introducing AI and Machine Learning Governance in place of the 2018 framework. Regulated lenders must show their AI systems in financial institutions are transparent, fair and secure, covering credit scoring, fraud checks and client support, with boards answerable for cyber risk. A data sovereignty rule requires core systems and customer records to stay within Ghana, applying to payment providers, fintechs, microfinance firms and banks.
Britam General Insurance — Britam General Insurance settles light motor claims in two hours, against the industry's five working days, through AI claims assessment at Britam Centre's Nairobi drive-through. AI grades damage photos in about 15 minutes, an electronic claim form reaches the owner's handset and in-house checks take 30 minutes. Comprehensive motor policyholders qualify for AI-assessed claims.
M-PESA Ethiopia — M-PESA Ethiopia and Gebeya Inc. have launched the Dala AI Bundle, letting subscribers pay via M-PESA wallets for AI content creation in Ethiopia. Dala Studio covers app building, AI agent design, gaming, comics and material in Amharic, Oromo and other local languages, described as the first case of an African mobile-money operator folding such generative tools into a mainstream offering.
Ethiopian Human Rights Commission — Addis Ababa hosted a session where Ethiopian Human Rights Commission staff studied AI and human rights, examining how fast-growing AI affects rights protections nationwide. Trainers weighed AI's benefits against risks like bias, injustice and data protection breaches. EHRC folded this artificial intelligence rights protection work into its 2026-2030 strategic plan, listing further AI activities ahead.
Uganda Cancer Institute — Uganda's national programme against cervical cancer, operated by the Uganda Cancer Institute and Ministry of Health alongside the Korea Foundation for International Healthcare, will roll out AI cervical cancer screening with AI-assisted visual inspection (AI-VIA) devices, expected to speed and sharpen detection. Its three-year pilot has screened over 35,000 women aged 25 to 65 in Kampala and Mbarara, treating more than 3,000 with pre-cancerous lesions.
Cova — Cova switched on AI motor insurance pricing for compulsory cover in Cameroon on 26 February 2026: film the vehicle's carte grise, or a lodging receipt, and the regulated tariff returns in one click, renewal premiums prepayable remotely. Reading fiscal horsepower, use and energy type off the document against the standing tariff grid cuts keying mistakes and compresses sign-up times, by Cova's own account. Collection runs through mobile payment aggregators Maviance, UFIPAY and MaMoni Pay, plus Express Union Microfinance and MaMoni Finances counters. Managing director Virginie Pouna Ngomi framed the automated premium quotation as cover simpler and more dependable, licensed brokers and partner insurers undisplaced; Cova holds a broker licence in the CIMA zone and came via the BimaLab Africa accelerator.
Government of Gabon — Gabon's Ordinance n°0011/PR/2026, dated 26 February 2026, introduces AI content labelling: synthetic text, images, video and deepfakes must bear an indelible mark showing they are artificial. Articles 32 to 34 and 53 also oblige platforms to run automatic detection systems, and outlaw explicit sexual deepfakes, wrongly crediting statements to public figures, and posing as state institutions. The rules rank among Africa's earliest binding measures on synthetic media marking.
Malawi Judiciary — Malawi's Judiciary Digitalisation Committee and Judiciary Training Committee ran a two-day workshop in Blantyre on responsible AI use in courts, backed by European Union funding through the Chilungamo II programme. Sessions covered how artificial intelligence functions and AI's role in judicial processes. Justice of Appeal Healey Potani stressed that judicial wisdom could never be replaced by AI, while Justice Fiona Mwale called for a clear institutional stance on where AI can responsibly assist.
Government of Malawi — Principal Secretaries from all Malawi cabinet ministries took one-day, high-level AI training for senior civil servants in Salima, covering service delivery, policy analysis, fraud detection and ethical adoption. Chief Secretary Dr Justin Saidi opened it, citing President Peter Mutharika's directive to speed up digitalising public services. UNDP backed the government AI upskilling via the Inclusive Digital Transformation for Malawi project; the World Bank, via the Digital Malawi Acceleration Project.
National School of Government — AI fluency courses for public servants are now free and open nationwide under the NSG Digital Skills Programme 2026, run by South Africa's National School of Government, offering free AI training for government employees. Cybersecurity and mobile digital literacy training accompany part-time online study, delivered with the National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa and Microsoft's Elevate programme. Applications closed 31 July 2026.
Nigeria Data Protection Commission — Nearly 60 privacy regulators worldwide joined Nigeria's Data Protection Commission in signing the Joint Statement on AI-Generated Imagery and the Protection of Privacy. Compliance Audit Returns under the Nigeria Data Protection Act, plus the General Application and Implementation Directive, will now judge responsible AI use.
High Commission of Rwanda in the United Kingdom — Rwanda's High Commission in the United Kingdom has launched Nshuti, an AI consular chatbot on WhatsApp and the mission's website giving the diaspora and others seeking services instant consular answers. The in-house assistant guides users on appointments, passport applications and renewals, document registration and certification, and national ID enquiries.
Anambra State Government and Anambra State Judiciary (with LexTech Ecosystem Limited) — Anambra's judiciary gains 41 verbatim reporters certified in AI court transcription by LexTech Ecosystem Limited for the Anambra State Government, graduating at the High Court Hall in Awka. Their LexScriptAI speech-to-text training aims to swap courtroom longhand for machine-assisted records.
Shaqodoon Organization — Somali NGO Shaqodoon Organization built SAADAAL, an AI early warning system giving farmers advance notice of droughts and floods. Partnered with Southwest State's Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, the tool reads live water sensor and weather station data, texting alerts straight to phones ahead of disaster. BBC News Somali covered this climate risk forecasting work for agriculture.
Senate of Kenya — Kenya's Senate has tabled the Artificial Intelligence Bill, 2026, entering Kenya Law's Bills collection. The proposed Kenya AI regulation, a 1.1 MB PDF, remains under Senate consideration with no passage timeline, marking an early step toward AI governance rules.
Ministry of Information and Communications Technology — The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology's Department of E-Government opened validation of the Draft National Artificial Intelligence Strategy at a two-day Lilongwe workshop. This Malawi AI policy sets a coordinated framework for responsible AI adoption across ministries, plus stronger digital public infrastructure and innovation. By August 2026, the national AI plan remained unadopted, pending finalisation.
Tanzania Judiciary — Speaking a ruling aloud now suffices: Tanzania's judiciary's AI transcription for courts converts the spoken words into finished text, rendering it between Kiswahili and English in minutes instead of weeks. Italian firm Almawave built the tool, tested since 2024 across 11 judicial zones under the Transcription and Translation Software programme, and courtrooms beyond that pilot are next. Checking documents is also getting quicker as this AI-powered court translation software links data with the Tanzania Revenue Authority and the Business Registrations and Licensing Agency.
Kenya Space Agency and Ministry of Agriculture — Kenya Space Agency and Ministry of Agriculture launched AI crop monitoring nationwide through the Crop Measurement and Evaluation (CroME) Initiative at KALRO headquarters on 10-11 February 2026. With Microsoft AI for Good Lab and NASA Harvest, satellite-based crop surveillance delivers yield forecasting, crop maps, damage detection, field boundaries.
Ministry of National Education of Senegal — Senegal's Ministry of National Education certified 3,467 public education agents of 3,909 candidates (88.69%) in Digital Skills (C2i-Edu) and Artificial Intelligence in Education (CIA-Edu). For AI certification in education, the AI Certificate in Education hit 93.1%. Planned: national rollout of these AI teaching credentials, adding beginner support and female-participation measures.
Cabinet of Mauritius / Ministry of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation — Mauritius now follows a national AI strategy Mauritius will use through 2029: "AI for Mauritius", Cabinet's guiding artificial intelligence framework economy-wide. Priority sectors span health, finance, farming, industry and government services, overseen by a new Mauritius Artificial Intelligence Council. It is the country's first unified AI policy framework Mauritius has set nationally.
Ministry of Health and Child Care — The Ministry of Health and Child Care will neither bring AI into public hospitals nor fully digitise their records, Deputy Minister Sleiman Timios Kwidini told parliament, fearing hackers could expose patient data. Answering Mbizo MP Corban Madzivanyika, Kwidini called AI "a very essential tool" in development, yet said Zimbabwe AI policy excludes hospitals. This health AI policy covers state-run facilities.
CSIR-Crops Research Institute — Ghana's CSIR-Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI) runs SporeSmart, an AI crop disease prediction pilot catching airborne fungal spores and analysing images to flag outbreaks early. Five SmartSpore traps gathered over 2,000 spore photos between September 2025 and February 2026, targeting Fusarium pathogens harmful to maize, rice and tomato. UK Innovate funds the work with UK and Brazilian partners, advancing AI-driven disease outbreak detection.
Uganda Judiciary — Kampala's Judiciary headquarters hosted 80-plus research magistrates for a single day of Artificial Intelligence training on AI in legal research and judgment drafting. Acting Chief Registrar Pamela Lamunu Ocaya flagged the risk of leaning too heavily on AI, since it commonly invents cases that were never decided, and pressed for responsible AI use going forward.
Chad National Tuberculosis Control Program (PNT) — Chad's National Tuberculosis Control Program (PNT) used AI-powered X-ray screening to find 112 TB cases among nomads, prisoners and refugees. The CAD4TB tool, mounted on a mobile truck, examined 7,116 people across 12 detention sites and 9 refugee camps, flagging 589 abnormal scans. This AI tuberculosis screening effort also trained 220 health staff, 90 volunteers and 120 prison cell leaders.
Thika Level 5 Hospital / Kiambu County Health Department — Thika Level 5 Hospital is testing MedRef AI clinical decision support, guiding Kiambu County clinicians through Ministry of Health protocols via instant lookup. Staff train on it alongside normal duties. Wider rollout to other Level 4 and Level 5 facilities hinges on how well this AI-powered medical reference system performs.
Fonds de Garantie de l'Entrepreneuriat au Congo — The Fonds de Garantie de l'Entrepreneuriat au Congo opened Bokeli, an AI business-plan platform, at Kinshasa on 3 February 2026, aimed at micro, small and medium firms plus artisans lacking the security lenders usually want. Bokeli guides a founder through a bankable document with situational prompts and samples, inserts projections at a click, saves to PDF or Word, then pushes the file into the fund, where applicants watch its progress themselves until cash lands. Operations chief Ibrahim Ucircan said most submissions arrived in poor shape whatever province they came from. Director General Laurent Munzemba Kompa said the automated plan builder kills off gripes about sluggish handling.
Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Institute — OpenAgriNet (OAN) went live across Ethiopia on 3 February 2026, unveiled by the Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI) as a Digital Public Infrastructure serving as the countrywide backbone bringing AI in agriculture to Ethiopian smallholders. Farmers reach it mainly by voice, receiving guidance shaped by their own plot's crop mix, soil type and local climate. Open technical standards and consent-driven rules for handling personal data underpin the network, which ties together growers, extension officers, buyers, climate forecasts and lenders as one AI-powered digital platform for farmers.
Ghana Revenue Authority — The Ghana Revenue Authority says customs takings rose from GH¢2.4 billion to GH¢3.6 billion within weeks of Publican AI going live at Tema Port. This AI customs valuation system checks declared import prices against global trade databases with machine-learning models and routes suspicious entries to a customs officer before clearance. Freight forwarders and importer groups call it opaque and slow at the busiest port, prompting an April media briefing.
Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA) — A half-year government AI training course, the Data Science Capacity Building Initiative (DSCBI), produced 41 graduates drawn from Rwandan public bodies, covering analytics and applied AI methods. RISA, NISR, AIMS Rwanda, the Mastercard Foundation and Cenfri built the scheme to sharpen evidence-based policymaking government-wide.
Social Health Authority — Kenya's Social Health Authority vets health insurance claims on arrival with AI fraud detection that highlights irregularities, Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale informed the Senate Health Committee. The fraud engine exposed a Kwale County member enrolled with 381 dependent children and monitors service trends at each facility, spotting patients logged for dialysis ten times a day. Suspect cases go to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.
Mauritius Ministry of Education — Mauritius's Ministry of Education and Mauritius Telecom introduced mytGPT Education on 26 January 2026, a generative AI teaching assistant trialled with pupils in Grades 4, 7, 8 and 9. The classroom AI generates quizzes and lesson resources and shows teachers student performance, in English, French and phonetic Creole, following the national curriculum.
AXA Mansard Insurance — Snap a photo, skip the inspector: AXA Mansard Insurance now runs AI digital vehicle inspection in Nigeria, built alongside Curacel, covering new comprehensive policies, renewals and claims. Machine-driven photo review has taken over from on-site assessors.
Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training — Djibouti's Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training, the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie and InnoVAI Djibouti certified 42 inspectors and pedagogical advisors in AI for education across seven workshops, October 2025 to January 2026. Output included sample lesson plans using generative AI tools, automated grading rubrics and a draft ethics charter for ministry-wide use. A CREFA/OIF centre ceremony marked completion.
Government of Madagascar — Madagascar's Government has opened ASAN'AI, a free 15-month AI digital skills training scheme for 1,300 young Malagasy. Delivered with the World Bank and private firms Intelcia, Konecta, Connecteo and Concentrix, this AI skills programme builds capacity for high-demand roles in business process outsourcing, including augmented customer experience work. A first batch of 280 trainees began placement from month three.
Ogun State Government — Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun launched OgunLearn, an AI learning platform for the state's schools offering students lesson resources and interactive support. The AI-powered teaching tool should help teachers prepare, deliver and monitor performance more efficiently, within an education digitisation agenda alongside the Diper school management system.
Assemblée nationale de Côte d'Ivoire (National Assembly) — 24 bills reached Côte d'Ivoire's National Assembly at the start of its ordinary session, and artificial intelligence legislation stands out among them. Officials frame the draft Côte d'Ivoire AI regulation as a way to align law with emerging digital challenges under an AI legal framework, while advancing the nation's ambition to become a regional tech hub. Parliament has yet to approve the text, leaving it pending further debate.
Cornelder de Moçambique — Cornelder de Moçambique, which runs the Port of Beira, has deployed Terminal Flow, a home-grown AI container tracking tool for boxed cargo. The cargo-location system shows long-reach forklift operators exactly where each box sits and where its load is bound, says managing director Jan de Vries.
FHI 360 — FHI 360 piloted an AI chatbot for teacher training with 16 primary school instructors and instructional leaders in Madagascar's Atsimo-Atsinanana region under its FIANTSO project, a three-week trial in January. This AI teacher-training assistant answers pedagogy questions in Malagasy, including regional dialects, using Ministry of Education-validated materials. Feedback was strong: 70% rated it very useful, and 80% said it was simple to use.
Pyramid Continental Hotel — A humanoid figure named Ayen now greets diners at Pyramid Continental Hotel in Juba, marking South Sudan's first AI robot waitress hospitality installation. She wanders the dining floor, converses with patrons, and reinforces food and beverage staff, sharpening the overall guest experience — billed as the nation's debut humanoid service robot hotel case.
Wema Bank — Wema Bank embedded SAW, an AI voice banking assistant, within ALAT: The Evolution. Spoken requests let customers check balances, transfer cash and settle bills across English, Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa. Facial recognition alongside voice-controlled financial services checks confirms who is speaking.
Government of Gabon — Gabon added Forest Foresight, co-developed with WWF, to its national forest surveillance system, using AI deforestation prediction to flag at-risk areas up to six months ahead with 80% accuracy. This satellite-based deforestation forecasting has already assisted in stopping an illegal gold mine threatening 30 hectares of primary forest.
MTN Ghana — MTN Ghana built AI fraud detection mobile money algorithms that intercept fake MoMo alerts before phones receive them. Abdul-Majeed Rufai said the system flags impersonation even when scammers alter headers or misspell words — part of AI-driven fraud detection in mobile money services spreading across telecom operators.
Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Digital Economy — The Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Digital Economy approved a 2026-2035 national artificial intelligence roadmap anchoring Guinea AI policy. Phases: institutional, regulatory and technical groundwork, then gradual AI use in public services, then regional AI leadership. The UNDP's Artificial Intelligence Landscape Assessment (AILA) methodology shaped this national AI strategy, a first among French-speaking countries.
Federal Civil Service of Nigeria — Nigeria's Federal Civil Service has logged 25,000-plus chats on Service-Wide GPT, an AI tool for public administration. It draws on the Constitution, Public Service Rules, statutory regulations and official circulars for workers across ministries, departments and agencies. Didi Esther Walson-Jack cited the count as evidence the AI chatbot for government staff is catching on.
First Quantum Minerals — First Quantum Minerals has boosted output by over a third at Sentinel, its copper mine in Kalumbila, Zambia, after winning regulatory sign-off for automated mining drilling built with supplier FLANDERS. Three robotic rigs with laser sensors and GPS improve hole precision and blasting results while lowering hazards. Staff now run the equipment from remote control rooms.
Université de La Réunion — Université de La Réunion's Conseil d'Administration approved a Charter on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence, governing generative AI use in higher education across the institution for students, staff and faculty. Framed around responsibility, transparency and respect for academic values, it aims to support enriched learning rather than restrict it. The charter sits alongside internal rules and the wider national and European legal backdrop set by GDPR and the AI Act, supplementing but not replacing them, extending a broader generative AI policy at universities.
Association of Kenya Insurers — AI in claims management is shrinking Kenya's insurance payout waits to just 30 days, the Association of Kenya Insurers says. A health platform now processes daily claims 500% quicker, approvals landing in under sixty seconds, while chatbots deliver instant answers to customer questions at multiple firms. Fraud screening and actuarial modelling lean on machine learning as well — automated claims processing that counts, since AKI reckons almost 30% of submitted claims are bogus.
Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) — KilimoAI, a smartphone app for AI crop disease detection built by NM-AIST's Dr Neema Mduma, spots pest damage and plant infections from a leaf photo. Over 22,000 Tanzanian farmers and extension workers use the tool, part of a farm pest identification effort targeting 400,000 users by 2030.
Uganda Ministry of Health — Uganda's Ministry of Health has deployed AI tuberculosis detection through 14 ultra-portable digital X-ray machines fitted to mobile clinic trucks under a US-Uganda partnership with MinXray. The AI-enabled chest X-ray screening system reads scans instantly, flagging TB and signs of up to 20 other lung diseases in communities lacking diagnostic access. The effort targets remote areas previously outside reach of standard screening infrastructure.
Government of Togo — Roughly 60 civil servants in Togo gained hands-on exposure to ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Claude through UNDP's four-day AI training for civil servants. The curriculum spanned drafting official documents, data analysis and strategic planning, plus algorithmic bias and data protection — themes central to generative AI in public administration.
Bank of Namibia and Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia — Namibia's ConsumerConnect pilot brings an AI agent network for citizen complaints, run by the Bank of Namibia and the Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia. Over 2,000 banking, insurance, non-banking and telecommunications firms use this AI-powered complaint resolution system in Afrikaans, English, German and Oshiwambo, funded by the Gates Foundation on Proto's platform.
Briefly News — Briefly News nearly doubled output with "Editorial Eye", an AI in journalism tool for proofreading and grammar checks. Daily articles rose from 80–90 to 150–200; page views grew 22% in six months, via Microsoft's Thomson Reuters Foundation editorial software programme.
Addis Ababa City Administration — Addis Ababa City Administration switched on the Integrated Civil Registration and Residency Service Technology, an AI-powered civil registration platform, across 50 woredas from 8 December 2025. The Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute built this digitised civil registration system, linking vital events registration with residency identification for smartphone use. Mayor Adanech Abiebie called it a decisive move toward digitised services.
Senegal's Ministry of Education and Kajou — Tutobac IA, a free AI Baccalaureate exam prep tool, now runs inside Senegal's Kajou app for Android and iOS. It generates tailored explanations and practice questions from the official Bac syllabus, an AI-assisted Bac revision aid before the national test. Lycée d'Excellence Mahmady trialled it 4 December 2025 ahead of nationwide rollout.
Government of Rwanda (Ministry of Public Service and Labour / MINICT) — Rwanda's Ministry of Public Service and Labour now compels AI training for civil servants across every government institution, whatever staff members' duties or technical grounding. A 31 December 2025 cutoff shifted to 15 January 2026 once logistical snags left some workers short of time. Skipping the mandatory AI courses for government employees brings disciplinary consequences under the public service framework.
Mauritius Sotheby's International Realty — Mauritius Sotheby's International Realty spent two years building MaxAI, the Mauritian market's first AI real estate agent and AI property assistant. Buyers describe what they want in plain language to surface listings, while staff get automated draft emails and follow-ups.
Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, Government of Togo — Togo AI policy is advancing through a Ministry of Justice and Human Rights blueprint steering public deployment of artificial intelligence. Delegates from ministries, agencies and civil society met at a Lomé event, "Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Governance," debating fair algorithms, sound data, citizens' rights and rules for homegrown research.
Ministry of ICT and National Guidance — Uganda's Ministry of ICT has unveiled its first Uganda AI policy step, standing up a taskforce to steer governance. Specialists must draft guidance touching agriculture, education, health, finance and administration, plus privacy, security, misinformation and bias, aiming toward a national AI governance framework for future regulation.
Tobinco Media Group — Bullet TV, under Tobinco Media Group, now airs Ghana's first AI newscaster, Margaret Tobbin. The AI news anchor fills in when staff work remotely or step away, keeping bulletins on schedule. Her debut came in November 2025, timed to the station's founding anniversary.
Supreme Court of Oromia — Afaan Oromo court hearings will get an AI court transcription system under a new pact between Ethiopia's Supreme Court of Oromia and the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute (EAII), turning spoken arguments into written records automatically. Slow manual conversion of oral testimony had long frustrated the Oromia bench, prompting the collaboration. EAII's Dr Worku Gachena called natural language processing central to the institute's mission, framing this as an instance of automated speech-to-text for legal proceedings.
Government of Liberia — Ministry staff across Liberia gained AI training for government officials as the United Nations Development Programme partnered with Liberia's government on a nationwide modernisation drive during UNDP AI Week. Civil servants explored using artificial intelligence to sharpen service delivery and guide decisions, an early milestone toward public-sector AI capacity building.
Kenya Power (KPLC) — All eight Kenya Power regions now use OCR meter reading, following a winning six-month Nairobi pilot. Crews scan the dial and the reading uploads automatically, no keypad needed. Officials plan a wider rollout of this Optical Character Recognition system to 1.8 million postpaid meters still visited by hand.
Financial Sector Conduct Authority and Prudential Authority — A joint survey by South Africa's Financial Sector Conduct Authority and Prudential Authority put AI in financial services at 10.6% penetration, based on answers from about 2,100 firms, with banks well ahead of other institutions at 52% uptake. Ethical oversight lags far behind: barely 13% of respondents deploying GenAI reported any governance safeguards, underlining weak generative AI adoption in banking despite growing usage.
tacabAI — tacabAI now runs an AI-driven agriculture platform for smallholders across Somalia and East Africa, blending soil and crop sensing with photo-based disease diagnosis plus weather notifications. People can reach it by voice, text or picture and get answers in Somali, Swahili or English, easing access to AI farming advice.
Eswatini Communications Commission (ESCCOM) — Broadcasters in Eswatini face an AI deep fakes broadcasting crackdown from their regulator, with ESCCOM demanding ethical, transparent handling of the technology to stop misinformation from wearing down public confidence. ESCCOM CEO Mvilawemphi Dlamini framed the message around responsible broadcasting principles, adding that a forthcoming commission framework aims to shield citizens without smothering AI-driven innovation in the sector.
Standard Bank — Seventeen genre-specific tracks (17) form the core of Standard Bank's "Undercover Ad" campaign, an exercise in generative AI in advertising that folds mobile app promotion into YouTube Music playlists instead of interrupting them. A single script fed the AI system that produced each track, tailored per genre so listeners barely notice the pitch. Digitally fluent, ad-averse audiences are the target, reached through AI-generated audio marketing rather than skippable spots.
Kenya Revenue Authority — Kenya Revenue Authority is among Sub-Saharan Africa's earliest adopters of AI risk engines for tax compliance, built into its enforcement pipeline. Customs receipts hit a record KSh85 billion in one month once the pilot began. Fraudulent filings, mismatched income and risky transactions now get flagged by these machine-learning tools for tax enforcement.
Government of Seychelles — A new statutory body will steer Seychelles AI policy after Cabinet cleared the NISTI Bill, setting up the National Institute for Science, Technology and Innovation to lead national research and innovation efforts. Lawmakers enacted the Act in December 2025, tasking NISTI with drafting strategies for artificial intelligence adoption, digital transformation and other frontier technologies, plus overseeing tech transfer across the islands. This positions the institute as Seychelles' central authority for coordinating AI regulation and innovation planning.
Citi Kenya — Citi extended generative AI in banking to over 200 Kenya staff, running Gemini, ChatGPT and Grok inside gated frameworks tied to internal data. Automated summaries, draft reports and analytical support now replace manual routine tasks. Kenya ranks among Citi's first Sub-Saharan African markets for this AI tools for bank employees deployment.
Government of Rwanda (Ministries of Education and ICT & Innovation) with Anthropic and ALX — Chidi, an AI learning companion for schools built on Anthropic's Claude, now reaches Rwandan classrooms via the Ministries of Education and ICT & Innovation. Pupils get coding, data science and problem-solving help; staff use the same AI-powered education tool for lessons. Up to 2,000 teachers and civil servants get AI training too.
FNB — NAVi, FNB's multi-agent virtual assistant inside the FNB App's Secure Chat, now handles fraud reporting, card replacement and debit order disputes, extending AI in retail banking beyond simple chatbots. Routine requests route automatically to NAVi, freeing advisors for harder cases; a pilot WhatsApp channel adds a verified line for banking queries. The phased South African launch underlines FNB's bet on an AI-powered banking assistant.
Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT) — Rwanda's Ministry of ICT and Innovation, with GIZ, Women Political Leaders, Cenfri and the Certa Foundation, gave AI training to about 150 Parliament members from the Chamber of Deputies, Senate and Office of the Clerk in one day. Lessons built AI literacy via basics, generative AI, governance, inclusive AI, and legislative tools for document analysis, translation and budget work.
Steve Biko Academic Hospital — Complex paediatric neurosurgery, including the removal of brain tumours, now involves AI-assisted robotic surgery at Pretoria's Steve Biko Academic Hospital. Before operating, surgeons convert MRI and CT scans into detailed 3D reconstructions of the brain, then guide robotic arms through delicate movements while tracking progress continuously. Gauteng's health department has named the facility South Africa's flagship centre for public-sector medical innovation, driving broader adoption of robotic and AI-assisted surgery nationally.
BUA Foods — BUA Foods, the Nigerian FMCG arm of BUA Group, now drives AI-driven sales automation using BeatRoute's Sales Force Automation Software and Customer App. Reps get smart scheduling, order optimisation and plain-language lookups against live figures, swapping out paper-based habits across the distribution footprint. This BeatRoute rollout, an AI-powered sales force automation tool, seeks tighter delivery planning group-wide.
Shamiri Institute — shamiriAI debuted at Kenya's Shamiri Institute during the 2025 Shamiri Summit in Nairobi, bringing an AI mental health platform to youth across Africa. Live analysis of counselling talks flags symptom trends and steers users toward what helps, spanning English, Swahili and Sheng via speech recognition, analytics and machine learning. Testing continues in Kenya, ahead of a drive for AI-powered mental health support to reach 10 million youth by 2032.
Kenya School of Government — Kenya School of Government now offers free enrolment in the UNESCO-Oxford Massive Open Online Course on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation in Government, under DigiKen. Officials at Job Grade CG8 and above get responsible AI training for civil servants, aiming for 20,000 trained by 2027 in this digital transformation training push.
Government of Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe will roll out mandatory AI training for civil servants, requiring at least 10,000 public employees to complete yearly coursework spanning artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and data handling — an artificial intelligence coursework for public sector staff effort under a national digital push. Mthuli Ncube flagged Microsoft and Google certification as compulsory elements, housed within the Science, Technology, Digitalisation, Innovation and Human Capital Development cluster among next fiscal year's top reform goals.
Government of Angola (MINTTICS) — MINTTICS, Angola's Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, opened public feedback in 2025 on an 86-article draft Artificial Intelligence Law, marking the country's first move toward Angola AI regulation. Companies deploying AI systems would face binding duties around openness, fairness, safety and answerability, while individuals gain a legal right to reject decisions made entirely by machines. Wilful misuse carries penalties of up to 12 years' jail time for people and fines reaching 1.5 billion kwanzas for corporations under this proposed AI governance framework.
International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) — Native AI gives Nigerian journalists their first homegrown AI transcription and translation tool, built by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting. The free system converts English audio into written Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, easing workloads for students and researchers too, as a language-conversion aid tailored to Nigerian tongues.
Opportunity International — Opportunity International's Ulangizi delivers AI farming advice to Malawi's smallholder growers via WhatsApp, in Chichewa or English. This AI agricultural chatbot draws on official crop guidance and local know-how, accepting typed queries, voice clips and photos. It aids pest and disease diagnosis and helps growers cope with a shifting climate.
Ministry of Education (Kenya) — A new AI school placement pilot from Kenya's Ministry of Education is sorting 1.13 million Grade 9 learners into senior secondary schools. Basic Education Principal Secretary Julius Bitok said the software weighs each pupil's grades, local capacity and chosen career track, seeking fairer geographic spread as the Competency-Based Education reforms take hold. The trial launches with the first group shifting up in January 2026, marking an early test of automated secondary school allocation nationwide.
Nigerian House of Representatives — HB 2567, the Nigerian Artificial Intelligence Bill, 2025, sits before Nigeria's House of Representatives, building Nigeria AI regulation around ethical, accountable AI development. Backers call it an AI governance framework covering deployment and oversight nationwide. National Assembly members are still debating passage.
Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security — Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security has rolled out the Nigeria Agricultural Intelligence Platform (NAIP), an AI advisory tool built with Pixels Solutions for AI in agriculture. Farmers get weather outlooks, market guidance and agronomic tips, plus USSD access for rural areas without smartphones.
Government of Chad — Chad's Government has created an AI policy directorate, the Directorate General for Artificial Intelligence (DG IA), under the Ministry of Telecommunications, Digital Economy and Digitalization of the Administration, by presidential decree. Zara Ahmed Sidick heads the body, the country's first of its kind, tasked with drafting national strategy, flagging priority sectors, gauging AI's impact and scouting automation across public services. Chad AI governance had no comparable unit before.
Rising Academies — An AI maths tutor called Rori now reaches Grade 7 pupils at Madiana Basic Cycle School via WhatsApp, under a six-month Rising Academies scheme. The Ministry of Education's Regional 2 West Education Directorate co-runs it, sending each child individualised numeracy exercises by phone message.
Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Service (DCCMS) — AI weather prediction has completed a full pilot at Malawi's Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Service (DCCMS), pairing MET Norway's Bris model with ECMWF's Forecast-in-a-Box. WMO CREWS funded the April-to-October 2025 run to sharpen storm-alert accuracy and speed. Local teams learned the AI-based weather forecasting system, embedded it into routine work, then presented results at the WMO Ex-Congress.
Government of Mauritius — Mauritius's Government unveiled AI for All on 29 October in Port Louis, driving AI literacy Mauritius-wide with UN backing through the Ministry of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation. DIVA, the Digital Interactive Virtual Assistant, anchors this push for public AI awareness, explaining machine intelligence in English, French and Creole. Copies go to schools and social centres under the Digital Transformation Blueprint 2025-2029.
Ministry of Education (Ghana) — Over 1.4 million students in Ghana now have AI learning apps for senior high school, an AI-powered SHS curriculum tools push by the Ministry of Education reaching 68,000-plus teachers under the new curriculum. Built from local content, the apps work offline. A prior test phase covered 712 schools before nationwide launch.
Ministry of Health of Southwest State — A 2025 partnership between Somalia's Southwest State health ministry, ThinkMD and Cleanport Ventures is putting AI clinical decision support into the hands of frontline caregivers. The ThinkMD app steers phone-based checkups through a structured, WHO-aligned sequence and surfaces science-backed treatment guidance as patients are seen. Authorities describe it as the nation's inaugural state-run AI-supported patient assessment scheme.
Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone's Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education runs an AI chatbot for education data on WhatsApp for its eight-person delivery team, via the EdTech Hub Ministry of Education AI Challenge. Embedded expert Mohamed Alpha created the retrieval-augmented generation tool, which supplies pupil and teacher numbers or exam results from checked files when staff compile budgets and reports. Endorsed by 17 district directors, this one-year-licence education data assistant gets near-daily use.
Zambia Evidence Lab (Ministry of Finance and National Planning) — A one-day AI for Government Workshop gave Zambian officials grounding in AI training for government officials, hosted by the Ministry of Finance and National Planning's embedded Zambia Evidence Lab (ZEL). Sessions ran from foundational artificial intelligence theory toward practical public-sector applications. The effort reflects a government AI literacy programme equipping policymakers to embed AI in their work.
Government of Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe's Cabinet has backed a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy running 2026 to 2030, part of its Zimbabwe AI policy push to move the economy away from resource dependence and toward knowledge-driven growth. Six pillars anchor this AI roadmap: growing homegrown AI skills, building computing infrastructure, spreading AI use through government and business, and an ethics framework drawing on UNESCO recommendations. A new National AI Council will steer direction, while an AI Strategy Implementation Office handles coordination on the ground.
Ministry of Local Government (MINALOC) — Mbaza, an AI citizen services platform, is set to succeed e-Citizen across Rwanda, according to Minister Dominique Habimana. Grievances will be submitted and monitored instantly through the AI-powered government platform, linked with Irembo plus the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics system. Officials anticipate going live before 2025 concludes.
Ministry of Health, Kenya — Kenya's Ministry of Health is scaling up AI TB detection: 80 ultra-portable digital X-ray machines now reach 43 counties. Aden Duale unveiled them at KEMSA's Nairobi base, running Computer-Aided Detection software that reads scans unaided, catching early tuberculosis and chest illness signs. Priority goes to slum dwellers, inmates and miners under this AI-powered chest X-ray screening push.
Ethiopian Customs Commission — Ethiopia's Customs Commission gained four digital tools built by the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute: an AI customs chatbot, an AI-powered Passenger Risk Management System serving as a passenger screening tool, electronic cargo tracking, and smart border control management. Abiy Ahmed backed the rollout, citing hopes for less smuggling and clearer border dealings.
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH) — Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr's AI legal software deployment spans generative AI legal platforms Harvey and Legora, picked so lawyers get the better-suited system per task. The South African firm trialled both with over 186 staff, then added compulsory ethics coaching and human oversight once licences went through.
Commission de Protection des Données Personnelles (CDP) — Senegal's CDP publicly denounced AI misuse on social media on 8 October 2025, citing manipulated videos and photos of public figures and ordinary people circulated without consent. Commission de Protection des Données Personnelles officials tied this AI-generated deepfakes and manipulated media trend to opinion-manipulation tactics, plus dangers of stolen identities and misused personal information. They pressed citizens, creators and platforms alike to jointly guard against such harms.
Intercontinental Trust Limited — Mauritius's Intercontinental Trust Limited now runs Amelia, an AI receptionist for financial services, reportedly the first such tool at a local management company. This agentic AI system for client queries fields calls and recurring questions on offerings and vacancies, logging exchanges securely and freeing staff for higher-value work.
Ministère de l'Économie Numérique — The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) began drafting its first National AI Strategy on 8 October 2025, backed by President Félix Tshisekedi's $1.5 billion Digital Nation 2030 vision. Augustin Kibassa Maliba, Minister of Digital Economy, opened the inter-institutional commission producing this artificial intelligence policy framework alongside a National Digital Plan for 2026-2030.
Direction Générale des Douanes de Madagascar — Agent SVO hunts fraudulent invoices at Madagascar's customs authority, built by its Centre d'Excellence des Données et de l'Intelligence Artificielle (CEDIA) as a generative AI invoice fraud detection tool. It flags tampered figures and forgeries automatically, sharpening checks while adding speed via automated document verification.
South African Revenue Service (SARS) — South Africa's SARS has broadened Lwazi, its AI tax assistant, onto both the SARS website and SARS MobiApp. Queries about reference numbers, balances, assessment notices, and refund or audit progress now get answered instantly, forming an AI-driven revenue support system shaped around accessibility for visually impaired users.
Hyphen Tech — Hyphen Tech's Cosebu Ecosystem opens an AI marketplace Burundi traders can use, debuting at the firm's Bujumbura hub. Merchants gain Cosebu Management AI, covering inventory, sales tracking and financial reporting, plus Cosebu Marketplace AI, powering discovery through AI recommendations. Kirundi, French and English speakers are served by this AI-driven commerce platform, built to draw Burundian youth into digital trade.
Kenya Power — Kenya Power built Nuru, an AI chatbot Kenya Power says will serve 10 million-plus customers via its website and Facebook page. Nuru fields outage reports and routes harder questions to staff, arriving with a refreshed MyPower App and Kiswahili option on USSD *977#, extending AI customer service in Kenya's power sector.
Uganda Police Force — Uganda Police Force now runs an AI chatbot for policing queries, built by its Directorate of ICT to mimic ChatGPT-style replies for members of the public. Citizens can ask about events, incidents and general policing matters and receive professional, consistent answers instead of waiting on officers. This AI-powered police assistant will soon sit on the force's website, and SMS access is being explored for people without smartphones.
GFX Brokers — GFX Brokers built Kojo, an AI Eurobond sales agent running inside WhatsApp for Sub-Saharan clients. Built on Salesforce Agentforce with partner Evolf, it delivers live securities pricing, handles queries and lets buyers haggle bids and offers by text, cutting out calls and email. It turns the broker dealer's chat app into a bond trading channel.
Government of Ghana — Ghana now has a national blueprint for building AI systems responsibly: the Ghana AI Practitioners' Guide (GAIPG), produced by Heritors Labs alongside BMZ and GIZ. Unveiled in Accra, it lays out ethical steps for every phase of AI development, from design through deployment, and is intended to shape upcoming legislation and Ghana AI policy through practical AI governance guidance.
Ethiopian Ministry of Health — Ethiopia's Ministry of Health has deployed 195 machines for AI-powered X-ray TB screening nationwide, backed by a 2.6 billion birr investment across regional health facilities. Some 250 health workers were trained to run the AI tuberculosis detection equipment, which reads chest radiographs and flags likely cases for faster diagnosis and treatment.
Maski (Bytefuse and Maskew Miller Learning) — More than 100,000 people are now using Maski, an AI education assistant that runs through WhatsApp, only months after Bytefuse released it in March 2025. Maskew Miller Learning helped build the tool, with R55 million in funding from Novus Holdings, and it now guides South African pupils across Grade 1 to Grade 12 through lessons matched to the national syllabus. No separate app is needed, since the AI-powered tutoring platform works directly inside the chat service.
Bank of Uganda — Bank of Uganda is rolling out AI financial supervision via its new E-Supervision (SupTech) project, using analytics to watch banks, fintechs and other regulated firms. Governor Dr Michael Atingi-Ego wants preventative oversight through AI-driven regulatory oversight and real-time data, catching risks before crises hit rather than reacting afterward. The effort backs the nation's digital transformation drive.
Ministry of Technical Education, Vocational Training and Apprenticeship — Togo has begun shaping an AI in technical and vocational education strategy, steered by METFPA alongside the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), launched in Lomé. A stakeholder panel is drafting the roadmap through consultation, weaving artificial intelligence into vocational training, with a completed version due early 2026.
Ministry of Justice of Cabo Verde — 226 legal staff nationwide began AI training for justice professionals in Cabo Verde, an AI training programme for the judiciary organised by IMIJ under the Ministry of Justice. Concluding 3 October, sessions cover core AI concepts and practical courtroom applications, backed by UNDP alongside the Directorate-General for Justice Policy. Delegates arrived from every island.
Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy — Nigeria AI policy now runs on five pillars set out in the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025-2029: infrastructure, ecosystem growth, sector-wide adoption, ethics safeguards and governance. The Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy issued the plan on 19 September 2025 with NITDA as lead implementer. Officials call it a living national AI strategy meant to evolve rather than stay fixed.
Social Health Authority (SHA) — Kenya's Social Health Authority plans to deploy an AI clinical support tool prescriptions can be cross-checked against, matching medications to patient records on the Afya Yangu portal and automatically blocking drugs likely to cause harm such as allergic reactions. SHA CEO Mercy Mwangangi described the AI-powered prescription safety system on September 16, 2025, with the Ministry of Health expected to launch the technology in 2026.
Financial Services Commission, Mauritius — Mauritius's Financial Services Commission (FSC) binds regulated financial institutions to nine principles for AI in financial services. Fintech Series Guidance Notes No. 4 on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services lists fairness, bias mitigation, transparency, accountability, privacy, security, sustainability, human-centricity, monitoring and ethics, effective 19 September 2025. This marks a formal step toward AI governance in insurance and wealth management.
Ministry of Communication and Information Technology — Tanzania will issue a national guideline for responsible AI use, part of a wider Tanzania AI regulation push confirmed by Mohammed Khamis Abdulla. The rules are meant to shape how organisations deploy the fast-moving technology nationwide. A planned Nala, Dodoma institute for digital and AI technologies would anchor training and support, giving this artificial intelligence policy effort a physical base.
Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) — South Africa's Health Professions Council now requires doctors and nurses to tell patients whenever AI tools shape their treatment, under a refreshed Booklet 20: Ethical Guidelines on the Use of Artificial Intelligence. Practitioners carry full accountability for clinical outcomes no matter how much AI in clinical practice contributes, since the rules cast such systems as aids to human judgement, never substitutes for AI clinical decision support. The framework folds this obligation into the council's broader ethical code rather than carving out a distinct set of standards for artificial intelligence.
Daystar University — Daystar University now runs ArthurAI, MindHYVE.ai's agentic AI in higher education platform, across campus under a new partnership. It flags at-risk students via predictive analytics, adapts lesson pathways per learner, works offline on mobile, and delivers content in over 10 languages. East Africa gains one of its first campus-wide agentic AI learning platform deployments, launched for the September 2025 semester.
Zoho (survey by) — AI adoption Nigeria is accelerating: Zoho's poll of 386 respondents put the figure at 93%, financial services leading at 29%. Over 50% have moved past pilots into full operational use, part of a wider shift in AI in Nigerian business. Customer service automation tops applications at 49%, ahead of software development at 46% and marketing optimisation at 32%.
Conseil Régional de La Réunion (Région Réunion) — Conseil Régional de La Réunion stood up its first Regional Data and Artificial Intelligence Committee, uniting public bodies with private firms behind regional AI governance built for the common good. A shared framework guides the panel toward open, dependable, ethically handled records, casting AI as an engine of local innovation rather than a mere administrative add-on beyond territorial data governance. This step extends the Regional Digital Strategy already in force since September 2023.
French Government (Ministry of Economy and Finance) — Mayotte's AI policy advisory council, CIANum (Conseil de l'intelligence artificielle et du numérique), weighs how digital tools and AI touch society, the economy and territories. Clara Chappaz founded it 12 June 2025; a 4 September 2025 decree updated the 8 December 2017 text, cementing its legal status. Succeeding the Conseil national du numérique, CIANum gained members by order on 8 September 2025 — Mayotte's AI and digital governance body.
Interior Ministry of Kenya — AI border security anchors a Kenyan strategy combining drones with biometric identification to curb illegal crossings, says Interior Ministry official Dr Raymond Omollo, who named Somalia and Ethiopia frontiers as priority zones for AI-powered surveillance and border control. Agencies would also share intelligence instantly via connected systems.
Chain Reactions Africa — Chain Reactions Africa, a Nigerian PR and marketing communications agency, has hired Ara by Prophet as a full-time team member in an AI robot workforce move, billed as the continent's first intelligent robotic insight system. It merges machine learning with cultural foresight to function as a live data analyst, cultural interpreter and strategy consultant on client accounts. The hire positions an artificial intelligence system as a named staff member rather than a background tool, reflecting a wider push toward AI-powered workforce automation in African marketing.
Western Cape Government — South Africa's Western Cape Government has adopted its first provincial AI healthcare policy, setting ethical rules for deploying AI in public health where resources run thin. It rests on five principles: human oversight, fairness, transparency, beneficence, non-maleficence. A Khayelitsha pilot informed it, testing AI-enabled retinal screening for diabetic retinopathy across four clinics.
Safaricom — Kenya's Safaricom and Huawei's CBS Billing team have rolled out 'Idea to Cash', using large language models for AI in telecoms offer design, configuration and marketing. Since July 2025 a cross-functional group has applied telecom AI to hyper-personalised campaigns, offer concepts and tariff configuration from natural-language requirements.
Webber Wentzel — Webber Wentzel now runs Legora across its practice, deploying AI in legal services after a twelve-month pilot by the South African firm. Legora becomes the debut anchor technology inside Webber Wentzel's Innovation Lab, where the pair will jointly craft tools for Africa's legal sector.
PwC Ghana — Ghana's bank chief executives are embracing generative AI in corporate banking, with 68% confirming use of the technology across 2024, according to PwC's 2025 Ghana Banking Survey. Chatbots now handle personalised customer interactions at several lenders, while staff lean on tools like ChatGPT to speed up everyday internal tasks. That level of uptake signals a clear shift toward automation spanning both front-line service and behind-the-scenes operations, a trend in AI adoption across banking that the survey highlights.
National Bank of Ethiopia — AI transaction monitoring in banking is now catching irregular activity across Ethiopia, credited to the National Bank of Ethiopia under Governor Mamo Mihertu. This AI-powered fraud detection system, spanning lenders and fintech operators, has already frozen 138 accounts linked to suspicious dealings. The rollout, officials say, feeds into a broader campaign against illicit cross-border transfers and terrorism financing.
Olaniwun Ajayi — Nigeria's Olaniwun Ajayi now pioneers Harvey AI legal work, the country's and West Africa's first adopter of a generative platform built solely on legal data, advancing AI in law locally. Wired into Thomson Reuters, Westlaw and LexisNexis, it speeds research, drafting and case review while keeping client secrecy and data privacy intact.
African Bank — African Bank's payment channels now run on INETCO BullzAI, an AI transaction firewall supplied by NCR Atleos, catching fraud the instant it occurs. Models retrain continuously after each transaction, letting the fraud detection system flag emerging schemes early.
South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) — Selling an AI/ML-enabled medical device or in-vitro diagnostic in South Africa now needs SAHPRA clearance, per AI medical devices regulation dated 19 August 2025. Four risk tiers, Classes A to D, set evidence required for safety, effectiveness and post-launch monitoring under this AI/ML-enabled diagnostics oversight scheme. A Medical Device Establishment Licence is likewise compulsory for manufacturers and importers.
Rhino Mabati Factory Limited — Kenya's Rhino Mabati Factory Limited leads the construction-materials sector in AI-powered robotics in roofing production, run on live plant lines. Machine-learning-steered robotic arms shape corrugated sheets, part of wider AI-driven manufacturing processes also used at a new gypsum-channel plant. Offcut waste has reportedly fallen up to 25 percent, an unaudited company figure.
Cornerstone Insurance — Nigeria's Cornerstone Insurance Plc deployed Cici, an AI chatbot in insurance, spanning several digital channels. Policyholders now secure pre-priced cover and resolve claims via the generative AI-powered chatbot, capable of managing numerous enquiries together through adaptive, situation-aware exchanges instead of scripted replies.
Audere — Burundi's Cibitoke and Kirundo health districts began running Audere's Malariya Pi in August 2025, an AI malaria diagnostic tool built on the firm's HealthPulse AI engine. Frontline staff — from village-level workers through clinic personnel to lab technicians — rely on it to interpret rapid diagnostic tests for malaria, log patient histories and treatment progress, then escalate difficult cases upward to hospital care. The name itself means "bye bye malaria" in Kirundi, this AI-powered malaria case management app's semantic nod to its public health mission.
Ministry of Transport, Telecommunications and Artificial Intelligence Systems — Equatorial Guinea's Ministry of Transport, Telecommunications and Artificial Intelligence Systems is drafting an Artificial Intelligence Law (Anteproyecto de Ley de Inteligencia Artificial) under Minister Honorato Evita Oma, part of a broader Equatorial Guinea AI regulation push. Six pillars underpin the text: safeguarding national identity, embracing linguistic and cultural diversity, protecting local data and traditional knowledge, pursuing sustainable growth, encouraging training and innovation, and honouring global legal and ethical norms. A proposed autonomous body, ANIAD (National Artificial Intelligence and Data Authority), would provide AI governance oversight, with the effort tied to the African Union Agenda 2063 and the Malabo Convention 2014.
Kifiya Financial Technology — Kifiya Financial Technology's AI credit scoring has unlocked over 35 billion Ethiopian birr in collateral-free financing for 467,700 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, backed by the Mastercard Foundation. Alternative data and predictive analytics replace conventional credit history, reaching 355,027 women entrepreneurs and sustaining a million jobs. This algorithmic loan assessment aids collateral-free capital access.
Telkom — Telkom's PoliPal is an AI-powered HR chatbot letting staff search internal company policies directly. It joins R46 million the South African telecoms group spent on AI in the 2025 financial year, funding Bafo, an AI contact-centre platform, and Voice of the Customer analytics.
National Tuberculosis Programme of the Central African Republic, The Union and EPCON — An AI model for TB hotspot mapping split Bangui into 100-metre grids, surfacing clusters the Central African Republic's National Tuberculosis Programme (NTP) never knew existed. Built with The Union and EPCON using density and clinic-distance data, findings published 13 August 2025. Officials then targeted screening at districts with the heaviest TB burden.
Ministry of Communications and Innovation, Government of Botswana — The Ministry of Communications and Innovation is finalising a draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy after a UNESCO AI Readiness Assessment endorsed preparedness, Assistant Minister Mr Shawn Nthaile confirmed. Botswana AI policy will steer ethical, inclusive, secure deployment to national development goals. This AI governance text remains unenacted and unpublished.
Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital — Hard-to-reach Ugandan communities can now dial into care via a new AI mental health call centre, built jointly by Butabika National Referral Mental Hospital, Makerere University and Tanzania's Mirembe Mental Health Hospital. Stretched clinicians gain breathing room, as AI-powered telehealth counselling extends scarce staffing further.
Présidence de la République Gabonaise — Gabon's government has enacted Ordonnance n° 0006/PR/2025, signed by President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema and published in the Journal Officiel, setting a legal framework for public-sector digitalisation. A dedicated "Smart-Gouvernement" component requires administrative bodies to deploy artificial intelligence and emerging technologies so services become proactive rather than reactive, marking a formal push for AI in government administration and AI-driven public administration more broadly. The decree also lays down principles covering digital inclusion, interoperability, security and data sovereignty.
Radiodiffusion Télévision Ivoirienne (RTI) — AI in documentary filmmaking reaches African screens via Imhotep Académie, a Cocody school specialising in cultural-heritage tech, teaming with La 3 to resurrect colonial-era Ivorian musicians on screen. Their short film, Quand l'Afrique chantait sous la censure, forms episode two of L'Ère des Indépendances, deploying digitally rendered figures for historical narration to chart Côte d'Ivoire's independence-era story.
Penda Health and Easy Clinic — AI Consult, Easy Clinic's tool for AI diagnostic support in Kenya, is a clinical decision support tool built into its EMR platform. It cut diagnostic errors 16% and treatment errors 13% across 40,000 visits at 15 clinics per a Penda Health study, with history-taking omissions down 32% and safety alerts declining as clinicians adapted. Published in Nature Medicine.
CEVIF (Centre d'Écoute des Violences Intrafamiliales) — AinoAid, an AI chatbot for domestic violence support piloted on Réunion, had logged over 1,000 anonymous contacts within months. CNRS deployed the tool with local partner CEVIF under the EU-funded IMPROVE project, letting victims, associations and health workers spot abuse, locate resources and reach services — an early example of AI for domestic abuse support.
Ministry of Health, Eswatini — Eswatini's Ministry of Health, with the Taiwan Technical Mission, has installed AI eye screening equipment for diabetic retinopathy at six sites: Mbabane Government Hospital, Piggs Peak Hospital, Mankayane Hospital, Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital, Dvokolwako Health Centre and Emkhuzweni Health Centre. The AI-powered diagnostic system for diabetic retinopathy flags diabetes-related retinal damage, speeding diagnosis to cut preventable blindness in rural areas.
FirstBank of Nigeria — FirstBank of Nigeria now offers Fibani, an always-on AI chatbot in corporate banking built into its digital platforms. The virtual banking assistant opens accounts, checks balances, moves funds, fields loan queries, logs ATM dispense errors, and lets users freeze accounts or blacklist USSD for security.
United Bank for Africa (UBA) — LEO, UBA's AI chatbot in banking, now settles cross-border transfers through the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), a continental first. Funds move instantly in local currency between African nations via the chatbot for banking transactions, with no separate system required.
Office of the Prime Minister, Federal Government of Somalia — Somalia's Office of the Prime Minister issued Regulation LR.183 (Xeer-nidaamiyaha Dhijitalaynta Nidaamka Maareynta Maaliyadda Guud), covering digitalisation of the public financial management system. Chapter 6, Article 34 addresses AI in public financial management across government entities, marking one of Somalia's earliest formal nods to AI governance in government finance in such rules.
Government of Chad — Chad's government enrolled 2,000 young citizens aged 15 to 35 in a nationwide AI training programme, run jointly by the Ministry of Telecommunications, the Ministry of Higher Education and the UNESCO ACCES-TIC Chair. Sessions spanned 4 to 14 August 2025 and mixed foundational machine learning ideas with hands-on uses spanning farming, healthcare, schooling and broader economic sectors. Organisers closed the effort at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by handing certificates to graduates, naming 41 standout participants for distinction as part of this AI skills training push.
Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) — Nairobi's congestion crisis is prompting Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) to construct a Traffic Management Centre (TMC) at City Cabanas, deploying AI-controlled traffic management to track, forecast and ease jams across the city. The first rollout covers 25 of Nairobi's most gridlocked junctions, with signals shifting automatically as AI traffic lights respond to live conditions. Engineers expect the work finished by early 2026.
Government of Ghana (Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations with UNDP) — Ghana's Ministry of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations and UNDP ran a three-day Ministerial AI Bootcamp in July 2025, an AI capacity building government drive for Cabinet Ministers, Ministers of State and focal persons. Chief of Staff Julius Debrah opened it, tying AI adoption metrics to ministerial KPIs with yearly reporting required.
Legal Practice Council (LPC) — Fake AI-generated precedent showing up in two South African court proceedings has pushed the Legal Practice Council toward drafting formal rules on AI use in legal practice. Academic institutions and IT specialists are helping the LPC shape standards that carry real teeth, since breaches could lead to disbarment. The council's response signals mounting alarm over generative AI tools inside courtrooms.
United Bank for Africa (UBA) — United Bank for Africa's AI chatbot LEO now handles instant cross-border payments for customers in Cameroon, an African first for AI-powered virtual assistant money transfers between countries. It runs on the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS), settling in local currency within seconds and sparing users the multi-day waits and higher costs of older channels.
University of the Free State and Universitas Academic Hospital — MD Anderson Cancer Center's Radiation Planning Assistant debuted clinically at Bloemfontein's Universitas Academic Hospital and University of the Free State, a world first for AI cancer radiotherapy planning. Cervical cancer cases opened the work, later joined by breast, head, neck and brain tumours, lifting automated radiotherapy planning totals near 50 patients.
Ministry of Health (MINSA) — AI in hospital care now runs at 14 central hospitals across Angola, covering diagnostic imaging, clinical analysis, surgery and personalised medical training, the Ministry of Health confirms. Leonardo Inocêncio, Secretary of State for the Hospital Area, links this to fewer clinical errors and sharper accuracy from AI-assisted diagnostic imaging. Some 38 thousand health workers are gaining digital skills to run the new equipment.
Government of Gabon — Gabon deployed an AI chatbot for government communication called Missamou, reachable via Facebook Messenger around the clock. Natural language processing drives replies to public queries, shares bulletins, and guides paperwork 24 hours daily, lightening demand at counters and phone lines. It stands as the nation's inaugural virtual assistant linking state and citizen.
Ghana Health Service — Ghana Health Service now runs AI TB screening at 37 Military Hospital in Accra using a Qure.ai X-ray system. It flags pulmonary abnormalities within seconds, easing a shortage of radiologists and catching undiagnosed cases via the Active Case Finding project. The AI-powered X-ray diagnosis tool targets faster, more accurate results.
Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture — Classroom instruction at Lüderitz Secondary School now blends with software under a five-month scheme called the YYeni AI Lüderitz Pilot, built on the YYeni AI learning platform and connected via Telecom Namibia. Staff have shifted toward guiding pupils individually as the system adapts material for them across subjects, an AI-assisted learning approach officials hope proves itself. Namibia's Ministry of Education intends to widen this AI tutoring effort to cover 25 schools and 2,500 learners come 2026.
University of Dodoma (UDOM) — University of Dodoma (UDOM) built Akili Check, an AI mental health platform live at Muhimbili National Hospital, Benjamin Mkapa Hospital, Mirembe Psychiatric Hospital and Amana Hospital in Tanzania. Over 200 patients have been diagnosed and referred to care through it. The AI-driven psychiatric screening tool combines self-assessments with treatment guidance.
Independent Institute of Education (IIE) — South Africa's Independent Institute of Education (IIE), its largest private higher education provider, has fitted an AI-enhanced learning platform, D2L Brightspace, across campuses serving nearly 65,000 students. D2L Lumi charts individualised study routes, while Creator+ generates interactive material, giving staff room to scale personal attention.
Ethiopian Federal Police Commission — Ethiopia's Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute and Ethiopian Federal Police Commission signed a deal to build a Smart Police Station, positioning the country as a leader in AI-driven policing. EAII's Worku Gachena said the project folds AI solutions into policing nationwide. It follows an earlier EFPApp partnership credited with strengthened operational efficiency.
Ministry of Health and Social Action of Senegal and Kajou — No signal, no problem: kSANTÉ fits AI e-learning for community health workers onto one MicroSD card across Senegal. Kajou joined the Ministry of Health and Social Action to load 14 lessons plus an AI-powered training platform for health workers, drawing on official archives, onto each card. Dakar launched with 2,000 units.
Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MINPOSTEL) — Yaoundé hosted the unveiling of Cameroon's national artificial intelligence strategy, SNIA, at the National Consultations on AI (CONIA 2025), led by Minister Minette Libom Li Likeng of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Seven pillars structure this AI policy roadmap: sovereignty and governance (proposing a Cameroonian AI Authority and Presidential Council on AI), digital infrastructure and data, multilingual inclusion (featuring GPT Cameroon), sovereign technology systems, workforce and research, sector innovation, and cross-border partnerships. By 2040 officials want 60,000 trained specialists, 12,000 new jobs, and 0.8 to 1.2 percent GDP growth.
Central Bank of Kenya — Credit risk scoring tops the list of AI in Kenyan banking, Central Bank of Kenya reports, cited by 65% of lenders already deploying the technology. Guarding against fraud follows at 54%, handling customers at 43% — though half of those polled had adopted none of it. Digital lenders far exceed traditional banks in applying AI-driven credit risk assessment, 80% versus 45%.
Conseil des ministres de la République du Congo — Congo's Council of Ministers approved statutes founding a new AI research centre, the African Centre for Research in Artificial Intelligence (CARIA), as a public administrative body. The decree fixes how this artificial intelligence research institute will function, be steered and be supervised.
PATH and Viamo — CHEWA (Community Health Extension Worker Assistant), an AI health hotline in Nigeria devised by PATH and Viamo, needs nothing but a basic handset to reach frontline staff. Callers in Kano and Oyo states receive spoken, generative-AI clinical advice, an offline-friendly example of voice-based AI clinical decision support built for places lacking data access. Around 100 participants signed on, enrolment launched June 2025, with a goal near 3,000 patient encounters.
KFC South Africa — Nearly 10,000 people tried KFC South Africa's AI chatbot in fast food within its first week live. KAIIA (Kentucky AI Integrated Assistant), built by Cape Town studio Methodlab on Google's Gemini, chats in 11 South African languages about menu items and local culture — an example of conversational AI in fast food. Grant Macpherson supplied the count.
Guilex Avocats — KYTISA, a new AI legal research in Guinea platform, was unveiled in Conakry by Guilex Avocats, a Guinean firm counted among Africa's top 20 legal practices. Subscribers gain a single hub for domestic statutes, judicial rulings and legal news, alongside an AI-powered chatbot built to automate routine legal tasks. Offered in French, English and Spanish, the launch marks the firm's push into an AI-driven legal research tool aimed at reaching users well beyond one language group.
Ariston Private Limited — Ariston Private Limited runs AI-powered sorting for macadamia nuts at its Chipinge estates. A camera photographs every kernel to spot flaws and rank quality, an AI-powered nut scanning method sorting produce by grade for buyers abroad.
National Assembly of Kenya — Kenya AI regulation moved ahead when the National Assembly told the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy to build ethical standards for artificial intelligence, plus a public education push. MP Marianne Kitany's proposal, aired 18 June 2025, won approval weeks later amid warnings over disinformation, algorithmic bias, privacy violations and vanishing jobs — concerns behind the AI regulatory framework.
I&M Bank — Kenya's I&M Bank now runs ThetaRay's cognitive AI anti-money laundering platform group-wide, covering Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Mauritius too. One AI-driven engine now handles account opening, sanctions checks, monitoring, alerts and filings to regulators, swapping out older, fragmented compliance software.
The Nairobi Hospital — East Africa's first AI-powered CT scanner is now running at The Nairobi Hospital: a 256-slice Siemens SOMATOM Drive unit, unveiled by Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale for cardiology, oncology, neurology and trauma work. It scans faster, uses less radiation and produces sharper images, marking a leap forward in AI-driven medical imaging across the region. Alongside the launch, the Ministry of Health and the hospital agreed a partnership under the Social Health Authority to subsidise cancer and kidney treatment for patients unable to pay.
MTN Uganda — More than 213,000 mobile money agents and small merchants across Uganda now access an AI chatbot for agent training built by MTN Uganda into WhatsApp. Called MoMo Coach, it pushes short lessons on launching a venture, handling finances and expanding trade, addressing gaps in this AI-driven agent training at scale.
Ministry of Information and Communication Technology — Namibia's Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) has produced a draft Artificial Intelligence Bill setting out how AI should be used responsibly and safely across government and industry, a step officials describe as central to this Namibia AI regulation drive. Speaker of the National Assembly Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila linked the plan to a broader effort at overhauling public administration and curbing hazards from emerging digital tools, and ICT Minister Emma Theofelus later told Parliament in September 2025 that drafters are matching the Bill against UNESCO's guidance on AI ethics as this AI governance legislation takes shape.
Ministry of Communication and Information Technology — Tanzania's Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has released a draft Tanzania National Artificial Intelligence Strategy Framework for AI policy in Tanzania, anchored on transparency, fairness and inclusivity. It frames the plan as a route to sustainable growth and sharper public service delivery. The national AI strategy still awaits sign-off.
Absa Bank — Abby, agentic AI in business banking from Absa Bank, built on Salesforce's Agentforce platform, gives South African firms instant loan and investment guidance. Africa's first such rollout targets client service. Absa projects the AI banking assistant will double contact centre output.
Ministry of Technology and Science (Zambia) — Twenty health posts across Zambia's 10 provinces are testing AI diagnostics in healthcare under a new pilot from the Ministry of Technology and Science, the Ministry of Health, 73Health Global and Pentatech Ltd. Finnish equipment allows clinicians to assess patients from afar, and the homegrown Larry RX system flags dangerous drug combinations before they reach a patient. Backers say pairing remote examination with automated prescribing checks should make treatment more uniform nationwide, though independent results are still pending.
Zambia Statistics Agency (ZamStats) — GPT-4 Turbo beat manual coding in Zambia's Labour Force Survey, a Zambia Statistics Agency (ZamStats) and Zambia Evidence Lab trial found. This AI labour force survey classification matched every industry-code digit and the top two occupation-code digits, topping manual work by nearly 7 percentage points on the leading occupation digit. Such AI survey data classification could save up to 130 working days yearly, researchers estimate.
Government of Mauritius — Rs 25 million will equip Mauritius government departments with AI tools under the Public Sector AI Programme, run by a new AI Unit inside the Ministry of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation. This AI in public ministries push sits within Budget 2025-2026, which also funds an AI Innovation Start-Up Programme and tax deductions up to Rs 150,000 for start-ups and MSMEs investing in artificial intelligence in government. The aim is sharper policymaking and service delivery nationwide.
FlySafair — South African budget carrier FlySafair now offers 24-hour booking through Lindi, a no-cost AI travel agent on WhatsApp. The assistant handles single-passenger flight bookings, seat and name changes, plus travel queries anytime. FlySafair calls it the country's first such AI-driven chatbot.
Ministry of Health, Welfare and Health Infrastructure of Equatorial Guinea — Guinea Salud, Equatorial Guinea's first AI health chatbot, lets citizens text a WhatsApp assistant for free facts on illness, jabs, care and HIV. MCD Global Health gave technical help behind this AI-powered health assistant, made by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Health Infrastructure. A trial stage covering knowledge topics runs now, before growth matched to public needs.
Addis Ababa City Administration — Chest scans at Yekatit 12 Hospital now pass through an AI-powered X-ray diagnosis tool built by RadiSen, deployed by Addis Ababa's city administration since 5 June 2025. Called AXIR-CX, the system performs AI chest X-ray analysis to spot tuberculosis, pneumonia and other lung abnormalities straight from digital images without waiting on a radiologist. Officials frame the rollout as part of Smart Living, a strand of the capital's Smart City agenda aimed at upgrading how healthcare gets delivered.
Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation & Digital Economy — Over 1,000 farmers in Ogun State now carry smart devices with Huawei AI technology and MTN connectivity, issued by Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy under its AgriConnect Initiative. This early instance of AI in agriculture delivers planting advice, weather updates, market prices and financial data through AI-powered farming tools, sharpening decisions and cutting climate risk.
Rwanda Ministry of Health / Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) — 58,567 community health workers across Rwanda now gain skills through a new digital platform from Rwanda Biomedical Centre and the Ministry of Health, replacing face-to-face sessions with mobile and online study. AI in community health training here picks tailored lessons, checks readiness and hands out certificates automatically. Linked to Rwanda's community electronic medical records system, the tool pulls live data to flag illness sooner, part of a push toward AI-driven health worker education.
Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT — Bruno, a camera-equipped robotic cart, gauges plant height, leaf spread and colour for the Artemis Project, rolled out by the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT to bring AI crop breeding to Uganda. Its scans feed the ONA mobile app, where algorithms swap in instant analysis for hands-on fieldwork. Aim: shrink a breeding timeline that normally runs five to seven years via this AI-driven plant breeding method.
Government of Mozambique — Mozambique's government is forming a National Artificial Intelligence Commission (CNIA) to handle AI regulation Mozambique-wide and to push adoption across public services. Salim Valá unveiled the commission at Maputo's 12th MOZTECH technology fair, calling it a cross-sector AI governance platform. Decree No. 14/2026 gave it formal standing in April 2026.
Oromia Bank — Oromia Bank's Miliki app grants collateral-free loans up to 300,000 birr via AI credit scoring, weighing spending patterns, financial history and non-traditional data. Built with fintech partner Quantum Technology, it extended credit to over 7,000 borrowers during its trial run, evidence of strong latent demand for AI-driven lending among women, youth and informal workers excluded from conventional finance.
Netcare — South Africa's Netcare now runs ICU deterioration prediction software across its full network of ICUs, a national first. The artificial neural network reads vital signs continuously and warns of sepsis, heart failure or respiratory compromise roughly ten hours ahead of visible symptoms, an AI early-warning system in intensive care built to give doctors more time to act. Clinicians can adjust medication earlier as a result.
Government of Benin — Benin has flipped the switch on Customs Webb for AI in customs processing nationwide, ousting ASYCUDA from every port, airport and land crossing. Webb Fontaine supplied the platform, already tallying over 100,000 declarations, 200,000-plus payments and 800 users online. Fraud drops, clearance speeds up — part of a broader customs automation push.
Hyphen Tech — Hyphen Tech's AI crop disease detection tool AgriHyphen, trialled by Ngozi province growers, spots 37 ailments across seven staple crops from leaf photos, working in Kirundi, Swahili, French and English. Running since November 2024, the prototype earned praise for accurate readings, signalling agricultural AI adoption in Burundi.
Lesotho2025-05Revenue Services Lesotho — An AI in tax administration overhaul now underpins Revenue Services Lesotho (RSL), where a newly acquired CRM system merges taxpayer correspondence into a single platform and tracks service benchmarks across every channel. RSL rolled out the tool during the 2024/25 fiscal year as one strand of a wider digital transformation, alongside near-real-time clearance certificates and automated reconciliation between bank records. Officials frame the changes as a route to sharper compliance and leaner operations, illustrating growing AI-driven customer relationship management adoption in public revenue bodies.
Mount Kenya University — Predictive analytics now flag at-risk students at Mount Kenya University under UnIRP, a new resource-planning system built with Marwadi Technologies to embed AI in university administration. Biometric logins secure access, a mobile app tracks student progress, and admission-to-graduation tasks run automatically. A compulsory AI course now awaits every incoming student, part of Kenya's wider AI education push.
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology — Tanzania's schools and universities must build their own AI in education policy, per National Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence in Education from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Nested in the National Digital Education Strategy 2024/25-2029/30, the framework covers privacy, security, ethics and learner well-being, balancing responsible artificial intelligence policy with classroom tradition.
Conseil d'Etat de la République Démocratique du Congo — High-level magistrates at the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Conseil d'Etat (State Council) gained generative AI legal practice skills over two days, 5-6 May 2025, advancing AI in the legal profession locally. First president Brigitte Nsensele led, taught by Ferdinand Vaweka, with IT kit given to attendees.
Direction Générale des Douanes — Madagascar now has CEDIA, the Centre d'Excellence des Données et de l'Intelligence Artificielle, its first unit for AI in customs administration. It will oversee governance rules, drive uptake nationwide, and craft tools like Agent SVO, a generative helper for AI-driven fraud detection on questionable receipts.
China-Guinea Friendship Hospital — Guinea's first AI-assisted hip replacement took place in Conakry, where China's 31st Chinese medical team, led by Diao Naicheng, joined local doctors at the China-Guinea Friendship Hospital for the AI-assisted total hip replacement. Software built a 3D map of the patient's bone anatomy, then weighed several surgical options to pick the best-fit prosthesis and implantation angle. The 90-minute procedure ran with specialists in China watching live over a video feed.
Institut de Cardiologie d'Abidjan / African Research Network — 300 hypertension patients in Côte d'Ivoire are testing an AI chatbot for hypertension patients called AVIA (Assistant vocal d'intervention automatisée), a voice-based AI health monitoring tool built by Ivorian startup data354 for the Institut de Cardiologie d'Abidjan and the African Research Network. Split into two groups, participants get calls every three weeks so it can track their condition, flag unusual readings to doctors and gauge blood pressure gains over six months. Only a phone line is needed, no internet, suiting patients far from clinics.
Kenya Revenue Authority — AI cargo screening now checks container x-rays at Kenya's Port of Mombasa, run by the Kenya Revenue Authority. One second of machine analysis replaces roughly two minutes of manual inspection, and officials cited several major seizures of concealed goods within the pilot's first week. Full nationwide use of the AI customs screening follows in June 2026.
ENS (Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs) — ENS counts among the first African law firms to embed Harvey AI at full scale, applying the legal AI platform to contract review, due diligence, compliance and litigation. Automation handles routine document tasks while lawyers retain final sign-off, echoing a continental shift toward AI in legal services.
Agrix Tech — Agrix Tech's AI crop disease diagnosis app is giving Cameroonian farmers instant plant health readings, applying convolutional neural networks to photographed leaves to flag cassava mosaic virus, banana leaf spot and similar infections within 10 seconds at 95% accuracy. Offline functionality means the tool keeps working without connectivity, and it speaks French, English, Bamiléké, Hausa and further regional languages. Farmers trained by the startup reached 7,000 by April 2025 across the West and Northwest regions, with 5,000 users actively relying on this AI-driven plant disease detection tool; those users saw harvests rise 20-25% while cutting excess pesticide use by 30%.
Flow Uganda — Flow Uganda now runs AI sales automation in banking via Trembi Sales AI, scrapping 80 agents once posted across 30 districts. The Ugandan lender identifies and wins bigger loan prospects, restaurants and hotels included, at lower cost per signup. This AI-driven client acquisition for lenders swaps legwork for automated, high-value targeting.
Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (MoHERST) — Gambia's Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (MoHERST) rolled out TITA, an AI timetable app for Gambian universities that builds class schedules automatically. Nigerian firm TITA Universal Services Ltd built the mobile platform, which also handles course registration, tuition payments, CGPA tracking and assignment submissions at public universities nationwide, centralising tasks once split across separate manual systems via an automatic timetable generator.
Cabinet of Zambia — Zambia's cabinet has greenlit, in principle, a bill scrapping the Data Protection Act No. 3 of 2021, swapping it for wider Zambia AI governance legislation spanning machine learning and data analytics. Coverage would stretch past personal information alone, pulling in industrial, public and other non-personal data types under one statute. Ministers cleared this shift toward AI regulation in Zambia during the 8th Cabinet Meeting.
Coca-Cola Beverages Malawi — USD14.9 million has gone into a Lilongwe line for Coca-Cola Beverages Malawi, part of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa, built around AI-driven predictive maintenance in manufacturing. AI-powered fault detection on production lines flags problems early, cutting downtime. The 19,200-bottle-per-hour line will supply Zambia exports and staff training.
Botswana national TB programme — Botswana's national TB programme has deployed Qure.ai's CAD system for AI chest X-ray screening for TB, aiming to speed up tuberculosis diagnosis. The tool flags likely TB cases from X-ray images for clinician review, and local staff have completed training on the AI-assisted tuberculosis diagnosis system.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) — MSF is testing AI snake identification at two South Sudan hospitals, Twic and Abyei, to speed bite treatment decisions. Trained on 380,000 snake photographs, the machine-learning system predicts venomous versus harmless species, guiding correct antivenom use. The early-stage trial shows encouraging, non-conclusive results.
Agência de Protecção de Dados (APD) — A new artificial intelligence chapter sits inside Angola's revised data protection law, Lei n.º 22/11, following public consultation by the Agência de Protecção de Dados (APD) that ended in April 2025. Under this Angola AI regulation, Article 36 outlaws algorithmic social scoring, Article 37 lets anyone harmed by an AI system demand explanation, dispute the outcome and seek human review, and Article 38 makes producers, suppliers and operators liable, all part of the country's artificial intelligence data protection law reforms. Extraterritorial reach also widens, catching foreign processors handling data tied to people inside the country.
Hormuud Telecom — Somalia's biggest telecoms firm, Hormuud Telecom, built an AI assistant in Somali called Caaqil, reachable purely by text message where smartphones or data plans are scarce. Dial *1000#, text a question, and get replies spanning health, farming, schooling, money matters and general topics. Basic handset owners, the bulk of the country's mobile users, are the intended audience for this AI-powered SMS service.
Ministry of Justice / UNESCO / GIZ — UNESCO, GIZ and Rwanda's Ministry of Justice ran a Kigali workshop introducing 31 judicial staff to AI in judicial systems. Attendees explored algorithmic influence over court rulings and case handling within data protection standards. Concerns raised covered bias and opacity affecting AI-assisted justice delivery.
Ministry of Transport and Logistics — Ethiopia's Ministry of Transport and Logistics and the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute built the Integrated Freight Transport Management System (IFTMS) for AI freight transport management nationwide. It gives officials one view of cargo, cutting guesswork. Backers expect less waste, with AI-driven cargo oversight replacing manual tracking.
Uganda Revenue Authority — Uganda Revenue Authority now runs AI in tax administration, covering taxpayer registration and Tax Identification Number processing, aiming past 90 per cent of functions. John Rujoki Musinguzi says the software flags fraud and irregularities manual review misses. Officials want this AI-driven revenue collection to raise Uganda's tax-to-GDP ratio from near 13 per cent toward the regional average of 18 per cent.
Anambra State Government — Anambra State, Nigeria, deployed EdTech platform Edves in 22 pilot smart schools, one per local government area. Adaptive lesson planning, predictive analytics and AI personalised learning shape instruction and monitor student progress live. Teachers get AI-curated lesson templates, performance analytics and automated assessment tools; the AI-tailored learning platform handles enrolment, digital attendance and infrastructure monitoring.
mediaReachOMD — MediaReachOMD's AI consumer intelligence platform, OMD Consumer Intelligence 2.0 (OCI 2.0), now covers 16 Nigerian markets, up from 7. Built-in generative AI handles analytical work, renders dynamic charts, and runs questionnaire simulation and rollout—pushing AI-driven consumer analytics past the tool's earlier reach.
Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy — Under the banner Kenya AI policy stands the Kenya National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025-2030, steering developers, tech firms and AI-using industries for half a decade. Economic expansion, social inclusion and fresh innovation anchor its goals, echoing a broader national AI strategy movement worldwide. Executive policy status now applies nationwide.
FirstBank of Nigeria — Humanoid machines welcome visitors at FirstBank's fifth Digital Xperience Centre in Lekki, Lagos, a sign of AI in retail banking taking physical shape. They respond to queries instantly, alongside self-service kiosks, contactless ATMs, video banking and a machine issuing ATM cards within three minutes, watched over by fraud detection powered by artificial intelligence in banking.
Discovery Health — South African insurer Discovery Health built Personal Health Pathways, applying AI in healthcare personalisation via machine learning and digital twin modelling to tailor treatment advice for adult medical aid members. Wearable data, claims records and health files train this personalised medicine platform to spot fitting interventions. Discovery frames the payoff as better outcomes, lower cost — an unaudited, company-stated benefit.
Botswana Diamonds — Botswana Diamonds (BOD) uncovered seven previously unreported kimberlite anomalies and 11 polymetallic targets by running AI kimberlite exploration on old geophysical, soil and drilling records instead of months of manual review. That mineral exploration AI push now backs BOD's filing for 11 prospecting licences over 7,000+ square kilometres in Botswana.
ILEVA — ILEVA's centre in southern and western La Réunion now runs an AI optical sorter, using cameras to pull recyclables from the waste stream. The €400 million Saint-Pierre facility housing it targets 240,000 tonnes diverted from landfill and 10% of island electricity within two years. This AI-driven waste sorting technology anchors a wider infrastructure push.
TechForward Tanzania — TechForward Tanzania rolled out Kilimotech Chatbot, an AI chatbot for farmers and livestock keepers, on WhatsApp. Users get immediate guidance in Swahili or English on financing, market prices, soil health, crop production and disease control, and the farming chatbot detects crop disease from a submitted photo.
Ministry of Health and Social Services — Namibia's Ministry of Health and Social Services deploys AI-powered digital chest X-rays for AI tuberculosis screening and earlier diagnosis. On World TB Day in the Omusati region, Minister Esperance Luvindao pledged support for extending AI-aided digital X-ray screening to health facilities and communities. Its TB incidence ranks among the world's 11 highest.
Ministère de la Transition Numérique et de la Digitalisation (Ministry of Digital Transition and Digitalisation) — Côte d'Ivoire's government adopted a national AI policy, SNIA 2030, resting on skills and infrastructure, regional and social inclusion, and ethical governance. It creates a National AI Committee, Safe IA label, National AI Agency (ANIA) and AI Hub, prioritising agriculture, health and education. This AI strategy sets out structures, not funding.
SPEC-AI Nigeria Investigators — Doctors running SPEC-AI Nigeria, a six-hospital randomised controlled trial, doubled peripartum case detection using AI-guided cardiomyopathy screening against routine obstetric care. The AI-enhanced digital stethoscope method required just 47 screenings per extra diagnosis uncovered. Results appearing in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine mark Nigeria's inaugural randomised health AI trial.
Cliniques Universitaires de Kinshasa — Kinshasa's Cliniques Universitaires began an AI stethoscope diagnosis trial of the Pneumoscope, checking whether it detects pneumonia, bronchopneumonia, bronchiolitis and asthma, with sites in Beni. Researchers compare its readings against clinical exams and imaging for accuracy, a form of machine-assisted auscultation for respiratory disease.
Unitrust Insurance — UNIS, Unitrust Insurance's new AI insurance chatbot, offers 24/7 policy queries, quotes and claims handling. Policyholders use this self-service insurance bot to file and follow claims, buy motor cover, pay premiums and download documents unaided.
SPAR South Africa — Employee adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot retail operations at SPAR South Africa has reached 67%, saving roughly 715 hours of labour. Drafting happens in Word, notes get condensed in Teams, and slides emerge from PowerPoint, weaving AI-assisted document creation into daily routines. Ninety-three per cent of staff said output had improved.
Conseil National du Patronat de la Presse et de l'Audiovisuel (CNPA) — Benin's media sector now follows a 33-article Code of Ethics covering AI in journalism, swapping out rules that had stood for 25 years. Reporters must check facts before publishing and resist disinformation, while new guidance points artificial intelligence in newsrooms toward safeguarding integrity and ethical conduct. A countrywide drafting effort, spanning the diaspora, shaped the update.
AI4PEP Senegal — AI4PEP Senegal built Plateforme 3S One Health, an AI-powered zoonotic disease surveillance platform for tracking outbreaks at community level. Three Wolof tools drive it: Taggàt, a chatbot; Jottali, for alerts; and Gëstu, a risk dashboard — linking automated public health surveillance to epidemic detection.
Government of Namibia — Namibia AI policy now runs through a new National AI Council driving the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, backed by Technical Working Groups for healthcare, education, agriculture and mining. The goal: regional leadership in AI adoption and innovation.
N. Dowuona & Company — Ghana's first firm-wide AI legal assistant deployment: N. Dowuona & Company has given lawyers Eskwai Firm Plans, an AI-powered legal research tool from Kwame AI, for drafting and contract review. Kwame AI calls the firm a top practice, citing a month's trial before launch. No earlier firm bought Eskwai's plan.
Libraries Without Borders (Bibliothèques Sans Frontières) — Libraries Without Borders tests an AI language app with 30 primary school teachers in Dakar and Thiès until March 2025, partnering Senegal's Ministry of Education, with French Development Agency backing. Kajou and Pleias research lab built the AI French tutor on a Llama 7-billion-parameter model, writing tailored drills plus thorough one-to-one feedback.
French Government (Ministry of Public Action and Ministry for AI and Digital) — Laurent Marcangeli and Clara Chappaz revealed France's AI in public sector plan on 6 February 2025, reaching Mayotte as a French department. Backed by an interministerial committee under the Prime Minister, the pair committed to faster adoption spanning every ministry, benefiting staff and citizens through new training and tooling. Building on the 2018 national strategy, the announcement signals renewed AI adoption across government.
Safaricom and Opportunity International — Safaricom and Opportunity International built FarmerAI, an AI chatbot for smallholder farmers in Kenya — an AI-driven farm advisory tool for potato growers, 800 to 1,000 of them, via WhatsApp on Safaricom's DigiFarm platform, covering weather, fertiliser, pests and prices. The trial spans February to August 2025.
NetOne — Zimbabwe's NetOne embedded an AI chatbot, Tutsirayi, inside WhatsApp, letting subscribers refill airtime and adjust accounts unaided, bypassing agent queues. This self-service assistant channels OneMoney, EcoCash and PayPal payments, easing pressure on call centre staff.
Federal Executive Council — Nigeria now has an AI oversight body Nigeria calls the National Artificial Intelligence Trust, set up by President Bola Tinubu's Federal Executive Council. Ten (10) AI specialists and two ministers sit on this panel, charged with pooling funds and driving national AI strategy across Nigeria's leading economic sectors.
MTN Zambia — MTN Zambia's Call Natasha, built with blackNgreen, automatically handles up to 83% of queries, cutting response times and costs, MTN says. This AI customer service tool answers financial tips, news and general questions in real time, an automated support tool covering everyday account queries in Zambia. The 83% figure is MTN's own, unverified.
Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Côte d'Ivoire — Côte d'Ivoire's Ministry of Justice and Human Rights has rolled out e-justice, an AI court document processing platform, piloted in Yopougon and Dabou. Nationality certificates, criminal records and other files gain secure digital storage; magistrates can batch-sign up to a thousand at once. It marks early movement toward digital justice administration, confined for now to the trial sites.
SMART Zambia Institute — SMART Zambia Institute is building an AI chatbot for misinformation detection to verify government-related claims on social media. Percy Chinyama said the tool will confirm or dispute questionable posts with official positions, giving citizens direct access to facts about state programmes, an AI-powered fact-checking assistant still in development.
VML South Africa — Half a year spent training on curated open-source pictures yielded Asili AI, VML South Africa's entry into the AI image generator for advertising space: rendering South African people and settings with genuine believability. Built atop Stable Diffusion's Flux model, the in-house system now equips the agency's clients and staff for commercial output, spanning digital ads to billboards. This route into AI image generation for advertising sidesteps stock photography that frequently distorts local context.
Cameroon Ministry of Transport — An AI trucking safety mandate took effect across Cameroon on 1 April 2025: Ym@ne Driver, an AI-powered monitoring system, became compulsory for freight trucks and interurban buses under the Ministry of Transport. Spanning 1,500 vehicles, it spots speeding, phone handling and drowsiness as they occur, having already caught over 32,800 violations. Camtrack, partnered with MTN Cameroon, runs this AI fleet monitoring scheme linking telecoms infrastructure with road-safety technology.
Djibouti Ports Corridor Road SA (DPCR SA) — Cracks and potholes on Djibouti's highway corridor now get flagged automatically under Djibouti Ports Corridor Road SA's (DPCR SA) new AI road monitoring system, built on the RapidCanvas AI platform for automated road condition detection. Instead of waiting for scheduled inspections, crews receive live alerts, which speeds up repair scheduling and helps DPCR SA target maintenance spending where it matters most. The operator links the deployment to safer travel between Djibouti and Ethiopia, part of a broader push under Vision 2035 to position the country as a regional logistics hub.
Parliament of Cameroon / President of the Republic — Cameroon AI regulation begins with Law No. 2024/017, which President Paul Biya promulgated as the nation's first full statute on personal data. Under Article 44, data subjects may oppose any decision made wholly by automated processing or profiling, whatever its effect, so these automated-decision rules reach further than the GDPR. A new regulator, the Personal Data Protection Authority, supervises compliance; controllers' 18-month adjustment period ended 23 June 2026.
Ministry of Technology and Science — Zambia AI policy rests on a five-pillar roadmap from the Ministry of Technology and Science: links and access, dependable data, public trust, entrepreneurial innovation, plus partnerships. Aims include skilled talent, with AI rollout across farming, health, schooling, mining, finance and government. This National Artificial Intelligence Strategy in Zambia treats data and trust as prerequisites for AI adoption.
Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) — Twelve strategic pillars now anchor South Africa AI policy: talent development, digital infrastructure, ethical AI and public sector implementation among them, drafted by the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) within its National Artificial Intelligence Policy Framework. This marks only an opening move toward a fuller national policy, intended down the line to underpin binding AI regulations and perhaps an AI Act. Nothing here binds anyone yet — the framework merely maps a route toward future national AI governance.
Federal Government of Somalia / Ministry of Communications and Technology — Mogadishu's Somalia National AI Center (SNAIC), a state-linked body, champions research, teaching and cross-sector partnerships to accelerate Somalia AI policy goals. Somali National University marked its official launch in July 2026, calling it an AI innovation hub for the nation.
Nigerian Bar Association Section on Legal Practice — Nigeria's legal sector gained formal guidance on AI in legal practice through the Guidelines for the Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Profession in Nigeria, issued by the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Legal Practice. The framework equips lawyers with ethical expectations covering client confidentiality, sound professional judgment, safeguarding of data and management of risk when deploying such tools. It emerged alongside other technology-focused releases unveiled at the association's Annual General Meeting, marking a coordinated push toward artificial intelligence oversight within the country's bar.
Presidencia de la República de Guinea Ecuatorial — Equatorial Guinea's President established a Secretary of State for Artificial Intelligence Systems post under Decreto Núm. 86/2024, naming José Eko Owono Nve its inaugural holder within the Ministry of Transport, Telecommunications and Artificial Intelligence Systems, a government AI leadership role with formal responsibility for steering national artificial intelligence policy. Decreto Núm. 61/2026 of 23 June 2026 confirmed the office's continuation under successor Dr. Óscar Ondo Ngomo.
European Parliament and Council of the European Union — Mayotte falls under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 by virtue of its status as a French overseas department inside the European Union, meaning the EU AI Act Mayotte rules apply automatically without local transposition. Brussels structured this AI regulation in Mayotte around four tiers of danger — unacceptable, high, limited and minimal — with unacceptable practices outlawed from 2 February 2025 and duties for general-purpose AI models starting 2 August 2025. High-risk system requirements arrive later still, from 2 August 2026, giving developers and deployers a staggered runway rather than a single compliance deadline.
Department of Communications and Digital Technologies — South Africa's Department of Communications and Digital Technologies launched efforts toward comprehensive South Africa AI policy by publishing the country's first national artificial intelligence policy framework. The document sets initial direction rather than final law, serving as groundwork for future policy development.
Council of Ministers, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia — Ethiopia's Council of Ministers has cleared the country's first National Artificial Intelligence Policy, passed together with a batch of other bills and draft policies in the same sitting. This Ethiopia AI policy sets priorities spanning health, finance, agriculture and security, anchored in data governance, ethics and skills-building. Oversight of rollout falls to the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute, named as the lead authority steering AI regulation nationwide.
European Parliament and Council of the European Union — AI regulation Réunion rests on Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the EU AI Act, passed 13 June 2024 by the European Parliament and Council and printed in the Official Journal on 12 July 2024. Bloc-wide and binding, it treats Réunion as an outermost EU territory like any other member state, grading AI tools by hazard level and fixing duties on providers and deployers: bans for unacceptable-risk uses, disclosure rules, conformity checks. That single AI governance framework now governs deployment across the union.
Parlement de la République du Congo — The Republic of Congo's Parliament created the Centre Africain de Recherche en Intelligence Artificielle (CARIA) under Law 14-2024, a public body pursuing AI research policy via advanced study, training and innovation. Council of Ministers records frame its purpose as letting African scientists produce and circulate frontier findings in artificial intelligence, following a human-centred model widening gains while easing development hurdles.
CNIL (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés) — France's data authority, the CNIL, issued its first AI system development GDPR guidance on 8 April 2024, following public consultation. Topics addressed include the relevant legal regime, purpose definition, actor qualification, legal basis, testing, data protection impact assessments, and data protection by design. Coverage extends across all French territory, including Mayotte.
National Assembly of Seychelles — A private member's draft, the Pro-Human Technology Bill, would give Seychelles AI regulation covering job loss from automation, safeguarding children's capacity to build natural intelligence at school, and guaranteeing service access without compelling internet use. It also targets digital forgeries and discriminatory outcomes. Srdjana Janosevic put forward this emerging technology legislation, now stalled in a National Assembly working group ahead of full parliamentary debate.
Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) — France's CNIL, under Deliberation 2024-011, released its first framework for AI systems compliant with GDPR, addressing how projects establish legal basis, define purpose, qualify actors, manage data collection, and complete data protection impact assessments. As the French data protection authority, CNIL extends this AI development compliance guidance to Réunion.
Gouvernement de la République Gabonaise / Ministère des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication — Gabon's Gouvernement, via the Ministère des Nouvelles Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication with UNESCO, established the Comité Technique National pour l'Intelligence Artificielle (CTN-IA) for AI governance in Gabon. The body coordinates national efforts toward an ethical AI deployment strategy governing the use of artificial intelligence-based technologies.
Ministry of Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Economy (MCTEN) — Senegal AI policy rests on the National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence, unveiled 14 September 2023 by the Ministry of Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Economy: 'Stratégie nationale et feuille de route du Sénégal sur l'Intelligence Artificielle', to 2028. Four aims — the Plan Sénégal Émergent, AI for good, Ubuntu-inspired solidarity, trustworthy systems. 52 actions, six pillars: human capital, lab-to-market, an AI cluster, a regional AI hub for West Africa.
Conseil National de Transition (CNT) du Mali — Ordinance N°2023-022/PT-RM established the Centre d'Intelligence Artificielle et de Robotique du Mali (CIAR-Mali), a state body holding scientific, technical and cultural status and financed solely from national budget funds of roughly 3 billion FCFA. Under this Mali AI policy, the ordinance's 34 articles, grouped in five titles, charge CIAR-Mali with artificial intelligence and robotics research, development and training. The Council of Ministers endorsed the AI governance measure on 25 July 2023, ahead of unanimous ratification by the Conseil National de Transition on 19 October 2023.
Parlement de la République Gabonaise — The AI data protection law Gabon enacted defines artificial intelligence, along with raw data, AI input data and artificial neuron, making it the only statute in Francophone Afrique to spell out these terms. Loi n° 025/2023 revised the earlier Loi n° 001/2011 framework governing personal data processing. Article 77 bars courts and other bodies from basing a judicial ruling or any decision with legal effect solely on automated profiling of personality traits, while Article 43 grants individuals a right of access covering the reasoning behind such artificial intelligence regulation in personal data processing decisions.
National Information Technology Development Agency — Nigeria's National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) drafted the Code of Practice for Artificial Intelligence, setting a nationwide baseline for AI systems. This Nigeria AI regulation mandates risk checks, disclosure, human oversight and conformity assessment for higher-risk systems, an emerging AI governance framework. Consultation continues as of September 2026, pending final adoption.
Cabinet of Rwanda — Cabinet approval made Rwanda the first African country with a comprehensive National Artificial Intelligence Policy, a landmark for Rwanda AI policy. MINICT and RURA built six pillars covering talent, digital infrastructure, data governance, government uptake, business expansion and ethical safeguards, targeting global standing in AI research and innovation. A dedicated AI Office inside MINICT now leads rollout, part of Rwanda's wider push on AI regulation.
Council of Ministers, Republic of Benin — Benin's Council of Ministers approved SNIAM, its national AI and big data strategy for 2023-2027, on Wednesday 18 January. Backed by 4.68 billion CFA francs, it bundles 123 actions across agriculture, education, health and public administration, forming the country's core AI policy framework.
Parliament of Niger (Assemblée Nationale) — Niger's Loi n° 2022-59, Article 52, sets AI regulation Niger relies on for automated decisions: judicial rulings cannot rest on automated processing assessing personality traits, and administrative or private-sector decisions cannot rest solely on automated profiling. Where a system qualifies as artificial intelligence, its criteria and personal data used must be disclosed at collection. President Mohamed Bazoum promulgated the statute, alongside Burkina Faso's as Africa's only explicit AI clause in data-protection law.
Council of Ministers, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia — Council of Ministers Regulation No. 510/2022 creates the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute (EAII), an autonomous federal body reporting directly to the Prime Minister. This Ethiopia AI regulation assigns the EAII national AI research, policy advice, technology certification and national-security data analysis. That AI governance measure replaced the Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Center.
Ministry of Health of the United Republic of Tanzania — Systematic AI in healthcare integration across Tanzanian hospitals is the goal of the Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence in Tanzania Health Sector, issued by the Ministry of Health of the United Republic of Tanzania. It sets out the technologies, safeguards and roles needed to bring adoption into everyday practice, lifting patient outcomes nationwide. Success depends on joint action by regulators, clinicians, academics and training bodies, building a base for future rules on AI health applications.
Securities and Exchange Commission Nigeria — Nigeria's Securities and Exchange Commission now polices algorithm-driven investment advice through its Rules on Robo-Advisory Services, covering how computer-driven advisory platforms register, operate and manage risk. Providers of these automated tools must also satisfy governance standards and safeguards protecting clients.
Financial Services Commission, Mauritius — Mauritius now regulates AI financial advisory services through a licensing regime for robo-advisory services under the Financial Services (Robotic and Artificial Intelligence Enabled Advisory Services) Rules 2021, made by the Financial Services Commission under section 93 of the Financial Services Act. Licensees must hold minimum capital of MUR 600,000, build algorithm governance frameworks, and file independent evaluation reports on their systems every two years.
French Government (Presidency of the Republic) — French AI policy traces to the Stratégie nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle, unveiled by Emmanuel Macron at the Collège de France during the AI for Humanity colloquium. Four pillars structure it: talent and research for an AI ecosystem, open data for domestic champions, funding for faster AI adoption in health and mobility, and an ethical, political framework. Mayotte, a French overseas department, falls under this Strategy like the rest of France.
A World Bank randomised trial in Edo State, Nigeria showed AI tutoring lifting learning by roughly 0.31 standard deviations, and 0.23 in English, across a six-week after-school scheme for about 800 senior-secondary students. Supervised by teachers, pupils used a generative-AI tutor, Microsoft Copilot powered by GPT-4; the World Bank likens the improvement to about two years of typical learning, and end-of-year exam scores rose too. A formal working paper records the trial.
PlantVillage Nuru, a free offline phone app for AI crop disease diagnosis from Penn State University, the FAO, IITA and CIMMYT, scored 65 per cent on cassava viral-disease symptoms in peer-reviewed trials, beating extension agents (40 to 58 per cent) and farmers (18 to 31 per cent). Its deep-learning plant diagnosis serves African smallholders and agents in the field and operates as a public good throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
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