Monitor/Countries
Country index
Every African country with stories on Africa AI Monitor, grouped by UN subregion, followed by the country news desk. News and initiatives by country, from Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa to the rest of the continent.
Country index by region
15 countries with storiesNorth Africa
2 countries · 6 stories
West Africa
4 countries · 6 stories
East Africa
4 countries · 8 stories
Central Africa
1 country · 1 story
Southern Africa
4 countries · 8 stories
Country news
5 stories · country-level news and initiatives-
Egypt Targets 250 AI Start-Ups and Up to Seven AI Data Centres by 2030
Egypt has unveiled targets to back 250 artificial intelligence start-ups and attract up to seven AI data centres by 2030 to bolster its domestic digital economy.
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Eswatini and AICE Africa Launch AI Safety and Standards Centre of Excellence
Eswatini’s national standards body and AICE Africa have launched a centre of excellence to build domestic capacity for auditing and certifying AI systems.
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Kenya Scales Up Public Sector AI Training to 9,000 Civil Servants
Kenya and UNESCO have expanded a digital leadership programme to train 9,000 public servants in artificial intelligence governance and ethics following an initial graduation cohort.
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The Gambia Urges Small Nations to Use Size as an AI Strategy
At the AIFOD Geneva Summit 2026, Ambassador Muhammadou M.O. Kah argued that small African countries should leverage their size to lead in practical artificial intelligence.
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Nigeria Proposes African Compute Pooling at BUILD 2026 Conference
Nigeria has proposed pooling AI computing capacity across African countries to train large-scale models, addressing regional infrastructure constraints at BUILD 2026.