More than half a billion people in sub-Saharan Africa will be subscribed to a mobile service by the end of the decade, according to a new research report from the GSMA released on Tuesday. The GSMA, a mobile industry body, said in the report

Huawei said on Tuesday it will partner with British money transfer operator WorldRemit to let African expatriates send cash home to millions of users of the Chinese company’s mobile money service platform. The deal will

Construction of a new subsea cable, the first to connect Africa with South America, is making progress, with Angola Cables, the company behind the project, announcing on Monday that ground has been broken in the development of a

The South African Social Security Agency has scrapped the advisory groups that were set up to plan for the future of the country’s more than R140bn of annual welfare payments. Letters were sent to the so-called

Eskom said on Monday that auditors have raised concerns about issues relating to Matshela Koko and Brian Molefe, who both ran South Africa’s state-run power utility this year, in their year-end review. The company’s external auditors

MTN has reportedly agreed to settle a fine of $8.5m with the Rwandan government after negotiations over the fine broke down. The fine was imposed on the Rwandan subsidiary of the Johannesburg