Uganda’s Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities has designated Mbale City as the primary focal point for national World Tourism Day 2026 celebrations, launching an artificial intelligence and digital transformation drive to expand transit links and cross-border circuits across Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Burundi.
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IMANI PULSE REPORT: Monitoring period: 8 August – 7 September 2026 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 Special Report
African countries are seeking to harness artificial intelligence and digital health technologies to detect disease threats earlier, predict where outbreaks could emerge and speed up emergency responses, as governments push to build stronger, more connected health systems, African health experts and policymakers said.
India is pushing for a digital currency network linking BRICS economies, a move that could give African members South Africa, Egypt and Ethiopia a new route for cross-border payments and trade.
Africa’s digital payments surge is widely seen as a success story of easier transactions, broader financial access and rapid fintech expansion, but as banks expand across borders and transactions move faster, a more structural question is emerging: can digital payment infrastructure also make banking systems more resilient when liquidity comes under pressure?
Africa is home to 18% of the world’s people but holds less than 1% of global data centre capacity, and only about 40% of its population is online. That gap in compute, connectivity, and digital skills is what a new pan-African research call wants to close.
African governments are racing to digitise public services, connect institutions and modernise administration. However, many e-government projects still end in delay, underperformance, budget overruns or abandonment. The problem, a new review argues, is not simply weak technology; it is the disconnect between how digital projects are formally governed and the political, institutional and operational conditions…
Challenging the prevailing narratives of a ‘rural cloud’, 97.5% of data centers in the USA are situated in cities. Data center siting is driven by local infrastructure and fossil-fuel industrial legacy, which poses substantial challenges to urban livability.
Lagos State is positioning itself as Africa’s leading tourism and events destination through sustained investments in transport infrastructure, urban renewal, waterfront development and digital connectivity aimed at attracting private capital into the sector, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said.
