60 stories from 18+ countries. Heavy on East Africa, South Africa, and General Africa this week.

Djibouti

• New Agreement Brings Level 3’s Premium High-Speed IP Services to Djibouti: {MarketWatch}

Egypt

• 22.4% of Internet users in Egypt use e-commerce services: {Egypt-Business.com}

Ethiopia

• Ethiopia Berhan Bank to Introduce Internet Banking: {allAfrica}

Ghana

• Ghana’s knowledge economy depends on ICT economy: {Bikya Masr}
• Ghana Challenges Africa’s Software Stigma: {Global Atlanta}
• Social Media Is Playing A Role In Ghana’s Election 2012: {Spyghana.com}
• Ghana’s knowledge economy depends on ICT led economy- Minister: {Vibe Ghana}

Kenya

• Online auction gaining ground in Kenya: {Business Today}
• VoiP technology eats into Telkom Kenya’s fixed line call traffic: {BusinessDaily}
• World Bank helping scale up ICT applications: {Coastweek}
• At nearly 40000 Euros for 100mbs, Dedicated Internet in Kenya is a: {HumanIPO}
• Kenya aims to be top tech hub: {ITWeb}
• LION2 Indian Ocean submarine cable now in service: {Lightwave}
• Safaricom, Qualcomm team up for ‘3G Experiential Tour’: {TeleGeography}
• Kenyans on the net below 50 per cent: {The Star}

Liberia

• Internal Affairs Ministry to Create On-Line Library Soon: {Balancing Act}

Malawi

• Africa Online Learning Inspires Refugees: {allAfrica}
• Online Reaction to Mutharika’s Death · Global Voices: {Global Voices}
• Meet Malawi’s most followed lawyer on Facebook: {Malawi Democrat}

Mali

• Silence of the Local Blogosphere: {Global Voices}

Mauritius

• ICT: Indian Investors Interested in Africa and Mauritius: {Mega.mu}

Morocco

• Terror cell dismantled in Morocco: {Magharebia}

Namibia

• Namibia ranks poorly on ICT usage: {New Era}
• Smartphones to supercharge self-service in South: {The Namibian}

Nigeria

• NCC supports WAFICT Congress 2012 for Broadband Growth: {BusinessDay}
• Nigeria to boost social technology: {IT News Africa}
• Nigerians To Consume N600b Wireless Broadband Service By 2015 – Ovia: {Leadership}
• NITDA pushes for Nigerian flag in cyberspace: {The Nation}
• MTN launches MyOffice solution: {The Nation}
• How new sea cables are changing Nigeria’s bandwidth market: {The Nation}
• ‘Broadband is key in competing with BRICS economies’: {The Nation}
• NITDA Over 44m Internet Users in Nigeria: {This Day}
• Telcos need govt support to build infrastructure – Akinwale Goodluck: {Vanguard}

Rwanda

• New ICT Academy Targets Software Development: {allAfrica}
• Low internet prices position Rwanda as services hub: {Daily Monitor}
• High speed internet exists, but is inaccessible: {The Rwanda Focus}
• Connecting The Future: Kigali, Rwanda: {Urban Times}

Somalia

• Somaliland: Geared Up For Squash The New Technology: {Somaliland Sun}

South Africa

• Does South Africans Real Need 4G iPad?: {GreenITWeb}
• African artworks move online: {ITWeb}
• Twitter users rally to save carjacked man: {MSNBC}
• SA’s giant new sub-sea cable is here: {TechCentral}
• Policy overhaul ‘long overdue’: {TechCentral}
• South African ISPs welcome cut in wholesale ADSL rates: {TelecomPaper}

Tunisia

• Anonymous releases over 2000 hacked emails said to belong to the Tunisian: {TNW}

Uganda

• Rural Women Farmers in Uganda Increasing their use of ICTs: {Women of Uganda Network}
• Mulago to Computerise System: {Balancing Act}
• Orange Uganda: Our Internet Is Now Three Times Faster: {PC Tech Magazine}

Zambia

• How to use Facebook, Twitter to grow your business: {Independent Post}

Zimbabwe

• VP Mujuru Launches Tele-Education Programme: Zimbabwe {allAfrica}
• Zimbile – filling the mobile web gap for African SMEs: {TechZim}
• SMS, USSD and the mobile web: Zimbabwe is not that country: {TechZim}
• Mobile subscription surges: {ZBC}

Africa

• Region Cracks Down on Cyber Crime: {allAfrica}
• Burundi, DR Congo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia – Africas Top 5 ICT: {Budde Comm}
• Anonymous Continues Barrage Of Government Hacks: {Information Week}
• Why Mobile Ads in Emerging Markets are the Future: {Mashable}
• Governments Increasingly Targeting Twitter Users for Expressing Their Opinion: {PBS}
• Fibre no threat to Africa’s space birds: {TechCentral}
• New Submarine Cables Set to Revolutionize West African Internet: {VOANews}