Over the past two weeks, we’ve come across 174 news articles and blog posts about how Africans are harnessing the Internet. Some stories are related to business. Others have to do with social progress. Either way, forty nations are represented. This post includes 66 news articles from countries N-Z. Please keep in mind that countless more headlines exist; they happened to fly under our radar this time around.

Namibia

• Kaapanda calls for support for e-learning conference {GlobalPost}
• Telecom Namibia Posts Record Results {AllAfrica.com}

Niger

• Airtel désignée l’entreprise la plus responsable sur le plan social {Ecofin}

Nigeria

• Nigeria Lost $23.8m To Purchase Of .Com, .Org, .Co.uk {Ventures Africa}
• Nigerians’ online shopping habit now in excess of N62.4bn … {Business Day Nigeria}
• Entrepreneurs Can Now Signup To Own ‘Online Stores’ – Konga {Ventures Africa}
• IXPN, NIRA in fresh drive to boost local Internet content in Nigeria … {Tech Times NG}
• NCC Threatens to Revoke Telecoms Licences {AllAfrica.com}
• Harnessing Local Content For {Leadership Newspapers}
• More Nigerians need to use mobile phones, Internet – Coleman … {The Punch}
• Govt sets KPIs to monitor ICT progress {The Guardian Nigeria}
• Addressing challenges of Nigeria’s e-Learning initiatives {The Guardian Nigeria}
• Ambiom Wireless to enhance internet penetration in Lagos {The Guardian Nigeria}
• 3.75G network pioneering status earns Airtel new recognitions {National Mirror}
• 10 Years On, the Beat Goes On for GLO {AllAfrica.com}
• Airtel Introduces ‘Whatsapp’ Data Service {AllAfrica.com}
• Etisalat Launches Metro Fibre Network in Abuja {AllAfrica.com}
• Open Innovation Will Drive ICT Growth {AllAfrica.com}
• Glo launches upgrade of mobile network {TeleGeography}
• Etisalat Nigeria to raise USD500m for network expansion {TeleGeography}
• Tecno, Co-creation Hub Partner on Software Application {THISDAY}

North Africa

• 8 Hackerspaces Changing the Arab World {Wamda}

Rwanda

• Rwandan bank introduces online marketing platform {African Manager}
• ‘Microsoft4Afrika’ launched in Kigali {The New Times}

Senegal

• L’Artp se dote d’outils pour mesurer la qualité du réseau mobile {Ecofin}
• Moaning over rural-urban schools digital divide in Africa {BiztechAfrica}

Sierra Leone

• $100M Project…Free Internet for Sierra Leone {Sierra Express Media}

South Africa

• BOCRA urged to revise Internet pricing structure {Mmegi Online}
• Seed Engine: start-ups, accelerated {TechCentral}
• Scramble for Africa’s tech heart {Times LIVE}
• Invasion: will international attention boost or badger African tech … {Ventureburn}
• Facebook stats for South Africa: the truth {MyBroadband}
• Telkom Says 2013 Earnings Will Be at Least 20 Percent Lower {Businessweek}
• New SA broadband policy: more talking about talking {MyBroadband}
• Top 10 South African Mobile sites {IT News Africa}
• Online retail counts cost of broadband {BDlive}
• Cheaper, faster broadband plan for SA: Alan Knott-Craig {MyBroadband}
• East African JINX presence helps with Seacom problems {MyBroadband}
• Why a streaming TV service should be Google’s next African play {Memeburn}
• Mysterious SA broadband numbers exposed {MyBroadband}
• BlackBerry wants SA app developers {Bizcommunity.com}
• Youth flock to mobile messaging apps, may be threat to Facebook {Times LIVE}
• Soweto Youth Centre Gets 35 Computers {AllAfrica.com}

South Sudan

• Coming Soon: Dot-SS for South Sudan {Voice of America}

Tanzania

• ICT innovation awardees tout for better training {Daily News}
• Tanzania digital tech crawling {Bizcommunity.com}
• TTCL introduces new mobile internet offers {Telecompaper}
• Tanzania yet to tap ICT wealth {The Citizen Daily}
• Dar ICT Innovators Get Sh85 Million Boost {AllAfrica.com}
• Tanzania sets up backup internet connection for emergency {HumanIPO}

Tunisia

• A look back at Hivos’ Internet Governance training in Tunisia {Hivos}
• 3 Ways That a Tunisian IT Outsourcing Company Survived the Revolution {Wamda}
• Interior Minister Calls for New Internet Monitoring Body {Tunisia Live}
• Major step toward super-fast broadband throughout Tunisia {BiztechAfrica}
• Tunisie et l’Algérie interconnectent leur réseaux Internet {Geekios}

Uganda

• Hacking for charity: How one former hacker is getting techies … {ZDNet}
• Business License Reforms Get Web Boost {AllAfrica.com}

West Africa

• FT-Orange seals tower leasing deal with IHS for Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire ops {TeleGeography}

Zambia

• Zambian teens learn Twitter & Facebook to stop violence against women {WNN – Women News Network}
• Peace Corps Volunteers Create Mobile Language Application {Peace Corps}

Zimbabwe

• Zimbabwe’s tech mercenaries {Technology Zimbabwe}
• Econet launches 3G mobile Wi-Fi device, competes with fixed … {Technology Zimbabwe}
• Zimbabwe’s Small but Expanding Tech for Social Change Scene … {Indigo Trust}
• Morgan Tsvangirai meets with US tech business leaders {IT News Africa}
• Internet firm to roll out 4G technology {The Herald}
• Powertel eyes licence renewal {TeleGeography}