50 stories from 20+ countries. Themes include LTE for Angola, Gambia online censorship, cyber crime in East Africa, a study on IXPs, and other ICT news.

Algeria

• Algiers values Djezzy at USD6.5 billion: {TeleGeography}

Angola

• Movicel deploys first commercial 1.8GHz LTE network: {Wireless Federation}

Botswana

• Villager’s ICT dream turns nightmarish: {Biztech Africa}
• Botswana improves in global ICT ranking: {Mmegi Online}

Cape Verde

• Sapo Cabo Verde reaches 10 million page views milestone: {TelecomPaper}

Egypt

• Egypt: Internet Radio Powers On After Arab Spring: {allAfrica}

Ethiopia

• Ethiopia community tourism goes online: {Biztech Africa}

Gambia

• Gambia Online News Blockage Condemned: {Jollof News}

Ghana

• Our services cut through the whole spectrum of internet and data: {MobileWorld}
• Internet businesses need trust to survive in telecom sector: {Bikya Masr}
• 100000 PCs coming in Ghana ICT policy: {Biztech Africa}
• Airtel Ghana Introduces rebate on data bundles: {Citi FM}
• Ghana’s Kuntanase to get ICT resource centre: {TelecomPaper}

Guinea-Bissau

• Guinea-Bissau: A Better Place to Go Online: {Rising Voices}

Kenya

• Kenya’s Safaricom to double up Internet users: {Bikya Masr}
• Kenya drops in ICT usage ranking: {Daily Nation}
• Kenyan Internet firm embraces technology to control city traffic: {HumanIPO}
• Science Hack Day, Innovation Hubs and Access to Technology: {ict@innovation}
• Tech to track Kenyan election results: {ITWeb}
• Now extend more ICT to rural areas: {The East African}
• Internet penetration exposes Kenyans to cybercrime: {The Standard}

Malawi

• Malawi could move from two to six mobile networks in 2012: {Budde Comm}
• Social media activism takes root in Malawi: {The Malawi Democrat}

Mali

• Internet and Mobile Phone Access Help Farmers Help Each Other | Nourishing the Planet: {WorldWatch Blogs}

Namibia

• Smoother business registration in the pipeline: {The Namibian}

Nigeria

• Nigeria: 288 Jailed for Internet Fraud – EFCC: {allAfrica}
• Google holds its second Get Nigerian Businesses Online: {CP-Africa}
• Popularizing e-Library In Nigeria: {Leadership}
• Google Nigeria to Remove Barriers to Internet Access: {Nigeria Communications Week}
• Nigerians’ll get more value from govt’s ICT investments – Johnson: {Punch}
• Hotels.com.ng Bringing All Hotels in Nigeria Online: {TechTalkAfrica}
• Three Startups To Watch In Nigeria – Efiko, OfficeMotion: {Tekedia}

Rwanda

• Cyber Crime Still a Major Challenge: {allAfrica}

Seychelles

• Seychelles Connect launches all new website, complete with new: {Press Release}

Somalia

• In Somalia’s Capital, Hope and Reconstruction – Slide Show: {The New York Times}

South Africa

• Apple iPad arriving in SKorea, 11 more countries: {Bangkok Post}
• SA national ICT policy on the brink: {ITWeb}
• SA ‘not leveraging ICT’: {ITWeb}
• Wacs is on the way: {ITWeb}
• ICASA to investigate telecoms prices: {ITWeb}
• Breaking SA’s final broadband bottleneck: {TechCentral}

Tunisia

• After Recent Attacks Interior Ministry to Beef up Internet: {Tunisia-Live}

Zimbabwe

• How I created and launched a website from the internet café in Zimbabwe, Africa: {TechZim}

General Africa

• Cheaper broadband services expected in East Africa as new cable goes live: {Computerworld}
• IBM embarks on ambitious Africa growth plan: {Computerworld}
• Telecom heavyweights showcase innovation at Tech Demo Africa 2012: {IT News Africa}
• New Study Reveals How Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) Spur Internet Growth in Emerging Markets: {MarketWatch}
• 8 Things to consider when building a digital strategy in Sub-Saharan Africa: {Memeburn}
• Regulation and Reform of ICT in Africa: {The African File}
• UNESCO Office in Bangkok: An update on the use of e-readers in Africa: {UNESCO}