A curated weekly selection of 59 headlines highlighting the spirit of African technology. 21+ nations are represented this week.

Angola

• Angola: State Minister Inaugurates Information Technologies School {AllAfrica.com}

Botswana

• Botswana, SA share notes on ICT {BizTech Africa}

Cameroon

• Les sept candidats pour la licence 3G au Cameroun {Ecofin}

Egypt

• Egypt looks to post-revolution ICT boost {BizTech Africa}

Ethiopia

• Death of Ethiopian prime minister leads to internet uncertainty {CPI Dubai}
• Tanzania, Ethiopia: Meles Zenawi ‘Tweets’ from Grave {Global Voices Online}

Kenya

• Posta to roll out wireless Internet {Daily Nation}
• New Africa: the Kenyan internet nerd reshaping a nation {The Guardian}
• AccessKenya targets counties {BizTech Africa}
• Innovation Spaces in Kenya {*iHub}

Mauritius

• Mobile connectivity improved in Republic of Mauritius {Bizcommunity.com}
• Statistics Mauritius ICT Report: 370 000 Internet Subscribers … {Mopays.com}

Morocco

• Morocco to develop ultra-fast broadband {magharebia.com}

Namibia

• LTE comes to Angola, Namibia {TechCentral}

Nigeria

• Women in Tech Bemoan Bad Impact of Technology On Children {AllAfrica.com}
• Nigeria: NCC To Accelerate Broadband Services, Lobbies Investors {Ventures Africa}
• Online comics African style {Radio Netherlands}
• iROKING hits 100 000 registered users {Bizcommunity.com}
• Google Aids Online Presence Of 250000 Nigerian SMEs {Ventures Africa}
• Nigeria Secret Police Details Leaked {AP via NPR}
• Online retail expands as tech-savvy Nigerians seek bargain buy {BusinessDay}
• Nigeria: GSM Coverage Reaches 60 Percent, Says Minister {AllAfrica.com}

North Africa

• Internet ‘important tool’ to hire executives in Mena region {Gulf Times}
• Facebook Israel-Arab Youth Group Has Rare Meeting {ABC News}

Rwanda

• 45% of Rwandans have access to mobile phones {Chris Tredger}
• Rwanda : Carnegie Mellon University officially launches in Rwanda {News Of Rwanda Group}
• Rwanda: Volunteers Put Kigali On Google Map {AllAfrica.com}

Senegal

• Dakar abrite le premier TechCamp organisé en Afrique subsaharienne {Ecofin}
• Sénégal: un forum national pour préparer le Forum mondial sur la gouvernance de l’Internet {Ecofin}

Sierra Leone

• 6 Most Influential Sierra Leoneans on facebook : Sierra Leone News … {Switmot}

South Africa

• Broadband Stats SA – Campaign to improve South Africa’s {Facebook}
• SA’s online retail explosion {Moneyweb.co.za}
• 56kbps dial-up soon a premium Internet access service {MyBroadband}
• IPSA appoints full time INX manager {Bizcommunity.com}
• Telkom network added to open source fibre map {MyBroadband}
• Sandton hotel gets 2Gbit/s Internet access {TechCentral}

South Sudan

• South Sudan aims to replace VSAT internet with fibre links {Telecompaper}

Sudan

• Sudan urges technology in education {BizTech Africa}

Swaziland

• SPTC introduces high speed home internet package {The Swazi Observer}

Tunisia

• The Tunisian Blogosphere in Search of a New Direction {Tunisia Live}
• Social Media and Protest Mobilization in Tunisia {LDCR}

Uganda

• Uganda holds National IGF 2012 {ISOC Uganda}
• Apps: the Afro revolution {The Guardian}
• Broadband link reaches all town centres {The Citizen}

Zimbabwe

• Towards a National E-Health Vision {AllAfrica.com}

General Africa

• Online piracy: how African innovators are tackling music’s biggest scourge {Memeburn}
• Cloud Computing for the Poorest Countries {New York Times (blog)}
• Consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa Ready for Next Step in M-commerce {Einnews Portugal}
• 100Gbps IS-WACS dual-route cable system completed {MyBroadband}
• Huawei to provide Movicel with LTE backhaul networks {IT News Africa}
• Six African projects named among world’s 100 most innovative {Creamer Media’s Engineering News}
• Seacom ‘no longer just a cable’ {ITWeb}
• Africa’s top-selling mobile handsets {IT News Africa}
• Africa embroiled in dot com frenzy {IT News Africa}
• The quest for an African Internet {BizTech Africa}
• 10 dollars pour acquérir le dotAfrica à partir de 2013 {Ecofin}
• African Union(AU) Selects the Internet Society to Support Establishment of Internet Exchange Points across Africa {ISOC}
• Infrastructures en Afrique: L’arrivée des nouveaux câbles ouvrira davantage la compétition {Ecofin}
• Africa’s innovators to showcase their talent in Nairobi {IT News Africa}