Africa/Middle East

As Uganda's ICT sector advances, calls for a consumer rights watchdog are growing louder.  read more »

A report on mobile telecommunication growth in Africa has identified high taxation, low income, illiteracy, unreliable electricity supplies and corruption as the major challenges to the sector's growth and development.  read more »

Ushahidi -- the developer of a free, open-source tool for sourcing crowd information during crises -- has won the NetSquared Mashup Challenge, earning US$25,000 in prize money and a $200,000 grant from Humanity United.  read more »

The Sierra Leonean media has fallen behind in the use of IT, said Tonya Musa, a media consultant and lecturer at Fourah Bay College, in an interview after a training program for journalists last week.  read more »

As part of Zain Sierra Leone's expansion strategy, the company's network has moved from its previous 076 code to 078, director of sales and customer care Keith Tukei revealed Thursday.  read more »

The cost of communication in South Africa is set to fall after Pretoria High Court ruled in favor of Altech last week, giving telecom companies the right to build their own networks.  read more »

Police in Zambia have arrested three Zain Zambia employees for stealing US$10,000 belonging to the company.  read more »

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has introduced a 10 percent excise duty on wireless telephone services, which local loop operators have criticized as unfair.  read more »

Mobile phone operator Zain Kenya has commenced a two-year, 25 billion Kenyan shilling (US$366.3 million) expansion program with an initial investment of 3 billion shillings to upgrade its network.  read more »

Motorola Israel Limited (MIL) has sought an official invitation letter from the Sierra Leone government for a team of its experts to visit the country, a source from the country's Ministry of Information and Communications wrote in an e-mail to Deputy Minister Mohammed Koroma on Wednesday.  read more »