Artificial intelligence (AI) is now linked to more than half of the cybercrime cases reported across Africa, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026. The report warns that cybercriminals are using AI to make attacks faster, larger in scale, and harder for victims, companies, and authorities to detect. INTERPOL says cybercrime has changed from
By Veerakumar Natarajan, Country Head, Zoho Kenya Africa has always turned constraints into innovation. For example, Kenya built M-Pesa when banking systems excluded many people. As a result, mobile money reshaped financial access across the region. It proved that limits can drive breakthrough design thinking. Today, Africa faces a new constraint, the continent struggles with
Kenya and other African countries are set to benefit from stronger economic and strategic ties with Japan following a high-level visit by Japan’s Foreign Affairs Minister Motegi Toshimitsu, who outlined his country’s major diplomatic vision for the continent. Speaking during a policy address in Nairobi on Sunday, May 3, 2026, hosted by the Embassy of