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Top Story: Cassava Technologies Unveils AI Autonomous Network to Tackle Africa’s Telecom Challenge
Cassava Technologies has launched a new artificial intelligence-powered network management system designed to automate and optimise mobile network performance across Africa, as operators grapple with surging data demand and increasingly complex infrastructure.
The system, branded Cassava Autonomous Network, independently monitors and optimises Radio Access Networks (RAN), which is the critical layer of telecommunications infrastructure that connects mobile devices to cell towers and governs how signals travel between them.
In many African markets, RAN management still depends heavily on engineers manually intervening when congestion or outages occur, a process that can be both time-consuming and costly.
Cassava says its new platform replaces these manual adjustments with automated optimisation, ushering in what it describes as a step towards intelligent, self-healing networks.
“With this solution, we are delivering on a significant step toward intelligent, self-healing, autonomous networks that drive coverage, quality, profitability, and improve customer experience across the continent,” said Ahmed El Beheiry, Group COO and Group Chief Technology & AI Officer at Cassava Technologies.
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On Startup Spotlight:
Weego Secures $1.1m to Tackle Urban Congestion and Build Morocco’s Multimodal Transport Future
Weego, a Moroccan-Senegalese mobility start-up building a multimodal transport platform, has raised $1.1 million in early-stage funding from Azur Innovation Fund as it seeks to scale operations across Morocco and lay the groundwork for regional expansion into Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
The capital injection will be used to deepen Weego’s footprint in Moroccan cities, strengthen its enterprise-focused transport solutions, and accelerate its ambition of becoming a unified digital gateway for public and private mobility networks.
The raise underscores growing investor interest in transport technology as African cities confront worsening congestion, rising commuter demand and mounting pressure to modernise ageing infrastructure.
“Transportation is the primary obstacle to economic activity in our cities,” said Saad Jittou, Weego’s co-founder and CEO. “By 2030, our metropolitan areas will have to manage unprecedented passenger flows. At Weego, we are building the technological layer that connects existing infrastructure to make it more efficient. This funding enables us to accelerate this vision in Morocco and begin our regional expansion.”
“Weego’s approach addresses a critical need: the unification of transport modes. By investing in this solution, we are supporting a Moroccan innovation capable of becoming a regional standard and meeting the modernisation requirements of our African cities,” said Adnane Filali, Managing Partner at Azur Innovation Fund.
Quadri Adejumo brings you all the details. Read here.
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Nigerian Startup Laskenta Technologies Unveils Workaaholic to Digitally Empower Skilled Craftsmen. Yakub Abdulrasheed brings us the details, here.
Quote of the Day:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke.
Thank you for joining me yet again this evening. Stay safe, and see you tomorrow for the next tech newsletter.
Best, Quadri
