Over the past two weeks, we’ve come across 174 news articles and blog posts about how Africans are harnessing the Internet. Some stories are related to business. Others have to do with social progress. Either way, forty nations are represented. This post includes 72 news articles from countries A-M. Please keep in mind that countless more headlines exist; they happened to fly under our radar this time around.

Algeria

• Le gouvernement veut d’abord acquérir Djezzy avant de lancer la 3G {Ecofin}
• Le lancement de la 3G pourrait être fatal à Algérie Télécom… {Ecofin}
• TIC: l’Algérie se maintient {Le Courrier de Atlas}

Angola

• Microsoft Holds Training On New Technologies {AllAfrica.com}
• ZTE remporte le mandat d’installation de compteurs électriques intelligents en Angola {Ecofin}
• Angola’s Lunda Norte portal to be revived {BiztechAfrica}

Benin

• Le paradis des réseaux de scammers: La Voix de la Russie {RUVR}

Botswana

• Botswana to roll out high speed Internet {Global Times}
• Parliament launches Botswana Speaks website {Mmegi}

Burkina Faso

• In the abscence of a legal framework, people are they totally free on the internet? {Unconference Pitch for Stockholm Internet Forum}

Burundi

• Invest enough time in developing your business plan, says Burundi … {How we made it in Africa}

Cameroon

• Vers une démocratisation de l’accès à Internet ? {ISF}

Cape Verde

• Cape Verde’s Good News {Believing In Africa}

Chad

• Un blogueur arrêté et mis au secret {ISF}

Cote D’Ivoire

• Registering Births in Ivory Coast, Now Possible Via SMS {AllAfrica.com}
• Université de Cocody, les étudiants dans l’attente du Wi {Koaci.com}
• ATCI reports 19.83m mobile users in 2012 {TeleGeography}

DR Congo

• Stage two of DRC fibre rollout now underway {TeleGeography}

East Africa

• Is EA Ready for E-Govt Infrastructure? {AllAfrica.com}

Egypt

• Huawei to supply Egypt’s Etisalat Misr with tower tech {ITWeb Africa}
• Vodafone, Ericsson test feature to make rural mobile coverage cheaper {PCWorld}
• Egypt moves to block access to pornography {Los Angeles Times}
• US Embassy In Egypt Briefly Suspends Twitter Account After Spat With Egyptian … {Huffington Post}
• Tweet tussle between U.S. embassy, Egypt over ‘Daily Show’ clip {CNET (blog)}
• Egyptian Hashtag Takes on Homophobia! {Global Voices}
• Egypt to focus on ICT centres for the disabled {BiztechAfrica}
• Egypt’s ICT Minister tours US {BiztechAfrica}
• Internet users in Egypt [Infographic] {Digibuzzme}

Ethiopia

• Internet controls in other countries To each their own {The Economist}
• Ethiopia Drafting Law to Regulate Internet, Radio and TV {2merkato}
• Ethiopia using spyware to monitor political activists: report {Sudan Tribune}
• ethio telecom punts 3G packages {BiztechAfrica}

Gabon

• How Gabon Is Using Technology To Boost Tourism {Ventures Africa}
• Internet au Gabon : un outil de développement local? {LEDNA}

Gambia

• Stakeholders Validate Draft Internet Exchange Point Study Report {AllAfrica.com}
• Internet Society (Gambia) Radio Programme at Hilltop FM … {ISOC Gambia}

Ghana

• Govt. serves up 600 Better Ghana Laptops to Journalists {spyghana.com}
• Ghana rises to 95th in 2013 WEF digital rankings {Ghana Business News}
• MTN To Launch Cloud Services In Ghana {spyghana.com}
• Work on Ghana’s broadband policy finalised {GhanaWeb}
• An Open Letter:How Grateful Is The Ghanaian Artiste To The Blogger? {spyghana.com (blog)}
• Foreign apps ‘killing local content’ {BiztechAfrica}
• Huawei confident in Ghana’s ICT graduates {BiztechAfrica}
• Ministry: use ICTs in fire fighting {BiztechAfrica}
• Hands on computer classes for 450 Ghana children {GlobalGiving}
• Online system boosts Ghanaian agriculture {HumanIPO}
• Sixty People Will Take Part In Talks About The Future Of The Internet In Ghana – Could One Of Them Be You? {ISOC}

Guinea

• Le tribunal suspend les travaux de Sodiacom sur la fibre optique de la Sotelgui {Ecofin}
• French backers seek to open first Guinean IXP {TeleGeography}

Kenya

• Twitter brings trending topics to 160 new locations {ITworld.com}
• Kenya’s authorities in UN partnership to push ICT {IT News Africa}
• Google Maps Navigation (Beta) in Kenya {Capital FM Kenya}
• State House now on Facebook, Twitter {Capital FM Kenya}
• Smartphones versus feature phones {BusinessTech}
• Nokia, Airtel partner to deliver client value in Africa {Capital FM Kenya}
• Kenya’s middle class offers opportunity for smartphones market {Business Daily}
• Samsung to open laptop, TV assembly plant in Kenya {Daily Nation}
• Video-sharing app for mobile ads launched in Kenya {HumanIPO}
• Tech central to Kenyan growth – Kenyatta {HumanIPO}

Liberia

• Electronic Books for Gbarnga Students {AllAfrica.com}

Libya

• LTT’s WiMax widely exploited, hackers claim {Libya Herald}
• Kuwait telco Zain keen on Libya market-chairman {Reuters}

Madagascar

• le groupement des opérateurs TIC proteste contre la nouvelle tarification mobile {Ecofin}
• « Café TIC » : diffuser la culture TIC {NewsMada.com}

Malawi

• Malawi on the road to 2014: Facebook, Smartphones, Internet and White Smoke {Nyasa Times}

Mali

• Mali becomes first African country to give away domain for free {The Guardian}
• Mali gives away its .ML domain names for free {IT News Online}

Mauritania

• La Mauritanie grâce à l’atterrissement du câble sous-marin ACE, va assurer une plus grande sécurisation de l’accès à internet et de sa stabilisation {Noorinfo.com}

Mayotte

• Un schéma directeur territorial d’aménagement numérique en concertation avec les opérateurs {Orange Mayotte}

Morocco

• The Fatwa Show’: Moroccan journalist tells clerics to just have some fun {CS Monitor}
• Rocket’s HelloFood Launches in Saudi Arabia and Morocco; Can It Tackle the Middle East? {Wamda}

Mozambique

• Mozambican Political Parties and the Internet {Global Voices}