Lebanon’s leading English daily newspaper recently cited African nations as benchmarks for Internet speeds. Citing Net Index by Ookla speed data, The Daily Star wrote:
…Lebanon’s information economy is stymied by connectivity rates that trail behind states like Zambia and Tanzania, where speeds are twice as fast while GDP per capita …

20 intriguing tech stories, with the majority coming out of South Africa and Nigeria.

Over the next nine months, sixteen additional African nations will hold democratic elections, but how much information will be exchanged using the Internet?

Plenty of positive mobile news (m-learning, social, Android, LTE, Google), and news of general African opportunities

Stories from Angola, Botswana, DRC, Egypt, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, SA, Tunisia, Zambia, and Zim

Enter ZedFibre, a relatively small one-man Zambian blog that shares ICT action from Zambia. Zed has remained silent since mid-April, however.