-The penetration rate of mobile service had risen to 49.7 per 100 inhabitants in Kenya. The recent tariff reductions by Kenyan mobile operators will certainly perk up these figures. Mobile technology is destined a significant role in detecting, mapping and responding to epidemics as happened in a recent polio outbreak in Kenya recently. [Source]

-Opera village near Ouagadougou worth 2 million Euros will be built by architect extraordinaire Francis Kere. [ Source]

-3 million years of Kenyan history to be distributed online and accessed from mobile phones.[Source ]

-The music and ideas of Oumou Sangaré [Source ]

-650 Engineers, Designers, Web Developers, Entrepreneurs and Students learned how Google hope to spur Tech Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa and even closer to home Uganda.[Source]

-Zain announced a partnership with IBM to roll out a $1.5 billion infrastructure to be based in Kenya which would support among many other things a Music(think iTunes) and App store (Thin Ovi). [source]

–Ciment institute to be established in Nigeria.[Source]

-Sudan has unveiled plans to redesign a number of its cities into the shape of animals. The southern capital of Juba – reportedly one of the fastest growing cities in the world, is to be relocated and restructured into the shape of a rhinoceros. [Source]

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