The Republic of Botswana has become the sixth African country to sign the Artemis Accords, joining a growing group of nations on the continent formalising their participation in the United States-led framework for lunar governance. Hon David Tshere, Botswana’s minister of communications and...

Space in Africa is set to publish the first-ever NewSpace Africa Conference Impact Report, documenting the conference’s five-year journey from its inaugural edition in Nairobi in 2022 to its milestone 2026 edition in Libreville, Gabon. The report documents the evolution of Africa’s leading space...

The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) has confirmed the dismissal of an application by the LEO-satellite internet services provider Starlink, bringing a long-running regulatory dispute closer to its conclusion. CRAN’s CEO, Emilia Nghikembua, noted that 622 of the 624 applications...

Angola’s national communications satellite, ANGOSAT-2, has begun receiving signals and conducting operational testing at the Boane Earth Station in Maputo Province, Mozambique, marking the first active technical deployment of the satellite in the country. The testing is running in parallel with the...

Starlink Internet Services Nigeria Ltd ended the quarter with 91,991 subscribers, narrowing the gap with long-time market leader Spectranet Ltd to 16,534, a competitive distance that stood at nearly 40,000 just five quarters earlier. Furthermore, Nigeria’s total active ISP subscriber base reached...

The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) convened its 69th session in Vienna from 10 to 18 June 2026, a gathering that opened with a symbolic changing of the guard. Professor Rafiq Akram of Morocco’s Royal Centre for Space Studies and Research, who had steered the...

The SMART Zambia e-Government Division has launched the Zambia National Spatial Data Infrastructure (ZNSDI) Policy alongside a new national geospatial portal, signalling a major shift in how government spatial data will be managed, shared, and used across public institutions from 2026 to 2030. The...

The National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana hosted a delegation from the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) on a benchmarking visit in Accra, aimed at strengthening regulatory collaboration and knowledge exchange in satellite communications services. The visit is part of...

Eutelsat and Mercury, a subsidiary of Sonangol Group and Angola’s leading provider of telecommunications services, have signed a new multi-year, multi-million agreement for Eutelsat’s low Earth orbit (LEO) connectivity services, deepening a partnership that has spanned several years. Building on...