DPI Fellowship Showcase

Ronald Musoke

The Independent

• Are Ugandan farmers trading coffee beans to Europe for data?
• How data centres are reshaping Africa's power market
• Are disabled Ugandans being left out of the digital ID system?

Ian Katusiime

The Independent

• Chasing 5G: Uganda's digital leap faces reality check
• The cost of Uganda's internet shutdown
• Raw data, refined elsewhere

Canary Mugume

Next Media

Stories forthcoming.

Milliam Murigi

People Daily / Science Africa

• Media urged to strengthen Digital Public Infrastructure reporting
• Open-source platform boosting farmers' resilience to climate change
• Africa: New digital identification documents deepen marginalisation
• Click, Verify, Own: Kenya's Land Registry goes digital
• A system in transition: Kenya's shift to digital health records
• MOSIP Connect 2026 calls for scalable, country-driven DPI
• Technology-first thinking undermining digital identification success
• MOSIP Create 2026 showcases innovative digital identity solutions

Mercy Chelangat

Nation Media

• Broken system: How Kenya's digital health revolution is failing on the frontline
• Sick, stateless and forgotten: The healthcare crisis facing the undocumented

Sofia Ali

Standard Media

Stories forthcoming.

Jenifer Julius Gilla

The Guardian / Habitat Media

• Digital shift gives new hope to women in VICOBA groups, guarantees security
• Strong digital economy key to inclusive, fast growth The Guardian · 16 Oct 2025 (print)
• Government officials dominate in EAC media coverage, digital content The Guardian · 22 Oct 2025 (print)
• Safeguarding digital finance: Tanzania tightens rules to protect users The Guardian · 30 Dec 2025 (print)
• Digital payments are redefining shopping, enhance safety and business in Tanzania The Guardian · 2 Jan 2026 (print)

Imani Henrick Luvanga

Crown Media / Nukta

• Vijana na mustakabali wa miundombinu ya kidijitali ya umma Tanzania Swahili
• Kutoka NIDA hadi Jamii Namba: safari ya utambulisho wa kidijitali Swahili
• The Cost of Accessing the Internet Instagram reel
• DPI Youth Innovator YouTube

Kaberuka Telesphore

Family Magazine

• Connected but excluded: Rwanda's hidden digital divide
• Rwanda's digital ID: Empowering citizens while protecting privacy
• Rwanda lags dramatically in DPI news coverage as region surges ahead
• Buried with the phone: Rwandans question where the dead's mobile money goes
• Rwanda's digital ID: Empowering citizens while protecting privacy (Part II)
• Inside Rwanda's DPI Center: Can a national hub rewire Africa's digital future?

Marie Louise Mukanyandwi

Freelance / Ubumwe News

• Rwanda–DRC: Persistent struggle of women to use digital cashless payments in cross-border trade
• Rwanda's digital transformation still leaves rural women and people with disabilities behind
• Rwanda's elderly struggle to keep speed with the digital revolution
• Lost signals, found hope: Connecting Rwanda's forgotten corners
• Greening the future: How young innovators in Rwanda are using open data to fight climate change

Kampire Nadine Temba

Afia-Amani Grand-Lacs

• La République du cash : pourquoi la RDC résiste encore à la révolution du mobile money Français
• Passeport biométrique congolais : un bijou technologique pris en otage par la corruption Français
• RD Congo : le mirage de l'identité numérique entre naufrage administratif et impératif de souveraineté Français
• Le mur invisible : comment le numérique francophone exclut la majorité congolaise Français
• Le numérique, ce nouveau mur qui sépare la RDC Français

Lebon Kasamira

Habari RDC

• Goma et Bukavu : quand la survie s'improvise dans un chaos économique Français
• HealthLink : l'innovation congolaise qui veut réduire les erreurs médicales à Goma Français
• RDC : comment la biométrie et l'IA peuvent transformer les universités Français
• Numérique en RDC : une loi existe, mais les citoyens restent peu protégés Français

Samuel Abate

Ethio Negari

• National Bank orders banks to link customer accounts with national ID
• Study reveals gaps in DPI coverage across East Africa
• Ethiopia expands national digital ID to 70 million citizens
• Ethiopia digital content story (press.et)
• Ethiopia digital content story (press.et) Amharic
• Ethiopia sets 75% digital payments target by 2030
• Ethiopia unveils Digital Ethiopia 2030 Strategy
• Ethiopia to hold digitally supported general election in June 2026

Ayele Addis Ambelu

EMMA News / Africa News Channel

• Digital Ethiopia or Digital Mirage? Who Pays When E-Government Fails?
• Digital Ethiopia 2025: Challenges, Gaps, and Pathways Forward Amharic
• What is the Digital ID supposed to be issued to all legal residents of Ethiopia? Amharic
• Behind Fayda: The hidden costs, winners, and losers of Ethiopia's Digital ID Revolution
• Digital Ethiopia 2030: A bold national vision at the crossroads of promise and peril
• Ethiopia advances digital public services: 800+ government services online Amharic
• Radio broadcasts: four community radio programmes on Ethiopian Mass Media — audio pending DPI Journalism Playlist upload

Hassan Istiila

Hiiraan Online

• A smart national ID powers Somalia's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) vision
• Somalia's E-visa breach exposes gaps in Digital Public Goods oversight

Naima Arabow Abdulle

Infinity Media

Stories forthcoming.

Kei Emmanuel Duku Yona

Citizen Newspaper

• South Sudan Cyber Crimes and Computer Misuse Bill 2025 passed to third reading
• Cash crunch hits MoMo users as MTN South Sudan service fails
• Legislator demands overhaul of South Sudan's Cybercrime Bill

John Tor Madira Machier

Sudans Post

• South Sudan's digital finance mirage
• The rise of digital authoritarianism in South Sudan
• What is actually functioning as DPI in South Sudan?
• Weak digital safeguards expose South Sudanese women to online violence
• Can a digital economy exist in South Sudan without reliable DPI?

Jean de Dieu Ndikumasabo

Burundi News Agency

Stories forthcoming.

Avit Ndayiziga

Community Voice

Stories forthcoming.