Scientists say a disease destroying entire crops of cassava has spread out of East Africa into the heart of the continent, is attacking plants as far south as Angola and now threatens to move west ...

IBADAN, Nigeria (AP) – From this field nestled among the lush rolling hills of Nigeria’s southwest, the small plants rising out the hard red dirt appear fragile, easily crushed by weather or chance.

Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology and telecoms infrastructure firm, has unveiled the Cassava AI Multi-Model Exchange (CAIMEx) — a platform designed to give African mobile-network ...

Cassava Technologies is preparing to invest up to $720m to establish Africa’s first AIfactory, which will be developed in collaboration with US-based GPU manufacturer Nvidia, Bloomberg has reported.

The Rockefeller Foundation has recently launched an innovative collaboration with Cassava Technologies to ensure increased access to artificial intelligence in Africa. The new initiative will provide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A grower shows off his lush cassava garden. Stephen Wooding, CC BY-ND The three staple crops dominating modern diets – corn, rice ...

Cassava Technologies is building a new supercomputer in South Africa as part of what it claims is Africa’s “first AI factory.” It is the first stage of a plan to bring AI hardware to its data centers ...

Nigeria, the world’s largest producer of cassava, stands at a defining crossroads in its decades-long quest to transform ...

The message may sound counter-intuitive, but it comes from those closest to the market. “We don’t need more data centres right now. We need to boost demand,” said Amine Kandil, founder of Morocco’s ...

Cassava witches’ broom disease is quickly spreading across Northeastern South America, threatening a critical food staple for millions of people in Brazil and the continent Around the same time, ...