Meta has officially launched WhatsApp ads in Kenya, introducing advertisements within the Status and Channels sections of the app for its approximately 25 million Kenyan users.

• Ads will appear in the Updates tab, interspersed between Status posts and as Promoted Channels.
• WhatsApp personal chats, calls, and group conversations remain end-to-end encrypted and untouched by ads.
• Ad targeting will leverage signals like country, device language, followed Channels, and ad interaction, with cross-app data from linked Facebook and Instagram accounts also used.

Safaricom has outperformed Airtel across all mobile internet performance metrics in Kenya for the first time, according to nPerf's 2026 report.

• Safaricom achieved an overall nPerf score of 48,015 points, significantly higher than Airtel's 30,156 points.
• The report, covering April 2025 to March 2026, highlighted Safaricom's significantly faster average download speeds of 30.55 Mb/s compared to Airtel's 13.20 Mb/s.
• This marks a historic win for Safaricom, occurring in the first cycle where both operators qualified for benchmarking against each other.

NTT DATA has achieved a significant networking milestone, becoming the first operator in Africa to establish active 400 Gbps peering at the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX).

• 400 Gbps active peering at JINX.
• Key player: NTT DATA.
• This upgrade positions South Africa's Internet exchange environment at a level comparable to leading global markets, crucial for Africa's rapidly growing digital economy.