Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African Space Agency was officially inaugurated in Cairo's Space City in April 2025. The event marked a milestone in a process ...

Africa is getting more serious about space, with a focus on how the data can benefit end users. Tidiane Ouattara, the president of the African Space Council, outlined some of the challenges and ...

A push by African countries to build their own space sectors is reshaping competition between the US and China, as governments on the continent seek partners to supply satellites, finance ...

Accra, Ghana – The Africa Space Expo (ASPEX), which closed in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, last week, was not designed as a showcase for rockets and astronauts. Organisers presented it instead as a ...

WASHINGTON, March 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As space becomes an increasingly important domain for economic development, national security, and technological innovation, African nations are expanding ...

Eighteen African countries have now launched satellites, as the continent builds its own space sector and looks to cut ...

As a child in Ivory Coast, West Africa, Tidiane Ouattara would gather with friends in his village to stargaze. The group, who dubbed themselves “the Moon Club,” would lay on the ground, looking up at ...

Senegalese engineers in hairnets and white gloves are carefully assembling a nanosatellite at a French lab—another step toward fostering their own space industry back home. Preparations are already ...

At the first ever U.S.-Africa Space Forum, Nigeria and Rwanda became the first African nations to sign the Artemis Accords. Participants in the Forum, which was part of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, ...

South Africa's draft space law would make it an offence to build a satellite without a licence, and could reach companies ...

As President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio settle into their roles, the administration’s priorities for the coming years are coming into focus. Trump has laid out an ambitious vision ...

The African Space Agency was officially inaugurated in Cairo's Space City in April 2025. The event marked a milestone in a process that had been in the works since the early 2000s. Drawing inspiration ...