Why African women lag in mobile Internet usage

A woman surfing the internet on her mobile phone. FILE PHOTO | NMG

An estimated 112 million more women started using mobile internet for the first time last year across low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), according to the 2021 GSMA Mobile Gender Gap Report.

However, there are still 74 million unconnected women in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), and women are still less likely to own a mobile phone than men in the region.

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