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Mohammed Almujtaba
October 16, 2026
Company

34 Years of Technology in Sudan: From Compaq Reseller to Fintech Provider

Advanced Computer & Telecommunication Services (ACTS) was established in February 1992 to provide high-quality services in computers and telecommunications. More than three decades and 300+ projects later, here...

Mohammed Almujtaba
October 16, 2026
Telecom & Networks

Designing 1,300 Copper Cabinets for 520,000 Phone Lines

Before mobile phones were everywhere, fixed telephone lines were how a country communicated. Building that network meant planning thousands of street cabinets that connect individual homes and offices...

Mohammed Almujtaba
October 16, 2026
Telecom & Networks

Fiber Under a Bridge and Through Rock: Two Hard Installations for Canar

Most fiber routes follow roads and open ground. The hardest parts of any network are the places where they cannot: rivers, bridges and rock. In 2006 and 2007,...

Mohammed Almujtaba
October 16, 2026
Fintech

How Sandoog Digitizes Village Savings Groups

Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) are groups of community members who save together and lend to each other. They are one of the most effective ways for...

Mohammed Almujtaba
October 16, 2026
Fintech

Bringing Digital Payments to Microfinance in Darfur

Microfinance institutions are often the only source of credit for small businesses and families in rural areas. But when every loan disbursement and repayment depends on cash, costs...

Mohammed Almujtaba
October 16, 2026
Fintech

Building POS Software for 4,000 Devices

Every time someone in Sudan pays at a shop counter, a fuel station or a government office using a card terminal, a piece of software decides whether that...

Mohammed Almujtaba
October 16, 2026
Agritech

Collecting Agricultural Data Across 10 States: Lessons from Our UNDP Project

Good decisions in agriculture depend on good data: who is farming, what they grow, what they need and where support should go. In 2021, ACTS delivered an agricultural...

Mohammed Almujtaba
October 16, 2026
Agritech

Why Farm Technology in Sudan Has to Work Without Smartphones

Most agritech products start from a simple assumption: the farmer has a smartphone, a data plan and the confidence to use an app. In many parts of Sudan,...

Mohammed Almujtaba
October 16, 2026
Agritech

Connecting 30,000 Farmers to Markets: How Mahsool Works

For a small-scale farmer, growing a good crop is only half the challenge. The other half is selling it at a fair price, finding transport and storage, and...

Mohammed Almujtaba
October 16, 2026
Telecom & Networks

Laying 218 km of Fiber Through Khartoum: The Zain Backbone Project

Mobile networks are only as strong as the cables behind them. Every call, text and data session that leaves a tower has to travel somewhere, and in a...