IBM is investing in Africa’s workforce: IBM is ramping up its digital skills training program to accommodate as many as 25 mn Africans in the next five years, “looking toward building a future workforce on the continent,” Loni Prinsloo writes for Bloomberg. The company is investing USD 70 mn to roll out the program in South Africa, but other countries set to benefit include “Nigeria, Kenya, Morocco and Egypt, enabling the expansion of the project across the continent.” IBM’s aim is clear; the company projects Africa will have the largest workforce on the planet by 2040 and it wants “to lay the foundation blocks to build a digital workforce,’’ Juan Pablo Napoli, head of IBM Skills Academy, says.