Ivorian computer engineer Charlette N'Guessan became the first woman to win the Royal Academy of Engineering's Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, for a facial-recognition identity-verification system built to fight banking fraud.
Record no. MRB-2026-007146
First Woman to Win the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation
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