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# Likita Care Wins 2026 Africa Prize and £50,000 Award

Nigerien healthtech startup Likita Care won the 2026 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, receiving £50,000 to advance its patient monitoring tech.

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## In Short: Likita Care Wins £50,000 For Patient Monitoring
Likita Care, a Nigerien healthcare technology startup, has won the 2026 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. The company received £50,000, about $67,000, to advance its locally developed medical monitoring technology.

## What Happened: How Likita Care Builds Local Patient Monitoring
The Africa Prize is organised by the Royal Academy of Engineering. It recognises African innovators developing engineering solutions to address challenges across the continent.

Likita Care was founded by Mamane Kabirou Ousseini. The startup designs and manufactures patient monitoring devices for hospitals and medical facilities with limited resources.

The company said its work responds to a problem in Niger, keeping imported medical equipment running when it breaks or when replacement parts are unavailable. Likita Care produces medical monitoring equipment locally, which it says makes repairs and maintenance easier for healthcare providers.

Likita Care’s platform combines connected medical hardware, clinical software, and an artificial intelligence module. In this context, artificial intelligence means software that can interpret patient vital signs in real time.

The technology supports general patient monitoring, cardiac assessments, and prenatal care. Likita Care says the system aims to give medical professionals timely information on patients’ conditions to support faster clinical responses and improve healthcare monitoring.

Likita Care said more than 70 monitoring units have been deployed across five medical centres in Niger.

## Why It Matters: Recognition, Adoption, And Expansion Plans
Ousseini became the first engineer from Niger to participate in and win the competition.

The prize finalists were selected from 16 entrepreneurs who took part in an eight-month programme that included technical training, mentorship, and business development support.

Likita Care said it plans to accelerate commercialisation in Niger and prepare to introduce its solutions into neighbouring West African markets.

Three other finalists received £10,000 each, South Africa’s Pee-Cycling, Kenya’s MoyoECG, and Kenya’s Renal Roads. Ghana’s Fusion Wind Turbine received the £5,000 One-to-Watch Award.

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