This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Emerging Technologies for Developing Countries, AFRICATEK 2026, held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, June 25–26, 2026.

The 29 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. They are organized into the following topical sections: Dataset and Artificial Intelligence Application in Cyber
security; Artificial Intelligence Application in e-health and in climate change; Networks and systems for Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence : Transformers, Computer Vision, Q-learning, Sentiment Analysis;