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Sh200 billion is a serious sum — roughly Kenya's entire annual development budget — and it flows directly into the National Infrastructure Fund, ringfenced for physical infrastructure projects.
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For nearly twenty years, Nigeria's identity system ran on a physical card millions of Nigerians never actually received — printing backlogs, supply delays, years of…
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The $30 million matters less than what Catalyst Fund did before raising it: in 2023, they scrapped grants entirely and switched to equity.
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The law the court struck down — Section 6(1)(j)(a) of Kenya's Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act — handed a single government committee the power to order…
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Five to ten African startups will get to test Google's latest models — Gemini, Gemma, Veo — before those tools are released to anyone else.
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Twenty-one African governments have signed deals that trade up to 25 years of patient data — disease histories, pathogens, individual health records — for five years of…
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Visa has outlined advances in AI, tokenisation, and stablecoin capabilities shaping the future of commerce, reporting 60-times growth in stablecoin settlement volumes in…
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