Tech Investment Africa
Daily tech-investment intelligence across Africa — the biggest story from every market, scored and threaded into Insights.
Baxi: instant transfers killed the POS agent, not Onafriq
The naira depreciation and rising costs are real. But the mechanism that actually broke Baxi's economics is simpler: Nigerians stopped needing to queue at a POS terminal.
Hot Storylines
What’s developing right now — ranked by recency, momentum, and importance.
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Dangote Signs $450 Million Deal With Engineers India for Kenya Refinery
Latest: NGX markets Dangote refinery IPO to investors in three African countries, extending the pan-African retail capital mobilisation push beyond Egypt.
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Six African Fintechs Tracking Toward IPO, Mostly on Offshore Exchanges
Latest: OPay IPO filing draws governance criticism over missing employee stock options and exposes lending unit economics of $2.55 revenue per $10 lent
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Bolt Calls for Dialogue With AUATON Ahead of October 12 Indefinite Strike Deadline
Latest: Lagos ride-hailing drivers call off their four-day strike but vow to abandon inDrive, sharpening platform-labour tensions in Nigeria's gig economy
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Airtel Money Adds Mastercard Virtual Card to Deepen Kenya Mobile Money Competition With M-Pesa
Latest: Mastercard and Qatar Holding sell down stakes as Airtel Money's London listing value is confirmed at $7 billion, marking a landmark investor exit from African mobile money
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Microsoft to Close Nairobi Africa Development Centre
Latest: Follow-up reporting frames Nairobi ADC closure alongside earlier Lagos exit as Microsoft's biggest employer retreat from Africa this cycle, raising broader strategy questions
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NCC Sets Deadline to Disconnect Unregistered Phones in Nigeria's Device Market
Latest: NCC publishes practical guidance on verifying device approval status, following earlier clarifications about data privacy limits of the Device Checker tool.
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Africa's First Open-Weight LLM
Sat, Oct 17
Intron's Voice AI for Medicine
Sat, Oct 17
AI Enters African Classrooms
Sat, Oct 17
MTN Brings AI to LearnHub
Sat, Oct 17
Gemini 4 Argon Comes to Nigeria
Sat, Oct 17
Small Tech Projects Win on ROI
Sat, Oct 17
AWS AI Eases Cloud Migration
Sat, Oct 17
SA's AI and Cyber Skills Gap
Sat, Oct 17
EBRD's $20.9M Beacon Power Bet
Sat, Oct 17
MAX's $29M E-Mobility Round
Sat, Oct 17
Oil Spike Risks Nigeria Fuel Costs
Sat, Oct 17
Who Gains From Nigeria-Russia Energy?
Sat, Oct 17
Ghana Utility Billing Crisis Deepens
Sat, Oct 17
Shell Exits Nigeria Gas to Vaaris
Fri, Oct 16
SA Solar Glut Threatens Wheeling Deals
Fri, Oct 16
Nithio Backs MAX EV Startup
Fri, Oct 16
Paystack Moves Into Deposits
Sat, Oct 17
Ethiopia Joins PAPSS Network
Sat, Oct 17
SA ATM Network Biggest Overhaul
Sat, Oct 17
Onafriq Exits Nigeria Agent Banking
Sat, Oct 17
Roqqu to Tokenise Nigerian Stocks
Sat, Oct 17
Moniepoint's Split Financials Exposed
Sat, Oct 17
PalmPay UK's £21M Loss
Sat, Oct 17
MoneyHash-Ozow SA Payments Link
Sat, Oct 17
Safaricom Stake Deal Frozen
Sat, Oct 17
EU Backs Nigeria Fibre Megaplan
Sat, Oct 17
Nigeria's 1,989 Rural Towers Plan
Sat, Oct 17
Africa's Spectrum Cost Disadvantage
Sat, Oct 17
Kenya 5G Phone Price Cut
Sat, Oct 17
SA Startup's Universal Travel eSIM
Sat, Oct 17
Jarana's Rural Connectivity Mission
Sat, Oct 17
Telkom's R20M Election Pledge
Sat, Oct 17
Ghana Hosts UN Digital Trade Signing
Sat, Oct 17
Ghana's 20% Digital VAT Debated
Sat, Oct 17
SA Digital Jobs Funding Shortfall
Sat, Oct 17
Kenya Mandates Visitor Health Cover
Sat, Oct 17
$700M Ebola Funds Unaccounted For
Sat, Oct 17
US-Ghana Cybersecurity Pact Reaffirmed
Sat, Oct 17
Safaricom Stake Ruling Stands
Fri, Oct 16
Kenya Fintech Investment Rules Loom
Fri, Oct 16
Dangote IPO Goes Pan-African
Sat, Oct 17
World Bank's $5.79B Nigeria Push
Sat, Oct 17
Nigeria's Four-Year Exit Wave
Sat, Oct 17
Dangote Cement's London IPO
Sat, Oct 17
Africa VC Pay Gap Widens
Sat, Oct 17
IMF Warns Africa on Headwinds
Sat, Oct 17
Nigeria's First Airline Commercial Paper
Sat, Oct 17
SA Edtech Simulates Emotional Learning
Sat, Oct 17
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