The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Thu, Jul 2
Forty-seven licences gone in a single day is a dramatic number — but the CBN's own list of reasons tells the more uncomfortable story: institutions that never started trading, banks that shut without telling the regulator, lenders whose…
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The $2.1 billion is paid. The court challenge is behind them. Vodacom now controls Safaricom, East Africa's biggest telco and the company behind M-Pesa, the mobile-money network that tens of millions of Kenyans use for almost everything…
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The hard constraint for African AI developers has never been ideas — it's been the cost of raw computing power, which typically means renting from Amazon or Google at prices that make serious experimentation unaffordable.
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An AI lab in Ghana and a $1 million storytelling programme are the announcements getting shared. But the thing that will actually matter is a connectivity hub in South Africa's Eastern Cape, linking the continent to Australia and India via…
Read more →Every bank in East Africa knows small businesses need credit. The reason they haven't fully served them isn't appetite — it's reach and data.
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