The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Tue, Jul 7
The most important line in this story is buried in the technical detail: M-Pesa wallet top-ups in the DRC are now being settled in stablecoins behind the scenes, while the customer sees nothing different at all.
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The number that jumps out isn't the $8 billion total — it's the split inside it.
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The South African Competition Commission investigated Google, pushed hard, and walked away with R688 million committed to local news publishers. Nigeria's media industry has read that outcome and wants the same deal.
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Malatsi's disclosure that Amazon Kuiper, Spacesail, Space24 and others have all applied to enter South Africa transforms this from a Starlink story into something bigger: the decision on whether investment programmes can substitute for 30%…
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Going from 190 mini-grids serving 800,000 people to enough sites serving eight million isn't a funding problem — it's a logistics problem.
Read more →Multiple operators going down at the same time isn't just bad luck — it usually means they share more infrastructure than the word 'multiple' implies.
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Data sovereignty is a legitimate concern — storing government records on servers you don't control, in jurisdictions whose laws you can't override, is a real vulnerability.
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