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When the Léon Thévenin is off Mombasa fixing a break, a fault near Dakar means waiting for a ship to travel further than Shanghai to Los Angeles.

The headline number — $1.4 billion raised in six months — looks like stability returning. But the same money went to 42% fewer deals than last year.

The Bank of Ghana didn't pull Zeepay's licence for a paperwork failure. It pulled it because Zeepay was issuing electronic money — real wallets, real balances — without holding the actual cash to back them.

Koko Networks raised over $100 million, put clean cooking fuel into 1.5 million Kenyan homes, and employed 700 people. It died because a government ministry didn't issue a single letter.

More than half of Africa's 74 tracked accelerators were inactive by 2025. That number sounds like a market correction. It's actually a confession.

The constitutional argument is real, but the sharpest detail isn't about Parliament — it's about forfeiture.

Rose Muturi didn't just run Branch Kenya — she was there when Branch used a microfinance bank licence to transform from a lending app into a full neobank.

Safaricom's jump to 54.17% in its Ethiopian operation isn't a permanent grab — it's a temporary accounting of who wrote the cheque this round.

Sixty percent of every dollar invested in African climate technology since 2016 went to the top 20 companies. The top ten alone raised as much as all the other 769 combined.

The number that should stop everyone cold: vandalism alone caused more than 54,000 of Nigeria's fibre cuts in just two months. Ten-year prison sentences are already on the books under the national infrastructure protection law. The cutting…

252 licensed lenders sounds like a mature market. The number that actually matters is 800 — that's how many firms applied since 2022, meaning more than half are still waiting, still operating in a grey zone, or gone.