The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Sun, Jul 19
The new Virtual Asset Council has one month to produce a Harmonised Implementation Framework — five agencies, including the CBN and SEC, who have spent years pulling in different directions, now expected to agree on how they divide the…
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The reason agritech in Africa struggles to attract private money isn't that investors don't care about farmers — it's that smallholder agriculture looks too unpredictable to back commercially.
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Ten months after its launch, Airtel's $150 million, 44-megawatt AI-ready data centre at Tatu City in Kenya is being assessed as increasingly significant to East Africa's cloud and compute infrastructure landscape. The facility positions Kenya as a regional hub for AI workloads and intensifies competition in the data centre market across East Africa.
Côte d'Ivoire formally authorises Starlink, with additional reporting confirming regulatory approval process underpinning the commercial launch
Safaricom has secured a deal to provide fibre connectivity to 14,000 units in Kenya's Mukuru affordable housing project, embedding the telecoms operator inside the country's largest public housing rollout. The contract positions Safaricom as the default connectivity provider for state housing infrastructure.
GoCab has deployed 100 electric vehicles into Abidjan's ride-hailing market as part of Yango's fleet operations, marking a concrete electric mobility milestone for Francophone West Africa. The deployment represents one of the largest single EV fleet additions to a West African city's ride-hail network to date.
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