The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Thu, Jul 30
Equinix's two approved Cape Town facilities would add roughly 170MW of capacity — nearly matching Teraco's entire 189MW continental footprint in a single development. That number is genuinely significant.
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The January 2027 deadline is tighter than it sounds. Nigeria's payment system runs largely on Amazon, Microsoft, and Google infrastructure outside the country — and the CBN's circular doesn't just require a local backup. It requires the…
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Buried inside Kenya's VASP framework is a provision almost nobody is talking about: you can't sell a licence until you've actually operated under it for three years.
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South Africa's data centre spending is forecast to nearly double this year — 90.6% growth against 62.7% globally, according to Gartner figures. That is a real, concrete signal that AI infrastructure is landing locally, not just being…
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Vercel has now acquired two African-built AI startups within days of each other — Better Auth from Ethiopia, Stakpak from Egypt. That stops being coincidence and starts being a strategy.
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The logic is genuinely reasonable: industries understand their own risks better than a single government body ever could. Banking regulators know credit; health regulators know clinical risk. So hand them the guidelines and let them build…
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The IPO cleared. Now comes the harder part.
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A 60% rise in funding sounds like momentum. But when the base is small enough, 60% growth still leaves you at 10% of the total.
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