Dangote IPO: a ₦5,250 entry ticket is the whole bet
The $14 billion expansion headline will grab attention. Ignore it for a moment.
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Safaricom Ethiopia: 15 million users, 50 cents a month
The subscriber number is real. The revenue story underneath it is uncomfortable.
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Eskom Unbundling: a deadline is the thing that's been missing all along
The political argument was settled in August when Ramaphosa signed the legislation. What was missing was a concrete schedule — and now there is one: 18 months to carve Eskom's transmission grid into a genuinely independent operator, with…
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Moove Nigeria: when the platform leaves, the finance goes with it
Moove's model was elegant precisely because it was simple: drivers couldn't get bank loans, so Moove financed the car and took repayments straight from ride-hailing earnings. No platform, no earnings. No earnings, no repayments.
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SAFE Cable: South Africa's next internet upgrade is already crowded before it arrives
The SAFE cable has run 13,500km across the Indian Ocean since 2002. It's expected to give out from 2027. ReuNION is being built specifically to replace it — 320Tbit/s of new capacity, ready by 2028.
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Africa Funding: $2.1 billion sounds like a number — but whose number is it?
The figure matches Moove's unicorn valuation almost exactly. One round, one company, one month — and you're already at the year's total.
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