The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Thu, Sep 10
The filing itself is landmark enough — Egypt's most valuable fintech, built on $15.5 billion in loans to people most banks ignored, heading for a public listing on the Cairo Stock Exchange.
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Half of Nigeria's 195 million mobile users are now on MTN. One network, one country, 52% market share — that's not dominance, that's a different category of thing.
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Bluecore's floating nuclear barges are headquartered at the Port of Long Beach, regulated by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and backed by American venture funds. Kofi Asante is Ghanaian-American, and that heritage matters — but the…
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The self-custody rule buried in South Africa's draft crypto manual is the provision that should alarm everyone watching this fight.
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The biggest hidden cost in African cross-border payments isn't the transaction fee — it's the engineering work of plugging into each country's local payment system separately.
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The governance change is done. What hasn't changed is who can actually use the system.
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East Africa has submarine cables. What it has lacked is a system designed to keep working when one gets cut — and cuts happen constantly, from anchors, from trawlers, from currents.
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The number buried in this raise is the 5,000 electric motorcycles ARC Ride plans to add to its fleet.
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