West Africa Open Banking: one name, eight countries, one question
Wave — francophone Africa's most-used payments app, valued above $1.7 billion — appears on neither of the BCEAO's two new lists for its regional instant payment platform.
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Benin's Big Number: one data point without a methodology is not a map
TCI Signals says Benin has outpaced Egypt and Kenya in startup funding through eight months of 2026. If true, that would be a genuine shock — Benin is a small West African economy of around 14 million people, not a name that appears…
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Nigeria 5G: the clean-up reveals who spectrum policy actually serves
The NCC's "bigger clean-up" is the real story here — not just Mafab handing a $273.6 million block it never built on to MTN, but a regulator quietly reshuffling spectrum across multiple holders who couldn't deploy.
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NigComSat-2A: assembling parts isn't the same as building a space industry
Nigeria is planning to assemble satellite ground terminals locally — the antennas and dishes that talk to satellites — rather than importing them whole. That's a real step beyond just owning a satellite.
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Airtel Money IPO: the market just told us what it thinks African fintech is worth
A business growing at 25% with 56 million customers and $245 billion flowing through it annually — and public investors still forced the price down by roughly half.
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Spiro x Yadea: the supply chain gap just got filled
Spiro has 2,500 swap stations, 95,000 bikes, and seven countries of operational muscle. What it has always needed is a manufacturer who can keep pace.
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