Nigeria Cloud: the talent gap is the real deadline
The CBN's data localisation order has a January 2027 deadline. Nigeria's data centres, it turns out, have enough physical capacity to absorb the load.
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SunCulture: the financing trick that lets solar companies grow without running dry
SunCulture sells solar irrigation systems to Kenyan smallholder farmers on long repayment plans. The problem: all that future cash owed by farmers sits locked up for years, leaving the company unable to buy new stock and reach new…
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Kenya's AI Bet: championing the bloc while cutting your own deal
Kenya spent one day in New York arguing Africa should negotiate AI as a single bloc — common terms, shared compute, collective leverage. The next day, Nairobi signed its own bilateral declaration with Anthropic.
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Satellite Mobile: the handset is now the bottleneck
No dish, no specialist kit — just a compatible phone pointed at the sky. That's the genuinely striking thing about what Airtel and Starlink have built in Uganda: the infrastructure problem is largely solved.
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A cluster of US-backed fibre, subsea cable, and data-centre transactions totalling more than R4.54 billion has been recorded in a single week, raising questions about who is financing Africa's digital infrastructure build-out and on what terms. The concentration of deals signals accelerating US-linked capital deployment into the continent's connectivity stack.
Ecobank Group has committed $2.6 billion to financing women-led businesses and agribusinesses across Africa by 2030, one of the larger pan-African capital deployment pledges from a private financial institution. The commitment spans the bank's presence across more than 30 African countries.
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