The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Sat, Sep 26
Kenya's regulator banned gambling ads from Opera Mini's browser bookmarks in 2024 — and that single ruling killed the economics of the entire advertising subsidiary, Phoneserve Technologies, which had been providing free data to 13.5…
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Yesterday's take covered the mechanism. Today's detail worth noting is simpler: this deal is being called replicable, and that claim deserves scrutiny.
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50MHz of prime radio frequencies — the kind that push mobile signals deep into buildings and out into rural areas — have been sitting unassigned in South Africa since 2020, held in reserve for a wholesale network that never got built.
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Pula's CEO has outlined the company's approach to reaching 24 million farmers profitably, arguing that directly selling insurance to smallholder farmers does not work and that distribution through aggregators and institutional partners is the viable path. The account is being described as a candid model breakdown for agritech and insurtech builders across Africa.
Airtel Money CEO publicly confirms London IPO rationale, citing expanded flexibility to support continental growth.
Nigerian consumers processed ₦18.78 trillion in transactions through point-of-sale terminals in the first quarter of 2026, a figure that reveals both the scale and structural patterns of the country's ongoing cash-to-digital transition. Analysis of the data examines where the money ultimately flows within Nigeria's financial system.
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