The tech-investment stories moving Africa's markets — what moved, and why it matters.
Mon, Sep 28
155,397 fibre cuts in two months — roughly 2,500 severed lines every single day — means Nigeria's mobile operators are constantly rerouting, retrying, and patching. That costs money, and that cost lands on users.
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Kenya runs $209 million a month through card terminals — and almost every one of those transactions routes through Visa or Mastercard's international infrastructure, paying fees and ceding data for a purely domestic purchase.
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New analysis frames the absence of reliable credit data — rather than capital — as the foundational barrier blocking the expansion of lending markets across Africa. The diagnosis is being positioned as a structural framing issue for fintech investors and lenders continent-wide.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is deploying mobile phone data to track and manage its active Ebola outbreak, offering a concrete, replicable public-health data model for the continent. The WHO has separately confirmed that the outbreak has spread to two new health zones, now spanning 63 health zones across multiple DRC provinces.
Amazon has held talks with Ghanaian President John Mahama about a potential broadband expansion investment in Ghana, signalling possible major US technology capital entering the country's connectivity gap. No deal terms or timelines have been confirmed alongside the reported discussions.
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