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The credibility gap was closing. The engineering contract was signed, the sovereign equity structured, the groundbreaking date fixed.

Justice Pokanu's ruling lands on one precise idea: putting behavioural tracking inside your terms of service doesn't make it necessary to run the service.

The shift to debt in African fintech isn't a sign the ecosystem is maturing evenly — it's a sign the gap is widening.

The live demo was impressive. But the thing that actually moves 40 million people is not the app — it's the 31 March 2028 deadline on the green ID book.

Novitske's sharpest observation isn't about phones or payment apps — it's that African startups are already building on Chinese AI models like Alibaba's Qwen because they're cheaper and more accessible than American alternatives.

South Africa's competition watchdog has cleared MTN's full takeover of IHS Towers — but only with a hard condition baked in: IHS must stay operationally independent and offer every other mobile network the same access, on the same terms,…

Two weeks ago, Wave — francophone Africa's most-used payments app — was conspicuously absent from BCEAO's lists. Today it's on the 175-participant roll, having connected to PI-SPI on the last possible day.

MTN and Airtel together hold roughly 86 percent of Nigeria's mobile market. A new licence for STN doesn't move that number — not yet, possibly not for years.

The bottleneck in M-Pesa merchant payments was never trust or reach — it was the sequence: find the Till Number, type it, enter the amount, wait for a prompt, enter a PIN. Five steps to pay for lunch.