Weekly Newsletter

Ghana pioneered this. Five years ago it had the largest medical drone delivery network on earth — a thousand urgent health supplies a day reaching communities that roads couldn't serve.

The $55 million from NewTrails Capital is the smallest slice of this round — but it's the most telling detail.

Paystack isn't launching a finished product here. It's deliberately planting a flag at the edge of something uncertain — letting AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude complete purchases on a user's behalf, starting with airtime, money…

Switzerland's financial regulator doesn't hand out approvals to make headlines. It is one of the most demanding compliance gatekeepers in the world, and Yellow Card — a company built to move money across African borders using stablecoins —…

Nigeria's telecom regulator has finally closed a real gap — big ownership stakes in companies like MTN Nigeria and Airtel can no longer quietly change hands without the NCC's sign-off first.

European banks have been quietly retreating from Africa for years — too much complexity, too little return. Absa is doing the opposite, and this $238 million move to lift its stake in its Kenyan unit from 68.5% to 85% is the clearest…

Chaka spent years solving the obvious problem — getting ordinary Nigerians onto the stock market. The harder problem is keeping them there.