Weekly Newsletter

The Sh200 billion lands in the National Infrastructure Fund on Friday — a government account that already holds Sh103 billion from a previous sale and, so far, no visible infrastructure to show for it.

The Sycamore detail is the one to sit with.

The 800Gbit/s Plumtree-to-Bulawayo link is live — but the technology is almost beside the point.

LemFi's third acquisition in a year follows a deliberate pattern: buy the FCA licence along with the company, rather than spend years applying independently.

The asymmetry in the Kenya deal is the thing that should stop you cold: five years of health funding in exchange for up to twenty-five years of patient data.

The specific thing Kenya's High Court struck down matters more than the headline suggests.

The pipeline working is the good news. But the industry association VASPA's public wishlist tells you where the gaps are.

Making NIMC the Root Certification Authority — the top of the chain that validates every digital certificate in Nigeria — is a genuinely bold architectural choice. Every secure transaction, every verified identity, every government service…

The Applied AI Lab in Accra — run jointly by Google and Novastar Ventures, a fund focused on African markets — pairs local founders directly with Google researchers and early access to frontier models. Applications close August 31. That's…

A payment licence lets a fintech move your money. A microfinance bank licence lets it hold your money — and that distinction is everything.

Fifty-six tech layoff events in three years is not a catastrophic number — but until now, nobody actually knew the number.

ICASA has now told Starlink exactly which licences it needs. That part, at least, is clear.

The hard constraint for African AI developers has never been ideas — it's been the cost of raw computing power, which typically means renting from Amazon or Google at prices that make serious experimentation unaffordable.

Until 2023, Catalyst Fund gave African climate founders grant money — useful, but no skin in the game. Now it's taking equity stakes and backing 40 startups from pre-seed to Series A, with $30 million from IFC, Shell Foundation, and others…

The most telling line in this review isn't about any single directive — it's the pattern across all of them.

396 satellites in orbit sounds like the hard bit done. It isn't.

A seat at the table matters. But the article's sharpest line belongs to SAP's Sunil Geness, not Kagame: Africa must enter the room with a defined agenda, not just a posture of caution.

Every bank in East Africa knows small businesses need credit. The reason they haven't fully served them isn't appetite — it's reach and data.