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GITEX Africa 2026 Day 1: Africa’s AI Governance Moment Lands in Marrakech
GITEX Africa 2026 Day 1 in Marrakech: Morocco’s AI governance push, 55,000 delegates, data centre commitments, and the continent’s largest startup showcase.
Africa PE Exit Crisis 2026: $10B in Private Equity, Nowhere to Go
Africa PE Exit Crisis 2026: $10B in Private Equity, Nowhere to Go | BETAR.africa Africa PE Exit Crisis 2026: $10B in Private Equity, Nowhere to Go The vintage years of…
Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What the Numbers Actually Say
Africa’s technology sector raised $537 million in Q1 2026. Strip out development finance debt and the equity story looks very different. BETAR’s proprietary tracker breaks down the numbers.
Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What $537 Million Actually Means
Africa’s tech sector raised $537 million in Q1 2026 — but development finance accounts for most of it. BETAR’s proprietary tracker breaks down equity vs debt, the Series A drought, and which countries are winning the investor race.
Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What $537 Million Actually Means
Africa’s tech sector raised $537 million in Q1 2026 — but development finance accounts for most of it. BETAR’s proprietary tracker breaks down equity vs debt, the Series A drought, and which countries are winning the investor race.
Ethiopia Is Selling Electricity to Half of East Africa. Here Is What That Actually Means.
The Ethiopia-Kenya HVDC interconnector is live. Tanzania and Uganda are next. Ethiopia’s 45 GW hydro potential is becoming a regional trade asset — but the economics, the politics, and the grid risks are more complicated than the development finance pitch suggests.
The IP Ownership Lesson That African Comics Learned the Hard Way
When Comic Republic sold its Vanguards IP for television, the production house earned nearly twice what the Nigerian publisher made. The gap between those two numbers is the central economic lesson of Africa’s comics and illustration industry.
Africa’s Fashion Week Economics: Who Pays, Who Profits, Who Converts
Lagos Fashion Week just won the Earthshot Prize. South Africa Fashion Week just announced a strategic pause. Both events tell the same economic story: Africa’s fashion week circuit sits at the intersection of cultural prestige and structural fragility.
Ghana Just Did What No West African Country Has Done: Put a Price on Charging an EV
Buried inside Ghana’s routine quarterly electricity rate review was something historic: Africa’s first regulated commercial EV charging tariff. Here is what it means for EV infrastructure investment across West Africa.
The 1% Promise: Which African Governments Are Meeting the Kigali R&D Commitment — and What the Gap Costs the Continent
Nineteen years after African Union member states pledged to spend 1% of GDP on R&D, a country-by-country accountability analysis shows fewer than five are close. The data reveals what the shortfall costs Africa’s AI and deep-tech pipeline.
