March 2026 - Page 29 of 50

Africa AI regulation by default — data protection law mapped across 6 African jurisdictions

Technology

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Africa’s AI Regulation by Default: How Data Protection Law Is Doing the Work AI Law Doesn’t

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

Across most of Africa, governments have no AI-specific legislation. Data protection frameworks are filling the gap — but the fit is imperfect, enforcement is uneven, and the gaps are growing.

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Spiro Raises $50M Debt to Scale Battery-Swap E-Mobility Across Africa — BETAR.africa

Energy & Climate

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Spiro Raises $50M Debt to Scale Battery-Swap E-Mobility Across Africa

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

Spiro has closed a $50M debt facility to expand its battery-swap model beyond Côte d’Ivoire. The unit economics and expansion logic explained.

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Wise Gets Its Own Rails in Nigeria: What a Long-Awaited IMTO Licence Means for the UK-Nigeria Remittance Corridor — BETAR.africa

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Wise Gets Its Own Rails in Nigeria: What a Long-Awaited IMTO Licence Means for the UK-Nigeria Remittance Corridor

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

Wise’s CBN IMTO licence removes the third-party intermediation that capped its Nigerian pricing. The incumbents have reason to worry.

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Africa teacher training pipeline crisis — 15 million teachers needed by 2030

Education

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Africa’s Teacher Training Pipeline Crisis: Who Prepares the Next Educators?

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

Africa needs 15 million additional teachers by 2030. The colleges that train them are underfunded, their graduates don’t always reach classrooms, and political attention is almost entirely elsewhere.

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South Africa MDPMI Google R688M platform regulation Africa

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South Africa’s R688M Google Settlement: Africa’s First Enforceable Big Tech Payment to Media Publishers

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

South Africa’s Competition Commission secured R688M from Google under the MDPMI inquiry — Africa’s first enforceable Big Tech payment to news publishers. Here is what the settlement actually means, stream by stream.

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SOLA Naos-1 South Africa solar BESS wheeling Sasol Air Liquide 2026

Technology

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SOLA Naos-1: South Africa’s Largest Private Solar+BESS Project Closes — The Wheeling Deal That Changes Industrial Energy

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

SOLA Group’s Naos-1 — 300MW solar, 660MWh storage — has reached financial close. It is the first utility-scale solar+storage project in South Africa purpose-built for industrial wheeling to large corporates.

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South Africa MDPMI ruling - Google pays R688M to SA media publishers

Policy & Regulation

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Google Pays R688 Million to South African Media. What the MDPMI Ruling Means for Africa.

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

South Africa’s Competition Commission secured R688M from Google for local publishers and enforceable AI content rights. What the MDPMI ruling means for African media and platform regulation.

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Powering Africa Summit 2026 US energy geopolitics EXIM Bank

Technology

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Powering Africa Summit 2026: America Is Still Coming to Power Africa — Just on Different Terms

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

The 11th Powering Africa Summit in Washington D.C. marked a pivot: USAID Power Africa is out, EXIM Bank export credit is in. America is still backing Africa’s energy transition — just through commercial infrastructure, not aid.

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MTN Group FY2025 Nigeria overtakes South Africa EBITDA earnings 2026

Business

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MTN Group FY2025: Nigeria Is Now the Engine

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

MTN Nigeria generated EBITDA of $1.926B in FY2025 — 84% above South Africa’s $1.048B. Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as MTN Group’s top profit contributor for the first time in the group’s 30-year history.

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Africa tech brain drain diaspora return programmes 2026

Education

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Africa Tech Brain Drain: Are Diaspora Return Programmes Actually Working?

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

Africa loses thousands of engineers, doctors, and researchers to emigration each year. A review of diaspora return programmes — what they offer, who returns, and whether the economics of return have improved.

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Month: March 2026

Africa’s AI Regulation by Default: How Data Protection Law Is Doing the Work AI Law Doesn’t

Spiro Raises $50M Debt to Scale Battery-Swap E-Mobility Across Africa

Wise Gets Its Own Rails in Nigeria: What a Long-Awaited IMTO Licence Means for the UK-Nigeria Remittance Corridor

Africa’s Teacher Training Pipeline Crisis: Who Prepares the Next Educators?

South Africa’s R688M Google Settlement: Africa’s First Enforceable Big Tech Payment to Media Publishers

SOLA Naos-1: South Africa’s Largest Private Solar+BESS Project Closes — The Wheeling Deal That Changes Industrial Energy

Google Pays R688 Million to South African Media. What the MDPMI Ruling Means for Africa.

Powering Africa Summit 2026: America Is Still Coming to Power Africa — Just on Different Terms

MTN Group FY2025: Nigeria Is Now the Engine

Africa Tech Brain Drain: Are Diaspora Return Programmes Actually Working?

MTN War Chest Q2 2026: 90 Days In, the Acquisition Pipeline Has Changed

Nigeria Bank M&A Wave 2026: Who Acquires the Recapitalisation Failures and at What Price?

Nigeria Bank M&A Wave: Who Acquires the Recapitalisation Failures — and at What Price?

COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map

Airtel-Starlink Direct-to-Cell in Kenya: The End of the Coverage Excuse

Nigeria BRIDGE Fibre Rollout: How the World Bank’s Pay-for-Results Architecture Is Funding Africa’s Biggest Broadband Project

Nigeria BRIDGE Fibre Rollout: How the World Bank’s Pay-for-Results Architecture Is Funding Africa’s Biggest Broadband Project

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MTN War Chest Q2 2026: 90 Days In, the Acquisition Pipeline Has Changed

Nigeria Bank M&A Wave 2026: Who Acquires the Recapitalisation Failures and at What Price?

Nigeria Bank M&A Wave: Who Acquires the Recapitalisation Failures — and at What Price?

COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map