March 2026 - Page 4 of 50

USAID exit Africa education funding gap 2026

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USAID Exits Africa’s Education Sector: Who Fills the Billion Funding Gap?

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March 29, 2026

USAID’s withdrawal from African education programmes has left a billion annual funding gap. A country-by-country analysis of who is most exposed, and whether the World Bank, EU, and Gulf donors can absorb the shortfall.

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African university funding crisis austerity 2026

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African Universities Are Facing a Funding Crisis — and It’s Getting Worse

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March 29, 2026

African public universities are running on structural deficits — government subventions cut, student fees capped, research budgets gutted. A continent-wide audit of the university funding crisis and its consequences.

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Africa EdTech investment Q1 2026 DFI shift VC retreat

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Africa EdTech Investment Q1 2026: DFIs Are Picking Up What VC Dropped

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March 29, 2026

Africa’s EdTech Q1 2026 investment data is in: DFIs are replacing the VC capital that has exited the sector, on fundamentally different terms. A full analysis of who’s investing, in what, and why it matters.

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Africa coding bootcamp economy ALX Moringa Decagon unit economics 2026

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Africa’s Coding Bootcamp Economy: ALX, Moringa, Decagon, and the Unit Economics of Skills Training

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March 29, 2026

Africa’s coding bootcamp sector has attracted hundreds of millions in investment — but the unit economics remain challenging. A full analysis of what ALX, Moringa, Decagon, and others actually charge, who they serve, and whether the model works.

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DRC’s Digital Code Goes Live in July. Are Africa’s Platform Operators Ready?

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March 29, 2026

The DRC Digital Code enforcement begins July 2026. Data centres, cloud platforms, fintech and social networks operating in Congo must obtain ARPTC authorisation by June 30 or face suspension.

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Africa EdTech investment drought VC funding collapse 2026

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Africa’s EdTech Investment Drought: When VC Funding Collapsed and What Survived

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March 29, 2026

Africa’s EdTech sector has seen VC funding collapse by more than 70% from its 2021 peak. BETAR tracks which models survived, which failed, and what the funding drought revealed about the sector’s unit economics.

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Kenya VASP stablecoin capital rule: Africa's highest bar and the NIFC crypto hub

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Kenya Sets Africa’s Highest Stablecoin Bar — and 50 Crypto Firms Still Want In

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March 29, 2026

Kenya’s draft VASP rules set a KES 500M capital floor for stablecoin issuers — the strictest threshold in Sub-Saharan Africa. Industry body VAAK says it prices out 90% of domestic operators. Nairobi’s NIFC hub is the compensating prize.

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Africa low-cost private schools LCPs Bridge market 2026

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Africa’s Low-Cost Private Schools: The Bridge Model, Market Size, and What the Research Actually Shows

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March 29, 2026

Low-cost private schools educate millions of African children — but their economics are contested and their impact debated. An assessment of the market size, the Bridge model, and what the evidence says about learning outcomes.

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Africa early childhood education crisis pre-primary enrolment 2026

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Africa’s Early Childhood Education Crisis: Pre-Primary Enrolment Is Still Too Low

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March 29, 2026

Pre-primary enrolment in Sub-Saharan Africa remains among the lowest in the world. A data-driven analysis of what that costs in learning outcomes — and why governments keep underfunding the most cost-effective intervention in education.

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Africa micro-credentials employer recognition Google IBM ALX 2026

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Africa’s Micro-Credentials Are Growing — But Employers Still Don’t Recognise Them

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March 29, 2026

Google Career Certificates, IBM SkillsBuild, ALX programmes — Africa’s micro-credential market is booming. But most employers still don’t know what to do with them. An analysis of the recognition gap.

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Month: March 2026

USAID Exits Africa’s Education Sector: Who Fills the Billion Funding Gap?

African Universities Are Facing a Funding Crisis — and It’s Getting Worse

Africa EdTech Investment Q1 2026: DFIs Are Picking Up What VC Dropped

Africa’s Coding Bootcamp Economy: ALX, Moringa, Decagon, and the Unit Economics of Skills Training

DRC’s Digital Code Goes Live in July. Are Africa’s Platform Operators Ready?

Africa’s EdTech Investment Drought: When VC Funding Collapsed and What Survived

Kenya Sets Africa’s Highest Stablecoin Bar — and 50 Crypto Firms Still Want In

Africa’s Low-Cost Private Schools: The Bridge Model, Market Size, and What the Research Actually Shows

Africa’s Early Childhood Education Crisis: Pre-Primary Enrolment Is Still Too Low

Africa’s Micro-Credentials Are Growing — But Employers Still Don’t Recognise Them

GITEX Africa 2026 Day 2: STAR Summit — AI, Cybersecurity and Fintech Take Centre Stage

GITEX Africa 2026 Day 1: Africa’s AI Governance Moment Lands in Marrakech

Africa PE Exit Crisis 2026: $10B in Private Equity, Nowhere to Go

Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What the Numbers Actually Say

Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What $537 Million Actually Means

Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What $537 Million Actually Means

Ethiopia Is Selling Electricity to Half of East Africa. Here Is What That Actually Means.

The IP Ownership Lesson That African Comics Learned the Hard Way

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GITEX Africa 2026 Day 2: STAR Summit — AI, Cybersecurity and Fintech Take Centre Stage

GITEX Africa 2026 Day 1: Africa’s AI Governance Moment Lands in Marrakech

Africa PE Exit Crisis 2026: $10B in Private Equity, Nowhere to Go

Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What the Numbers Actually Say