March 2026 - Page 45 of 50

Illustration: Africa social commerce economy — TikTok and WhatsApp platform revenue split

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Africa’s $4.45 Billion Social Commerce Economy: TikTok’s Monetisation Gap and WhatsApp’s Retail Dominance

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March 10, 2026

Africa’s social commerce market is growing at 26.7% annually, yet TikTok excludes most African creators from direct monetisation while WhatsApp quietly dominates the continent’s commerce infrastructure.

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Illustration: South Africa draft national AI policy — multi-regulator model and business compliance

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South Africa’s Draft National AI Policy: What the Multi-Regulator Model Means for Business

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March 10, 2026

South Africa has chosen a sectoral multi-regulator AI model — no single AI authority. With a 60-day consultation window opening soon, here’s what financial services, health, and enterprise tech firms need to do now.

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Illustration: Nigeria NCC telecom policy overhaul — first major review in 26 years, March 2026

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Nigeria’s First Telecom Policy Overhaul in 26 Years: What Every Business Needs to Know Before March 20

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March 10, 2026

Nigeria’s NCC is rewriting its 26-year-old telecoms policy — with submissions due March 20. Right-of-way costs, one-stop permitting, and 6GHz spectrum are all on the table.

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Illustration: Nigeria AI Bill 2026 — compliance costs and who gets left behind

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Nigeria’s AI Law Is Coming. Here’s What It Will Cost to Comply — and Who Gets Left Behind

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March 10, 2026

Nigeria’s National Digital Economy and E-Governance Bill 2025 has cleared both chambers of the National Assembly. Presidential assent is expected before the end of March. When it arrives, it will…

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Illustration: Ghana VASP crypto licence — 11 firms in sandbox, VC deployment ready

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Ghana’s Crypto Licence Opens the Investment Gate — and VCs Are Ready to Move

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March 10, 2026

When Ghana’s Securities and Exchange Commission issued updated sandbox rules on March 9, 2026 — operationalising a VASP Act signed just ten weeks earlier — it completed the last piece…

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Infographic showing Nollywood streaming economy: Netflix total investment vs box office recovery, streaming platform retreat

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Nollywood’s Streaming Economy: What the Platforms Paid, What They Didn’t, and What Comes Next

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March 10, 2026

Nollywood’s Streaming Economy: What the Platforms Paid, What They Didn’t, and What Comes Next For a brief period between 2022 and 2023, it appeared that global streaming platforms had fundamentally…

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Africa Digital Infrastructure Index 2025 - ADII scores for 10 African economies across broadband speed data centers regulatory readiness and workforce

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Africa’s Digital Infrastructure Divide: Who Is Ready — and Who Is Being Left Behind

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March 10, 2026

BETAR.africa’s Africa Digital Infrastructure Index (ADII) scores ten economies across five pillars. South Africa leads with 88/100; Ethiopia trails at 23. The gap is structural — and wider than any comparable pair of economies on any other continent.

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Creative Economy

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The Ownership Divide: Africa’s Animation Studios and the Economics of IP

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March 10, 2026

The defining economic fault line in African animation is no longer talent or technology — it’s IP ownership. Studios that own their characters and worlds are building lasting value. Those that don’t are building someone else’s.

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AfDB BEEP programme - carbon credits funding clean cooking deployment across Kenya Uganda and Zambia

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Africa’s First Carbon Finance Play for Clean Cooking: AfDB Bets Voluntary Markets Can Fix the Cooking Crisis

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March 10, 2026

The African Development Bank’s BEEP programme is Africa’s first carbon finance deal for electric cooking — deploying 115,000 induction cookers in Kenya, Uganda and Zambia using voluntary carbon credit sales as upfront capital.

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Africa Podcast Economy: Revenue Models, Ad Rates and the Race to Monetise

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March 10, 2026

Africa has among the world fastest-growing podcast audiences, but advertising revenue is not keeping up. The economics of the continent audio boom reveal a market rich in listeners and thin in dollars.

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Month: March 2026

South Africa’s Draft National AI Policy: What the Multi-Regulator Model Means for Business

Nigeria’s First Telecom Policy Overhaul in 26 Years: What Every Business Needs to Know Before March 20

Nigeria’s AI Law Is Coming. Here’s What It Will Cost to Comply — and Who Gets Left Behind

Ghana’s Crypto Licence Opens the Investment Gate — and VCs Are Ready to Move

Nollywood’s Streaming Economy: What the Platforms Paid, What They Didn’t, and What Comes Next

Africa’s Digital Infrastructure Divide: Who Is Ready — and Who Is Being Left Behind

The Ownership Divide: Africa’s Animation Studios and the Economics of IP

Africa’s First Carbon Finance Play for Clean Cooking: AfDB Bets Voluntary Markets Can Fix the Cooking Crisis

Africa Podcast Economy: Revenue Models, Ad Rates and the Race to Monetise

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

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

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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