Paystack Acquires Ladder MFB: Building for Regulation Before Being Caught By It
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Paystack’s acquisition of Ladder MFB and its N250M CBN fine are the same story: Act one established the problem, Act two is the solution.
Nigeria DARES: The $750M World Bank Programme Targeting 750,000 Solar Connections in 18 Months
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Microsoft Elevate Africa: Training 3 Million Africans in AI — With DeepSeek as the Unnamed Rival
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Morocco Gotion: Africa’s First Battery Gigafactory Breaks Ground in Kenitra — What It Means for the Continent
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Why Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Are AI’s Hardest Localisation Problem
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South Africa’s Spectrum Auction Returns: The 6GHz Battleground That Will Define 5G
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One Licence, Two Markets: Kenya and Rwanda Just Redrew East Africa’s Fintech Map
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AfDB and UNDP Launch $10 Billion AI Push — And Africa’s Compute Gap Is the Hardest Part
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Aga Khan Exits Nation Media Group After 66 Years — Tanzanian Billionaire Rostam Azizi Takes Control
For 66 years, the Nation Media Group was Aga Khan territory. The Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development built East African Newspapers from a regional print operation into the continent’s…
Morocco’s Digital X.0 Law: Africa’s Most Comprehensive AI and Data Governance Framework
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