UphivaBETAR, Author at BETAR

Morocco Gotion battery gigafactory in Kenitra — Africa first EV battery manufacturing hub

Business

6 views
7 minute read

Africa’s First Battery Gigafactory Is in Morocco. Europe Gets the Batteries.

UphivaBETAR
March 12, 2026

Africa’s First Battery Gigafactory Is in Morocco. Europe Gets the Batteries. | BETAR.africa Africa’s First Battery Gigafactory Is in Morocco. Europe Gets the Batteries. Gotion High-Tech’s .6 billion gigafactory in…

View Post

GSMA $40 smartphone pilot Africa six nations 2026

4 views
0 minute read

Africa’s $40 Smartphone Dream Has a Memory Problem

UphivaBETAR
March 12, 2026

View Post

4 views
7 minute read

Spiro’s $50M Debt Round Signals Africa’s Battery-Swap Model Has Reached Infrastructure Scale

UphivaBETAR
March 12, 2026

Spiro has closed a $50M debt round — the largest single debt raise for an African e-mobility company. It signals that the battery-swap model has crossed from pilot to infrastructure scale.

View Post

3 views
5 minute read

How M-Pesa Captured at Least 40% of Kenya’s Stock Exchange in Weeks

UphivaBETAR
March 12, 2026

Safaricom launched Ziidi Trader, connecting M-Pesa directly to the Nairobi Securities Exchange. Within weeks, M-Pesa payments captured at least 40% of NSE transaction volume — a structural shift in Kenya’s capital markets.

View Post

4 views
6 minute read

Japan’s African Bet: How Tokyo Became the Continent’s Fastest-Growing Startup Investor

UphivaBETAR
March 12, 2026

Japan recorded the sharpest increase of any investor geography in African tech in early 2026. Behind that data point is a deliberate strategic pivot — not aid, but venture capital with a distinctive industrial logic.

View Post

4 views
5 minute read

Ghana Admits 11 Crypto Firms to Regulatory Sandbox — The VASP Act 2025 Is Now Operational

UphivaBETAR
March 12, 2026

Ghana has admitted 11 crypto firms to its regulatory sandbox under the VASP Act 2025 — making it one of the first African countries to operationalise a formal virtual asset regulatory framework.

View Post

5 minute read

South Africa’s Crypto Reporting Regime Is Now Live — What CASPs Must Do

UphivaBETAR
March 12, 2026

South Africa’s crypto asset reporting framework is live. Every CASP operating in the country now has mandatory reporting obligations to SARS. Here’s what the new regime requires and who it applies to.

View Post

Technology

5 views
6 minute read

AfDB and UNDP Launch $10 Billion AI Initiative to Create 40 Million Jobs Across Africa by 2035

UphivaBETAR
March 12, 2026

The African Development Bank and UNDP have jointly launched a $10 billion AI initiative — the largest multilateral AI investment targeting Africa. The goal: 40 million new jobs by 2035 across a three-phase roadmap.

View Post

Policy & Regulation

5 views
6 minute read

Zimbabwe’s 15% Digital Services Tax Is the Steepest on the Continent

UphivaBETAR
March 12, 2026

Zimbabwe’s new 15% withholding tax on digital services is the steepest on the continent. For platform operators and digital service providers, it sets a precedent that other African governments are watching closely.

View Post

4 views
7 minute read

African Data Labour Rights: Gig Workers, Military AI, and the Informed Consent Gap

UphivaBETAR
March 12, 2026

Tens of thousands of African gig workers are annotating AI training data — including military AI systems — without knowing it. The informed consent gap is Africa’s most overlooked AI governance problem.

View Post

UphivaBETAR

Africa’s First Battery Gigafactory Is in Morocco. Europe Gets the Batteries.

Africa’s $40 Smartphone Dream Has a Memory Problem

Spiro’s $50M Debt Round Signals Africa’s Battery-Swap Model Has Reached Infrastructure Scale

How M-Pesa Captured at Least 40% of Kenya’s Stock Exchange in Weeks

Japan’s African Bet: How Tokyo Became the Continent’s Fastest-Growing Startup Investor

Ghana Admits 11 Crypto Firms to Regulatory Sandbox — The VASP Act 2025 Is Now Operational

South Africa’s Crypto Reporting Regime Is Now Live — What CASPs Must Do

AfDB and UNDP Launch $10 Billion AI Initiative to Create 40 Million Jobs Across Africa by 2035

Zimbabwe’s 15% Digital Services Tax Is the Steepest on the Continent

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

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

Get Africa's tech & business briefing — free

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