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Africa club football economics — gate receipts, agent fees and the academy transfer model

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Africa’s Club Football Economy: Why the Continent’s Best Clubs Can’t Afford Their Own Players

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March 21, 2026

Africa produces most of the world’s elite footballers — yet its clubs remain among the most financially fragile in global sport. Here’s how the revenue model actually works.

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Africa’s Food Media Economy: What YouTube Pays a Cooking Channel, What Knorr Pays a Creator, and What It Costs to Get Jollof onto a Tesco Shelf

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March 21, 2026

African food media has built a multi-layer commercial architecture: YouTube geography gaps, FMCG brand deals as primary income, cookbook diaspora rights economics, and the landed cost of getting Nigerian sauce onto a Tesco shelf.

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South Africa 150 percent EV tax deduction manufacturing hub

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South Africa’s 150% EV Tax Bet: The Factories That Will Benefit Are Not the Ones Already There

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March 21, 2026

BMW’s Rosslyn plant makes the X3, including a plug-in hybrid variant. Ford assembles a hybrid Ranger in Pretoria. Toyota builds the Corolla Cross HEV in Durban. Volkswagen Group Africa’s leadership…

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Persistent $52M Africa Climate Venture Fund First Close 2026

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Persistent Closes $52M First for Africa’s Most Patient Climate Fund

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March 20, 2026

Persistent’s $52M first close for its Africa Climate Venture Fund backs pre-seed climate founders that growth-stage VCs routinely pass on — and reshapes who writes the smallest cheques in Africa’s climate ecosystem.

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Safaricom stake sale Vodacom Kenya capital markets analysis

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Kenya Sells the Crown Jewel: What the Safaricom-Vodacom Deal Tells Us About Africa’s Fiscal Reckoning

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March 20, 2026

Kenya has approved the sale of a 15% Safaricom stake to Vodacom for KES 204 billion ($1.5B). The real story: a debt-distressed government has monetised Africa’s most valuable fintech asset through a bilateral deal — not the capital markets Safaricom has been democratising.

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CBN BVN phone lock — Nigeria fintech compliance, SIM-swap fraud prevention, digital identity restriction for 68.59 million BVN holders

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CBN BVN Phone Lock: Nigeria’s Hardest Fintech Constraint — and the Inclusion Question Nobody Has Answered

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March 20, 2026

The CBN’s once-per-lifetime BVN phone restriction closes a SIM-swap fraud window. For 68.59 million BVN holders who lose a SIM, change carriers, or upgrade, the circular does not say what happens.

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Nigeria fintech regulation — CBN directives on FATF grey list removal, AML compliance, and liveness checks for Africa's largest fintech market

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Nigeria After FATF: Can Africa’s Biggest Fintech Market Now Set the Rules?

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March 20, 2026

Nigeria’s removal from the FATF grey list in October 2025 unlocked a capital flow argument. The IMF estimates grey-listing cost ~7.6% of GDP in capital inflows. Now the CBN is pushing to become Africa’s fintech regulatory standard-setter.

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Africa’s $66 Billion Beauty Economy: The Brand, Creator and Salon Revenue Structures That Power It

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March 20, 2026

Africa’s beauty and personal care market is projected at $66.19 billion in 2024 — but multinationals capture most of the value. Here is who controls the market, where creators earn, and why the continent’s manufacturing gap persists.

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CBN AI AML baseline standards Nigeria fintech compliance 2026

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CBN Issues AI Baseline Standards for AML Compliance — Nigeria Fintech Has 18 Months

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March 14, 2026

The Central Bank of Nigeria’s new circular mandates six specific AI capabilities for anti-money laundering compliance, with an 18-24 month implementation window for all Nigerian banks and fintechs.

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Rwanda 1.5% digital services tax Africa DST wave 2026

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Rwanda’s 1.5% Digital Services Tax Joins a Growing Continental Wave

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March 14, 2026

Rwanda implements a 1.5% digital services tax for fiscal year 2026-27, joining a continental wave of African DST frameworks targeting foreign digital platforms.

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Business

Africa’s Club Football Economy: Why the Continent’s Best Clubs Can’t Afford Their Own Players

Africa’s Food Media Economy: What YouTube Pays a Cooking Channel, What Knorr Pays a Creator, and What It Costs to Get Jollof onto a Tesco Shelf

South Africa’s 150% EV Tax Bet: The Factories That Will Benefit Are Not the Ones Already There

Persistent Closes $52M First for Africa’s Most Patient Climate Fund

Kenya Sells the Crown Jewel: What the Safaricom-Vodacom Deal Tells Us About Africa’s Fiscal Reckoning

CBN BVN Phone Lock: Nigeria’s Hardest Fintech Constraint — and the Inclusion Question Nobody Has Answered

Nigeria After FATF: Can Africa’s Biggest Fintech Market Now Set the Rules?

Africa’s $66 Billion Beauty Economy: The Brand, Creator and Salon Revenue Structures That Power It

CBN Issues AI Baseline Standards for AML Compliance — Nigeria Fintech Has 18 Months

Rwanda’s 1.5% Digital Services Tax Joins a Growing Continental Wave

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

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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