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Airtel Africa vs MTN FY2025 earnings comparison Africa telecoms

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Two Telecoms, One Continent: What Airtel Africa and MTN’s FY2025 Results Reveal About Africa’s Biggest Strategic Bet

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March 22, 2026

Airtel Africa and MTN have both reported FY2025 results. Both recovered sharply from currency-driven losses. But their strategies — asset-light vs infrastructure build, fintech IPO vs acquisition war chest — could not be more different.

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Lyra Energy's $240M Thakadu Solar Plant Breaks Ground — Standard Bank Finances It Alone — BETAR.africa

Energy & Climate

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Lyra Energy’s $240M Thakadu Solar Plant Breaks Ground — Standard Bank Finances It Alone

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March 22, 2026

Lyra Energy’s 255MW Thakadu project is South Africa’s largest private solar plant. Standard Bank financed it entirely — no DFI participation.

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Carbon Credits Are Financing Clean Cooking in East Africa — and the AfDB Just Made It Official — BETAR.africa

Energy & Climate

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Carbon Credits Are Financing Clean Cooking in East Africa — and the AfDB Just Made It Official

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March 22, 2026

The African Development Bank’s BEEP programme has created a carbon credit pipeline for clean cookstoves. The financing model and its scalability.

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Morocco's Gotion Battery Gigafactory Is Africa's First. It Won't Be the Last. — BETAR.africa

Energy & Climate

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Morocco’s Gotion Battery Gigafactory Is Africa’s First. It Won’t Be the Last.

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March 22, 2026

Gotion’s Kenitra battery plant makes Morocco the first African country with gigafactory capacity. The industrial strategy behind the choice.

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Africa AI regulation by default — data protection law mapped across 6 African jurisdictions

Technology

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Africa’s AI Regulation by Default: How Data Protection Law Is Doing the Work AI Law Doesn’t

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March 22, 2026

Across most of Africa, governments have no AI-specific legislation. Data protection frameworks are filling the gap — but the fit is imperfect, enforcement is uneven, and the gaps are growing.

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Spiro Raises $50M Debt to Scale Battery-Swap E-Mobility Across Africa — BETAR.africa

Energy & Climate

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Spiro Raises $50M Debt to Scale Battery-Swap E-Mobility Across Africa

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March 22, 2026

Spiro has closed a $50M debt facility to expand its battery-swap model beyond Côte d’Ivoire. The unit economics and expansion logic explained.

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Wise Gets Its Own Rails in Nigeria: What a Long-Awaited IMTO Licence Means for the UK-Nigeria Remittance Corridor — BETAR.africa

Technology

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Wise Gets Its Own Rails in Nigeria: What a Long-Awaited IMTO Licence Means for the UK-Nigeria Remittance Corridor

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March 22, 2026

Wise’s CBN IMTO licence removes the third-party intermediation that capped its Nigerian pricing. The incumbents have reason to worry.

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Africa teacher training pipeline crisis — 15 million teachers needed by 2030

Education

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Africa’s Teacher Training Pipeline Crisis: Who Prepares the Next Educators?

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March 22, 2026

Africa needs 15 million additional teachers by 2030. The colleges that train them are underfunded, their graduates don’t always reach classrooms, and political attention is almost entirely elsewhere.

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South Africa MDPMI Google R688M platform regulation Africa

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South Africa’s R688M Google Settlement: Africa’s First Enforceable Big Tech Payment to Media Publishers

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March 22, 2026

South Africa’s Competition Commission secured R688M from Google under the MDPMI inquiry — Africa’s first enforceable Big Tech payment to news publishers. Here is what the settlement actually means, stream by stream.

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SOLA Naos-1 South Africa solar BESS wheeling Sasol Air Liquide 2026

Technology

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SOLA Naos-1: South Africa’s Largest Private Solar+BESS Project Closes — The Wheeling Deal That Changes Industrial Energy

UphivaBETAR
March 22, 2026

SOLA Group’s Naos-1 — 300MW solar, 660MWh storage — has reached financial close. It is the first utility-scale solar+storage project in South Africa purpose-built for industrial wheeling to large corporates.

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Two Telecoms, One Continent: What Airtel Africa and MTN’s FY2025 Results Reveal About Africa’s Biggest Strategic Bet

Lyra Energy’s $240M Thakadu Solar Plant Breaks Ground — Standard Bank Finances It Alone

Carbon Credits Are Financing Clean Cooking in East Africa — and the AfDB Just Made It Official

Morocco’s Gotion Battery Gigafactory Is Africa’s First. It Won’t Be the Last.

Africa’s AI Regulation by Default: How Data Protection Law Is Doing the Work AI Law Doesn’t

Spiro Raises $50M Debt to Scale Battery-Swap E-Mobility Across Africa

Wise Gets Its Own Rails in Nigeria: What a Long-Awaited IMTO Licence Means for the UK-Nigeria Remittance Corridor

Africa’s Teacher Training Pipeline Crisis: Who Prepares the Next Educators?

South Africa’s R688M Google Settlement: Africa’s First Enforceable Big Tech Payment to Media Publishers

SOLA Naos-1: South Africa’s Largest Private Solar+BESS Project Closes — The Wheeling Deal That Changes Industrial Energy

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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