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Kenya Communications Authority QoS report Telkom Kenya compliance failure 2026

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Kenya’s Third Operator Is Failing Its Network Test. The CA Has the Numbers. Now What?

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April 6, 2026

Telkom Kenya scored 52.76% in the CA’s latest QoS assessment against an 80% compliance threshold. That’s not a close miss. It is a structural failure of network quality at the country’s third operator.

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AI data centres in Africa - MTN Lagos and Microsoft Kenya facilities with power infrastructure

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Africa’s AI Data Centre Race Has a Power Problem

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April 6, 2026

MTN is spending $240 million on an AI data centre in Lagos. Microsoft and G42 are spending $1 billion in Kenya. The investment is real. So is the power problem that could undermine it.

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Africa electricity tariff reform wave 2026 — Nigeria Ghana Kenya energy transition

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Africa Electricity Tariff Reform Wave 2026: Who Gains, Who Loses

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April 3, 2026

Across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, electricity tariffs have risen sharply in 2026. The reform wave was necessary — but not equally shared.

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Africa Electricity Tariff Reform Wave 2026: Who Gains, Who Loses, and What It Means for the Energy Transition

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April 3, 2026

Across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya and South Africa, electricity tariffs have risen sharply in 2026. The reform wave was necessary — but not equally shared.

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Kenya VASP stablecoin capital rule — NIFC crypto hub 2026

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Kenya Sets Africa’s Highest Stablecoin Bar — and 50 Crypto Firms Still Want In

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April 3, 2026

Kenya’s Capital Markets Authority has set Africa’s most demanding stablecoin capital requirements. Fifty firms applied anyway — and the race to become Africa’s crypto hub is underway.

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Young Africans navigating the school-to-work transition gap with no formal employment or training pathway

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Africa’s School-to-Work Gap: Why 60% of Youth Are Neither Employed Nor in Training

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March 28, 2026

60% of Sub-Saharan African youth aged 15-24 are neither employed nor in education or training. The problem is not a skills mismatch — it is a transition infrastructure failure.

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Kenya and Rwanda CBK-NBR payment service provider licence passporting MOU signing March 2026

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One Licence, Two Markets: Kenya and Rwanda Just Redrew East Africa’s Fintech Map

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March 23, 2026

Kenya and Rwanda have signed a landmark MOU to build a mutual recognition framework for payment service providers — the first bilateral step in the EAC’s five-year cross-border payments integration blueprint.

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Africa agricultural AI localisation — satellite imagery of smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa

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Why Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Are AI’s Hardest Localisation Problem

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March 13, 2026

AI tools trained on North American farms fail on Africa smallholder plots. Here is who is building the data infrastructure to close the gap.

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Kenya’s Third Operator Is Failing Its Network Test. The CA Has the Numbers. Now What?

Africa’s AI Data Centre Race Has a Power Problem

Africa Electricity Tariff Reform Wave 2026: Who Gains, Who Loses

Africa Electricity Tariff Reform Wave 2026: Who Gains, Who Loses, and What It Means for the Energy Transition

Kenya Sets Africa’s Highest Stablecoin Bar — and 50 Crypto Firms Still Want In

Africa’s School-to-Work Gap: Why 60% of Youth Are Neither Employed Nor in Training

One Licence, Two Markets: Kenya and Rwanda Just Redrew East Africa’s Fintech Map

Why Africa’s Smallholder Farmers Are AI’s Hardest Localisation Problem

Ethiopia Is Selling Electricity to Half of East Africa. Here Is What That Actually Means.

The IP Ownership Lesson That African Comics Learned the Hard Way

Africa’s Fashion Week Economics: Who Pays, Who Profits, Who Converts

Ghana Just Did What No West African Country Has Done: Put a Price on Charging an EV

The 1% Promise: Which African Governments Are Meeting the Kigali R&D Commitment — and What the Gap Costs the Continent

The 1% Promise: Which African Governments Are Meeting the Kigali R&D Commitment — and What the Gap Costs the Continent

Africa Offshore Wind: Zero Commissioned Capacity Despite 100GW Announced Projects

Africa Offshore Wind: Zero Commissioned Capacity Despite 100GW Announced Projects

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Ethiopia Is Selling Electricity to Half of East Africa. Here Is What That Actually Means.

The IP Ownership Lesson That African Comics Learned the Hard Way

Africa’s Fashion Week Economics: Who Pays, Who Profits, Who Converts

Ghana Just Did What No West African Country Has Done: Put a Price on Charging an EV