Africa Banking Sector FY2025 Earnings Round-Up: Who Won, Who Struggled, and What the Numbers Reveal
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Africa 2025 full-year bank results reveal a continental divide: record profits in East and Southern Africa, profit compression in Nigeria.
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Africa’s Series A Drought Is Real. Local VCs Are Filling the Gap.
Foreign VC retreat from African Series A rounds has created a funding gap — and local capital managers are moving to fill it.
Morocco and the African Battery Minerals Value Chain: Who Captures the Premium?
Morocco’s battery manufacturing ambitions sit at the intersection of African mineral wealth and Chinese manufacturing capital. Who captures the value?
MTN’s 30 Million Homes Bet: The Economics Behind Africa’s Biggest Fixed Broadband Push
MTN Group is targeting 20–30 million connected homes via fixed wireless access. The unit economics behind the ambition.
Agricultural AI for Africa Won’t Work If It Isn’t Localised for Smallholder Farms
Agtech AI products built for industrial farming are failing Africa’s smallholders. Localisation — of language, crop variety, and land size — is non-negotiable.
AU and Google Sign AI MOU. Sovereign AI for Africa — or a Dependency Deal?
The African Union and Google have signed an AI cooperation MOU. Whether it advances or undermines African AI sovereignty depends on the fine print.
African Data Workers Are Training Military AI Without Knowing It
African data annotation workers are feeding military AI systems — often without disclosure. The labour rights and ethics gap is widening.
Africa’s Satellite Internet Price War Is Real. SMEs Are Still Paying Too Much.
Starlink and OneWeb have driven down satellite internet prices across Africa — but structural costs keep SMEs priced out.
WTO E-Commerce Moratorium Ends. Africa’s Digital Tariff Debate Is Just Beginning.
The WTO e-commerce moratorium has expired. African governments are now debating whether to tax digital cross-border trade — and the stakes are significant.
Africa’s Tech Brain Drain: Are Diaspora Return Programmes Actually Working?
Kenya, Rwanda, and Ghana have formal diaspora return schemes for tech talent. The evidence on whether they work is mixed.
