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Rwanda’s Digital Services Tax: Why a 1.5% Levy Could Reshape How Africa Taxes the Platform Economy

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March 20, 2026

Rwanda’s 1.5% digital services tax is live. It joins South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe in taxing the platform economy. What the wave means for digital businesses across Africa.

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Girls in STEM in Sub-Saharan Africa: CESA 2016-2025 gender gap audit across 10 countries

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Girls in STEM: Why a Decade of African Targets Failed — and What Three Countries Are Doing Differently

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March 20, 2026

The AU’s CESA 2016–2025 decade closed without meeting its STEM gender parity goals. Rwanda, Ghana, and South Africa offer three distinct policy models producing measurable results — but without binding targets and adequate funding, Africa’s most replicable successes are not spreading fast enough.

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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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TVET in Africa — the missing middle of the digital economy skills pipeline 2026

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TVET in Africa: Can Technical Training Scale to Meet the Digital Economy Demand?

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March 13, 2026

Africa adds 18 million young workers annually but TVET enrolment covers barely 1.8% of secondary students. An investigation into whether reform is finally moving fast enough to close the continent’s technical skills gap.

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Kenya and Rwanda sign EAC PSP licence passporting MOU

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

March 12, 2026

Kenya and Rwanda’s central banks have signed a landmark MOU to build a mutual recognition framework for payment service providers — the first concrete step in a five-year plan to integrate East Africa’s fragmented payments landscape.

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Rwanda’s Digital Services Tax: Why a 1.5% Levy Could Reshape How Africa Taxes the Platform Economy

Girls in STEM: Why a Decade of African Targets Failed — and What Three Countries Are Doing Differently

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

TVET in Africa: Can Technical Training Scale to Meet the Digital Economy Demand?

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

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

Nigeria Fintech M&A Pipeline Q2 2026: Who Is Buying the Compliance Laggards?

The Merch Gap: Why African Creators Leave Money on the Table With Physical Products

Africa’s Reality TV Format Economy: Inside the Business of Big Brother Naija, Format Fees, and the Sponsor Arms Race

Building a Game Studio in Africa Costs $3,000 a Month. Publishing One Game Costs Three Times That. The Unit Economics Explain Why African Studios Struggle to Scale.

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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

Nigeria Fintech M&A Pipeline Q2 2026: Who Is Buying the Compliance Laggards?