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Two of the buses operate as a self-contained clinic, powered by solar energy and fitted with equipment for diagnostics, dental care, and cervical cancer screeni

Innovate Now has selected 19 startups working across speech therapy, mobility, inclusive education, and caregiver support sectors to provide locally adapted sol

Sikili is more than a commerce play. It is an early argument for what a West African circular economy could look like, and a story about two women who chose to

Airtel Nigeria, the second biggest player, has been building aggressively to compete. By December 2025, it had added 1,561 sites over three years, bringing its

In today's edition: Morocco’s AI factory || Foreign income earned at home is taxable in Kenya || Nigeria sets June deadline for e-invoicing || Bad loans in Keny

Koné's appointment comes as Cauridor moves beyond its early infrastructure-building phase and pushes into new markets.

The agreement will see titles from the Lagos-based publisher distributed digitally via Storipod, as both companies look to widen access to African literature.

I sat in on a cloud panel at GITEX Africa in Morocco on April 8, 2026, that was less about how countries and companies are adopting the cloud, but more about wh

Gavriel Landau, founder and CEO of Charm Impact, talks about the limits of current climate finance and the economics of small-ticket lending.

A Kenyan Tax Appeals Tribunal ruling that income earned from projects abroad can still be taxed locally could ripple through Nairobi’s fast-growing pool of remo

Kenyan ag-tech startups are chasing new systems while ignoring cooperatives that already solve trust, distribution, and financing at scale.

In today's edition: Project BRIDGE gets $200 million || South Africa wants data from telcos || Banks bet on Optasia || Amazon Leo to launch mid-2026 || Plus: Wo

Broadcasting remains the backbone of NIGCOMSAT’s earnings, accounting for more than 50% of total revenue.

Nomba and Globus Bank have announced that their 18-month credit partnership has disbursed ₦21.3 billion ($15.3 million) to Nigerian businesses, with less than 1

Meet Chukwuemeka Mbachu, an experienced banking specialist who believes banking is no longer just evolving, it’s being rebuilt.

In today's edition: Quick Fire 🔥 with Chukwuemeka Mbachu || Safaricom's My OneApp had an underwhelming debut || Nigeria pushes for shared local cloud infrastru

Kenya’s draft rules are built to encourage well‑capitalised, heavily scrutinised stablecoin issuers whose fully backed, segregated reserves must stay ring‑fence

M-KOPA's 2025 impact report reveals that the Kenyan asset financing startup has extended more than ZAR 370 million ($22.5 million) in credit to low-income consu

South Africa is taking a different approach by spreading responsibility across existing agencies and favouring coordination over top-down control.

Refiant AI has raised $5 million to support its compression and restrucutring tool for AI models to allow them run efficiently on smaller or local machines.

PowerLabs wants to make sense of Nigeria’s crowded power mix. Its premise is simple: that the country’s energy problem is no longer just about supply, but about

Safaricom’s newly launched My OneApp is facing widespread login failures just days after its debut, complicating plans to phase out its legacy M-PESA and mySafa

The numbers represent the sharpest test yet of whether Kenya's cybersecurity infrastructure can keep pace with its digital economy.