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African Tech Founders Face Investor Pressure to Prove Adoption Beyond the Pitch Stage
The investment showcase at the Africa Tech Summit did not feel like a parade of polished optimism. It felt closer…
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Peace Technology Enters Africa’s Political and Economic Reality
On a midweek afternoon at the Moniepoint Stage, the conversation drifted toward an uncomfortable comparison. War technology attracts capital at…
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Settlement Risk and Fragmented Liquidity Define the Next Challenge Facing African Fintech Markets
At the DeFi Summit during the just-concluded Africa Tech Summit, the VALR Stage was primed for another crypto pitch. Instead,…
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Valentine’s Season Exposes Growing Fatigue With Swipe Based Dating
Every February brings the same ritual. Dating apps see a surge of activity, hopeful conversations begin, and many users return…
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Retail Rewards in the Age of Digital Attention
Retail has always followed attention. The difference now is where attention settles and how long it stays there. Smartphones hold…
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Africa Built Digital Payments. Crossing Borders Still Feels Hard
The conversation around African payments often begins with ambition. Integration, digital finance, continental trade. Yet the practical experience remains stubbornly…
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Fragmented Regulation Keeps African Money Moving Slowly
The conversation around intra-African trade often begins with scale. A continent of more than 50 countries, a combined market measured…
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Kenya Sets April 30 Starlink ID Verification Deadline
An email from Starlink landed in Kenyan inboxes with a firm instruction: complete identity verification in person by April 30,…
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African Startups Adjust to the Discipline That Comes With Japanese Investment
Japanese involvement in African business followed familiar routes. Trading houses moved commodities, financed logistics, and built long commercial relationships that…
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Africa’s Climate Builders Confront the Limits of Pilot Funding
The conversation around climate tech in Africa has grown more grounded. Not less ambitious, but more honest about friction. At…
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The End of Easy Narratives in Africa Tech Investing
By late afternoon at the Moniepoint Stage, the mood felt less celebratory than reflective. That alone said something. For years,…
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Africa Tech Summit Investment Showcase and the End of Easy Capital
Last evening, the Moniepoint Stage at Africa Tech Summit moved from polite introductions to something closer to a stress test.…
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Delta40 Raises $20 Million and Bets That Hands-On Capital Wins This Time
Venture capital conversations around African startups has for years leaned on expansion stories. Larger rounds, faster growth, new capital entering…
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Circle Gas Stakes Growth on Carbon Approval and Costly Bank Financing
Circle Gas is funding a clean cooking ambition with bank debt priced above 20 percent and a carbon strategy that…
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Sitoyo Lopokoiyit Steps Into Absa at a Decisive Moment for Retail Banking
When Sitoyo Lopokoiyit takes charge of Absa’s private and personal banking unit on April 1, 2026, he will be stepping…
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Agridex Partnership Signals Shift in How Trade Finance Reaches African SMEs
Agridex International has announced its partnership with Tradeflow Capital Management to focus on improving how Capital moves into agricultural and…
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Infrastructure Defines the Limits of Agritech in Africa
Agriculture still carries the weight of Africa’s climate conversation, even when attention drifts elsewhere. At the Climate Tech & Investment…
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Africa’s AI Future Tests Ambition, Infrastructure, and Control of Value
The room at the AI & Digital Summit did not sound like a gathering convinced it was witnessing the future…
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Cross Border Income Grows Across Africa as Banking Struggles to Keep PaceBanking Reality
By mid-afternoon at the Moniepoint Stage in Nairobi, the room had settled into a familiar rhythm. Founders talking infrastructure, investors…
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The Point Where African Fintech Has to Prove It Can Hold Together
At a certain stage of growth, payments stop being about access. The conversation changes. Adoption is no longer the headline.…
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Inside Moniepoint: How One Fintech is Wrestling with Growth, Chaos, and African Payments
In a conference hall buzzing with the predictable energy of Nairobi’s tech scene, Moniepoint took the stage not to flaunt…
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Talent Is No Longer the Problem but the Systems Around It Still Are
Conversations about African tech talent have for years began with scarcity. That frame is wearing thin. At Africa Tech Summit…
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Cross Border Payments Remain Africa’s Most Persistent Infrastructure Problem
The conversation around African fintech often begins with access and scale. Fincra CEO Wole Ayodele approached it from a different…
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African Fintech Growth Runs Into the Hard Limits of Trust, Regulation, and Sustainable Scale
The conversation around African fintech has matured, or at least it sounds different now. At Africa Tech Summit Nairobi, the…
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Spotify’s Growth Story Now Runs Into the Limits of Streaming Economics
Spotify entered the year with 751 million monthly active users, 290 million paying subscribers, and operating income rising sharply in…
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How to Trade Shares Through M-Pesa as the Market Opens to Everyday Investors
Kenya’s stock market has entered the M-Pesa ecosystem. Ziidi Trader places share trading inside the mobile money application, allowing investors…
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The Exit of Sitoyo Lopokoiyit Comes as M-PESA Faces Bigger Questions Than Growth
Sitoyo Lopokoiyit’s decision to leave Safaricom at the end of next month closes a chapter that coincides with an unsettled…
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KRA Wants Tax Compliance to Start at the Invoice, Not the Return
Tax compliance in Kenya is moving from periodic filing toward continuous verification. The Kenya Revenue Authority’s proposed Merchant Tax Compliance…
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Nedbank Takes Control Of NCBA With Workforce Intact
When a foreign bank moves to take control of a local lender, the first anxiety rarely concerns strategy. It concerns…
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After Koko’s Fall, M-Gas Finds a Carbon Market That No Longer Feels Open
Kenya’s carbon market is entering a more guarded phase, and the conversation now runs through cooking fuel. The latest example…
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Political Speech Sits at the Center of Kenya’s Dispute With Google
Google rejected 61.9 percent of content takedown requests from Kenya in the six months to June, declining 26 of 42…
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Zuku’s Court Trouble Opens a View Into the Strain Beneath Kenya’s Race to Wire Its Cities
A Sh46.9 million insolvency demand rarely threatens to topple a telecommunications operator on its own. The amount is modest by…
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As Fintech Moves Closer, SACCOs Rethink Control, Trust, and Relevance
Kenya’s cooperative financial sector is entering a period of adjustment as SACCOs move closer to fintech firms in response to…
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Safaricom Moves Deeper Into Investing as Share Trading Arrives on M-Pesa and the Brokerage Model Faces Pressure
Participation in the Nairobi Securities Exchange has for years followed a familiar sequence. An investor chose a broker, opened a…
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Crypto’s Confidence Slips as Bitcoin’s Decline Forces a Harder Look at Risk
The Bitcoin price fall has revived a familiar mood in digital asset markets. Not panic exactly. Something closer to recognition.…
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Millions Are Listening on Mdundo but the Money Is Not Following at the Same Pace
Mdundo’s latest results expose a structural problem inside African music streaming. Access has expanded faster than monetisation. The company reported…
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Ethiopia Gave M-Pesa Users in the Millions but Not the Revenue Safaricom Expected
Safaricom entered Ethiopia with a familiar story in mind. A large population, low formal banking penetration, and a mobile network…
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A Clean Cooking Dream Runs Into the Hard Politics of Carbon Credits in Kenya
Koko Networks did not run out of customers. Its blue-flame stoves were still in kitchens across Nairobi when administrators took…
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Nil Returns Survive But The Old Assumptions Around Them Are Fading
The Kenya Revenue Authority has restored the Nil return filing option, which had been paused, but the system update shows…
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Kenyan Creatives Step Forward at Cannes Young Lions as the Industry Searches for Stability
As the Cannes Young Lions Kenya competition that concluded this weekend, attention naturally turned to who would go on to…
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Starlink Performance In Kenya Now Runs Through Nairobi
Satellite internet has always carried a contradiction. The promise is proximity without infrastructure. The reality, at least until recently, was…
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The Ransomware Problem Kenya Struggles to Measure
Kenya’s cybercrime losses are usually reduced to a single number. Last year, the estimate crossed Sh30 billion, a figure that…
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Eveready Walks Away From Batteries and Into Kenya’s Energy Gamble
Eveready’s place in Kenyan life was uncomplicated for decades. The brand lived in drawers and kiosks, tied to torches, radios,…
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Spotify Moves Closer to Explaining Music Instead of Just Playing It
Music streaming sold a simple idea for most of the past decade. Everything in one place, available instantly, no effort…
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YouTube Music Locks Lyrics Behind a Paywall
YouTube Music now restricts full lyrics to paying subscribers. Free users can see five songs’ lyrics before the rest blurs…
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Canal+ and DStv Keep Prices Still, but Questions Linger
When Canal+ Africa completed its acquisition of MultiChoice Group in September 2025, many pay-TV subscribers across Africa waited for one…
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MTN’s Ambition in East Africa Meets Realities Money Can’t Smooth Over
In late 2025 and early 2026, comments from Ralph Mupita, the chief executive of MTN Group, set a subtle but…
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Fibre, Towers, and the Question Nobody Solved Yet
Kenya has spent years building the physical foundations of a connected economy. Fibre routes expanded alongside highways, mobile networks reached…
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Nigeria Stops Chasing the Fintech Moment and Starts Trying to Define It
Every fast-growing technology sector reaches a point where speed alone stops being an advantage. Growth exposes weak wiring. Rules lag…
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Small Instalments, Bigger Consequences In Kenya’s Smartphone Economy
In many parts of Nairobi, a smartphone sits at the centre of the workday. Orders arrive through it. Payments move…
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Assembly Plants Come Online as the Electric Car Question Remains Unsettled
Electric car assembly in Kenya is taking shape in a way that feels slightly out of sequence. Factories are being…
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Kenya’s Banking Order Changed While Absa Stayed Profitable, and Now It Has to Catch Up
Absa is not entering Kenya. It never left. The institution now discussing acquisitions is the same lender that operated for…
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Kenya’s Technology Growth Faces A Constraint In The Race For Computing Power
Artificial intelligence often enters public conversation as software. Chatbots, automated tools, prediction engines. The visible layer. What receives less attention…
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Electric Matatus Are Forcing Order Into Nairobi’s Most Chaotic Industry
Initially seen as novelties, Kenya’s electric buses and matatus once stood out for their quiet hum amidst Nairobi’s usual diesel…
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Borrowing Became Easy, Getting Out of Debt Became Harder
Kenya’s financial inclusion story has been told so often it now risks becoming background noise. Accounts are easier to open.…
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African Founders Once Chased Equity at Any Cost, Now the Bank Is Calling First
A few years ago, African tech founders learned to talk in valuation multiples and future exits. Lately, the language has…
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Samsung Has a Launch Date in Mind for the Galaxy S26 Series
When a launch date surfaces before a company wants it public, the date does some of the talking on its…
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Before SpaceX Rings the Bell, Elon Musk Is Rearranging the Entire Board
The push to merge SpaceX with xAI reads differently once the calendar is taken seriously. Elon Musk is reportedly targeting…
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Inside Canal Plus’s First Big Call on MultiChoice, and Why Showmax Took the Hit
Canal Plus did not hedge its language. Maxime Saada told analysts that Showmax was not a commercial success and confirmed…
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Airtel Africa Profit More Than Doubles to $586M as Mobile Money IPO Looms
Airtel Africa has reported a significant surge in profitability for the period ended December 31, 2025, with profit after tax…
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iPhone 16 Dominates 2025 Smartphone Sales While Fewer Models Carry the Market
The iPhone 16 ended 2025 as the world’s top-selling smartphone, not as a surprise but as evidence of a market…
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Konza’s Digital Ambition Has Reached the Point Where Treasury Steps Back
The plan to expand the Konza Data Centre has moved forward through Treasury’s PPP process with little public attention, shaped…
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AI Is Moving Into the Core of Kenyan Firms, and That Is Where the Trouble Begins
Talk to enough executives in Nairobi boardrooms and a pattern emerges. Almost everyone wants to be counted among the companies…
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Google Is Making Stolen Android Phones Harder to Live With
Smartphone theft has never been about novelty. It follows money, resale value, and ease. For years, Android sat in an…
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Online Safety in Kenya Is Getting Harder to Ignore, Even for Regulators
Online safety in Kenya has stopped feeling like a specialist concern. It has crept into everyday conversation, the sort that…
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Kenya’s Digital Government Is Growing Fast, and Cybersecurity Funding Is Racing to Keep Up
The European Union has committed Ksh 454 million(€3 million) to Kenya’s national cybersecurity ecosystem, and it comes at a very…
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A Privacy Fight Spills Into Public and WhatsApp Answers by Narrowing the Gate
When WhatsApp began rolling out Strict Account Settings, the timing looked accidental only at first glance. The feature arrived during…
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The NSE Wants Retail Investors Back, History Is Not on Its Side
The Nairobi Securities Exchange wants more people to buy shares. Not companies or banks. Regular people. The kind who use…
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Safaricom Ownership Tightens Under Regulatory Watch
The Vodafone Safaricom merger is now formally under review by the East African Community Competition Authority, and the scrutiny reflects…
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Somewhere Between the Pitch Deck and the Balance Sheet, African Fintech Grew Up
African fintech no longer moves on promise alone. It moves on permission, arithmetic, and tolerance for risk. The shift is…
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TikTok Survived the Ban Era by Changing Who Answers the Phone
The TikTok US business sale formalises a compromise that neither Washington nor Beijing ever described publicly but both have been…
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How NCBA Ended the Takeover Rumours Without Erasing Its Own Name
When NCBA’s board finally settled on Nedbank, it was not ending a bidding war so much as closing off a…
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LG Signature Smart Appliances Build Intelligence Into Habit
At CES 2026, LG Signature smart appliances arrived with a confidence that comes from subtraction. There is no attempt to…
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LG Signature Series 2026 Brings the Washer Dryer Combo Out of the Patience Economy
The all in one washer dryer has for years lived in a strange corner of the appliance world. It promised…
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The AI Race Is Running Into Walls It Cannot Code Around
The modern AI industry has lived on a simple assumption: progress would arrive faster if you fed models more data,…
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Gates and OpenAI Announce an AI Push for African Clinics at a Fragile Moment
The Gates Foundation and OpenAI have committed $50 million to deploy artificial intelligence tools across health care systems in Africa,…
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What Happens When Kenya’s Safest Money Meets Its Riskiest Borrowers
Kenyan SMEs operate in a narrow financial corridor. They generate revenue, hire staff, and survive shocks, yet credit repeatedly fails…
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Safaricom Is Repricing Broadband Around Real Life, Not the Billing Cycle
Safaricom plans to introduce tokenised Wi-Fi with hourly, daily, and weekly access. The move rests on a simple reading of…
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The Tax System is Getting Stricter About Where Invoices Come From
Tax invoices in Kenya are being forced to settle down. Under a new georeferencing policy, the Kenya Revenue Authority is…
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Google Can Afford to Say No to Ads in Gemini, for Now
Davos does strange things to conversations. People arrive sleep deprived, guarded, and oddly candid at the same time. In one…
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OnePlus Is Being Taken Apart
The OnePlus brand dismantling is not a rumor circulating at the edges of the industry. It is an observable process…
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A Safaricom Sale, A Nervous Shilling, And A Central Bank Choosing Arithmetic Over Symbolism
Central banks rarely volunteer opinions on how governments should raise money. They police inflation, manage liquidity, and safeguard market confidence.…
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LG Came to CES With Brighter OLEDs and a Hard Look at Where TVs Are Used
LG came to this year’s CES with something more deliberate and revealing. The tech giant showcased a product line that…
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Grok Didn’t Stop Making Undressing Images. X Just Decided Who Gets to Pay for Them
Early this month, X restricted Grok’s image generation to paying subscribers, steering users toward a $395 annual plan. The move…
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Inside the Plan to Let Government Offices Talk Without the Telcos Listening In
JamboTel exists, for now, as an intention more than a system. Treasury has put the idea on paper, tied it…
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In a Country Where Protest Lives Online, the Government Looks for a Way Back In
The National Communication Strategy leaves little doubt about how the State sees the digital space today. Officials believe the government…
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The Day the Cloud Hiccups is Never the Same Everywhere
Cloud outages now arrive as routine events in a system built at planetary scale. A misconfigured database, an automated rollback…
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The Chrome Bid That Wasn’t About Buying a Browser
When Perplexity submitted a $34.5 billion unsolicited offer for Google Chrome in August 2025, the timing mattered more than the…
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In the Race for Warner Bros. Discovery, the Real Fight Is With Regulators, Not Rivals
The bids circling Warner Bros. Discovery remain proposals, not outcomes. No merger has closed. No assets have moved. What exists…
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Telecoms Head Into The New Year Carrying Bigger Ambitions, Thinner Margins, And No Easy Place To Hide
The telecom industry enters the new year under strain that feels familiar but heavier. Economic expansion remains weak by historical…
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Cross-Border Deals are Slowing Down and no One is Pretending it is Temporary
Deal teams across Eastern and Southern Africa have learned to read the order of documents. Term sheets first, then diligence,…
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Everyone Sees The Views But Few See How Fragile Youtube Income Has Become In Kenya
The public image of online creation still leans toward freedom and upside. Work from anywhere. Publish often. Let the internet…
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Digital Loans Promised Access, Then Became The System Itself
Digital credit in Kenya has crossed a threshold where it no longer feels optional. With more than 3 million active…
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As Big Money Hesitates, the IFC Steps Back Into the Messy Middle of African Capital
When the International Finance Corporation commits equity capital, it usually does so with an unusually long memory. The institution tends…
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M-Pesa made paying faster, but it also made privacy easier to ignore
M-Pesa confirmation messages sit in a strange place in Kenya’s economic life. They are treated as proof, habitually displayed, sometimes…
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Nigeria is no longer debating artificial intelligence, it is trying to govern it
Nigeria’s push to legislate artificial intelligence reflects less a fascination with new tools than a mounting discomfort with how deeply…
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Starlink Breaks Up the Bill as Satellite Internet Runs Into Resistance in Kenya
Starlink’s new instalment plan for its portable mini kit is not a discount. The total cost barely moves. What changes…
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Mobile Money Still Runs the Country, Just Not Through the Counter Anymore
The small wooden counter at a mobile money kiosk still looks busy. Stickers on the glass promise speed and convenience.…
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Kenya’s Satellite Internet Market Is No Longer a One-Name Story
For years, satellite internet in Kenya sat at the edges of the connectivity map. It was used where fibre never…
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Uber Drops Visa Cards in Kenya Amid Payment Cost Squeeze
Open the Uber app in Kenya today and something ordinary is missing. Visa is gone. For a service built on…
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[Kenya] The Investment Numbers are Sliding, Employment is Not, and Nobody Agrees on What that Really Means
The Kenya investment slowdown has started to look less like a single bad year and more like a pattern that…
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