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Safaricom’s M-Pesa Update Masks Phone Numbers and Ends an Era of Open Customer Data
The digital footprints left behind after a simple 500-shilling transfer are about to shrink. Starting Tuesday, 24 March 2026, Safaricom…
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Mobile Number Ruling in Kenya Complicates Telco Operations
On March 19, 2026, the High Court placed a mobile number in the same legal space as personal data. Justice…
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Bolt Report Highlights Economic Gains for Drivers in Kenya’s Gig Economy
On-demand mobility platform Bolt has released its flagship Gig Economy Report in partnership with Ipsos, revealing the growing role of…
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AVEVA Appoints Khaled Salah as VP for Africa in Regional Growth Push
Industrial software company AVEVA has appointed Khaled Salah as Vice President of Africa, tasking him with accelerating the company’s growth…
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EU and Kenya Move Deeper Into Digital Systems Design With New Strategic Dialogue
Fifty years is a long time in diplomacy. Long enough for habits to form, for language to settle into routine.…
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Kenya Holds Line on 15% Tax for US Firms
Tax policy often feels like an abstract exercise until the invoices start to arrive. For Kenya, the global minimum tax…
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Kibaba Fund Brings Global Exposure Closer, but Not Simpler
Kenyan retail portfolios have tended to circle the same terrain for years. Treasury bills, SACCO shares, a piece of land…
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MTN Passes 300 Million Subscribers as Africa’s Data Appetite Grows
The headline number looks simple enough. MTN now counts 307 million voice subscribers across its markets. Profit has returned. Data…
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A Few Thousand Shillings at a Time, Kenyans Are Walking Into the Stock Market Through M-Pesa
The Nairobi Securities Exchange has spent years searching for retail investors. It found them in a place few people in…
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Telecom AI Meets Mobile Money in Safaricom–Indosat Deal
The Safaricom–Indosat partnership brings together two operators that arrived at the digital economy from different directions. Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH)…
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The Canal+ Strategy Taking Shape After Showmax
The French media group Canal+ ended 2025 with 42.3 million subscribers worldwide, a figure that tells two different stories depending…
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From Cell on Wheels to Smart Sensors, Safaricom Brings Connectivity to the 2026 Safari Rally
The Safari Rally Kenya has long been associated with the image of raw endurance. Cars pound through volcanic dust. And…
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How LG Is Turning AI Into Everyday Value for East African Homes
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the most talked-about technologies in the world. From global tech conferences to policy…
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The 2026 Middle East Regional Conflict Freezes a Critical Segment of the 2Africa Cable
The 2Africa submarine cable, the largest subsea internet network ever attempted, has run into the realities of maritime conflict. Construction…
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Liquid Kenya CEO on How the Company is Building Africa’s AI-Ready Future
As Africa undergoes a rapid technological evolution, the transition from legacy systems to cutting-edge digital ecosystems is no longer just…
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South African AI startup Yazi Secures First Institutional Funding at $1.6M Valuation
Yazi, a South African AI-native research startup, has officially closed its first institutional funding round, valuing the company at R30…
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KCB Group’s Net Proft Jumps 11pc to KShs. 68.4 Billion
KCB Group PLC has signalled a massive win for its digital-first strategy, posting a KSh 68.4 billion profit after tax…
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TikTok Announces Additional $200k into Sub-Saharan Africa AI Literacy
TikTok has doubled down on its commitment to online safety by announcing a fresh $200,000 investment in AI media literacy…
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Africa’s Renewable Energy Investment Still Far From $100B Annual Target
Africa’s renewable energy investment has accelerated over the past few years. The numbers tell a story of momentum, yet they…
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Google Expands AI Search to 13 African Languages, Including Kiswahili and Somali
Google has expanded its AI-powered search features to support 13 African languages, marking a significant step toward making artificial intelligence…
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Huawei and Konza Launch AI-Powered BPO at Siaya Digital Hub
Huawei and the Konza Technopolis Development Authority have launched an AI-powered contact center platform at the Siaya Community Digital Hub,…
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M-Pesa at 19: How Kenya’s Mobile Money Pioneer Reshaped Payments and Everyday Finance
M-Pesa at 19 years after its launch shows how a simple mobile money transfer tool evolved into the core infrastructure…
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Kanessa Muluneh | The Art of Scaling Startups: Why Marketing Is the Missing Growth Engine
Early-stage founders are conditioned by accelerators, investors, and peers to focus on three things: product, operations, and fundraising. These are…
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Canal+ Announces Shutdown of Showmax Streaming Service
Canal+ has officially announced the upcoming discontinuation of the loss-making Showmax streaming platform. The decision comes just months after the…
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Kenya Extends Its Reach Into Rural Care Through Artificial Intelligence
Kenya’s AI integration into community health systems will embed algorithmic decision tools into frontline primary care under the Ministry of…
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Banks Push Back After CBK Orders Rate Changes
The CBK lending rate order requires commercial banks in Kenya to immediately adjust lending rates following changes to the Central…
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Huawei Exceeds ITU Partner2Connect Pledge Target, Bringing Connectivity to 170 Million People Globally
Huawei has delivered digital connectivity to 170 million people in remote and underserved communities across more than 80 countries, surpassing…
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How M-PESA Optimization is Localizing Liquidity for Kenyan Traders
For years, participating in the global forex market meant playing by the rules of the US dollar and the SWIFT…
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Trust as Currency: Protecting Kenya’s Digital Economy from Growing Fraud
There was a time when fraud was mainly a bank’s problem. A suspicious transaction would be flagged, an account frozen,…
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Kenya Approves M-Pesa Plan to Hide Customer Phone Numbers
The mobile phone number has long served as the public face of Kenya’s mobile money economy. It appears on receipts.…
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AUI Global Partners with Konza to Improve AI Leadership in Kenya
The Konza Technopolis Development Authority (KoTDA) has officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with AUI Global, a prominent leader…
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Pesalink–PAPSS Link Targets Africa’s Payment Bottleneck
Cross-border payments in Africa still move with the drag of another era. A trader in Nairobi wiring money to Lagos…
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M-PESA Ethiopia and Gebeya Launch Dala AI Bundle to Democratize AI
M-PESA Ethiopia and Gebeya Inc. have announced the launch of the Dala AI Bundle. This first-of-its-kind subscription service allows Ethiopians…
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Africa Digital Assets and VAAK Ink Strategic Digital Asset Partnership
Africa Digital Assets (ADA) has officially entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with the Virtual Assets Association of Kenya (VAAK).…
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Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: Where to Watch and What to Expect
The Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 event is happening on Wednesday, February 25. At the event, Samsung is expected to introduce…
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Bolt Rolls Out New High-Risk Location Flagging Feature for Drivers
Bolt has announced a major update to its security suite: a feature that allows drivers to flag and map high-risk…
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As Parliament Circles Back to TikTok, Kenya Confronts the Limits of Regulation
The ban question is back in circulation, and debate over how Kenya should regulate TikTok is unfolding again in that…
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With Airtel Uganda’s Dividend Rise Matching Profit Growth, the Region’s Telecom Income Trade Gets Firmer
The Airtel Uganda dividend rise is not a marginal adjustment. The company has lifted its total payout to Sh0.41 per…
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Nairobi’s Transport System Was Never Built for Timetables. BasiGo Fixed-Route Commuting Thinks It Can Be
Nairobi has long run on improvisation. Routes bend. Fares float. Timetables exist mostly in the driver’s head. For decades, that…
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Venture Money Built Fairmoney, Deposits Now Demand Something More Concrete
Nigeria’s digital loan boom was built on urgency. School fees due. Rent overdue. A trader short on stock before the…
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Mobile Money, Trade Flows and the Scramble to Measure Kenya’s Economy Faster
There is always a lag in official truth. In Kenya’s case, it runs at least 3 months long. Quarterly GDP…
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Ethio Telecom Steps Into the TV Business and Takes Aim at the Satellite Dish
In much of Ethiopia, television has long arrived by way of a metal dish fixed to a rooftop, angled toward…
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Nedbank Gets the Green Light and NCBA’s Future Tilts South
Last week, the Nedbank Group received what may prove the most politically delicate approval in its proposed acquisition of approximately…
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MTN to Acquire 100% of IHS Towers
MTN Group has reached a definitive agreement with the board of IHS Towers to acquire 100% of the company’s shareholding…
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Connecting Kenya’s Digital Services to M-PESA
Most Kenyans do not think about what happens behind the scenes when they pay for something online, settle a hospital…
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Konza Technopolis Adds ACTS Research Hub as Kenya’s Science City Enters a More Demanding Phase
When the African Centre for Technology Studies broke ground on a 2.1-acre parcel inside Konza Technopolis on Friday, the ceremony…
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Canal+ Breaks April Tradition as DStv Skips 2026 Price Increase
1st April has long been the date when DStv subscription prices moved in step with MultiChoice’s financial year. In 2026,…
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Airtel to Ride on Starlink to Command Mobile Internet Market in Kenya
Kenya is set to be at the forefront of a big shift in mobile internet access across Africa, as a…
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Kenya’s POS Card Payments Climb Higher While Cash Still Rules the Streets
Kenya’s card payments at POS reached Sh297 billion in 2025. On paper, that is a modest climb from Sh291.9 billion…
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Gabon Imposes Indefinite Social Media Blackout Amid Rising Labor Unrest
Gabon has ordered an immediate and indefinite suspension of all social media platforms. The directive, issued late Tuesday by the…
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A New Monitoring System Puts Kenya’s Telcos Under Permanent Scrutiny
Telecom performance in Kenya has long been measured through drive tests, with engineers travelling across towns and highways collecting samples…
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Microsoft-Powered AI App Auni Surpasses 3,500 Business Sign-ups in Three Months
Auni, an artificial intelligence-powered mini app developed by Nairobi-based startup Fastagger and integrated into Safaricom’s M-Pesa Business Super App, has…
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Why Nedbank Was Willing to Pay More for NCBA Group
When Nedbank moved to acquire a 66 percent stake in NCBA Group, the headline number drew attention first. Sh110.4 billion…
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Kenya Moves to Reform Spectrum Laws to Close Rural Digital Gap
Modernizing spectrum management could inject a massive Ksh 662 billion ($4.2 billion) into Kenya’s GDP by 2028. This is according…
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HAVAÍC’s US$50 Million African Innovation Fund 3 Achieves Third Close
Cape Town-headquartered venture capital (VC) firm HAVAÍC has announced the third close of its US$50 million African Innovation Fund 3…
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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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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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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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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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Safaricom and NSE Launch Ziidi Trader to Democratize Stock Market Access via M-PESA
Safaricom has partnered with the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) to launch Ziidi Trader. The new platform, embedded directly within the…
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Andela Targets 15,000 Technologists with Expanded AI Academy to Bridge Global Skills Gap
Andela, the global marketplace for technical talent, has announced a significant expansion of its Andela AI Academy. The initiative has…
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Paratus Activates Major Fiber Highway Linking Kenya and the DRC
Pan-African telecommunications company Paratus Group has officially switched on a new 2,000 km terrestrial fiber route, establishing a direct high-capacity…
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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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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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Bolt Now Represents 24% of Kenya’s Electric Vehicle Fleet
Following the launch of Kenya’s E-Mobility Policy, new data from Bolt highlights the growing role of shared mobility platforms in…
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Absa Expands ElevateHer AI Programme Across Africa
Following a successful pilot in South Africa, Absa, in partnership with Microsoft Elevate and Women in Tech (WiT), has announced…
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Interview: Samsung’s Product Lead Ryan Mule on The Smartphone as an AI Platform
As the digital landscape across East Africa shifts from simple connectivity to proactive intelligence, the smartphone is undergoing its most…
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The TechTrends Podcast | When a Nation Talks: The Safaricom Sale Question
From M-Pesa to mobile data, Safaricom powers how millions of Kenyans live, work, and connect. So when news emerges about…
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Kenya Unveils National E-mobility Policy to Accelerate EVs Shift
Kenya has officially launched the National Electric Mobility (E-Mobility) Policy, a comprehensive roadmap designed to transition the country’s transport sector…
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Rideence Africa and AVA Partner to Launch KES 320 Million EV Assembly Line in Mombasa
Rideence Africa Limited, in collaboration with Associated Vehicle Assemblers (AVA), has announced a KES 320 million investment to launch a…
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Kenyan Creators Earn Over KSh 47 Million as TikTok for Business Turns One
One year after TikTok for Business officially launched in Kenya, the platform has revealed that over 200 Kenyan creators have…
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Bboxx Appoints New Managing Director for Nigeria
Bboxx, a data-driven platform providing essential services across Africa, has entered a new growth phase in Nigeria with the appointment…
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Google and African Partners Launch WAXAL to Map 21 Languages Into the AI Future
Google, in collaboration with a coalition of leading African research institutions, has announced the launch of WAXAL, a large-scale, openly…
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Airtel Money Processes $210 Billion Annually as 2026 IPO Nears
Airtel Africa has confirmed that the planned public listing of its mobile money unit is on schedule for the first…
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NCBA Sets Regional Record as First Bank to Achieve ISO Data Privacy Certification
NCBA Bank has set a new benchmark for data security in East and Central Africa, becoming the first lender in…
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How Safaricom’s T4D Unit is Engineering Social Change
In the rapidly evolving landscape of African telecommunications, the phrase “Transforming Lives” is often seen on billboards and marketing collateral.…
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Starlink Rivals Partner to Help Prevent Internet Blackouts In Africa
Spacecoin, the world’s first decentralized satellite internet network, has announced a partnership with the Midnight Foundation to explore the development…
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Tala Doubles Down on Trust and Technology to Reach 3 Billion Unbanked Adults
A new report backed by digital lender Tala has highlighted both a massive opportunity and a significant challenge in global…
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Coming Soon: A New Layer of Privacy Five Years in the Making
Our phones are our most personal space, but we use them in the least private places. On the bus, in…
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iXAfrica to Host Oracle Cloud Region in Nairobi, Kenya
iXAfrica Data Centre Limited has partnered with Oracle to host the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) region in Nairobi, Kenya iXAfrica…
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I&M Bank’s FX Trading Platform Promises Instant Forex Settlement for Kenyan Businesses
For years, corporate treasury in Kenya operated on a dependency model. If a Finance Manager wanted to convert currencies, they…
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CAK Approves KCB Group’s Acquisition of Fintech Firm Riverbank Solutions
The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has formally approved KCB Group PLC’s acquisition of a 75% stake in the fintech…
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The TechTrends Podcast x Africa Tech Summit | How Fincra Is Rebuilding African Payments
Africa’s fintech story is often told through flashy consumer apps, billion-dollar valuations, and rapid user growth. But beneath all of…
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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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Flutterwave Partners with Turnkey and Nuvion to Deploy Stablecoin Infrastructure
Flutterwave has announced the launch of stablecoin balances for its merchants and users. This strategic move, achieved through a collaboration…
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South Africa’s Nedbank to Acquire Majority Stake in Kenya’s NCBA for $856 million
South African financial giant Nedbank Group Limited has issued a formal Notice of Intention to acquire a controlling 66% stake…
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Chipper Cash Hits First Cash-Flow Positive Quarter
Chipper Cash, one of Africa’s leading cross-border payment platforms, has officially reached a historic financial turning point. CEO and Co-Founder…
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Kenya Confirms Worldcoin Biometric Data Deleted
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has confirmed that Tools for Humanity, the organization behind the controversial Worldcoin…
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Paystack Marks 10th Anniversary with Shift to Holding Company and Group Profitability
Paystack, the fintech giant that has become the backbone of digital commerce in Africa, has announced a major structural evolution…
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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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Safaricom Appoints Sylvia Anampiu to Lead Fixed Business
Safaricom has announced the appointment of Sylvia Anampiu as the Director of Fixed Business, signaling a major strategic shift as…
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Capital.com Secures CMA License to Operate as Online Forex Broker in Kenya
Global fintech group, Capital.com, has been granted a license by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) of Kenya to operate as…
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Kenyan Regulators Back Government’s Safaricom Stake Sale
Kenyan regulatory heads have formally endorsed the government’s plan to divest a 15% stake in Safaricom PLC to the Vodacom…
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Africa Tech Summit Nairobi: 12 Startups Selected for 2026 Investment Showcase
Africa Tech Summit Nairobi has officially unveiled the 12 African ventures selected to take center stage at its highly anticipated…
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Uganda Imposes Nationwide Internet Shutdown Ahead of Thursday Elections
The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has ordered a temporary nationwide shutdown of public internet services, effective today, January 13, 2026,…
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M-PESA Taps Abu Dhabi’s ADI Foundation to Scale Blockchain Infrastructure Across Africa
M-PESA Africa has announced a strategic partnership with the Abu Dhabi-based ADI Foundation to integrate blockchain technology into its platform. …
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Microsoft Kenya Country Manager Phyllis Migwi Exits After Three Years
Microsoft Kenya Country Manager Phyllis Migwi has announced her departure from the tech giant, following her three-and-a-half-year tenure leading the…
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Youfanly Hits Ksh 40M Payout Milestone for African Creators
As the global creator economy reaches a trillion-dollar industry, African creators continue to face structural barriers that limit their ability…
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ODPC Signals Tighter Privacy Enforcement as Payouts Hit Sh30 Million
The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has signaled a transformative shift in Kenya’s digital landscape for 2026, moving…
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Starlink Goes Dark in Uganda as Regulators Reassert Control Days Before the Vote
When Starlink terminals went dark across Uganda in early January, the explanation arrived quickly and carried a familiar bureaucratic weight.…
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