USSD Isn’t Dead: It Still Powers Most of Africa’s Mobile Money
Everyone talks about Africa's app economy and smartphone boom. Meanwhile, USSD, the star-and-hash codes that work on any phone without...
Everyone talks about Africa's app economy and smartphone boom. Meanwhile, USSD, the star-and-hash codes that work on any phone without...
For years, the startup playbook was simple: raise equity, give up a slice of your company, grow. In 2026, more...
Ghana's High Court ordered Zeepay and its CEO, Andrew Takyi-Appiah, to jointly pay over $11.6 million after finding that customer...
Google and Idris Elba have launched a $1 million initiative giving 100,000 African creators free access to Gemini and other...
President Tinubu has ordered Nigeria's competition regulator to investigate Meta, Google, X, and generative AI platforms over allegations of anti-competitive...
Nigeria is offering tax waivers and direct presidential backing to any smartphone manufacturer that breaks ground on a local factory...
Kenya's High Court struck down the government's power to block websites without a court order, ruling the provision amounted to...
A Kenyan court ordered Nokia to pay a former employee KSh 9.8 million, ruling that companies can no longer point...
Visa, M-Pesa, and Onafriq have launched a pilot settling cross-border mobile money transfers in stablecoins in the DRC. Users won't...
Vodacom completed a $2.1 billion deal on June 30, buying out Kenya's government stake in Safaricom and taking majority control...