Nigeria is offering tax waivers and direct presidential backing to any smartphone manufacturer that breaks ground on a local factory before November. The pitch…
Kenya's High Court struck down the government's power to block websites without a court order, ruling the provision amounted to censorship with no real…
A Kenyan court ordered Nokia to pay a former employee KSh 9.8 million, ruling that companies can no longer point to "restructuring" alone to…
Visa, M-Pesa, and Onafriq have launched a pilot settling cross-border mobile money transfers in stablecoins in the DRC. Users won't notice a thing. Behind…
Vodacom completed a $2.1 billion deal on June 30, buying out Kenya's government stake in Safaricom and taking majority control at 55%. Kenya's Treasury…
Tala is cutting up to 100 of its 950 Kenya staff, but this isn't a struggling company trimming costs. It's a profitable one with…
Nigeria is backing a cross-border African payment card that settles in local currencies, with no dollar or euro in the middle. It sounds new,…
Vodacom has bundled full Amazon Prime into its South African plans in a first-of-its-kind deal. It's pitched as a value play for cash-strapped consumers,…
Namibia's regulator has thrown out Starlink's appeal, keeping Elon Musk's service locked out over a 51% local-ownership rule. The block is less about Musk…
The CBN wants every bank and fintech to store payment data on local servers by January 2027. The goal is sovereignty and security. The…
MTN says it'll start retiring some 3G networks before 2030. The surprise is which network outlives it. 2G is staying put, because POS terminals,…
Paystack has launched a Small Business Program for Nigerian SMBs, opening with a bundle that gives 2,000 eligible merchants up to ₦4 million in…
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