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Egypt’s Tech IPO Freeze Thaws as MNT-Halan Draws Record Demand
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Climate Fintech Nithio Launches $150M Debt Fund to Back Africa’s Electric Vehicle Fleets
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Airtel Money Begins Unconditional Trading on London Stock Exchange in Landmark African Fintech Listing
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Uber and Jumia Alumni Close Moroccan Agritech YoLa Fresh After Failing to Secure Series A
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The Local Airbnb Rival That Held Off the Giant: South Africa’s LekkeSlaap Bought by Banking Royalty
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IFC Eyes $90M Equity Stake in Airtel Money as London IPO Gathers Momentum
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Is African Healthtech Facing a Terminal Diagnosis?
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African Fintech’s Debt Shift Comes With a Catch
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From DFS Lab to Mubadala: The Rare Repeat Alliances Funding African Tech in 2026
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South Africa’s Electric Car Shift Bypasses Full Battery Models as Chinese Brands Tighten Grip
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The East Is Settling Into African Tech, Quietly
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Five Countries, Half a Million Dollars: Inside Nigeria’s New Startup Funding Math
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Priced Out of London: Why Nigeria’s Fintechs Are Abandoning UK Remittances
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From Wages to Fraud to Deliveries: The Pattern Behind South Africa’s Recent Startup Funding
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“Directly Selling Insurance to Farmers Does Not Work”: Pula CEO on Avoiding Agtech’s Deadliest Trap
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‘We Aren’t Fighting Rival EVs’: Inside ARC Ride’s $33.3m Bet on Beating Petrol
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‘Timing Is Critical’: How a Pandemic Almost Killed Weego and Accidentally Built Its B2B Engine
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From Profitability to $10M ARR: How Prembly Cracked Africa’s Identity Infrastructure
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‘Stay in It’: How Over 200 Interviews and a LinkedIn Post Led to a $2.35M Seed Round for Orca
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‘Don’t Wait for a Cash Crunch’: The $70M Debt Playbook from Lula’s Trevor Gosling
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“Harder to Build, but More Defensible”: Enakl Co-Founder on Tackling Morocco’s Commuter Chaos
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The ₦100m Question Facing Lagos’ Gaming Founders
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Free Transfers, Capped Fees: Inside the Pricing Shock Facing West Africa’s $267B Mobile Money Market
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Fintech Unicorn Wave Caves to Regulators as BCEAO Holds Firm on West Africa’s Payment Deadline
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Nine Years After Its Founding, OPay’s IPO Filing Leaves Questions Over Employee Stock Options
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M-KOPA’s Product Margins Halve as Lending Becomes the Main Event
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Familiar Money Bolsters OPay’s IPO Demand as Thin Float Raises Liquidity Questions
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