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    Swvl Eyes UK and US Launches as Q1 Losses Shrink to $174K

    The Nasdaq-listed company, which started life in Cairo as a bus-booking app before pivoting into enterprise software, posted Q1 2026 revenue of $8.24m.
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    Nigeria’s Central Bank Orders Fintechs to Split Their Payments Empires — or Divest

    The CBN is forcing dominant payments groups to choose between issuing and acquiring, triggering the most dramatic reshaping of Africa's largest fintech market in a decade.
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    The 1M Club: Egyptian Insurtech Nice Deer Finds Rare Scale in a Paper-Heavy Market

    The timing of Nice Deer’s scale-up coincides with a massive regulatory overhaul in Egypt.
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    The “Delete” Button: How a TikTok Contract Cancellation Exposed Africa’s Digital Labour Trap

    The precarity facing African content moderators is intensifying as platforms increasingly turn to artificial intelligence.
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    The Rise of the Balance Sheet: African Banks Muscle into Venture Debt

    As venture capital equity markets cooled in 2025, Africa’s largest commercial banks stepped into the gap.
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    From Payments to Prompt Engineering: Inside TSG Labs, Paystack’s New AI-Focused Incubator

    Paystack’s footprint now covers markets representing approximately 46% of Africa’s GDP.
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    A New Billion-Dollar Wave of Capital Targets African Climate Tech

    Climate financing continues to attract interests global investors.
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    The Next Frontier: Why Israeli Tech Giant Commit Just Bought an African Talent Scout

    The acquisition is a validation of the “talent is universal, opportunity is not” thesis that has gained traction across the global south.
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    Ex-Mubadala and Goldman Bankers Break Stealth With $1m to Digitise the Turnstile

    “We invested in Knot because the team is solving a complex global problem with a new solution.”
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    Bootstrapped in Ouagadougou: How Bellunic’s Founder Is Digitising Burkina Faso’s Informal Markets

    Yacouba Traore is the first to admit that building a startup in Burkina Faso...
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    Algeria’s ‘Forced Marriage’: Why Big Business is Suddenly Swiping Right on Startups

    Algeria’s new innovation tax puts startups on corporate balance sheets.
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    The February Fade: When Good Intentions Lose Momentum

    by Phindile Mpithi
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    ValU Secures $63.5m Short-Term Financing from Egypt’s Biggest Bank

    The company has benefited from Egypt’s regulatory framework for consumer finance, which has brought BNPL-style products under formal oversight.
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    Davos 2026: AI Takes Centre Stage as Technology Shapes Global Power

    Leaders at Davos will debate how poorly governed AI could exacerbate inequality, misinformation, and economic fragmentation .
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    Swvl Eyes UK and US Launches as Q1 Losses Shrink to $174K

    The Nasdaq-listed company, which started life in Cairo as a bus-booking app before pivoting into enterprise software, posted Q1 2026 revenue of $8.24m.
    Policy & Regulations Forum

    Nigeria’s Central Bank Orders Fintechs to Split Their Payments Empires — or Divest

    The CBN is forcing dominant payments groups to choose between issuing and acquiring, triggering the most dramatic reshaping of Africa's largest fintech market in a decade.
    Ecosystem News

    Ripple Buys Into Flutterwave to Open New Front in African Stablecoin Wars

    The blockchain payments company's Series E participation cements RLUSD in Africa's largest payments network - but Flutterwave is not betting on any single coin.
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    Proparco Anchors Rare Moroccan LP Position in EmTech’s New $60M Early-Stage Fund

    The fund plans to invest in around 20 startups, writing cheques of between $500,000 and $3m in pre-Series A and Series A rounds.

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