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    YC Alum Chari Raises $12M to Launch a Banking-as-a-Service Platform in Morocco

    The YC-backed startup is pursuing a dual strategy: embedding financial services for mom-and-pop shops while also offering its fintech infrastructure to other businesses.

    Egypt’s Exclusive Digital Banking Club Opens Doors to Middle East and Africa’s Largest Bank

    Aspiring digital banks are required to have a minimum issued and paid-up capital of EGP 2 billion ($41 million).

    Egypt’s Tagaddod Raises $26.3M to Solve Biofuels’ Biggest Bottleneck

    Tagaddod has built a tech platform to manage the collection, aggregation, and tracing of waste-based feedstocks.

    Moroccan University Spinout Secures Over $110M to Turn Phosphate Waste into EV and Chip Materials

    The deal is a significant move in Morocco’s push to climb the value chain from a raw material exporter to a producer of high-value components for global tech supply chains.
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    With First-Mover REIT, Fintech Unicorn MNT-Halan Raises the Stakes in Egypt’s Proptech Race

    Egypt’s largest fintech, MNT-Halan, is making a significant play for the country’s real estate market.

    One Scandal a Year: Paystack CTO Suspension Spotlights Nigerian Tech’s Leadership Crisis

    The suspension of Ezra Olubi at Stripe-owned Paystack is the latest in a troubling series of founder-related crises, raising urgent questions about governance and trust in Africa's most-funded ecosystem.

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    How Fawry Outgrew Payments and Became Egypt’s Fintech Profit Machine

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