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    How a Nigerian Edtech Exposed a Major National Exam Glitch — and Saved Thousands of Students from Mass Failure

    Over the past week, a bootstrapped Nigerian edtech company saved the country's education sector from widespread chaos.
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    European DFIs Back $80 Million Pan-African Private Credit Fund 

    Africa’s mid-market businesses — often too large for microfinance but too small or risky for traditional bank lending — face an estimated $330 billion annual financing shortfall, according to the African Development Bank.
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    West Africa’s Fintech Freeze: Central Bank Says ‘Applications Have Many Defects’ as Startups Face Collapse

    Users across the WAEMU zone reported frozen wallets, failed merchant transactions, and blocked salary payments.
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    ‘Many Will Not Recover From This Shutdown’ — Francophone Fintechs Scramble as BCEAO Starts Issuing Licenses

    “Several Senegalese fintech companies are at risk of collapse. Many people will lose their jobs.”
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    Novastar Ventures Targets AI-Native African Startups With Google-Backed Lab

    The initiative is part of a broader push by Google to deepen its understanding of AI use cases emerging from African markets.
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    Nigeria’s Banking Crackdown Catches Fintechs Chasing Microfinance Licences

    The regulator revokes 46 permits, including those acquired by digital lenders eager to vault into deposit-taking.

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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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    ‘Timing Is Critical’: How a Pandemic Almost Killed Weego and Accidentally Built Its B2B Engine

    "We learned from the experience of players like Swvl."

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    Novastar Ventures Targets AI-Native African Startups With Google-Backed Lab

    The initiative is part of a broader push by Google to deepen its understanding of AI use cases emerging from African markets.
    Policy & Regulations Forum

    Nigeria’s Banking Crackdown Catches Fintechs Chasing Microfinance Licences

    The regulator revokes 46 permits, including those acquired by digital lenders eager to vault into deposit-taking.
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    LemFi Acquires UK Wealth Platform Wealth8 in Push to Build Migrant Financial Hub

    London-based fintech adds investment services to remittance and credit offering after securing regulatory approval
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    African Startups Surpass $1bn in First-Half Funding Despite Slower Equity Flows

    Debt and climate finance drive a structural shift as the total for the year reaches $1.208bn, though it trails last year's pace.

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