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    The Secret Antitrust Battle That Helped Sink Koko Networks

    The collapse of Kenya's largest clean-cooking company is blamed on a government refusal to authorise carbon credit sales. A court ruling in Nairobi shows that a competition inquiry into its main supply contract was running alongside that dispute.
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    Free Transfers, Capped Fees: Inside the Pricing Shock Facing West Africa’s $267B Mobile Money Market

    From 2 November, all electronic-money transfers in the eight-nation WAEMU bloc must run through a single central bank platform. Transfers up to 8,000 FCFA a day are free. Above that, fees are capped at 0.8 per cent.
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    Fintech Unicorn Wave Caves to Regulators as BCEAO Holds Firm on West Africa’s Payment Deadline

    The $1.7bn mobile money operator joined the PI-SPI system on deadline day alongside 175 institutions—ending closed-loop dominance across the $267bn WAEMU market.
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    Tunisia’s Fintech Crackdown

    Analysts expect these hurdles to favor established institutions.
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    60-Second Loans, 4-Year Refunds: The Digital Illusion Inside Kenya’s $9.3bn Sacco Sector

    Savings co-ops now manage $9.3bn for nearly 8 million members, but behind the shiny USSD menus lies a system where automated debt collection masks a total breakdown in back-office accountability.
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    M-KOPA’s Product Margins Halve as Lending Becomes the Main Event

    The African fintech’s gross profit from device sales fell to $57.9m even as revenue rose 45%, exposing a structural shift in the economics of financing smartphones and e-bikes for the continent’s informal earners.

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    Cairo’s BPO Ecosystem Opens a New Front for Transatlantic Dealmaking

    While greenfield setups remain the main vehicle for corporate expansion in Egypt's tech export sector, cross-border M&A is emerging as an alternative for North American buyers seeking rapid scale.
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    Is Talent Export the New Impact Thesis? Daniel Yu’s $100M Fund Makes Its First Bet

    Move signals fund's focus on labour migration as a pathway out of poverty.

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    60-Second Loans, 4-Year Refunds: The Digital Illusion Inside Kenya’s $9.3bn Sacco Sector

    Savings co-ops now manage $9.3bn for nearly 8 million members, but behind the shiny USSD menus lies a system where automated debt collection masks a total breakdown in back-office accountability.
    Industry

    M-KOPA’s Product Margins Halve as Lending Becomes the Main Event

    The African fintech’s gross profit from device sales fell to $57.9m even as revenue rose 45%, exposing a structural shift in the economics of financing smartphones and e-bikes for the continent’s informal earners.
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    The Local Airbnb Rival That Held Off the Giant: South Africa’s LekkeSlaap Bought by Banking Royalty

    17 years after starting TravelGround on a shoestring budget, UCT co-founders bow out to a high-profile investor syndicate.
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    4x More Mobile Wallets Than Bank Accounts: PawaPay Wins PSP Licence in Mozambique

    PawaPay, a pan-African mobile money payments aggregator, has been granted a Payment Service Provider...

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