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    Nigeria’s New Stablecoin Rules: $11M, a Local Office, and a Prayer for Startups Without Bank Balance Sheets

    Central bank’s 200-page rulebook trades prohibition for licensing — and sets the bar high enough to make bankers of crypto founders.
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    West Africa’s Unified Payments Network Is Off to a Rocky Start

    The BCEAO’s ambitious plan to mirror India’s UPI or Brazil’s Pix via its new PI-SPI platform has run headfirst into West Africa’s fragmented digital infrastructure on day one.
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    Arson and License Revocations: UK-Backed Climate Startup nextProtein Faces Total Ruin in Tunisia

    A fatal road accident, local outcry over odours, and a burnt-out facility: Inside the regulatory and social crisis tearing apart one of North Africa’s premier green tech darlings, just months after it secured €18m with backing from British International Investment.
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    The ₦100m Question Facing Lagos’ Gaming Founders

    A 30-day regulatory crackdown threatens to cut off mobile billing for the state's booming indie developers.
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    MNT-Halan Shifts From Risky SME Lending as ‘Super-App’ Strategy Lifts Third-Quarter Profit

    The group has actively curtailed its exposure to higher-risk SME lending, which previously formed a larger share of its disbursements.
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    African Startup Deal Tracker — Newest Deals

    Here’s a closer look at the notable under-the-radar investment activity we’re tracking this month

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    Nine Years After Its Founding, OPay’s IPO Filing Leaves Questions Over Employee Stock Options

    A court judgment proves OPay granted share options in 2020. Its US filing never mentions them, and investors are left to guess whether that’s a gap or a non-issue.
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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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    MNT-Halan Shifts From Risky SME Lending as ‘Super-App’ Strategy Lifts Third-Quarter Profit

    The group has actively curtailed its exposure to higher-risk SME lending, which previously formed a larger share of its disbursements.
    Updates

    African Startup Deal Tracker — Newest Deals

    Here’s a closer look at the notable under-the-radar investment activity we’re tracking this month
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    SA Fintech Yoco Snags $100m Private Credit Facility to Scale SME Lending

    As traditional banks hesitate, the TPG-backed payments group turns to global private credit to shrink South Africa's ZAR 350bn SME credit deficit.
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    In 2026, Just One in Ten African Startup Rounds Is Led by Local Money

    Local banks and funds are appearing in more deals, but they still rarely lead equity rounds, according to Launch Base Africa’s deal records.

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