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    With Guards Outnumbering Police 15-to-1, Nextorch Bets Millions on South Africa’s Security Boom

    South Africa has the largest private security industry in the world.
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    West Africa’s New Payment ‘Superhighway’ Opens — but a Fintech Unicorn Is Building Its Own Road

    The BCEAO's ambitious interoperability platform goes live, but the absence of market leader Wave raises questions about who really controls the region's digital money flows.
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    AfricInvest Europe Secures $58.5M to Bridge French Startups and African Markets

     AfricInvest Europe, the Paris-based arm of the pan-African private equity firm AfricInvest Group, has...
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    Uber Exits Côte d’Ivoire as Rival Yango Doubles Down with Car Dealership

    For years, the Ivorian ride-hailing sector has been a tense battleground, pitting digital platforms against traditional taxi operators who criticise a lack of regulation.
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    Zipline Doubles Down on US Expansion With $1.5bn Raise Ring-Fenced for American Network

    Drone delivery group's valuation nearly triples to $21.5bn as Walmart commits to 300 new sites, but capital is explicitly earmarked for US build-out while African operations rely on separate government-backed financing.
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    Why This Ex-Lantmäteriet Developer Is Building a SaaS Layer for African Property

    James Muricho says he began building a land information system in 2004 and has funded it alone since. Twenty-two years later, the Kenyan entrepreneur, who lives in Gävle in Sweden, is turning it into a service for people who buy land in Kenya, where...

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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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    Zipline Doubles Down on US Expansion With $1.5bn Raise Ring-Fenced for American Network

    Drone delivery group's valuation nearly triples to $21.5bn as Walmart commits to 300 new sites, but capital is explicitly earmarked for US build-out while African operations rely on separate government-backed financing.
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    Why This Ex-Lantmäteriet Developer Is Building a SaaS Layer for African Property

    James Muricho says he began building a land information system in 2004 and has...
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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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    Yellow Card Acquires Brazil’s GoMoney to Secure Direct LatAm Foothold

    The acquisition of GoMoney Sociedade Prestadora de Serviços de Ativos Virtuais Ltda. converts Yellow Card’s Brazilian presence from a purely cross-border proposition into a locally regulated operation.

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