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Circle Backs $20m African Blockchain Fund as Stablecoin ‘Utility Wave’ Grows
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Uber and Bolt Are Now Public Transport in South Africa. Here’s What Changes
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Mistral AI Joins Global Tech Giants Flocking to Morocco
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Odyssey Secures $7.5M from BII to Scale Its Fintech Solution for Nigeria’s Off-Grid Energy Gap
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The Deal Maker: How Plug and Play Became North Africa’s Startup Kingmaker
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Heike Harmgart Is Building the EBRD’s West Africa Team. Here’s Who’s on It So Far
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Why Helios is Betting on Egyptian Data Centres Just Weeks After a Meltdown
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The Year-End Funding Rush: Why African VCs are Racing to Deploy Capital Before 2026
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‘We See Multi-Million Dollar Transfers’: The Nigerian Savers Flocking to Blockchain ‘Banks’
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Contrarian VCs Move In as Africa’s Seed Stage Funding Plummets 41% in 2025
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Africa’s Startup Graveyard: The Eerie Patterns Behind 2025’s Biggest Failures
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From Accra to Toronto: The Alternative Routes African Startups Are Taking to Expand Overseas
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Africa’s Data Centers Are in a Race for Higher-Margin Cloud Services
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After Major Failures Across Africa, Investors Look for a New Breed of Foreign Startup Founders
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A Finnish Two-step: Money + Nokia
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How a Nigerian Engineer Helped Build a $1 Billion Fintech Giant
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From $100M Exit to 26 Startup Investments: Expensya Co-Founder Karim Jouini’s Strategy — “Focus Is Key”
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Meet the Funder: Nobesuthu Ndlovu, Director SME, Old Mutual Corporate
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‘We Were Targeting Markets in America and the UK, Thinking They Were Bigger’ — SWVL Founder on Failed Acquisitions
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Fractional Executives: Executive Search CEO Shares How Top Companies in Africa Are Accessing Top Talent for Less
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Newly Licensed Ivorian Fintech CinetPay Embroiled in Money Laundering and Fraud Scandal
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US Crackdown Targets African Remote Workers in American Tech
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mPharma Founder Gregory Rockson Steps Down as CEO After 11 Years
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Google-backed South African Fintech TaxTim Acquired in Bid to Build an AI-Powered Future
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Programmable Naira: The Stablecoin Project Drawing Top Global Crypto Players to Nigeria
Nigeria is quickly becoming the epicenter of Africa's stablecoin revolution.
September 17, 2025
Policy & Regulations Forum
Ghana’s Central Bank Is on a Fintech Blacklist Spree. Here’s How to Stay Off It
For international fintechs and local payment providers in Ghana, the beginning of September brought a familiar chill.
September 17, 2025
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Programmable Naira: The Stablecoin Project Drawing Top Global Crypto Players to Nigeria
Nigeria is quickly becoming the epicenter of Africa's stablecoin revolution.
September 17, 2025
Policy & Regulations Forum
Ghana’s Central Bank Is on a Fintech Blacklist Spree. Here’s How to Stay Off It
For international fintechs and local payment providers in Ghana, the beginning of September brought a familiar chill.
September 17, 2025
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Tunisian State Fund Invests $4M in Its Ex-Investment Officer’s New VC
The fund is targeting a final close of $100m, having secured a first close of $30m from the QIA.
September 16, 2025
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Cairo to Riyadh: The New Gold Rush for Egyptian Edtech
The attraction for these startups goes far beyond simple market size.
September 16, 2025
