As African newsrooms shrink, powerful companies face less scrutiny
Across much of Africa, companies are becoming larger, richer, and more influential. The newsrooms expected to scrutinise them are moving in the opposite direction.
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Millions lack credit histories. African banks are changing how they lend
African banks are using mobile money, telecom and POS data to lend to borrowers without formal salaries or credit histories.
Why Spiro deployed 22,000 electric motorcycles in Rwanda but only 5,000 in Nigeria
Rwanda, with about 13 million people, hosts more than four times as many Spiro motorcycles as Nigeria, whose population exceeds 200 million. It is also the company's largest operation across its six African markets
Who wins and who loses under Kenya’s AI policy proposal?
Far from being a narrow regulatory exercise, the draft policy seeks to reshape the economics of artificial intelligence in Kenya. It encourages investment in local infrastructure, imposes new obligations on companies deploying AI, and gives consumers greater control over how algorithms influence the
Kenya telecom complaints shift from poor network to fraud and data billing
Telecommunications remained the largest source of escalated consumer complaints in Kenya in the fourth quarter of the 2025/26 financial year
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The surveillance system that helped Nigeria curb piracy wants to fight banditry
Falcon Eye, developed by Israeli defence company RTCom Defense, helped Nigeria fight piracy. It is now pushing to join the war on banditry
Here’s what a ₦1 million crypto trade could cost under Nigeria’s new tax rules
A ₦1 million ($733.92) Bitcoin transaction can attract multiple taxes amounting to ₦64,250 ($47.15) before accounting for exchange commission, blockchain network fees or any investment gains or losses, with the government’s take increasing as the asset appreciates before it is sold.
Omowonuola Akintola wants Africa to build its geospatial future
An unmapped village. A community overlooked for development. A disaster response slowed by missing data. Those are the kinds of problems Omowonuola Akintola has spent her career trying to solve. Through geospatial data, she has helped governments and humanitarian organisations better understand the
Exclusive: Kenya’s Cloud9 acquires Chpter less than a year after founders left
Cloud9, a Kenyan startup that offers digital banking services for businesses, has acquired social commerce platform Chpter in an all-stock deal.