African healthtech attracted $370 million in venture investment in 2023. Helium Health, Vezeeta, and LifeBank are building EMR, digital pharmacy, and...
National digital ID systems in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa are being extended for cross-border KYC verification, reducing the cost and com...
Jumia operates in 11 African markets but consistently loses money on last-mile delivery in densely populated but infrastructure-poor urban areas. New...
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle have opened African data centres in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Egypt. African data localisation laws are...
Africa's 300 million social media users are generating a creator economy valued at $20 billion. YouTube Pay, TikTok Creator Fund, and platform brand d...
Starlink has launched in 36 African countries, dramatically improving internet access in rural areas. Combined with subsea cable expansion, connectivi...
African fintech companies raised over $3 billion in venture capital in 2023 despite a global funding downturn. The capital is flowing toward infrastru...
Apollo Agriculture, Pula Advisors, and OCP Africa's digital platforms are combining agronomy advice, input credit, and market linkages for millions of...
Afreximbank's Pan-African Payment and Settlement System processes intra-African trade payments in local currencies, reducing dollar dependency and cor...
African financial institutions lost over $4 billion to cybercrime in 2023. Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa are the primary targets. Central banks are...
Africa's e-commerce sector is projected to reach $75 billion by 2030. The platforms competing for that prize, local champions and global giants, are s...
SpaceX Starlink has expanded to 30 African countries, providing 50-200 Mbps broadband to locations where fibre and mobile data are unavailable. This i...
Nigeria's CBN Open Banking Policy, effective 2023, mandates data sharing between banks and licensed fintechs. South Africa's voluntary OBASA framework...
African fintech companies raised $1.5 billion in venture capital in 2023 after a correction from the $2.7 billion 2022 peak. Payments, lending, and in...
IHS Towers (NYSE-listed) and American Tower operate over 40,000 cell towers across Africa, providing shared passive infrastructure to MNOs. Tower colo...