Table of contents Samsung’s 2026 phone lineup is built around deeper on-device AI and a new release schedule. After launching flagships in January for the past two years, Samsung is moving back to a late-February window. This was confirmed during CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2026 sessions and media briefings. The main announcement will happen at

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, has directed the country’s telecom regulator to impose automatic penalties on operators for network failures within 90 days. The directive signals a shift from voluntary compliance to stricter regulatory accountability in a sector long plagued by repeated service disruptions. The directive comes at a time

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MultiChoice’s DStv is doubling down on affordability as competition from streaming platforms intensifies. The pay-TV giant, now majority-owned by France’s Canal+, announced on Tuesday that it has cut decoder prices, expanded entry-level content, and introduced a cost-sharing feature designed to keep price-sensitive households on board in South Africa. Since October 2025, following its takeover of

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Hello! Welcome back to Francophone Weekly by TechCabal , your weekly deep dive into the tech ecosystem across French-speaking Africa. Previous editions have been published on the web , but email versions of the newsletter will land directly in your inbox every Tuesday at noon. By default, this newsletter is in French—but don’t worry, you

PayPal, the global payments platform, is partnering with Nigerian fintech Paga to finally let Nigerians receive international payments, settle them in Naira, and fully access its global payments network after two decades of limited service. Paga sits at the intersection of wallets, merchants, and remittance compliance, and PayPal is betting that this structure can finally

Nigeria’s Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), which oversees university entrance exams, on Monday ordered all computer-based test centres to install live CCTV cameras, warning that facilities without real-time surveillance will be barred from registering candidates or conducting the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).  Under the policy — dubbed “no vision, no registration, no

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Not long ago, Africa’s tech ecosystem was defined by how quickly capital could be raised and how aggressively companies could expand.  In 2025, that scorecard changed, as founders and investors entered an era where the growth-at-all-costs mentality changed to one of survival-at-all-costs. 2025 was a complete recalibration of what it means to build and fund

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Since 2023, African investors have become an increasingly important source of capital for local startups, accounting for nearly 40% of total funding, up from 25%, as global investors continue to pull back from African tech, according to a January 2026 report by  Briter, a technology research firm.  In 2022, African investors wrote cheques worth $1.6