Canal+ will shut down Showmax, the African streaming platform run by its newly acquired subsidiary MultiChoice Group, ending an 11-year experiment that once represented the continent’s strongest attempt to challenge global streaming rivals. The decision, taken by the Showmax board and communicated to subscribers on Thursday, is part of an efficiency drive following the $3

Intron, a Nigerian AI startup that provides speech-to-text and text-to-speech transcription tools for African languages, has expanded its speech recognition platform, Sahara, to support 57 languages, adding 24 new ones as it deepens its push into healthcare, legal, financial services, and telecom. Sahara v2 covers 23 African languages within that total and supports more than

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Until the latter half of 2024, core banking applications (CBAs) attracted little public attention outside Nigeria’s banking industry. That changed when several major commercial banks switched or upgraded their CBAs, disrupting banking services for millions of customers. But five years before core banking was on Nigerians’ lips, the founding team at Kuda, a Nigerian neobank

On February 13, dash camera (cam) footage began circulating on South African social media.  The clip showed the final moments of a Nigerian e-hailing driver, Isaac David Satlat’s life. Within days, police had suspects in custody.  Since the video surfaced, dash cams used in e-hailing have shifted from a niche accessory to a frontline safety

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Weego, a Moroccan-Senegalese mobility startup building a multimodal transport platform, has raised $1.1 million in funding from Azur Innovation Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund. The company will use the capital to expand across Moroccan cities, strengthen its business-focused transport solutions, and prepare for regional growth into Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Urban congestion

After two loss-making years, MTN Nigeria, the country’s largest telecom operator, has returned to profitability and with it, dividend payments. For 2025, the telecoms giant will pay a total of ₦419.91 billion ($304.72 million) to shareholders. The company paid an interim dividend of ₦5 per share in October 2025, its first since August 2023, after

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