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Nigeria’s telecom market is entering a new phase of competition, and network capacity, not subscriber numbers, is now what determines who wins. Airtel Nigeria, the second biggest player, has been building aggressively to compete. By December 2025, it had added 1,561 sites over three years, bringing its total to nearly 17,200. It has also committed

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I sat in on a cloud panel at GITEX Africa in Morocco on April 8, 2026, that was less about how countries and companies are adopting the cloud, but more about who is controlling it.  The session, themed ‘Africa’s Cloud Moment – Build Regional or Stay Fragmented,’ brought together Kashifu Abdullahi, director-general of Nigeria’s  National

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Charm Impact, a specialist investor focused on early-stage renewable energy and clean cooking businesses in Africa, has secured $6.25 million, just over half of its $12 million target for Hummingbird One, its latest fund. The round was backed by Oikocredit, the Dutch Good Growth Fund, the IKEA Foundation and Good Energies Foundation.  In African markets

A Kenyan Tax Appeals Tribunal ruling that income earned from projects abroad can still be taxed locally could ripple through Nairobi’s fast-growing pool of remote tech workers, freelancers, and back-office teams working for global companies from Kenya. In its March 26 ruling in favour of Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) in a KES 1.9 billion ($14.6

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For all the talk of digitising agriculture, Kenya’s most durable agri-infrastructure is a system built on shared ownership, pooled risk, and slow, compounding trust. Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations (SACCOs), alongside producer cooperatives, manage over a trillion shillings (>$7.7 billion) in assets, financing, aggregating, and stabilising rural economies for decades. They are the backbone of