Metro Africa Xpress (MAX), a Nigerian mobility financing startup, has raised $24 million in an equity and debt funding round as it continues its transition to electric mobility financing in West and Central Africa after hitting profitability in Nigeria.  The equity round saw participation from Equitane DMCC, Novastar, Endeavor Catalyst, and other global investors, alongside

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Safaricom, Kenya’s biggest telco, has clarified why some users of its mobile money platform M-PESA are seeing deductions from their wallets without being prompted to enter a PIN, attributing the transactions to pre-approved standing orders used to pay Kenya’s health levy. The clarification follows a wave of complaints this week from customers who noticed money

Safaricom has appointed Sylvia Anampiu as director of fixed business as Kenya’s biggest telco moves closer to rolling out pay-as-you-go fibre broadband for Kenyan homes and offices. The appointment comes as Safaricom prepares to upend how fixed internet is sold, shifting from rigid monthly plans to daily, weekly and monthly options that mirror mobile data

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For three days every November, tech developers and persons with disabilities in Ghana gather in Accra, the nation’s capital, for a rare competition in Africa’s tech landscape. Inside halls converted into temporary workspaces, teams huddle around tables, coding, tinkering, and arguing through ideas that could become the next generation of assistive technology built on the

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Starlink, the SpaceX-owned satellite internet service, has introduced instalment payments for its mini kits in Kenya, cutting upfront cost for users as it seeks to revive subscriber growth that has slowed over the past year. The new plan requires a KES 6,750 ($52.8) upfront payment, plus KES 16,250 ($125.8) in activation fees and KES 3,010

Nigeria closed 2025 with headline inflation at 15.15% in December, down 19.65 percentage points from 34.80% recorded in December 2024, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). 2025 will be remembered as the year inflation numbers stopped being shocking, even though prices remained elevated. Unlike the wild swings that defined 2024, where inflation rose

Vibe coding, an AI-powered model where software developers—or anyone—use natural language prompts instead of writing code, is no longer a Silicon Valley meme. By late 2025, it had become one of the fastest ways to build software, slashing costs and accelerating development.  Coined by ex-OpenAI researcher Andrej Karpathy in February 2025, the term describes a high-level

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