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12 Mar 2026 - The leadership changes follow the departure of Pieter Prickaerts, who stepped down after nearly seven years in the company.

12 Mar 2026 - Fintech dominated Africa’s startup funding landscape in 2025. But early data from 2026 suggests investors may be widening their focus.

12 Mar 2026 - Nigerian officials signed a formal agreement to host the Intra-African Trade Fair 2027 in Lagos, a continental commerce event designed to boost trade…

12 Mar 2026 - African early-stage startups building assistive technology can now receive support from the $500,000 fund launvhed by Kenya's Assistive Technologies…

12 Mar 2026 - The gap between captured footage and algorithmically generated video is closing fast.

12 Mar 2026 - One of the most significant aspects of the new rules is the explicit recognition of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning in financial…

12 Mar 2026 - In today's edition: Canal+ is coming to JSE || KCB and Pesapal deal is underway || inDrive to give riders healthcare access

12 Mar 2026 - The plan tackles a long-standing barrier: fintech companies expanding across borders must apply for separate licences in each market.

11 Mar 2026 - If the announcements and arguments made on Day 2 of IFF are anything to go by, the next phase of Africa’s financial transformation is going to be…

11 Mar 2026 - Applications for innovation hubs who want to participate in NITDA's iHatch Startup Incubation Programme and be their state's hub manager is now open.

11 Mar 2026 - The partnership will allow eligible inDrive drivers to subscribe to Heala’s health plans through the app.

11 Mar 2026 - KCB Group has reported $530 million net profit for 2025 as cost cuts and gains from the sale of National Bank of Kenya to Access Bank helped lift…

11 Mar 2026 - Faced with increasingly sophisticated cheating, the Board is abandoning post-exam investigations for real-time deterrence.

11 Mar 2026 - The lender plans to use the platform to expand digital payments and offer banking services to businesses across the region, including merchant…

11 Mar 2026 - The company said it would continue trading normally until the end of May 2026 while it winds down operations and settles outstanding obligations with…

11 Mar 2026 - In today's edition: Kenya’s Parliament endorses Safaricom stake sale || Body cams for Kenyan customs officers || Nigeria's Internet penetration rate…

10 Mar 2026 - The deal shifts control of one of East Africa’s most influential media groups at a time when publishers across the continent are racing to turn large…

10 Mar 2026 - The system runs a preprocessing stage that attempts to interpret the file structure to identify sheets, headers, tables, formulas, and relationships…

10 Mar 2026 - Kinshasa’s tech ecosystem barely registers on Africa’s venture map. But beneath the numbers, new infrastructure, ambitious founders, and policy…

10 Mar 2026 - Lawmakers argued that directing the funds toward infrastructure investment would help ease fiscal pressure while financing large-scale development…

10 Mar 2026 - The round was led by 3 Capital Ventures (3CV), the South African early-stage venture firm spun out of Allan Gray, an investment management firm.

10 Mar 2026 - The sandbox is Ghana's first operational step since it passed the Virtual Asset Service Providers Act (2025) into law in December 2025. The Act…

10 Mar 2026 - CcHUB's 2025 impact report reveals that every dollar in the $4.18 million it deployed attracted five dollars in external investment for its startups.

10 Mar 2026 - Sony trailed third at 541.8 million streams and roughly 14%, carried largely by Tems and Shallipopi through subsidiary label Since '93.

10 Mar 2026 - Financial institutions, fintechs, banks, and other businesses detect and prevent fraudulent activity with Prembly's new open-source fraud…

10 Mar 2026 - From Tuesday, officers at Kenya’s main airport will begin wearing the cameras as part of a wider push by the taxman to clamp down on bribery and…

10 Mar 2026 - Nigeria’s Internet penetration hit a record 53% in January, reflecting strong demand for connectivity and sustained infrastructure investments by…

10 Mar 2026 - MTN Nigeria further cemented its dominance in Nigeria’s fixed Internet market in December 2025, adding 13,433 subscribers to its fibre-to-the-home…

10 Mar 2026 - When he could not sit the UTME in 2025 like his peers, he returned to his community to assist teachers at a government secondary school.

10 Mar 2026 - In today's edition: Mpact’s paper mill is shutting down || An e-commerce play for SA’s Post Office || Kenya’s traffic cop

9 Mar 2026 - Satgana, a venture capital firm that invests $570,000 each in African and European climate tech startups, is raising two new funds—one for each…

9 Mar 2026 - The financial trail behind the Showmax experiment tells the story: between 2023 and 2025, it generated $204.29 million in revenue but recorded more…

9 Mar 2026 - Founded in 2024, NjiaPay helps online businesses manage their payments in one place by connecting to many different payment providers and methods…

9 Mar 2026 - Kenya has rolled out a digital traffic enforcement platform that automatically detects road offences and sends fines to motorists by text message.

9 Mar 2026 - The problem with a law that criminalises misleading data is that it assumes "truth" is a static, easily identifiable commodity.

9 Mar 2026 - In today's edition: Kenya removes criminal penalties for misinformation || M-PESA hits 40 million users in Kenya || Telkom to raise prices

8 Mar 2026 - Our data shows that a pan-African consultant earns 5x more than a domestic-only practitioner. The difference isn't the CV; it’s the passport.

7 Mar 2026 - South Africa wants to become Africa’s events capital, but its visa system has long frustrated travellers and conference delegates. A new programme…

7 Mar 2026 - That observation, made in 2021, became Bujeti that same year, a Lagos-based fintech that has since grown into what its founders call a finance…

6 Mar 2026 - Kenya’s Court of Appeal struck down “false information” offences in the Cybercrimes Act, ruling the provisions unconstitutional.

6 Mar 2026 - Rather than create fake identities to open new accounts, fraudsters prefer to hijack existing, verified ones, exposing a blind spot in systems that…

6 Mar 2026 - After two years of coordinated reforms, Nigeria has cleared one of the biggest reputational hurdles in its financial history. The CBN’s new fintech…

6 Mar 2026 - The Oversight Labs, a Kenyan digital rights group, has asked the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) to investigate whether footage…

6 Mar 2026 - Chukwuemeka Afigbo is making a long-term bet: Africa’s most ambitious technologists are not constrained by a shortage of ideas, but by a shortage of…

6 Mar 2026 - The story they begin telling stretches back much further than their shared vision at WapiPay. Eddie and Paul trace it back to a moment of grief that…

6 Mar 2026 - Meet Udeme Jalekun, a Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer, who has delivered quality across more than 10 major fintech and social-impact products…

6 Mar 2026 - Quick Fire 🔥 with Udemm Jalekun || MultiChoice is discontinuing Showmax || Gig drivers in SA face licencing deadline || Who secured the bag? 💰

5 Mar 2026 - Yoruba and Hausa speakers can now use Google's AI Mode and AI Overviews in their local languages.

5 Mar 2026 - The HP Wolf Security Threat Insights Report, released by the security unit of technology manufacturer HP Inc, shows attackers shifting from carefully…

5 Mar 2026 - Nigeria’s digital lending boom was built on small, instant loans between ₦5,000 ($3.61) and ₦10,000 ($7.21) disbursed within minutes on sleek apps.…