Proparco and Equity Group Launch $70M SME Financing Deal Across Africa France's Proparco and Nairobi-based Equity Group have signed a USD 70 million byBolu BabalolaMay 14, 2026
Proparco Backs Cauridor With $2M to Fix Africa’s Broken Remittance Rails Africa receives roughly USD 54 billion in remittances annually byBetty WangariMay 14, 2026
MTN Group Posts 21.1% Revenue Growth in Q1 2026, Led by Nigeria Surge MTN Group posted 21 byFatima OladunniMay 14, 2026
Africa’s Next Fintech Wave: Lending, Wealth, and Embedded Finance Payments are no longer the prize byBetty WangariMay 12, 2026
Africa NewsMay 14, 2026 Proparco and Equity Group Launch $70M SME Financing Deal Across Africa France's Proparco and Nairobi-based Equity Group have signed a USD 70 million byBolu Babalola
Editorial OpinionMay 11, 2026 Niche Platforms Are Eating African Mass Media From the Inside The Lagos newspaper that once reached two million readers is printing fewer byBolu Babalola
Editorial OpinionMay 11, 2026 Telcos Are Back — and African Startups Should Be Worried Africa's telcos — MTN, Airtel, Safaricom — are no longer sleeping byBolu Babalola
EditorialMay 7, 2026 African Startups Going Global: The UK and US Expansion Playbooks That Are Actually Working African startups entering the UK and US are finding that success depends on byBolu Babalola
Editorial OpinionMay 7, 2026 Africa’s New VC Funds Are Quiet When Early-Stage Founders Need Them Most Africa's new VC funds closed to fanfare in 2023 and 2024 byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMay 6, 2026 Wave Moves Into Healthcare as Senegal Bets on Fintech to Fix Hospital Payments Senegal’s Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene has signed a formal byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMay 4, 2026 FEI Targets $750M Fund Upsize as IFC Proposes $40M Into Africa’s Renewable Debt Platform The Facility for Energy Inclusion is targeting a $750 million fund upsize as the byBolu Babalola
Editorial OpinionApril 30, 2026 Africa AI Infrastructure: Can the Continent Scale Without Compute? Training a large language model in Nigeria means paying a data centre in byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsApril 29, 2026 Egypt’s Central Bank Scraps the 40% Fintech Ownership Cap — and Banks Are Already Moving Egypt's Central Bank has scrapped the 40% ownership cap that previously byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsApril 27, 2026 Revenue-Based Financing: What It Is and Why African Startups Are Turning to It Revenue-based financing is gaining traction among African startups as an byBolu Babalola
