Safaricom Just Merged M-PESA and MySafaricom Into One App. The Super App Era in Africa Is Here. My OneApp is not a UI refresh byBetty WangariApril 3, 2026
Nigeria Is Building a National Cybersecurity Council. It Took a String of Bank Breaches to Get Here. The Federal Government's new coordination body is the right response to a byBolu BabalolaApril 3, 2026
Africa’s Most Active Startup Investors in Q1 2026 — and Where They Put Their Money $705 million across 59 deals byBetty WangariApril 2, 2026
Kulipa Raises $6.2M Seed Round to Make Stablecoin Spending Feel Like Swiping a Visa The Paris-based startup wants to be the invisible rails that let any fintech or byBolu BabalolaApril 2, 2026
Africa NewsMarch 2, 2026 MTN Ghana Just Became Africa’s Third Most Important Telecom Market — And It’s Betting $1.1 Billion That AI and Mobile Money Will Keep It There After South Africa and Nigeria, Ghana is now MTN Group's third "major byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 17, 2026 MTN Is Buying Back Africa’s Towers — All of Them — in a $6.2 Billion Deal That Rewrites a Decade of Telecom Strategy After years of spinning out infrastructure to unlock capital, Africa's largest byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsFebruary 16, 2026 South Africa Just Made Digital Transformation a National Imperative—50+ Commitments, Zero Deadlines President Cyril Ramaphosa walked into Cape Town City Hall on February 12, 2026 byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsDecember 18, 2025 Galaxy Backbone Unveils Digital Transformation Strategy to Position Nigeria as Africa’s Tech Leader by 2028 Nigeria's digital infrastructure agency launches five-pillar IDTS plan focusing byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsDecember 9, 2025 Rwanda Launches National Digital Payment System eKash, Built Entirely by African Engineers Country unveils fully interoperable platform integrating banks and mobile money byBetty Wangari
News NigeriaNovember 12, 2025 Equinix Doubles Down on Nigeria with $100M Expansion Plan, Escalating West Africa’s Data Center Arms Race. The world's largest data center operator is betting big on Lagos as Africa's byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaNovember 5, 2025 UniCloud Africa Launches Sovereign Cloud Platform to Power Africa’s Digital Independence. Pan-African cloud provider targets $5B market with locally-hosted infrastructure byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsOctober 28, 2025 Meta Partners with Safaricom to Bring Second Submarine Cable to Kenya. Meta has announced a groundbreaking partnership with Safaricom, Kenya’s byBetty Wangari
EventsSeptember 3, 2025 Gitex Nigeria: Nigeria to Fund 75 New Digital Innovation Projects, Partner Big Tech on Hyperscale Data Centres. Starting October 1, 2025, the Federal Government of Nigeria will fund 75 new byFatima Oladunni
News Nigeria StartupJuly 24, 2025 Africa’s First Digital SEZ Launches Full-Stack AI Growth Zone to Bridge Continental Infrastructure Gap. Itana aims to keep African AI talent from relying on expensive foreign GPU byFatima Oladunni
