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Zuri Health is expanding its fleet of mobile clinics in Nairobi after its first bus covered its operating costs, giving the Kenya-based healthcare startup a model it believes it can scale. The startup has added two more buses, bringing its total to three. Two of the buses operate
Innovate Now, a Kenya-based accelerator focused on assistive technologies, has unveiled its largest cohort yet, doubling down on a model that puts persons with disabilities at the centre of product design. The accelerator, implemented by Assistive Technologies for Disability Trus
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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 th
Benjamin Toulouze, the head of corporate venture capital (CVC) at Axian Group, a multinational conglomerate, spent most of his career as a banker at Société Générale, France’s third-largest bank by total assets, working across France and several African markets. These days, he ru
Kenyan regulators will now require lenders to prove borrowers can repay before issuing loans, a major shift in a market defined by instant loan approvals through mobile apps and automated scoring systems. The new rules are contained in a March 2026 Financial Consumer Protection F
Kenya’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has frozen an undisclosed number of Binance user accounts, in what officials describe as a widening crackdown on crypto-linked fraud and money laundering, according to senior criminal investigators familiar with the operation w
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Nigeria’s Central Bank and the Nigerian Communications Commission signed a formal agreement on Monday that gives banks real-time access to telecom data, a move designed to close one of the most exploited gaps in the country’s digital payments system. At the centre of the Memorand
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Absa Bank Kenya will spend up to KES 3 billion ($23.2 million) a year on technology to deepen its digital strategy, according to a Business Daily report, as the lender seeks to move more customer activity to mobile and other self-service channels. The bank said the recurring inve
Nigeria’s telecom subscribers will receive airtime refunds as compensation for poor service experienced between November 2025 and January 2026. The refunds will begin on Friday, April 24, according to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC). The NCC said operators failed to
While many African countries race to deploy artificial intelligence, Mauritius has made governance and ethics the starting point of its AI strategy, rather than a problem to solve after the technology is in use. Central to the strategy is the FAIR framework, a set of guidelines t
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In most companies, software is still built around the logic that work is broken into steps, passed through systems, and tracked by people. Kenyan AI startup Lua thinks that logic is becoming obsolete. The Nairobi-based startup has raised $5.8 million (about KES 748m) in seed fund
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Nigeria is moving to overhaul its Internet infrastructure over the next three years as demand for connectivity outgrows the limits of its current addressing system. Nigeria still relies heavily on an older Internet system, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), that limits how many
Last Friday afternoon—one of those deceptively calm ones that sit lightly over the chaos of a Lagos day—Bernard Chiira appeared on my screen from Nairobi. He sounded relaxed, almost unguarded, speaking with the ease of someone who has told parts of this story before, but not quit
It starts in an elevator in Paris, France. On Saturday, April 4, 2026, Amara Uyanna was trying to catch a 10 a.m. flight, mentally checking off her usual work-travel list. Her suitcase in hand, she made her way to the lowest floor of a Parisian hotel where she had lodged; the ele
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While working in the tax computation and advisory department at the Nigerian subsidiary of KPMG, the global professional services firm, Kelechi Ibe spent his days helping clients to calculate and structure their taxes. His role was to match the transaction descriptions, which wer
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Glovo, the global on-demand delivery platform that entered Nigeria in 2021, has said the country emerged as its fastest-growing market in 2025. At its Future of Commerce 2026 summit in Lagos on Wednesday, the company disclosed that it has invested over ₦37 billion ($27 million) i
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