How Safaricom’s AI exposed money laundering in Kenya’s betting boom
Safaricom, Kenya’s largest telco, has uncovered cases of money laundering linked to betting firms using its M-PESA mobile money platform, following ...
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COMESA bets on new payment system to reduce dollar reliance in Kenya, Ethiopia, Egypt
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), a 21-country regional trade bloc representing over 640 million people, has launched a new ...
6 Moonshot startups building infrastructure to move and hold crypto
At this year’s Moonshot, the conversation around crypto will be different. A lot has happened this year across Africa; several markets on the contin...
MTN wants to connect 8 million Nigerian homes with FibreX by 2028
MTN Nigeria plans to connect over 8 million homes to its FibreX broadband network by 2028, a sharp jump from its current 50,000 users, as the telco pu...
Quick Fire ? with Mark Irozuru
Mark Irozuru is a DevOps Engineer with years of experience designing, automating, and scaling infrastructure for blockchain and Web3 systems. Currentl...
5 educational apps quietly replacing private tutors in Nigeria
In a country where private tutoring has long been an unwritten law for academic excellence, a new wave of change is happening. With smartphones, the i...
Why Nigeria’s AI future depends on politics, not just policy
Nigeria’s push to lead in artificial intelligence (AI) will depend less on ministerial enthusiasm and more on political will. For all the energy and...
Cameroon’s REasy raises $1.8m to fix how Africa’s importers pay suppliers
REasy, a Cameroonian trade finance platform that offers cross-border payments, logistics, and compliance services to SME importers, has raised $1.8 mi...
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