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Une veille curatée sur l'innovation technologique en Afrique et en France, mise à jour en continu.
Une veille curatée sur l'innovation technologique en Afrique et en France, mise à jour en continu.

The findings arrive as African governments compete to attract founders and foreign investment by simplifying the mechanics of starting a business.

In today's edition: LemFi, BVNK partner to use stablecoins for remittance || Shareholders agree on Nedbank-NCBA merger || Court settles Nigeria’s airtime lending dispute || Kenya introduces new telecom licence

The new phone brings 5G, a faster chipset, and a screen that changes color depending on the temperature.

At the launch of the State of Tech in Africa H1 2026 report, investors and founders got candid about why early-stage capital has dried up, what African venture capital owes the ecosystem, and where the next wave of growth is actually coming from.

While the court upheld the validity of the regulations, it agreed with one of WASPAN's central arguments: the FCCPC's consumer protection powers do not extend to licencing telecommunications operators.

The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advanced materials. Every n

In today's edition: South Africa overhauls SIM registration || GTBank Kenya needs a new managing director || Cyberattacks in Kenya || Malawi wants to break telecom duopoly
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI comp

Launch Africa has invested in 15 startups so far in 2026, with a focus on early-stage startups, as other investors slow down on funding.

Over the past decade, the playbook for Nigerian fintechs has been remarkably consistent: build payment products, acquire merchants, scale transaction volumes, obtain microfinance bank licences, expand into lending, and eventually launch savings products.