Africa

Kenya's new crypto rules now empower authorities to seize and convert crypto assets into fiat asset to preserve value during investigations.

The new rules give the central bank direct oversight to cut off local access to foreign stablecoins without having to regulate the offshore issuers themselves.

Nigeria no longer has a payments problem. It has a trust problem. That is the central argument of a new report by Bridgforte, a policy research institute, published in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Innovation Hub in Lagos, which argues that confidence in Nigeria's financial system is now determined less by how quickly money moves than by how reliably the system responds when something goes wrong. The country processed more than ₦1.2 quad

The process remains in its early stages. No investors have emerged yet, AMCON spokesperson Jude Nwauzor said.

The proposed Kenya Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies Policy says individuals "are entitled to know when an AI system is acting on them" and requires organisations to disclose when customers are communicating directly with AI.

The solution enables users to build automated workflows, integrate applications and deploy AI-powered processes on dedicated infrastructure hosted in South Africa.

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Cape Verde’s sudden global visibility mirrors a bigger problem: Francophone African startups are still fighting for investor attention.

Airtel Africa has finally settled on where it wants to take one of Africa’s biggest fintech businesses public. The bigger question is whether that market can still deliver what the company is looking for.

Absa Bank Kenya, one of the country’s largest commercial banks, said a KES 4 billion ($31 million) technology investment helped automate 71% of its processes in 2025.

The conflict will eventually subside. But without action, the vulnerabilities it has exposed will not, write Michael Adu Okyere, Brian Mukhaya, and David W. Yellen.

NEC Africa has expanded its cyber security portfolio through a strategic partnership with German cryptography specialist Utimaco.

arXiv:2607.22940v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Computer programming MOOCs are instrumental in providing students with high-quality instruction in areas where there is limited access. They are especially beneficial to post-secondary African students as less than 1% of them leave secondary school with fundamental coding skills. One strategy for increasing their efficacy for African students is to understand students' motivation for enrolling. These insights can inform the design of MOOC content

The Safaricom transaction not only expands its geographic footprint but also accelerates its ambition to become a leading pan-African fintech player.

Rather than being spread across hundreds of young companies, venture capital is increasingly concentrating in a small group of mature businesses with proven business models and established revenues.

Fragmented markets, talent shortages and imported technology are slowing Africa's AI competitiveness, says a BCG report.

The rulings suggest that lenders operating without a CBK digital credit provider licence may struggle to enforce loan contracts, raising the commercial risks of lending before obtaining regulatory approval.

The regulations mark the final step in Kenya's effort to bring cryptocurrency businesses under formal regulatory oversight.

Venture capital investments exceeded R16 billion over the last decade, with AI emerging as the next major growth driver for South African start-ups.

Wema Bank is the first commercial bank to distribute Duplo's software. The move reflects an emerging pattern across Africa's financial services industry in the past three years: banks and payment networks partnering with fintech startups to offer their business customers software they want, without building it themselves.

On Techpoint Digest, we discuss Uganda stepping up its telecom vandalism crackdown, Zambia updating postal laws for the digital economy, and Kenya mandating a one-year warranty on phones.

Every WhatsApp conversation, location ping, cloud backup and piece of metadata can help investigators reconstruct relationships that might once have remained hidden.

Meet Zubair Habib Timilehin, the founder and CEO of Bitoshi. Under his leadership, Bitoshi has grown to serve nearly 100,000 users, enabling individuals and businesses to transact in Africa's digital economy.

While the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) continues to urge beneficiaries to complete their eLife Certification, many social grant recipients across South Africa report that the portal remains unusable. Despite Sassa's claims ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1606#7573)

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA)'s biometric verification drive has intensified efforts to clamp down on fraud in the social grant system, after Parliament was told that nearly one million beneficiaries have been processed s ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1606#7574)

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has noted the challenges to access self-service system by some of our beneficiaries and the Agency can report that the challenge has been resolved. SASSA would like to apologise to all our b ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1606#7575)

More than a dozen pupils travelling to school in a minibus died in a collision with a truck in South Africa shortly after the academic year began in mid-January. On the day of the crash, posters circulated online purporting to show each of ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1608#7577)

Airtel Africa has released its Q1 results for the quarter ended June 30th, 2026. The telecoms company has also confirmed London as listing venue for Airtel Money in 2026.

WayaWaya joins a growing list of African fintechs recruiting experienced banking executives as they scale into regulated financial services.

Artificial intelligence is being deployed across the Global South at a pace matching or exceeding the Global North, yet AI governance has not kept pace, and the gap is far wider in the South. Drawing on a decade of AI audit practice across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia Pacific (the only fully published second-party audit of a deployed system in the region, Robot Laura in Brazil; two completed but unreleased national audits, of a child-welfare risk model and a public-employment matc

The 5th edition of Nigeria Fintech Forum holds on Thursday, July 30th, 2026, at Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.

A recent investigation found that a small foreign group used the websites of 16 governments to promote illegal betting. Meaning other cynical actors could also gain access and steal citizens’ data or plant something far worse.

From 9 to 11 June 2026, senior policymakers and regulators from Burundi, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda gathered in Nairobi for the East Africa Regional Data ...

The move comes as Nigeria's telecommunications sector continues to grow, with mobile subscriptions and data consumption increasing and operators investing heavily in network infrastructure and customer acquisition.

For the first time, the Pan-African venture capital firm returns R45 million to investors in its Launch Africa Seed Fund I.

OPay currently serves 46 million users in Nigeria (according to its own estimates) — roughly 0.23% of Nigeria’s over 200 million population. Outside Nigeria, the fintech has footprints in Egypt, Indonesia, and Pakistan.

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

arXiv:2607.18459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid improvement of AI systems has intensified debate about humanity's economic, political, social, and existential future. As AI reshapes expectations about what lies ahead, policy choices and institutional responses will play a crucial role in determining who benefits, who bears the costs, and whether the most serious risks can be mitigated. Africa remains relatively overlooked in these discussions, partly because it is largely a consumer ra