Angola raised roughly $321 million on Monday by selling a 15% stake in Unitel, the country’s dominant mobile operator, in what Bloomberg reported as the largest initial public offering the nation has ever run. The proceeds go towards financing the stat…
Kenyan authorities are investigating a cyberattack that defaced President William Ruto’s official website over the weekend, replacing the homepage with a ransom message and a cryptocurrency wallet address. The government pulled president.go.ke offline …
Amazon Leo will launch satellite internet in South Africa in 2027, seemingly beating Elon Musk’s Starlink in his home country. Musk has refused the Black-ownership rules Amazon appears willing to meet. Jeff Bezos is about to beat Elon Musk in Musk’s ow…
Raxio Group, the pan-African colocation operator, is entering Tanzania and has lifted its funding pool to $380m. The money comes from its two main shareholders, the French infrastructure investor Meridiam and the US-based Roha Group, both of which have…
Somalia has thrown its weight behind India’s objection to WhatsApp’s plan to let people connect through usernames rather than phone numbers, widening a dispute that now spans two continents. The backing, makes Somalia the second national government in …
Google has exceeded a five-year pledge to invest $1 billion in Africa, the company said on Wednesday at the first Africa Cloud Summit in Johannesburg, alongside a batch of new infrastructure and AI initiatives. The announcement builds on Google’s 2025 …
The hard part of electrifying a motorcycle in Lagos or Nairobi was never the motorcycle, it was the charging. A rider who earns by the trip cannot afford to sit for hours waiting for a battery to fill, which is why Spiro built its business around swapp…
African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as investor and partner.
The startup’s own stack for Africa and Middle East is now handling more than 17,000 calls per day.
Fortescue‘s recently-acquired turbine subsidiary Nabrawind has done something that was believed to be impossible: they’ve installed a full-scale, energy producing wind turbine in harsh Namibian conditions using a new, crane-less deployment process.
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