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One Licence, Two Markets: What the Kenya-Rwanda Payment Passporting Deal Means for East African Fintech
Kenya and Rwanda have signed a landmark MOU to build a mutual recognition framework for payment service providers — the first bilateral step in the EAC’s five-year cross-border payments integration blueprint.
Africa EV Manufacturing Gap: Who Actually Builds the Cars Africans Will Drive?
Africa imports nearly all of its electric vehicles. Three competing models — local assembly, Chinese direct import, and Indian budget EVs — are fighting to answer the question of whether Africa will build EVs or merely buy them.
The Private School Bargain: Africa’s Low-Cost Private Schooling Market After Bridge International
Bridge International Academies’ collapse reframed the debate around Africa’s $14.5 billion low-cost private schooling sector. The question now is not whether LCPS can fill the access gap — it is which models survive regulation, deliver learning outcomes, and serve the families that need them most.
Africa’s Early Childhood Education Crisis: Why Less Than 4-in-10 Children Enter School Ready to Learn
Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s lowest pre-primary enrolment rate — below 40 per cent against a global average above 60 per cent. As USAID funding collapses and private ECE remains unaffordable, the continent’s learning crisis begins before primary school.
Africa Micro-Credentials Reality Check: Do Employers Recognise Google, IBM, and ALX Certificates?
Millions of Africans hold micro-credentials from Google, IBM, ALX, and Coursera. A labour market audit finds tech-sector employers largely accept them — but formal recognition infrastructure is absent and the completion gap means headline employment statistics rarely tell the full story.
CBN Biometric Mandate: Nigerian Fintechs Must Rebuild Account Opening by July 1
The CBN requires liveness checks for all new account openings from July 1. Nigerian fintechs must rebuild their onboarding stack.
Nigeria’s DARES Programme: A $750M Solar Mini-Grid Deployment, the World’s Largest
Nigeria’s DARES programme is deploying the world’s largest solar mini-grid network. The $750M plan — and the execution risk behind it.
AfDB and UNDP Launch $10B AI Initiative. The 40 Million Jobs Target Is Not What It Sounds Like.
The $10 billion AfDB-UNDP AI initiative promises 40 million jobs by 2035. We unpack what the numbers actually mean.
Morocco’s Digital X0 Framework: The Most Detailed AI Governance Plan in North Africa
Morocco’s Digital X0 strategy sets specific AI governance targets and timelines — the most detailed plan of its kind in North Africa.
Ethiopia’s Telecom Revenue Levy Will Fund Rural Connectivity. Here’s the Math.
Ethiopia has enacted a telecom revenue levy to fund rural connectivity. How the fund is structured, how much it raises, and who pays.
