Africa EV charging infrastructure gap 2026 — charger count, investment needed, market barriers, and who is building the continent’s charging network.
Africa’s $5B EV Market Has 200 Public Chargers. That Is the Problem.
Month: March 2026
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South Africa’s Biggest Fibre Deal Is Done. Now Parliament Wants to Know Why the Regulator Changed Its Mind.
The R11bn Vodacom-Maziv transaction closed in December 2025, handing Remgro a R2.66 billion dividend and giving Vodacom a 30% stake in South Africa’s dominant fibre network. Three months on, Parliament is asking why the Competition Commission reversed its earlier opposition — and whether the Open Access conditions are worth the paper they’re printed on.
Nigeria ISP Consolidation: The Legend-Spectranet Merger and the Broadband Endgame
Nigeria has 231 licensed internet service providers. Only 133 are still active. Spectranet, the largest among them by subscribers, has been losing…
COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake Increase: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa cleared Vodacom’s Safaricom stake purchase on March 3, 2026. No conditions were attached. The…
Airtel-Starlink Direct-to-Cell in Kenya: The End of the Coverage Excuse
Airtel Africa’s Starlink Direct-to-Cell pilot in Kenya has proven the technology works on unmodified 4G handsets. The CA-Kenya audit shapes continental connectivity economics.
Africa’s Language AI Infrastructure Layer: Who Is Building the Stack That Makes LLMs Work in Hausa, Swahili and Amharic
Large language models work in English. They work tolerably in French and Arabic. In Hausa — spoken by 80 million people — they largely do not. In Yoruba…
MTN Kills Ayoba: What Africa’s Failed Super App Experiment Tells Us About Telco Digital Strategy
After seven years and a peak of 35 million monthly active users — a figure widely cited in reporting on Ayoba’s 2022 growth milestone — MTN has shut down…
AI-Industrialised Identity Fraud: Africa Fintech’s 160,000-Attacks-a-Month Problem
A fraud syndicate launched 160,000 identity attacks using just 100 stolen faces. African fintechs are being forced to rebuild their identity stack as AI industrialises fraud.
Nigeria Bank Recapitalisation: Who Made the Cut, Who Merged, and What Comes Next — CBN Deadline 2026
The CBN’s 31 March 2026 bank recapitalisation deadline arrives with most of Nigeria’s banking sector compliant — and three banks still under regulatory intervention. BETAR tracks who raised, who merged, and what the concentration trade-off means for Nigerian credit.
The CBN’s AI/AML Mandate Has Created a Gold Rush. These African Startups Are Positioned to Win.
Nigeria’s CBN AI/AML mandate is not just a compliance burden — it is a market creation event worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Which African regtech…