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Home Archives for April 2026

Month: April 2026

27 posts
  • Business

Africa VC Has Billions It Cannot Exit. The Secondary Market Is Trying to Fix That.

BETAR Newsroom
  • April 28, 2026
  • 7 minute read
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Africa’s private equity exit crisis has produced a secondary market response — but it is nascent, dominated by DFI-to-DFI transactions, and missing the GP-led continuation vehicles that have become standard everywhere else. The infrastructure is being built from scratch.
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  • 4 minute read
  • Business

Nigeria Fintech M&A Pipeline Q2 2026: Who Is Buying the Compliance Laggards?

  • BETAR Newsroom
  • April 22, 2026
The CBN compliance deadline is behind Nigeria’s fintech sector. The M&A wave is beginning. BETAR maps the five most credible acquirers, the three categories of distressed target, and the deal structures most likely to close before year-end.
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  • 7 minute read
  • Business

Africa Tech IPO 2026-2027: Exchange Infrastructure, Readiness Scorecard and the Jumia Lesson

  • BETAR Newsroom
  • April 21, 2026
Chapter 5 of BETAR’s Africa Capital Markets Series. Which companies are approaching public market readiness — and which exchange can actually absorb an African tech IPO? BETAR’s readiness scorecard for Moniepoint, Wave, Onafriq, and Breadfast.
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  • 9 minute read
  • Energy & Climate

Africa’s Offshore Wind Paradox: 100GW Announced, Zero Commissioned

  • BETAR Newsroom
  • April 14, 2026
Africa has extraordinary offshore wind resources and a pipeline of announced projects exceeding 100GW. Commissioned capacity is precisely zero megawatts. BETAR investigates the regulatory failures, financing gaps, and cost economics blocking the continent’s most-discussed but least-delivered energy frontier.
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  • 7 minute read
  • Business

Nigeria Bank M&A Wave 2026: Who Acquires the Recapitalisation Failures — and at What Price?

  • BETAR Newsroom
  • April 14, 2026
Chapter 3 of BETAR’s CBN Recapitalisation Arc. With Polaris, Keystone, and Union Bank non-compliant after March 31, the M&A intelligence question is now live: who buys these assets, at what valuation, and what does the deal look like?
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  • 7 minute read
  • Energy & Climate

Africa’s Carbon Headroom Is Being Sold at a Discount: How Bilateral ITMO Deals Are Pricing in the Wrong Future

  • BETAR Newsroom
  • April 13, 2026
Twelve African countries have signed Article 6.2 bilateral carbon credit agreements with Switzerland, Japan and Singapore. The credits are real. The prices are low. And every tonne sold reduces the seller country’s NDC budget at exactly the moment COP30 will demand accountability.
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  • 6 minute read
  • Business

GITEX Africa 2026: What the Deals and Announcements Signal for African Tech H2

  • BETAR Newsroom
  • April 11, 2026
GITEX Africa 2026 delivered Morocco’s Maroc Digital 2030 strategy and its AI Made in Morocco initiative, a cybersecurity diagnosis from MTN’s CISO, and the Supernova Challenge startup competition. BETAR.africa assesses which signals from Marrakech are load-bearing and which are noise.
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  • 7 minute read
  • Technology

GITEX Africa Day 2: MTN’s CISO on Why Africa Is Building Faster Than It Can Secure

  • BETAR Newsroom
  • April 9, 2026
The STAR Summit put Africa’s cybersecurity readiness gap on the main stage for the first time. MTN Group CISO Justin Williams delivered the diagnosis. GITEX Africa’s fintech track wrestled with who governs digital money across 54 countries.
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  • 7 minute read
  • Technology

GITEX Africa Day 1: AI Governance Takes Centre Stage in Marrakech

  • BETAR Newsroom
  • April 8, 2026
Morocco’s Maroc Digital 2030 strategy, hyperscale data centre commitments, and 800 startups competing in the Supernova Challenge headline the first day of GITEX Africa 2026 in Marrakech.
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  • 6 minute read
  • Energy & Climate

AfDB Mission 300: Two Years, $20B Committed — Three Million Connections Confirmed

  • BETAR Newsroom
  • April 8, 2026
The African Development Bank…
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Latest

  • Nigeria Fintech Post-Compliance Landscape 2026: Who Is Stronger, Who Is Weaker, What Comes NextMay 12, 2026
  • Nigeria Banks at Day 35: The CBN Is Managing Expectations, Not Enforcing DeadlinesMay 5, 2026
  • Africa VC Has Billions It Cannot Exit. The Secondary Market Is Trying to Fix That.April 28, 2026
  • Nigeria Fintech M&A Pipeline Q2 2026: Who Is Buying the Compliance Laggards?April 22, 2026
  • Africa Tech IPO 2026-2027: Exchange Infrastructure, Readiness Scorecard and the Jumia LessonApril 21, 2026

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