The African Development Bank’s Mission 300 has committed $20 billion across 26 country compacts. Two years in, fewer than 4 million new connections are directly attributable to Mission 300 financing. Here is why the gap exists and what it would take to close it.
Month: April 2026
27 posts
Kenya CA QoS Report 2025: Telkom Fails Compliance Threshold — Enforcement Risk in East Africa
Kenya’s Communications Authority released its annual Quality of Service assessment for FY2024-2025 on April 1, 2026. The verdict on Telkom Kenya is…
Scale × Mastercard: Pan-African Card Issuance Partnership — 5 Markets
Card issuance in Africa has always been a coordination problem. To issue a Visa or Mastercard-branded payment card, a fintech must assemble a stack of…
Nigeria Has Two Real-Time Fraud Systems Going Live at Once. They Don’t Talk to Each Other.
The NCC’s TIRMS scam-flagging mandate goes live in April 2026, the same month CBN is pushing mandatory AI-powered AML baselines. Two regulators, two fraud systems, no shared architecture — and Nigeria’s telcos caught in the middle.
Africa’s Electricity Tariff Reckoning: Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya Are Raising Power Prices — Here Is Who Gains, Who Loses, and What It Means for the Energy Transition
Seven African markets have raised electricity tariffs in the past twelve months. The economics are defensible — subsidised electricity was destroying utility balance sheets and choking new investment. The distributional consequences are not simple, and the energy transition implications are larger than either side of the debate acknowledges.
After the CBN Deadline: Which Nigerian Banks Missed the March 31 Bar and What the Regulator Does Next
The CBN’s March 31 recapitalisation deadline has passed. Three banks — Polaris, Keystone, and Union Bank — remain formally non-compliant. BETAR analyses the enforcement tools available, the Union Bank court complication, and what a post-consolidation Nigerian banking map looks like.
MTN Spent Its War Chest on Towers. Now What?
MTN’s $2.2B IHS Towers acquisition consumes 60% of its fintech war chest. BETAR analyses the balance sheet impact, dividend risk, and what it means for MoMo’s…