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AfDB Mission 300: Two Years, $20B Committed — Three Million Connections Confirmed
GITEX Africa Day 1: AI Governance Takes Centre Stage in Marrakech
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.
Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What $537 Million Actually Means
Africa’s tech sector raised $537 million in Q1 2026 — but development finance accounts for most of it. BETAR’s proprietary tracker breaks down equity vs debt, the Series A drought, and which countries are winning the investor race.
Africa PE Exit Crisis 2026: $10B in Private Equity, Nowhere to Go
Africa’s 2016–2019 PE vintage holds an estimated $10B in unrealised value. The exit routes cannot absorb the backlog. BETAR maps the crisis and what resolves it.
Africa’s $50B Gas Bet: The Economic Logic That Could Cost the Continent Its Climate Finance
Twelve African countries are building or approving $50 billion in LNG and gas infrastructure. The economic case is defensible. The climate finance cost — in DFI conditionality, NDC budget erosion, and lost carbon credit revenue — is not fully priced in.
Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: $535M, 38 Deals, and the Signals Under the Headline
BETAR’s Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding Tracker closes at 38 Tier A deals, approximately $535M. The headline number flatters the equity picture. Here is what the…
Africa’s Renewable Energy Auction Paradox: Record-Low Bids, Rising Cancellations — Why the Projects That Win Are Not Getting Built
African renewable energy auctions are producing record-low tariff bids. A growing share of awarded projects never reach financial close. The gap between auction outcome and delivered megawatt reveals the hidden costs that bid prices do not capture — and the structural reforms that Africa’s procurement systems need.
Ghana Just Did What No West African Country Has Done: Put a Price on Charging an EV
On April 1, Ghana’s energy regulator cut electricity bills and buried the continent’s most consequential EV policy signal in the same decision. The…
Kenya Generates 35% of Its Power From the Earth. The Rest of Africa’s Rift Valley Has Built Almost Nothing.
The Great Rift Valley runs 6,000 kilometres through the heart of Africa, carrying volcanic heat sufficient to power the continent’s most reliable…
AfDB Mission 300: Two Years In, $20B Committed — What Has Actually Been Connected?
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.