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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…

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AI-Industrialised Identity Fraud: Africa Fintech’s 160,000-Attacks-a-Month Problem

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AI-Industrialised Identity Fraud: Africa Fintech’s 160,000-Attacks-a-Month Problem

BETAR Newsroom
March 29, 2026

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.

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MTN Kills Ayoba: What Africa's Failed Super App Experiment Tells Us About Telco Digital Strategy

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MTN Kills Ayoba: What Africa’s Failed Super App Experiment Tells Us About Telco Digital Strategy

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March 29, 2026

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…

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Africa's Language AI Infrastructure Layer: Who Is Building the Stack That Makes LLMs Work in Hausa, Swahili and Amharic

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Africa’s Language AI Infrastructure Layer: Who Is Building the Stack That Makes LLMs Work in Hausa, Swahili and Amharic

BETAR Newsroom
March 29, 2026

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…

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Africa's Satellite Internet Price War Is Real. SMEs Are Still Paying Too Much.

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Airtel-Starlink Direct-to-Cell in Kenya: The End of the Coverage Excuse

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March 29, 2026

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.

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COMESA Clears Vodacom's Safaricom Stake Increase: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa's Telecoms Map

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COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake Increase: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map

BETAR Newsroom
March 29, 2026

The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa cleared Vodacom’s Safaricom stake purchase on March 3, 2026. No conditions were attached. The…

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Nigeria ISP Consolidation: The Legend-Spectranet Merger and the Broadband Endgame

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Nigeria ISP Consolidation: The Legend-Spectranet Merger and the Broadband Endgame

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March 29, 2026

Nigeria has 231 licensed internet service providers. Only 133 are still active. Spectranet, the largest among them by subscribers, has been losing…

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MTN's $2.2B IHS Towers Buyout: Africa's Biggest Telecoms Infrastructure Play, Explained

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MTN’s $2.2B IHS Towers Buyout: Africa’s Biggest Telecoms Infrastructure Play, Explained

BETAR Newsroom
March 29, 2026

MTN Group’s $2.2 billion acquisition of IHS Towers — one of Africa’s largest independent tower companies — reshapes 4G/5G rollout economics across Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, and beyond. Here is what the deal means, who wins, and who has cause for concern.

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Africa's AI Data Centre Race: MTN Lagos, Microsoft Kenya, and the Power Problem

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Africa’s AI Data Centre Race: MTN Lagos, Microsoft Kenya, and the Power Problem

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March 29, 2026

Africa’s data centre market is projected to double to $4.36B by 2031. MTN’s $240M Sifiso Dabengwa Data Centre in Lagos and Microsoft’s $1B geothermal-powered East Africa Cloud Region in Kenya represent the continent’s most ambitious physical AI infrastructure bets — and reveal how power, not capital, is the real constraint.

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Kenya Raises the Stablecoin Bar: KES 500M Capital Rule and the Nairobi Crypto Hub Play

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Kenya Raises the Stablecoin Bar: KES 500M Capital Rule and the Nairobi Crypto Hub Play

BETAR Newsroom
March 28, 2026

Kenya’s National Treasury has published draft VASP regulations that set the continent’s steepest capital threshold for stablecoin issuers — KES 500…

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Technology

The CBN’s AI/AML Mandate Has Created a Gold Rush. These African Startups Are Positioned to Win.

AI-Industrialised Identity Fraud: Africa Fintech’s 160,000-Attacks-a-Month Problem

MTN Kills Ayoba: What Africa’s Failed Super App Experiment Tells Us About Telco Digital Strategy

Africa’s Language AI Infrastructure Layer: Who Is Building the Stack That Makes LLMs Work in Hausa, Swahili and Amharic

Airtel-Starlink Direct-to-Cell in Kenya: The End of the Coverage Excuse

COMESA Clears Vodacom’s Safaricom Stake Increase: What 55% Ownership Means for East Africa’s Telecoms Map

Nigeria ISP Consolidation: The Legend-Spectranet Merger and the Broadband Endgame

MTN’s $2.2B IHS Towers Buyout: Africa’s Biggest Telecoms Infrastructure Play, Explained

Kenya Raises the Stablecoin Bar: KES 500M Capital Rule and the Nairobi Crypto Hub Play

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