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

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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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Zimbabwe COBE Act April 20 Countdown: Compliance Checklist for Digital Platforms, Fintechs, and Crypto Operators

BETAR Newsroom
March 27, 2026

Zimbabwe’s Companies and Other Business Entities Act (COBE) re-registration deadline is April 20, 2026 — 24 days away. Every company operating in…

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DRC’s €8B Digital Plan: Mapping the Financing Gap Between Ambition and Execution

BETAR Newsroom
March 27, 2026

The DRC has committed €8.7B to Africa’s most ambitious national digital buildout. But only $1.5B is confirmed. An analysis of where the remaining €7B will come from — and the due diligence questions every DFI should be asking.

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Africa’s Cyber Insurance Gap: AI Fraud Scales Faster Than Coverage

BETAR Newsroom
March 26, 2026

69% of African biometric fraud is now AI-generated. Nigeria’s cyber insurance market is worth $30 million. When a deepfake bypasses a liveness check and drains a customer account, nobody is holding the risk. That is the gap African fintechs cannot afford to ignore.

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Africa’s AI Data Centre Race: MTN’s $240M Lagos Bet, Microsoft’s Kenya Gamble, and the Energy Problem That Could Derail Both

BETAR Newsroom
March 22, 2026

MTN is spending $240 million on an AI-optimised data centre in Lagos. Microsoft and G42 have committed $1 billion to a geothermal-powered campus in Kenya. Google’s Johannesburg region is live and its Umoja subsea cable is coming. Africa’s data centre investment wave is real — but the continent still holds less than 1% of global compute capacity, and energy constraints may keep it that way.

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Africa’s Data Protection Default: Why AI Regulation Without AI Laws Falls Short

BETAR Newsroom
March 22, 2026

Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, and Rwanda are using data protection laws to govern AI by default. It is working — up to a point. Here is what data protection law cannot reach, and what the continent’s emerging dedicated AI frameworks change.

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GITEX Africa 2026: What to Watch at Marrakech

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GITEX Africa 2026: What to Watch at Marrakech

BETAR Newsroom
March 22, 2026

Africa’s largest technology-and-startup gathering returns to Marrakech on April 7 for its fourth edition, and the event’s organisers have built the 2026…

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GITEX Africa 2026: What to Watch at Marrakech This April

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GITEX Africa 2026: What to Watch at Marrakech This April

BETAR Newsroom
March 22, 2026

GITEX Africa returns to Marrakech on April 7–9 with 55,000+ attendees, 400 VCs managing $350 billion, and a dominant AI agenda. Here is what matters for African tech.

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Nigeria Fintech Regulation as Competitive Moat: Who Is Winning the Compliance Infrastructure Race

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Nigeria Fintech Regulation as Competitive Moat: Who Is Winning the Compliance Infrastructure Race

BETAR Newsroom
March 22, 2026

The CBN’s compliance cascade has created structural moats that Stripe, Twilio, and AWS cannot cross. FATF removal unlocked the capital. But a synthesis of Nigeria’s Q1 2026 regulatory architecture raises a harder question: are we building innovators or toll-booth operators?

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Africa's Biometric Fraud Crisis: 69% of Attacks Are Now AI-Generated — and the CBN Just Mandated the Attack Surface

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Africa’s Biometric Fraud Crisis: 69% of Attacks Are Now AI-Generated — and the CBN Just Mandated the Attack Surface

BETAR Newsroom
March 22, 2026

Smile ID’s 2026 fraud report: 69% of biometric fraud in Africa is now AI-generated. One syndicate ran 160,000 verification attacks from 100 stolen faces. The CBN’s July 1 liveness mandate may be building the exact infrastructure these attackers have already learned to bypass.

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Technology

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

Zimbabwe COBE Act April 20 Countdown: Compliance Checklist for Digital Platforms, Fintechs, and Crypto Operators

DRC’s €8B Digital Plan: Mapping the Financing Gap Between Ambition and Execution

Africa’s Cyber Insurance Gap: AI Fraud Scales Faster Than Coverage

Africa’s Data Protection Default: Why AI Regulation Without AI Laws Falls Short

GITEX Africa 2026: What to Watch at Marrakech

GITEX Africa 2026: What to Watch at Marrakech This April

Nigeria Fintech Regulation as Competitive Moat: Who Is Winning the Compliance Infrastructure Race

Africa’s Biometric Fraud Crisis: 69% of Attacks Are Now AI-Generated — and the CBN Just Mandated the Attack Surface

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