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Energy & Climate

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

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

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

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

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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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Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What $537 Million Actually Means

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Research

Q1 2026 Africa Tech Funding: What $537 Million Actually Means

BETAR Newsroom
April 7, 2026

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.

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