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Africa Spent $2 Billion on Chinese AI Surveillance. No Country Has Laws to Govern It.

Eleven African countries spent $2B+ on Chinese-financed AI surveillance. Not one has laws that adequately govern it. BETAR maps the country-by-country regulatory gap and the compliance risks for African businesses.

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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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Africa's Regulatory Sandbox Wave: 25 Programmes, 15 Markets, One Continent Testing AI and Fintech in Safe Harbours

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Africa’s Regulatory Sandbox Wave: 25 Programmes, 15 Markets, One Continent Testing AI and Fintech in Safe Harbours

BETAR Newsroom
March 22, 2026

Africa has more active regulatory sandboxes than any other emerging market region. Ahead of GITEX Africa 2026, we map the continent’s safe-harbour ecosystem: which markets are open, what startups qualify, and which create the clearest path from test to licence.

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Nigeria's Regulatory Architecture Is Building the Next Unicorns. The Hard Question Is Whether They're Innovators or Gatekeepers.

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Nigeria’s Regulatory Architecture Is Building the Next Unicorns. The Hard Question Is Whether They’re Innovators or Gatekeepers.

BETAR Newsroom
March 22, 2026

The CBN…

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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

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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

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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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Airtel Africa FY2025: The Telecoms Rival MTN Coverage Missed

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Airtel Africa FY2025: The Telecoms Rival MTN Coverage Missed

BETAR Newsroom
March 22, 2026

Airtel Africa posted $4.955 billion in FY2025 revenue and swung to a $328 million profit. Its mobile money arm generates 21% of group revenue — five times MoMo’s share at MTN. Here’s why that gap matters.

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MTN Group FY2025: West Africa Takes the Crown as Revenue Climbs 23%

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MTN Group FY2025: West Africa Takes the Crown as Revenue Climbs 23%

BETAR Newsroom
March 22, 2026

MTN Group reports R218.5 billion in service revenue for 2025, up 23%. Nigeria overtakes South Africa as top revenue hub for the first time. West Africa ARPU and data penetration drive the shift.

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