News
Every note here is written by somebody who read the source rather than a summary of it. Where two reports count the same year differently, both numbers go in and the note says which one you are quoting.
Annotated
Six things worth knowing this term, each with the figure people will quote and what that figure actually supports. The photographs are frames of the film on the homepage, printed in its order, rather than pictures of these stories.
Regulation
Rwf100m → 500m
No new applications for six months, while incumbents get three years to meet the new floor. That asymmetry makes this consolidation policy in prudential clothing.
The New Times (Kigali), via allAfrica
Payments
−9.2% volume
Fewer, larger payments. If you earn per transaction that is a revenue warning the value headline hides completely. If you earn basis points it is fine.
Vanguard, via allAfrica · NIBSS Q1 2026
Commerce
GMV +20%
But orders rose 28% and revenue only 14%: more, smaller baskets and a thinner cut. This is also the only audited transaction data for pan-African e-commerce.
Jumia Technologies AG · Q2 2026 results
Data
4.72 months
Import cover projected for 31 December 2026, in the conditional: the reserves permettraient de couvrir. The BEAC’s own latest measurement is 4.03 months at 31 March 2026, below the 4.12 it records for end-2025. One central bank holds the reserves of six countries, so this is the only such figure any of them has.
BEAC · Rapport sur la politique monétaire, juin 2026
Data
80.1% vs 39.1
Both from the same survey. But 80.1 is a share of adults and 39.1 is a composite index score, which the survey’s own scale puts in its poor band. Only the first one counts people.
Bank of Zambia with ZamStats · FinScope 2025, topline findings
Payments
9.7m → 19.7m
Bank Al-Maghrib credits the doubling mostly to direct social aid landing in payment accounts rather than to people paying each other. Wallets issued reached 13.7 million over the same year, and issued counts distribution, not use.
Bank Al-Maghrib · Infrastructures des marchés financiers et moyens de paiement, 2024
The wire
Pulled from 17 publications at build time, unedited, newest first. We show the headline, the date, the publisher's own summary and a link back to them. We never reproduce the reporting itself.
Le ministre de l’Industrie, M. Farid Kourtel, a reçu, samedi à Alger, les représentants des entreprises algériennes agréées dans la fabrication automobile, lors d’une rencontre consacrée à l’examen des moyens de localiser la production des…
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The Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange recorded equity turnover of TZS 53.05 billion in Week 38 of 2026, a week-on-week decline of -13.12%, on volume of 24,596,396 shares across 19,032 deals. AFRIPRISE led gainers at +22.31%, followed by VODA at…
Le promoteur du Cameroon International Tech Summit (CITS), Ayuk Etta, veut contribuer à la construction d’un écosystème technologique camerounais capable de faire émerger une centaine de startups et d’attirer jusqu’à 100 millions d’euros,…
Africa-based biochar developer Biochar Industrial Group has secured $1.5 million in pre-seed funding to expand its decentralized climate technology model. The fresh capital will fund the installation of biochar production
Aeon, a Nigerian cybersecurity startup building sovereign cyber defense infrastructure for Africa
Tamwilcom has received the World Bank’s highest rating, ‘Highly Satisfactory,’ for its Innov Invest Fund, nearly a decade after the program’s launch to finance and support Moroccan startups. Launched in 2017 with financial and technical…
Expense AI uses AI-powered receipt scanning to capture and categorize expenses, allow users to generate customizable reports, track their income, manage their budgets.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 18 – Innovators, developers, researchers, entrepreneurs and sector specialists from across Africa are being invited to apply for the Mistral Africa Accelerator Bootcamp, a six-week hybrid, pan-African…
En matière de gouvernance en Afrique subsaharienne, le Burkina Faso laisse une empreinte. Le gouvernement a officiellement lancé la signature électronique « FasoSign » ce mardi 15 septembre 2026 à Ouagadougou. Une e-signature ou signature…
Coastal shipping is working in Mozambique, but obstacles still prevent it reaching its full potential
Prices have risen despite domestic oil production and growing refining capacity.
Good morning, friends, and happy weekend. This month’s Long View makes the case that memes are not, in fact, rotting our brains, and brings the research to back it up. Elsewhere in today’s issue: a book that documents Downtown Cairo’s…
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$150,000 buys a foreign national a house and a five-year permit in Addis Ababa.
La digitalisation des services au ministère de l’Économie forestière est en marche. L’institution prévoit de développer une interface de Gestion électroniques des documents. Une première version a été ce 17 septembre 2026, à Brazzaville,…
The AI threat that Africa cannon ignore The Chairperson of the African UnionThe African Union Commission Heads of State and Government of the African Union Member States Your Excellencies, I write to you as a former Chairman of the…
The capital injection aims to address persistent supply chain fragmentation and credit bottlenecks that restrict smallholder crop yields across West Africa.
L’Algérie participe, du 22 au 27 septembre courant à Shanghai (Chine), aux compétitions des Olympiades mondiales des métiers (WorldSkills International), dans les spécialités « Technologie automobile » et « Développement d’applications…
The plan would move Nigeria beyond simply owning and operating satellites towards making some of the equipment needed to turn them into connectivity services.
The report, titled Debt Fuels the Climate Crisis: How the Finance Flows, says climate-vulnerable countries are spending nearly 25 times more on debt repayments than on climate action.
Le Kenya veut renforcer la présence des compétences numériques directement dans ses établissements scolaires. Le gouvernement prévoit de déployer 1 000 diplômés des technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC) dans les écoles…
Recent cases suggest that Mozambique is becoming more deeply embedded in the regional drugs economy
“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.”
Morocco’s Ministry of Equipment and Water is launching a study of 10 major dams to measure sediment accumulated in their reservoirs and update their real storage capacity, following an exceptional rainy season that sharply raised fill…
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The World Bank Group has appointed Mary-Jean Moyo as International Finance Corporation (IFC) Division Director for Tanzania, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, effective September 1, 2026, with Moyo…
Passer de la parole à l’acte. La session ordinaire de septembre 2026 ouverte ce 15 septembre 2026, la proposition de loi visant à renforcer la protection des victimes de la diffusion non consentie d’images ou vidéos intimes est attendue.…
If you give most Zimbabweans a deck of cards, the game they will instantly think of is MaCards or Makasa. The fast paced game that most of us grew up playing at school with fellow students or at home with a group of friends. For the most…
Moove and a handful of large deals really moved the needle in August, while lower-value tickets lagged
Sources
Twenty feeds and four read by hand. Twelve of the feeds were added in two passes. The first six got the wire off the Lagos and Nairobi axis. The next six were because four of the six regions had come down to a single publisher each, and a region read through one newsroom is a region you are reading about rather than from.
West
TechCabal The daily record of African tech, and the closest thing the continent has to a paper of record for startups.
West
Techpoint Africa Nigeria-weighted, and strong on the operational detail other outlets skip.
West
Condia Formerly Benjamindada. Good on the business model underneath the announcement.
Pan-African
Launch Base Africa Follows the deals and the legal structures around them. Useful when a round is more complicated than the headline.
Pan-African
WeeTracker Data-led coverage of African venture activity.
Southern
Ventureburn Southern African startups, which the Lagos and Nairobi axis tends to crowd out.
Pan-African
Rest of World Reports technology outside the West on its own terms. Filtered here to African coverage.
Pan-African
The Big Deal Maxime Bayen counts African startup funding properly, and shows his working.
East
Shega Ethiopia, which almost nobody else covers as a market rather than as a headline. Payments, licensing and the reforms underneath them.
North
Enterprise The Egyptian business morning briefing. Reads the regulators directly, which is rare anywhere.
Southern
Zitamar News Mozambique, in English, reported by people who live there. Lusophone Africa is otherwise a hole in every English wire.
West in French
Financial Afrik Dakar-based, and the best single view of the franc zone, where one central bank sets the rules for eight countries at once.
Central in French
Digital Business Africa Cameroon-based, and one of the few places Central African telecom and payments regulation is reported at all.
Pan-African
Semafor Africa A continent desk inside a general publication. Filtered here to its African coverage.
North
The North Africa Post Rabat-based and in English, read for the Maghreb as a whole: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya in one place.
North in French
Algérie Eco Algiers-based. Follows the ministries, the import rules and the oil quota in a market that rarely reaches an English wire.
East
Capital FM Business The business desk of a Nairobi newsroom. Strong on the port, the tax rules and the bank rules that decide what a Kenyan business pays.
East
TanzaniaInvest Tanzania through its own numbers: the Dar es Salaam exchange, sector output and the licence rounds.
Southern
Techzim Harare-based, on Zimbabwean payments, mobile data and the operators behind them, written for the people who use them.
Southern
Sunday Standard The business section of a Gaborone weekly. Botswana sets its own bank rate and issues its own bonds, and this is where that is reported.
No feed
Partech Africa Tech VC Report The annual funding benchmark. Published as a report rather than a stream, so we read it when it lands and write it up ourselves.
No feed
Briter Bridges Sector maps and funding data, with unusually clear methodology notes.
No feed
GSMA State of the Industry The primary source for mobile money volumes, and the figure most often misquoted back at us.
No feed
Le Desk and Hespress Morocco, in French. Read by hand rather than pulled in, because the wire on this page is English and a machine-translated headline is not a source.
3 of the feeds did not answer when this page was last built: Techpoint Africa, Condia, Sunday Standard. They are listed rather than quietly dropped.
One question
If the number you need is not in anyone's report, that is the kind of question this desk takes.