One analysis piece and the week's verified company movements, once a week.
Funding patterns, market structure and company movements, drawn from the companies we verify.
In Ghana, institutions that verify identity must now check a Ghana Card biometrically against the national register instead of photocopying it. Ethiopia's Fayda offers biometric eKYC. What these rules, and the gaps in Nigeria and Kenya, mean for onboarding in fintech, health and e-commerce products, and what a partner should be able to show.
Egypt's case for European buyers rests on multilingual service delivery and a fintech sector that has just been pulled under new licensing rules. This guide reads the regulators' own documents, separates two export figures that are often confused, and lists what to check on data law, payments, power and time zones.
Ethiopia has a large population, a new foreign-exchange regime, a national digital ID and a data law with a local-storage rule. It also has a record of internet shutdowns, including a disruption reported in the north on 25 September 2026. A constraint-by-constraint guide for European buyers.
Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia have each announced AI-scale data centres in 2026, yet the Africa Data Centres Association counts about 360 MW as active. A stage ladder for telling a memorandum from an energised hall with paying tenants.
Five countries made mobile money wallets talk to each other by different routes: market deals in Tanzania, a rail in Ghana, price cuts in Kenya, a mandate in the WAEMU zone and a single switch in Rwanda. What the public data shows about whether usage followed, and the four numbers worth tracking.
Morocco's offshoring sector reported about 148,500 stable jobs and MAD 26.2 billion in service exports for 2024. This guide compares the three ways to deliver from Morocco under the 2025 incentive circular, reads the export data by activity, and covers data law, the new time zone and a new government.
What a hospital group, insurer or digital-health buyer should ask a healthtech partner about patient data across borders, compared across Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana, with the WHO, Africa CDC and interoperability context.
Questions a European finance team should settle before the first invoice to an African software vendor: invoicing currency, foreign-exchange rules in Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana, payment rails, withholding tax, treaty relief and EU VAT reverse charge.
Rwanda is a small, well-governed digital market with a data law that requires personal data to be stored in the country by default. This guide reads the policy record in date order, using the statute text, the telecom regulator and the statistics office, and says what that means for a European buyer.
Dakar and Abidjan share a currency, a central bank and a time zone with France's working day, yet they differ on regulator posture, grid reliability and public finances. A comparison for European buyers choosing a francophone West African base.
Tanzania and Uganda both have a data protection law, a telecom regulator that can order networks off, and an East African Community link. A worked example shows what a European software supplier would have to do in each, and where the evidence runs out.
Public African-language benchmarks mostly test clean, single-language text. A test plan for teams and buyers who need to know how an AI product behaves when users mix Sheng, Pidgin, Darija, Hausa or Swahili with English or French.
PAPSS says it links 28 African countries, but 'connected' and 'live on your corridor' are different claims. A status check of the Kenya, Central Africa, West Africa, Ethiopia and Ghana links as of 23 October 2026, and what a company paying or receiving across borders should ask its bank.
In March 2024 four West African cables failed at once and the last was not repaired for about eight weeks. What happened, who was exposed, and what route diversity should mean in a SaaS or BPO contract.
A short evidence pack a buyer can request before paying for a pilot with an African software firm, what each document proves, what it leaves open, and how to ask without turning the request into a barrier.
Computed overlap between 09:00-17:00 office days in ten African hubs and London, Paris, Berlin and Lisbon, winter and summer, plus the clock changes in Europe, Egypt and Morocco in 2026 that break the usual rules.
Rising clean energy investment in Africa is real, but much of it is debt against solar kits, mini-grids and electric motorbikes. A method for telling a financing-heavy story from a company-building one, with worked examples from Sun King, Husk Power and Spiro.
What the ILO's exposure index, South Africa's and Egypt's own sector figures, Ghana's 24-hour economy incentives and Teleperformance's 2025 report say about outsourcing from Africa as AI takes over parts of the work, and how to write that into a contract.
Estimates of Africa's developer population run from about 716,000 professionals (2021) to 4.7 million GitHub-based developers (2024). Each proxy measures something different. How to read them side by side without adding them together.
African technology funding rose in 2025, but debt, deal composition, concentration, and dataset methodology change what the rebound means.
How European teams can evaluate African business-process outsourcing and IT outsourcing partners without confusing low cost with low risk.
A market guide for European buyers tracking African fintech companies across payments, infrastructure, embedded finance, mobile money, lending, and merchant tools.
A practical market guide for European buyers evaluating African AI, data engineering, analytics, annotation, automation, and machine-learning partners.
A buyer-focused comparison of African markets where European companies commonly start software, data, cloud, fintech, and outsourcing partner searches.
What European buyers should check when evaluating African cybersecurity, cloud, managed services, infrastructure, and data-residency partners.
A practical guide for European startups and SMEs evaluating Ghanaian fintech, software, AI, digital services, and West African expansion partners.
A practical sourcing guide for European teams that want to identify, compare, and approach African software, fintech, AI, cloud, and BPO/ITO partners.
A practical due diligence checklist for European buyers evaluating African software, cloud, AI, data, and product-development vendors.
A buyer-focused guide to Kenya's technology ecosystem, including fintech, mobile-first products, software services, data protection, and partner selection.
A practical guide to choosing between staff augmentation, managed projects, dedicated teams, and outcome-based African delivery partnerships.
A buyer-focused guide to Nigeria's technology ecosystem, including fintech depth, software talent, Lagos startup density, regulation, and vendor due diligence.
A guide for European enterprise buyers evaluating South African software, cloud, cybersecurity, fintech, and data partners.
African fintech continues to attract the lion's share of venture capital on the continent. Here's what's driving the growth and which markets are leading.
Agriculture employs more than 60% of Africa's workforce, yet productivity remains stubbornly low. A new wave of agritech startups is changing that — and attracting serious investor attention.