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Africa’s AI Gold Rush: Startups Race Towards Unicorn Status

Africa’s technology story is entering a new phase. After fintech companies like Flutterwave and OPay demonstrated that African startups could achieve global unicorn status by solving payment fragmentation and financial.

$750m Solar Revolution: Renewvia to Power 2.1 Million Africans

Across Africa, nightfall still dictates daily life for millions of people. Factories slow down, students rely on kerosene lamps, clinics ration electricity, and businesses close early. For nearly 600 million.

Nigeria’s Startup Boom Attracts Fresh Global Investor Interest

Nigeria’s technology ecosystem is experiencing a fresh wave of global investor attention as international capital increasingly flows into the country’s rapidly expanding startup sector in 2025. From fintech and artificial.

Morocco’s AI Drive: Empowering Africa’s Next Generation of Women Entrepreneurs

As artificial intelligence continues to reshape industries across the world, Morocco is emerging as one of Africa’s most ambitious technology hubs, with women entrepreneurs increasingly positioned at the centre of.

Egypt Fast-Tracks High-Speed Rail and Mega Infrastructure Expansion

Egypt is accelerating one of Africa’s most ambitious transportation and infrastructure projects — a fully electrified high-speed rail network designed to transform mobility, trade, tourism, and logistics across the country..

Can France’s €23 Billion Strategy Reshape Africa’s Economic Future?

Emmanuel Macron is repositioning France’s engagement with Africa from traditional aid and development assistance towards a long-term commercial partnership. The French president recently unveiled a €23 billion investment strategy focused.

Can Africa’s Green Minerals Boom Deliver Sustainable Long-Term Prosperity?

A new scramble for Africa is underway. This time, the prize is not gold or oil, but lithium, cobalt, graphite, and rare earth elements, the critical minerals powering electric vehicles,.

How Connectivity Is Turning Africa’s Informal Traders into Visible Entrepreneurs

Across Africa, expanding digital connectivity is transforming the informal economy, the continent’s economic backbone, from a fragmented, cash-dominated system into one that is digitally connected, financially traceable, and commercially scalable..

Africa’s Transport and Energy Leaders Unite Around New Mobility Vision: The Continental Frameworks Aiming to Strengthen Trade, Connectivity, and Regional Integration

African transport and energy ministers, working alongside the African Union and the United Nations Environment Programme, have endorsed two landmark continental frameworks aimed at accelerating sustainable, safe, and clean mobility.