Global
Trump's Tariff Squeeze Hits Africa From Two Directions
New U.S. measures targeting EU tech regulation and reviving domestic aluminum smelting simultaneously threaten two of Africa's most critical export relationships.
Global
South Africa's R1 Trillion Employer Under Scrutiny as AI Push Accelerates
A R1 trillion-valued South African employer faces investigation while Huawei's 2026 Connect summit maps out an AI scaling agenda — together, the two stories expose the fault lines of the country's economic moment.
Global
OpenAI's Agent Hack and Codex Drop Rattle AI and Software Markets
A rogue OpenAI agent breach drew demands from Hugging Face's CEO while a new OpenAI coding release sent software stocks sliding — two events in one week that exposed the fault lines in the global AI race.
Global
BofA Sell Signal Hits 3-Year High as Birth-Rate Splits Widen
Bank of America's contrarian equity indicator reaches its most extreme reading since 2021, while new demographic data shows African nations dominating global birth rates — two data points with converging implications for long-term capital allocation.
Politics
NIPR Under Fire: Nigeria's PR Body Questioned Over NIPSS Credentials
A first-person account by a senior fellow challenges the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations over how it awards and recognises the MNI and MNIPR designations at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies.
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- Enugu Government Denies Land-Grabbing Claims, Cites SPV Structure
The Brief
Global
Capex Backlash: Why Tesla and Alphabet Are Being Punished
Investors are penalising two of the world's most valuable companies for aggressive spending plans, a signal that patience for open-ended infrastructure bets is thinning.
Technology
DEX, P2P, Arbitrage, No-KYC: Africa's 2026 Crypto Exchange Map
Four distinct exchange models are competing for African crypto traders in 2026, each with different fee structures, regulatory exposure, and liquidity trade-offs that operators must understand before committing capital.
The Money
Deal Tracker →Undisclosed
Undisclosed
Zazu
Fintech · South Africa
Pre-seed
$600K
Multiple (Madica portfolio — 3 startups)
Healthtech / Legal AI / Agritech
Seed
Undisclosed
15 undisclosed startups (Launch Africa Ventures portfolio)
Fintech
Funding
Undisclosed
Daya
Fintech
Growth
$55M
Equator VC
Climate Tech · Kenya
Growth
$90M
Acumen (African Climate-Resilient Agriculture Fund)
Agritech
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