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A tech lawyer who 'bet his whole law career' on digitizing African cattle sales built the continent's largest livestock-trading platform after a drought exposed how badly undervalued isolated auctions were leaving sellers.
The company says it's building a Johannesburg data center and has already helped 1.6 million South African small businesses start accepting digital payments, framing SMEs as the real test of whether the country's digital shift actually works.
The payments company projects Africa's digital economy could hit $1.5 trillion by 2030, but argues that doubling cybercrime losses and a widening security talent gap could just as easily derail that growth as fuel it.
With agriculture supporting over 80 percent of rural households and a $250 million grant funding 235,000 new power connections, officials are framing modernization, not aid dependency, as the country's route forward.
With more than 15,000 land title deeds issued and 25 to 30 percent average annual growth, CEO Moses Muriithi credits an installment-payment model and keeping post-sale logistics in-house rather than outsourcing them.
From Dangote's daughters taking on operating roles to BUA and Globacom elevating founders' children, a generation of African conglomerates is starting to treat succession as a structural economic issue rather than a private family matter.
BCEAO's mandate makes small transfers across its eight-nation bloc free starting November 2, but industry figures say someone still has to pay for settlement, fraud management and the agent networks behind the scenes.
Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa generated 70 percent of the continent's banking revenue last year, even as African banks posted nearly double the global average return on equity.
With remittance fees running nearly three points above the global average and Nigeria alone pulling in $59 billion in crypto inflows, backers argue stablecoins solve a cost problem mobile money never fully cracked — though critics warn of currency displacement risk.
Sub-$100 devices took the hardest hit, down 34 percent, as rising memory costs and AI-driven supply disruptions push phones further out of reach just as they become essential for participating in the digital economy.
The jurist and former UN human rights chief told Forbes Africa she received the news at a conference in Nuremberg, and used the honor to call for people everywhere to stand behind independent courts and an international legal order built on principle.
With more than 200 automotive companies already operating there and executives talking up its engineering talent pool, Tunisia is positioning its location between three continents as a hard economic asset rather than just geography.
A minister called the city 'unlivable, unchangeable and untenable' and floated relocating administrative functions elsewhere, even as officials pour $3 billion into fixing the roads and drainage choking Uganda's economic engine instead.
With Nigeria accounting for more than a quarter of the world's maternal deaths, the four-year digital health partnership aims to reach 500,000 women and 5,000 frontline health workers with AI-assisted care tools by 2030.
With growth holding at 6.3 percent, a $550 million steel plant underway and its financial markets ranking jumping from 10th to 3rd in Africa since 2017, Uganda is leaning on stability as its main selling point to investors.
The central bank can now restrict access to dollar-backed stablecoins like USDT and USDC, a move one fintech executive warns could fragment cross-border payments and cut off local businesses from global liquidity.
The $15-16 billion Lamu facility is designed to serve Kenya and six neighboring countries, with Dangote predicting it will pull in a wave of follow-on investment once it's running.
A Kenyan court ordered the disputed Lamu site frozen pending an October hearing brought by 133 residents who say the land is ancestral farmland, but the ceremony went ahead anyway.
After a 2024 drought gutted hydropower output and triggered nationwide blackouts, the state utility says more than 1,000 new megawatts of solar capacity should keep the lights on this time around.
The sector already contributes an estimated $61 million a year and supports over a million livelihoods, but industry figures say Uganda is producing a tiny share of its theoretical capacity because most beekeepers operate at micro-scale.
With cheap uncultivated land and billions spent yearly on food imports, investors are betting Angola and Mozambique can repeat Brazil's agricultural transformation in a fraction of the fifty years it took.
The region's 2026 growth outlook was upgraded to 4.3 percent and Moody's turned more positive on sovereign credit, even as medium-term inflation forecasts rose and gaps in power, data and skills threaten to cap AI's payoff.
Kenya has already extended a fuel VAT cut after pump prices jumped, as analysts warn the strait's chokepoint role for roughly a fifth of global oil flows makes African import-dependent economies especially exposed.
The 1,447-kilometer EACOP line linking Uganda's oilfields to Tanzania's coast is more than 98 percent built, with heated, fiber-optic-monitored pipe designed to move the region's waxy crude to export at last.
Kwara, Taraba, Nasarawa, Ogun, Delta, Cross River, Plateau and Enugu are among the latest to back the constitutional amendment, as a presidential working group submits the full draft legislation for review.
Authorities are tracing 44 contacts of a woman who flew in from Uganda and tested positive in Abuja, as airports and hospitals nationwide are put on high alert for suspected cases.
Interior Minister Tunji-Ojo led tributes to Pa Reuben Fasoranti, who died at 100 in Akure, recalling a century built on advocacy for true federalism, Yoruba identity and national unity.
The Constitutional Council confirmed the incumbent's outright majority after a December election marred by an opposition boycott and condemnation from critics who say a 2023 referendum simply erased the country's term limits.
South Africa's president called for Maduro's immediate release and urged the UN to enforce the principles of sovereignty and non-interference, as several other African governments voiced similar concerns over the precedent set.
Accra has formally asked Washington to extradite Ken Ofori-Atta to face 78 corruption-related charges, after US immigration authorities took him into custody while he was in the country for medical treatment.
The Bishoftu hub, designed to eventually handle 110 million passengers a year and replace the capital's congested Bole Airport, is meant to anchor Ethiopia's bid to become a dominant African aviation and logistics hub.
Voting stations across the country opened hours late after voter-verification machines malfunctioned, a problem rumored to be linked to a government-ordered internet shutdown the UN human rights office called 'deeply worrying.'
Security personnel scaled the wall of his residence and seized phones, his party says, as the opposition leader lost contact with the outside world while Museveni was declared headed for a seventh term.
The opposition leader, in hiding since a disputed January election, says soldiers raided his home, held his wife at gunpoint and strangled her while demanding to know his whereabouts; the military denies the account.
Talks on the sidelines of the World Government Summit touched on digital infrastructure, mining and logistics investment, with a proposed joint innovation hub for ICT startups among the ideas discussed.
Evariste Ndayishimiye took over the rotating chairmanship at the Addis Ababa summit under a theme focused on water and sanitation, an emphasis Nigerian officials say speaks directly to the country's own struggles with potable water access.
ECOFEPA's leadership, including its newly elected president, says it cannot account for the association's annual funds because the administrative department controlling the account never shares spending details with elected members.
Tasked by fellow heads of state with reviewing the bloc's institutions, President William Ruto says slow decision-making and weak coordination leave the AU unable to meet Africa's security and economic challenges.
With more than 4,000 delegates expected in El Alamein, Egypt, the bank is framing deeper trade ties among African countries and expanded processing capacity as the path to the continent's economic sovereignty.
The Community Court of Justice says the new platform will let lawyers file cases, track proceedings and attend virtual hearings online, part of a push toward a fully digital judicial institution by 2030.
Pretoria says it won't pay for property Nigerians left behind when they fled xenophobic violence, arguing informal-settlement structures were never legally recognized in the first place.
With the inaugural EQUIP AUTO Cote d'Ivoire exhibition set for late November, industry leaders are betting on Nigeria's scale and Cote d'Ivoire's francophone reach to knit West Africa's fragmented auto parts market closer together.
Lawmakers meeting in Accra warned that shrinking water resources and degraded farmland are already fueling land conflict and displacement, and adopted resolutions urging ECOWAS leaders to set up a dedicated regional climate resilience fund.
At least a dozen Nigerians have been killed in South Africa since the start of the year amid a renewed spike in xenophobic violence, reviving pressure on Abuja to take a harder line with Pretoria over the safety of its citizens.
Alexander Afenyo-Markin handed Ghana's delegation leadership to George Ricketts-Hagan in Accra, while remaining Third Deputy Speaker, and argued regional integration has to be felt in ordinary people's daily lives to mean anything.
Critics say Sudan's military leadership lacks the constitutional mandate to finalize a binding Red Sea boundary agreement while the country has no elected parliament to ratify it.
Dr. Suleiman Gumi told a parliamentary seminar in Accra that shrinking grazing land is pushing herders into farming communities, and called for investment in ranching and climate adaptation to ease the resulting conflict.
The labor federation argues that swapping crude oil exports for unprocessed lithium and rare earths won't break Africa's dependency on outside financing unless mineral wealth is turned into domestic industry, jobs and revenue first.
President Bassirou Diomaye Faye administered the oath in Abuja to judges from Benin, The Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria and Togo, and urged them to guard the regional court's independence and public standing.
The military says its 4th Infantry Division and allied forces beat back an attempt to breach their positions in the region's Kurmuk area, destroying vehicles and inflicting heavy losses on the attacking coalition.
The junta-led government is overhauling history, geography and civic classes, swapping terms like 'explorers' for 'invaders' and adding dozens of new lessons centered on African resistance movements and indigenous political structures.
Kampala says a traveler testing positive in Abuja doesn't prove the infection was caught on Ugandan soil, even as Nigeria's health ministry confirms its first case of the Bundibugyo strain in a woman who had recently passed through East Africa.
Paul Mackenzie and several associates were found guilty of murder after a court ruled they orchestrated an organized starvation campaign among followers of a doomsday sect, most of the victims children.
A stakeholders' summit in Abakaliki endorsed Governor Francis Nwifuru for 2027 and laid out a rotation plan that would hand the governorship to Ebonyi Central in 2031 and Ebonyi South in 2039.
With Central Bank approval secured for a November launch, the Lagos-listed lender says the three-decade mortgage track record it's built its reputation on now has to carry a much wider commercial banking book.
The former federal minister told a Abuja lecture that Nigeria's development crisis traces back to leaders who have drifted from the people they govern, and that the fix is a genuine return to accountable, people-first governance rather than another awareness campaign.
Importers say some consignments turned up empty, others went missing entirely, and some were diverted to private warehouses — prompting the Ghana Revenue Authority to stand up a nine-member investigation.
A jury found the former foreign affairs and internal affairs ministers guilty over more than 25,000 bags of disaster-relief rice that never reached the people it was donated for.
The former Senegalese president stepped aside after an informal Security Council vote pointed toward a candidate from Latin America and the Caribbean, saying he wants to help build consensus rather than prolong the contest.
The opposition African Democratic Congress says the legal groundwork for a five percent fuel levy is already in place, and accuses the government of waiting for a second term before switching it on.
