Rising Tide Africa has committed up to $1 million to Nigerian waste-management company Ororo Waste Management to expand the collection of used cooking oil across the country, backing a business model that turns an overlooked waste stream into a source of income and renewable-energy feedstock. The investment, worth about ₦1.4 billion, is structured through a…

She Code Africa and Apify have announced the winners of the BuildHer Hackathon 2026, spotlighting a new generation of African women developers building technology solutions to real-world challenges. The hackathon was designed to give women in Africa an opportunity to strengthen their technical skills, experiment with emerging technologies and turn ideas into working products. By…

Kenyan climate-tech company SunCulture is using a $10 million securitisation facility from Mirova to expand access to solar-powered irrigation for smallholder farmers, bringing an increasingly important financing model to the intersection of agriculture, renewable energy and financial inclusion. The transaction is designed to provide SunCulture with additional capital to finance more solar irrigation systems for…

For African fintechs looking to expand into Europe, entering a new market will involve more than adapting a product, finding customers and securing a local licence. Compliance infrastructure will increasingly become a central part of the expansion strategy, particularly as the European Union prepares to apply its new Anti-Money Laundering Regulation, or AMLR, from July…

Few African financial technologies have changed everyday money management as profoundly as M-PESA. What began in Kenya as a mobile money service has developed into a major financial platform, allowing millions of people to send, receive, save and access money without depending entirely on traditional bank branches. Launched by Safaricom in 2007, M-PESA addressed a…

Africa’s artificial intelligence ambitions are increasingly colliding with a basic question: who will provide the computing infrastructure needed to build and scale AI on the continent? That question will take centre stage at BUILD 2026, Africa’s Shared Compute and AI Infrastructure Conference, scheduled for October 21–22 in Abuja, Nigeria. The event is being hosted by…