Article by Steve Kaaru
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8 September, 2025
South Korea boosts AI funding with biggest hike in 4 years
Total expenditure for South Korea’s gov’t in 2026 is projected at $524B as the country invests aggressively in AI amid...
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5 September, 2025
South Africa’s tax agency doubles down on ‘crypto’ tax evaders
One report says that in a country where 6M citizens hold digital assets, only 17,000 declared them in their tax...
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4 September, 2025
Stablecoins make up 43% of Africa’s ‘crypto’ transactions in 2024
Yellow Card reported that Nigeria was the dominant market with over $22B in value, with the highest growth recorded in...
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3 September, 2025
Digital payments spike in Tanzania as gov’t platform hits $11.7B
TIPS system’s volume doubled in 2024, and according to the central bank, it has spurred financial inclusion in a nation...
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2 September, 2025
Senegal taps regional development bank for digital transformation
Senegal is in talks with the West African Development Bank to fund its Technological New Deal, whose $2 billion budget...
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1 September, 2025
Africa sidelined in AI boom with 0.02% share of Q2 AI funding
Global AI startups raised over $47 billion in Q2, led by Scale AI’s blockbuster raise, but African startups only raised...
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