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COMESA Opens Antitrust Probe into Meta Over WhatsApp AI Exclusion Across 21 African Markets

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Africa's most powerful regional competition authority has launched a formal antitrust investigation into Meta Platforms, targeting a policy change that…

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Kenya Airports Authority Shuts Down Adani Comeback Talk as JKIA Tender Goes Public

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Kenya Airports Authority has flatly denied reports that the Adani Group has been quietly re-engaged on the JKIA modernisation project,…

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Nigeria’s Airports Just Went Cashless. The First-Day Chaos Was the Point.

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FAAN's Go Cashless policy went live at Lagos and Abuja airports on March 1, replacing cash toll payments with a…

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Ghana’s E-Visa Is Now Nine Months Late and Still Coming by December 2026

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Africaspoint Editorial

Ghana's e-visa was promised for Q1 2026. It is now March, the quarter is almost gone, and the US Ambassador…

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DStv sets World Cup streaming record

DStv Stream recorded over 900,000 concurrent viewers for South Africa's opening World Cup 2026 match…

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Nigeria slams the IMF’s tax prescriptions

A Nigerian think tank, the Alliance for Economic Research and Ethics, has criticised the IMF's…

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Stop checking passports, SA minister warns

South Africa's Justice Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi warned at an Inter-Ministerial Committee on Migration briefing on…

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Dangote’s petrol unit is down 34%

The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has been running its main petrol-producing RFCCU unit at 34% below…

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Zimbabwe Caps Municipal Business Fees to Cut Costs

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South Africa’s Data Hosting Shift Turns Compliance Into Strategy

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CAR Becomes First Nation to Fully Digitize a Ministry

Ghana Tables New Data Protection Bill Covering AI

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