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health crisis The number of cases in the first six weeks has been double that of the deadly 2013-2016 outbreak as the disease continues to rage in DRC. By AFP Officials from the Ituri Provincial Health Division (DPS), humanitarian partners and health sector representatives undergo temperature screening and handwashing before entering the Ebola treatment centre of Rwampara General Reference Hospital in Rwampara, Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of Congo, on 12 June, 2026. © Jospin Mwisha / AFP Published on July 09, 2026 at 16:25 pm (GMT +1) The Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the “fastest growing”…

Listen to this article Tokyo is redefining its engagement with Africa, transitioning from traditional aid-based approaches to strategic venture capital (VC) investments focused on long-term partnerships, innovation and capacity building. Several Japanese private companies are making Japan’s presence felt in Africa’s VC landscape, particularly in high-growth sectors such as fintech, climate tech and mobility. Growing demand for innovative, technology-driven solutions in Africa has drawn increasing interest from international investors. VC funding in Africa rose from over US$2 billion in 2019 to a peak of US$5.2 billion in 2022. Though investment declined to around US$3.6 billion in 2023, the continent’s start-up…

Fifteen African technology startups have been selected by investment firm Renew Capital to develop financial services for millions of small businesses that remain beyond the reach of traditional banks, highlighting a growing shift in how credit and banking services are being delivered across the continent. The startups emerged from more than 500 applicants across 48 African countries in Renew Capital’s inaugural Venture Lab: Embedded Finance (EmFi) Series, an accelerator that targets companies already serving small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through digital platforms. The selected startups are expected to integrate financial products such as loans, payments, insurance and working capital directly…

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$56 billion. That was the amount that flowed into Sub-Saharan Africa as remittances in 2024, according to World Bank estimates. Yet, moving money across Africa still often means routing payments through correspondent banks, delays, foreign exchange (FX) costs, and fees that can reach double digits.  Ryan Kirkley, co-founder and chief executive officer of Global Settlement Network (GSX), a US-based blockchain infrastructure company, believes those inefficiencies are creating an opening for a new generation of financial infrastructure built on blockchain.  “Some African economies already run on stablecoin rails,” Kirkley told TechCabal in an interview in May. “The question now is whether…

Kelvin Obasuyi says his mother used to tell him that there is dignity in labour. It is a piece of advice that has guided him through years of work that rarely looked dignified from the outside: a chocolate popcorn business that folded within a year, selling varsity jackets, and freelance data analysis for anyone willing to pay.  “I was [doing] anything I could do for money,” he says. Years later, as an entrepreneur, his mother’s words stopped being about his own survival and became about everyone else’s. “People [who] work for me are depending on the business to feed families,”…

Microsoft has confirmed a Windows 11 bug that causes the Capability Access Manager write-ahead log file to grow continuously without being compacted, which can lead to the use of over 500GB of drive space on affected systems.The fix is included in update KB5095093, which contains builds 26200.8737 and 26100.8737. Users can install this update through the optional updates section of Windows Update or wait for it to be included in the July 2026 Patch Tuesday rollout.The issue was documented by Windows Latest. Microsoft’s release notes for KB5095093 state that the update “improves disk space usage for the CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal file.What Is…

By Ben Ouattara, Head of Africa, Puma Energy History offers a familiar lesson: when global energy markets are disrupted, Africa often bears a disproportionate share of the consequences. The continent is rarely the source of the crisis. Yet it often finds itself on the front line of the fallout. Higher transport costs, inflation, pressure on foreign-exchange reserves and fiscal strain can arrive quickly, particularly in fuel-importing economies. Unlike larger consuming nations, many African countries have fewer tools available when global energy markets are disrupted. That reality is being tested once again. More than ten weeks into the Iran conflict, global…

** For the best experience, download the free Africa Private Equity News app Android | iOS **The Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA), the development impact investment arm of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), today announced the appointment of One Street Studios as the co-general partner of the Pan African Film Fund. This fund aims to mobilise up to $1 billion for Africa’s film and creative industries.Launched in May 2025 as part of the Afreximbank Creative Africa Nexus programme, the Pan-African Film Fund will mobilise and direct capital towards the growth of Africa’s film, television, and immersive media industries,…

In brief China’s Ministry of Commerce has held talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai about restricting overseas access to China’s most advanced AI models—including unreleased ones—per Reuters. The proposed framework: a tiered system from simple filing for basic tools to domestic-only restrictions on the most sensitive frontier models. If China restricts its own open-weight models, the alternative businesses reached for when the U.S. cut off Anthropic and gated GPT-5.6 in June disappears with them. The U.S. used its AI kill switch in June. China appears to be building one for July.Beijing has spent the past month in quiet talks with…