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When tasked with building a highly interactive, tactile web experience, the architecture must serve the art direction. In this article, Alexey Kopytin explains their architectural rationale for building a digital stress-relief squeeze toy game using Lottie animations, DOM events, and distance-based math to maintain absolute control over their designers’ intentional motion.When front-end developers and UX engineers are tasked with building a web interface that feels tactile, bouncy, or destructive, the industry instinct is almost always the same: reach for a physics engine. Frameworks like Matter.js, Cannon.js, or custom WebGL solutions have become the gold standard for creating immersive, gamified websites.When…

Image credit: Tima Miroshnichenko / Pexels Johannesburg, 18 August 2026 The Southern African Fraud Prevention Service (SAFPS), a South African industry body that enables organisations to share fraud intelligence and strengthen fraud prevention, saved its Members more than R7.44 billion in potential fraud losses during 2025, underscoring the growing value of shared fraud intelligence as criminal networks become increasingly organised, technologically advanced and difficult to detect. The figures, released in the 2025 SAFPS Annual Report, represent a 47 per cent increase in fraud savings compared with the previous year. The number of enquiries into the SAFPS fraud database reached 131…

By PwCWe’re pleased to share our latest publication, Nigeria’s Capital Gains Tax reforms: What the new 30% rate and indirect transfer rules mean for investors.Following the commencement of the Nigeria Tax Act on 1 January 2026, Nigeria’s Capital Gains Tax (CGT) regime has entered a new phase. The changes introduce a higher CGT rate for companies, broaden the scope of transactions that may be subject to tax, and raise important questions around the application of the new rules and their practical implementation.The reforms have important implications for investors, businesses and Nigeria’s investment landscape:For investors and businesses: Transactions involving Nigerian assets…

Partner Content: Africa’s Business HeroesThe Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition, a philanthropic initiative of Alibaba Philanthropy, has announced the 20 entrepreneurs who will advance to its 2026 Semi-Final, taking place in Nairobi, Kenya, on 21–22 August.The Top 20 were selected from an expanded Top 100 cohort drawn from more than 24,000 applications across all 54 African countries. Candidates advanced through three-person judging-panel interviews that assessed leadership, innovation, impact, scalability and commercial strength. The process was reinforced by on-the-ground visits to every company advancing to the Semi-Final and comprehensive due diligence conducted by PlusVC, allowing ABH to test the written…

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Monierate, the real-time exchange rate intelligence platform, has expanded its rate radar to include a new set of providers: Textile, Gate Exchange, Doux, MavaPay, Zobo, Vban, and Karsa, bringing its total coverage to over 90 sources across the African exchange market. The expansion gives fintechs, neobanks, treasury teams, and cross-border businesses a wider, more accurate view of where African currencies are trading in real time, reducing the blind spots that come from relying on a handful of providers. For pricing teams, remittance operators, and businesses moving money across borders, the rate that matters is rarely a single number; it’s the…

Standard Bank Group, Africa’s largest bank by assets, is in discussions to acquire a stake in OPay before the Nigerian fintech company completes its planned listing on a US stock exchange, according to Bloomberg. The South African banking giant aims to become a shareholder ahead of what is expected to be one of the most significant African fintech IPOs in recent memory. OPay, which is backed by SoftBank and Sequoia Capital, has been collaborating with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase to prepare for a New York listing, targeting a valuation of approximately $4 billion. This is double the $2…

Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityTL;DR Spotify’s Running Mode is now available on Android, giving Premium users custom playlists tailored to their running workouts. Users can customize workouts, genres, music discovery and BPM, with options for familiar songs, new music, Beat Matching and optional Audio Coaching. Running Mode is available in select markets, including Canada and the US, but requires a Spotify Premium subscription. I try to work out at the gym at least four days a week, and I know the struggle of finding the right music can sometimes be harder than the lifts. Some days I need an energetic…

Nathaniel Micklem, co-head of emerging market alternative credit at Ninety One** For the best experience, download the free Africa Private Equity News app Android | iOS **Ninety One has announced the final close of its Africa Credit Opportunities Fund 3 (ACO3 Fund). The ACO3 Fund closed with $404 million (including leverage) in commitments from institutional investors including development finance institutions, pension funds, and family offices across Africa, Europe, the UK, the US and Canada.The ACO3 Fund invests mainly in senior secured private credit opportunities. It provides flexible financing to businesses and critical infrastructure projects across Africa and other emerging markets.…

Lusaka — Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has been re-elected for a second five-year term in the elections held on August 13 (see Fides, 13/8/2026). Hichilema won with 2,965,326 votes, representing 60.49% of the 4,902,050 valid votes cast. His main challenger, Brian Mundubile, received approximately 1,856,217 votes, equal to 37.87% of the total. Mundubile was forced into exile after being accused of taking part in an alleged plot to stage an armed insurrection. At least ten prominent figures associated with Mundubile’s political camp have been arrested, including his spokesperson, George Chisanga, and Patrick Mwansa, the husband of former President Edgar Lungu’s…