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Γεια σου, Victoria from Techpoint here, Here’s what I’ve got for you today: Kenya wants one short code for everyone AI is coming for Africa’s radiology gap ARC Ride raises $33.3M to bet big on electric bikes Algeria opens tender for 3,000 areas Kenya wants one short code for everyone If you’ve ever seen a bank use one USSD code on Safaricom and another on Airtel, that could soon become a thing of the past. Kenya’s Communications Authority (CA) has introduced a new framework that changes how short codes are allocated, moving from an operator-based system to a service-based one.…

There was a time when I loved Amazon Fire Tablets. Modding them and repurposing them is a hobby of mine. One reason, aside from curiosity (or the old standby of “because I can”) is that Fire OS has just been getting progressively worse. So I’m fighting back the best way I know how: with knowledge and a few nifty power-user tricks. Fire OS is much worse than it used to be What happens when your entire support system is ads I never felt that Fire OS was all that bad. Sure, the ads were a pain, and it was a…

AloFor travel eSIM platform. Image courtesy of AloFor. International mobile connectivity used to revolve around a familiar set of choices: activate an operator roaming package before departure, accept pay-as-you-go roaming charges, or buy a physical SIM card after landing. The rapid expansion of eSIM is adding another layer to that market. Travellers can increasingly select, purchase and install mobile-data connectivity digitally before reaching their destination, changing not only the technology inside the phone but also the way international connectivity is distributed and sold. For African travellers and businesses, the implications extend beyond convenience. Business travel, tourism, diaspora movement, international study…

** For the best experience, download the free Africa Private Equity News app Android | iOS **CDG Invest Growth has invested in Little Mamma Group through its Capmezzanine V fund.Little Mamma is a Moroccan restaurant group operating the Little Mamma, Big Nonna, Duo Café, Zay Paratha and Lucciano’s brands. The transaction gives Capmezzanine V a minority stake in ATA Value Capital, the holding company of Little Mamma Group.This investment will support Little Mamma Group’s next phase of growth, with a focus on expanding its existing brands, launching new restaurant concepts and further strengthening its vertical integration.The transaction was completed on…

Grindstone Ventures has launched a R500m venture fund targeting high-growth, technology-enabled African businesses from Seed through Series A, with a focus on addressing the funding gap between early commercial validation and institutional-scale investment.Thandiwe Maqetuka, Keet van Zyl, and Catherine Young | image suppliedLed by Thandiwe Maqetuka, the fund has been established in partnership with Knife Capital and Thinkroom. It follows the deployment of Grindstone Ventures Fund I, which invested in seven portfolio companies and helped catalyse further seed investment from South African funders.The new fund is targeting a first close of R150m and plans to build a portfolio of 15…

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StablecoinX appointed former Franklin Templeton digital asset executive Christopher Jensen as CEO, putting him in charge of the largest corporate holder of Ethena’s ENA token.Jensen succeeds Ted Chen, who led StablecoinX through its public listing in June and will remain chairman of the company’s board.StablecoinX, which trades on Nasdaq under the ticker USDE, is a publicly listed company focused on the Ethena ecosystem. Ethena issues USDe, a synthetic dollar that ranks as the fifth-largest stablecoin with nearly $4.4 billion in circulation, according to DefiLlama data. ENA, Ethena’s governance token, gives holders voting rights over changes to the protocol.StablecoinX holds about…

For years, Sheriff Issaka kept running into the same problem while building language technology for Africa: there was not enough data. The data needed to train systems for African languages was scarce, and much of what was available was not good enough. That problem changed what African Languages Lab, the AI research and deployment company Issaka founded in 2020, spent its time doing. Instead of building systems only with the available data, the company began collecting the data it could not find. The company says it has since built the largest collection of African-language data in existence, covering more than…

Every website peaks on launch day and slowly drifts from there, not because it breaks, but because nobody has time to keep it current. Autonomous websites, continuously optimized by agents after launch, aim to change that. But take the idea seriously, and you quickly run into a problem that has nothing to do with technology: almost nobody wants a website that changes entirely on its own. Pierre Burgy shares what they learned building for full website autonomy and the deeper design problem they uncovered along the way.Every website is at its best the day it ships. The final branch merges,…

** For the best experience, download the free Africa Private Equity News app Android | iOS **Africa Jobs Fund has invested in Velocity, a labour mobility company that trains African nurses in German and places them in jobs at German hospitals.The investment will support Velocity’s expansion into Malawi and Zambia.Africa Jobs Fund seeks to invest in companies that can create jobs at scale for Africans and raise incomes. It focuses on two areas: international labour mobility and export manufacturing.Velocity was founded by Lalit Kumar, Siddharth Gusain and Betty Chelangat, and launched in Kenya in June 2025.The company takes qualified nurses,…