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Beijing horse Zambia’s recent cancellation of RightsCon at the eleventh hour highlights China’s influence in Africa and how the economic giant is unforgiving in protecting its strategic and geopolitical interests. Chinese Ambassador to Zambia Han Jing (L) and Zambian finance minister Situmbeko Musokotwane during a signing ceremony of a development cooperation agreement in Lusaka, Zambia, on 24 April 2026. © Martin Mbangweta/Xinhua via AFP Published on June 12, 2026 at 16:30 pm (GMT +1) Zambia’s last-minute postponement of RightsCon, one of the world’s largest gatherings on digital rights and internet freedom, exposed the difficult balancing act many African governments face…
Partner Content: Africa’s Business Heroes Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH), the flagship philanthropic initiative of the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Philanthropy, has unveiled its 2026 Top 100 entrepreneurs, selected from more than 24,000 applications from all 54 African countries. For the first time in ABH’s history, the competition has expanded its first round of finalists from a Top 50 to a Top 100 cohort, creating more visibility and opportunity for entrepreneurs across regions, sectors, and business models. The expansion reflects the growing depth, competitiveness, and commercial maturity of African entrepreneurship as ABH approaches its 10-year milestone. The 2026 Top 100…
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The Raydium AMM V3 exploit drained roughly $1.34 million from a phased-out program tied to five pools outside the current product path, unsupported by Raydium’s UI or SDK, and inaccessible to current users.The exploit hit legacy DeFi contracts and infrastructure that nobody treated as a live attack surface, exposing a lifecycle-management failure that extends well beyond one Solana decentralized exchange.The category nobody is countingPublic exploit reports have found at least eight clear cases since March 2025 in which deprecated, obsolete, or legacy DeFi contracts became the attack surface, totaling roughly $10.8 million in losses.Extending the definition to include broader legacy-vault…
A Nigerian business can send an email to a supplier in China in seconds. But paying that supplier can take days. Tomiwa “Aleph” Lasebikan encountered that disconnect repeatedly as the head of product at Y Combinator-backed crypto startup Helicarrier, which he co-founded after leaving Microsoft in 2018. Customers who came to the company for crypto services often had a more practical problem: receiving dollars, paying overseas suppliers, and moving money across borders. Now Lasebikan is betting stablecoins can help solve it. His new startup, Daya, is building a payments platform that helps businesses access dollar liquidity, settle international transactions, and…
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In Europe, the payments infrastructure is going through one of its biggest transitions in decades. Instant payments are becoming the default. With the advent of ISO 20022, richer data gets embedded into every transaction. Across the continent, AML and sanctions controls are tightening, with regulators demanding real-time accountability rather than post-facto reporting. It’s a growing challenge for banks, PSPs, and enterprises. These entities are learning that it’s not just about processing payments faster, but it’s about orchestrating payments across systems, rails, and jurisdictions while staying on the right side of compliance rules. Enter Traderoot’s Unified Integration Platform (UIP), which can…
In this episode of the Business Success Podcast, Dr Frances Wright is joined by Robert Beighton and Muhsinah Khan from PwC’s Deal Strategy team to discuss how PwC Deals supports clients in their decision making process to drive both organic and inorganic growth.
Editor’s note: This article is the first in a three-part series on the state of venture investment to Black-founded startups in 2026. Driving these reports is data from Crunchbase’s Diversity Spotlight feature, which offers insight into diversity in startups’ and investment firms’ leadership teams. Parts 2 and 3 in this series will be published in June. The share of U.S. venture funding going to companies with Black founders in 2025 remained low, even as overall startup investment ticked slightly higher, Crunchbase data shows. Only around $942 million — or just 0.32% of total U.S. venture funding — went to startups…
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