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TechCabal is the leading technology publication in Africa covering startups and the digital economy. It provides insightful reporting on innovation and investment trends serving as the premier voice for the African tech ecosystem.

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Aga Khan’s exit hands East Africa’s largest news publisher to Tanzanian billionaire

The deal shifts control of one of East Africa’s most influential media groups at a time when publishers across the continent are racing to turn large online audiences

2026/03/11

Decide AI doesn’t want to be ChatGPT. It just wants to fix your spreadsheets

The system runs a preprocessing stage that attempts to interpret the file structure to identify sheets, headers, tables, formulas, and relationships between parts

2026/03/11

Startups in DR Congo are building Africa’s overlooked digital frontier

Kinshasa’s tech ecosystem barely registers on Africa’s venture map. But beneath the numbers, new infrastructure, ambitious founders, and policy reforms are quietly

2026/03/10

Kenya’s parliament committees back $1.5 billion Safaricom stake sale

Lawmakers argued that directing the funds toward infrastructure investment would help ease fiscal pressure while financing large-scale development projects.

2026/03/10

WhatsApp research platform Yazi raises first institutional round at $1.6M valuation

The round was led by 3 Capital Ventures (3CV), the South African early-stage venture firm spun out of Allan Gray, an investment management firm.

2026/03/10

Ghana’s new crypto law gets its first test with an 11-company sandbox

The sandbox is Ghana's first operational step since it passed the Virtual Asset Service Providers Act (2025) into law in December 2025. The Act grants legal status

2026/03/10

CcHUB says it deployed $4.18 million in grants in 2025

CcHUB's 2025 impact report reveals that every dollar in the $4.18 million it deployed attracted five dollars in external investment for its startups.

2026/03/10

68% of Nigeria’s 2025 music streaming was led by three companies

Sony trailed third at 541.8 million streams and roughly 14%, carried largely by Tems and Shallipopi through subsidiary label Since '93.

2026/03/10

Nigeria’s Prembly launches open-source database to fight African fraud

Financial institutions, fintechs, banks, and other businesses detect and prevent fraudulent activity with Prembly's new open-source fraud intelligence bank.

2026/03/10

Kenya’s taxman turns to surveillance tech to root out customs corruption

From Tuesday, officers at Kenya’s main airport will begin wearing the cameras as part of a wider push by the taxman to clamp down on bribery and collusion schemes

2026/03/10