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Flutterwave Obtains Payment Institution License in Senegal

Pan-African payment infrastructure company Flutterwave has received authorization from Senegalese regulators to operate...

ABA EditorialApr 12, 2026Senegal
News

African Development Bank Launches Electricity Regulatory Index 2024 at Africa Energy Forum in Cape Town

The African Development Bank used its presence at the 27th African Energy Forum to launch its flagship Electricity...

ABA EditorialApr 12, 2026South Africa
News

African Leaders Endorse Dar es Salaam Declaration at Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit

Twelve African governments unveiled National Energy Compacts at the Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit in Dar es Salaam...

ABA EditorialApr 12, 2026Tanzania
Market Report

Mini-Grids in Africa 2026: The Electrification Middle Ground Caught Between Ambition and Tariffs

Mini-grids occupy the middle space between grid extension and standalone solar: community-scale generation systems that...

ABA EditorialApr 12, 2026
Market Report

Off-Grid Solar and Solar Home Systems in Africa 2026: The PAYG Sector at Maturity

Seven operators (Sun King, Zola Electric, M-KOPA, Bboxx, d.light, Engie Energy Access, and Lumos) account for...

ABA EditorialApr 12, 2026Kenya
Market Report

African Renewable Energy Capacity 2026: 4.5 GW of New Solar in One Year, and the Developers Building It

Africa deployed approximately 4.5 gigawatts of new solar capacity in 2025, representing 54 percent growth over the...

ABA EditorialApr 12, 2026
Market Report

State of African Energy 2026: Mission 300, the 600 Million Gap, and the Financing That Has to Close It

Approximately 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa lacked access to electricity as Mission 300 entered its second...

ABA EditorialApr 12, 2026
Case Study

Julaya: The BCEAO-Licensed B2B Payment Platform Rebuilding Francophone West African Finance

Julaya was founded to solve a specific problem in Cote d'Ivoire: why African businesses could not process B2B payments...

ABA EditorialApr 12, 2026Cote d'Ivoire
Case Study

Turaco: Building Microinsurance at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Turaco was founded to solve a specific problem: how to provide affordable insurance to low-income customers who had...

ABA EditorialApr 12, 2026Kenya
Case Study

Chari: How a Moroccan Husband-and-Wife Team Built a Merchant Super-App From Casablanca

Chari was founded in early 2020 by Ismael Belkhayat and Sophia Alj, a husband-and-wife team with backgrounds at BCG and...

ABA EditorialApr 12, 2026Morocco
Case Study

Smile ID: Building Pan-African KYC Infrastructure From Scratch

Smile ID was founded in 2017 by Mark Straub and William Bares with a seemingly impossible goal: build a single identity...

ABA EditorialApr 12, 2026Kenya
Case Study

Moniepoint: From TeamApt Bank Software to Africa's Largest SME Banking Unicorn

Moniepoint was founded in 2015 as TeamApt by Tosin Eniolorunda and Felix Ike, two former Interswitch engineers. It...

ABA EditorialApr 12, 2026Nigeria