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Market Report

African Transmission and Power Pools 2026: WAPP, EAPP, SAPP, and the Regional Integration Opportunity

Africa's regional power pools (WAPP in West Africa, EAPP in Eastern Africa, SAPP in Southern Africa) coordinate...

ABA EditorialJan 22, 2026
Market Report

African EdTech Content Distribution and Device Access 2026: Starlink, the Giga Initiative, and the Infrastructure Layer

Content distribution and device access are the infrastructure layer on which all African edtech interventions depend...

ABA EditorialJan 20, 2026
Market Report

African Trade Finance and Supply Chain Financing 2026: The USD 120 Billion Gap, Afreximbank, and the Emerging Digital Layer

African trade finance faces a gap estimated at approximately USD 120 billion annually, limiting the ability of...

ABA EditorialJan 18, 2026Egypt
Market Report

African Maternal and Child Health Technology 2026: The Avoidable Mortality Gap and the Community Health Worker Digital Layer

Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for approximately 70 percent of global maternal deaths despite having a smaller share of...

ABA EditorialJan 14, 2026
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 EditorialJan 11, 2026
Market Report

African Wealthtech: How PiggyVest, Cowrywise, Bamboo, and Risevest Opened Retail Investing to a Generation

PiggyVest has over 7 million users saving an average of NGN 25,000 every second as of 2024. Bamboo has over 500,000...

ABA EditorialJan 11, 2026Nigeria
Market Report

Climate-Smart Agriculture and Weather-Index Insurance in Africa 2026: Pula's 20 Million Farmers and the Carbon Opportunity

Climate change has added severe uncertainty to African rainfall patterns, threatening smallholder yields and...

ABA EditorialJan 6, 2026
Market Report

African Neobanks in 2026: From Startup Disruptors to Fully Licensed Banks

Kuda's transaction volume exceeded NGN 14 trillion in 2025. FairMoney has over 6 million users and paid NGN 7 billion...

ABA EditorialJan 5, 2026Nigeria
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National Payment Switches in Africa: NIBSS, PesaLink, GhIPSS, and the Rails Beneath the Fintech Boom

Nigeria's NIBSS Instant Payments powers over 90 percent of Nigerian interbank transfers and processed over USD 1...

ABA EditorialDec 27, 2025Nigeria
Market Report

PAPSS and the Architecture of African Payment Sovereignty

In June and July 2025, PAPSS launched two new products: PAPSSCARD (Africa's first continental card scheme) and PAPSS...

ABA EditorialDec 25, 2025Nigeria
Market Report

Digital Lending and Alternative Credit Scoring in Africa: After the Easy Money Ended

Nigeria has over 200 licensed digital lending platforms as of 2025. Kenya's M-Shwari controls roughly 34 percent of the...

ABA EditorialDec 18, 2025Nigeria
Market Report

African Utility-Scale IPP Market 2026: ACWA Power, Scatec, Globeleq, and the Private Generation Acceleration

Independent power producers have become the primary vehicle for utility-scale generation expansion across Africa, with...

ABA EditorialDec 15, 2025