What digital is worth: jobs, e-commerce, taxation, investment.
Dossier-TekPaying for a subscription, a plane ticket or a purchase on a foreign website without a bank account: that is the promise of virtual cards linked to mobile money. Wave has launched its own with Visa and Ecobank in Senegal. How they work, the competitors, the limits and what is at stake: our Dossier-Tek.
AnalysisITU, WIPO, WTO: a delegation of African decision-makers spent four days touring the institutions where digital standards are set. The main lesson: whoever writes today’s standards shapes tomorrow’s markets.
AnalysisThe first bank in East and Central Africa to become a direct participant in China’s yuan payment system, Bank of Kigali promises faster, cheaper settlements with Rwanda’s top trading partner.
AnalysisA pilot country in a Smart Africa programme alongside Kenya and Lesotho, Senegal has approved its national plan for making use of data. The goal: move from scattered, unused data to concrete services, notably through AI.
ReportA 65-inch interactive board, a laptop for the teacher, digitised content and more than 62,000 teachers trained: the programme’s first phase is complete in all 47 counties. The second is due to cover more than 21,000 schools.
Senegal’s Social Security Fund pays several benefits directly into the Wave accounts of beneficiaries who request it. Here is which ones, and how to sign up.
AnalysisThe Dangote refinery is raising ₦2.15 trillion on the Lagos stock exchange. A small share of subscriptions goes through tokens on the Solana and Base blockchains. Public data shows a modest success, and legal questions that remain open.
In Seoul, 45 African countries and the African Development Bank adopted a 2027–2028 action plan with Korea. On the agenda: training, data centres and cloud credits for start-ups.
The budget of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy devotes nearly 60% of its funds to investment: sovereign cloud, digital identity, network coverage and online public services.