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MTN Mobile Money (U) Limited has announced that Managing Director Richard Yego will step down at the end of February 2026 after four years at the helm, as the company maintains momentum in Uganda and across MTN MoMo’s expanding African fintech footprint.

Airtel Africa continues its rapid expansion across the continent, growing its customer base by 10% and cementing Airtel Money as a fintech powerhouse with over 52 million subscribers and $210 billion in annualised transaction value.

MTN Rwanda has deepened its partnership with the government by embedding its Digital Skills for Digital Jobs platform into the national education system. The move positions Rwanda as a regional leader in digital skills development while advancing MTN’s Africa-wide ambition to train one million young people by 2025.

MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has joined the board of Dangote Fertiliser as Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, prepares the agribusiness unit for expansion and a planned listing on the Nigerian Exchange.

Together, the teams say they will deliver AI at startup speed and global scale to help customers run higher performing businesses.

Amazon has rolled out its AI-powered Amazon Lens feature in South Africa, allowing shoppers to search using images and barcodes as the company deepens its push to dominate Africa’s fast-growing e-commerce market

Kenya’s data regulator has confirmed the full deletion of Worldcoin-linked biometric data, marking a decisive end to the country’s 2023 crackdown on “biometrics-for-tokens” models and setting a tougher compliance benchmark for digital identity, fintech and AI firms operating in Africa.

Cloud-native applications have transformed the way businesses operate, enabling faster innovation, greater agility, and enhanced scalability. Yet, with this evolution comes an equally complex security landscape. Traditional security approaches, which rely on fragmented tools and point solutions, are increasingly insufficient on their own, as while many organisations still combine best-of-breed tools, the trend is toward more consolidated platforms. The reality is that modern

Kemi Omotosho takes the reins at MultiChoice Nigeria as the pay-TV giant faces rising competition, evolving viewer habits, and the task of strengthening its Canal+ partnership across one of Africa’s largest media markets.

Kemi Omotosho takes the reins at MultiChoice Nigeria as the pay-TV giant faces rising competition, evolving viewer habits, and the task of strengthening its Canal+ partnership across one of Africa’s largest media markets.