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Millions of people across Africa live beyond the reach of mobile networks. Two companies are now betting they can fix that from space.

AXIAN Telecom, parent of pan-African telecom group Yas, has announced a partnership with AST SpaceMobile to deliver what both companies are calling Africa's first direct-to-device satellite broadband service. The deal means voice calls, ...


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Two years of punishment from the naira's collapse may finally be loosening their grip on Dangote Sugar Refinery.

The Lagos-based sugar refiner published its audited 2025 results this week, and the numbers tell a story of a company that has been hit hard but is learning to absorb the blows. Net loss narrowed to N64.1 billion ($41.7 million) from N192.6 billion ($125.2 mi...


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Elon Musk has been talking about turning X into a financial platform for years. This week, it stopped being just talk.

X Money, the long-gestating payments feature embedded inside Musk's social media platform, has entered limited external beta testing, with early screenshots revealing a consumer product that looks more like a polished fintech app than a side experiment....


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Adidas wants one of Africa's richest men to run its boardroom.

The German sportswear giant is looking to replace supervisory board chairman Thomas Rabe with Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris, a long-standing board member and one of the company's largest shareholders. The move, if confirmed, would hand Sawiris one of the most prominent corporate chairmanships in global...


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African Rainbow Minerals delivered a sharp turnaround in the first half of its 2026 financial year, swinging back to R1.9 billion ($113.9 million) in operating profit after posting a R409 million ($24.5 million) operating loss in the same period a year earlier — a result that signals the miner is gaining traction after a bruising stretch of weak commodity prices and rising co...


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