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Kenya’s Court of Appeal struck down criminal penalties for publishing “false information” online, a decision that weakens a cybercrime law rights groups say has been used to arrest bloggers, journalists, and social media users since 2018.
In a ruling delivered in Nairobi on Friday, a three-judge bench invalidated Sections 22 and 23 of the
African fintech startups spent the last decade building systems to stop fake users from opening accounts. But the real threat may already be inside their platforms.
In a single month in 2025, one fraud syndicate used 100 stolen faces to launch over 160,000 verification attacks across Africa’s fintech platforms, according to a
After two years of coordinated reforms, Nigeria has cleared one of the biggest reputational hurdles in its financial history. The CBN’s new fintech report signals what comes next: not just cleaning up, but leading the line.
For years, the most expensive cost for many Nigerian fintechs was not a licensing fee or a compliance audit. It was the reputational ta...
The Oversight Labs, a Kenyan digital rights group, has asked the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) to investigate whether footage captured by Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses is being used unlawfully to train artificial intelligence systems.
The request adds regulatory pressure on the global data supply chain that routes AI training work through Nairobi. ...
Chukwuemeka Afigbo is making a long-term bet: Africa’s most ambitious technologists are not constrained by a shortage of ideas, but by a shortage of structured pathways. He is the convener of the Africa Deep Tech Foundation (ADTF) and a former developer programs leader at Google and Meta.
His thesis is straightforward: build those pathways—even imperfectly—and deep ...