Digital Economy - Charge Africa

A war far away can switch off your apps: here’s why

African apps and data centres abroad: illustration of a phone loading an app, linked by a broken cable to server racks

Many African apps run on data centres and cables outside the continent. When wars hit those places, services here slow down or stop.

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November 12, 2026

African apps and data centres abroad: illustration of a phone loading an app, linked by a broken cable to server racks

A war far away can switch off your apps: here’s why

Many African apps run on data centres and cables outside the continent. When wars hit…

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November 12, 2026

Games like Lagos Life: PH Lifestyle, a Port Harcourt life game, showing a 3D cutaway of a furnished flat.

Games like Lagos Life: the best-looking ones, and who built them

We opened 12 games that followed Lagos Life. Here are the best-looking ones, who built…

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November 12, 2026

Raenest buys Remitise: illustration of a Lagos skyline linked by an arc to a London skyline with a clock tower

Nigerian fintech Raenest buys UK payments firm Remitise

Raenest has bought 100% of Remitise, an FCA-registered UK payments company, giving it…

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November 12, 2026

Kenya VAT on digital payments: illustration of a card terminal, a phone paying by tap and a stack of coins

Kenya now taxes the fee behind your card and phone payments

Kenya now charges 16% VAT on the fees behind card and digital merchant payments.…

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November 12, 2026