AI
Creating Environments for Effective AI Compliance: The EU Digital Omnibus Case
The EU AI Act, adopted in May 2024, became the world's first comprehensive, enforceable law on AI arriving roughly a yea...
Jul 14, 202611 min read
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Trade
China’s Zero Tariff Regime and the Reconfiguration of Africa’s Global Trade Partnerships
On 14 February, Xi Jinping announced in his congratulatory message to the 39th African Union Summit that China will, eff...
Feb 25, 20264 min read
Policy Updates
Tanzania’s Draft Cloud Computing Guidelines for Financial Service Providers
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Feb 9, 20262 min read
Policy Updates
The Bank of Ghana Designates Digital Credit Services as a Non-Bank Financial Service
The Bank of Ghana has formally recognized Digital Credit Services as a Non-Bank Financial Service under the First Schedu...
Oct 6, 20253 min read
Data Privacy
Egypt’s 2025 Open Data Policy
The Egyptian Government has taken a major step toward digital transformation and transparency with the release of its&nb...
Oct 13, 20253 min read
Data Privacy
Kenya Launches National Data Governance Policy Drafting
Kenya has officially begun drafting its first National Data Governance Policy, a bold step toward treating data as a tru...
Sep 1, 20252 min read
Policy Updates
Kenya Undertakes Stakeholder Consultations on Accession to the Malabo Convention
Kenya is taking a bold step toward shaping the future of its digital landscape. Following Cabinet approval, the Office o...
Nov 3, 20253 min read
Fintech
Paving the way for a borderless Africa: How COMESA’s digital payment revolution could transform regional trade
In a bold and visionary move to spark economic growth and prosperity across the continent, Common Market for Eastern and...
Nov 10, 20253 min read
Policy Updates
How judicial reasoning is shaping Kenya’s digital tax policy: Sendy's case study
In Kenya’s bustling digital economy, apps have become the new marketplaces, algorithms the new dispatchers and data the ...
Sep 15, 20255 min read
Policy Updates
From strategy to action: Review of the “State of AI Policy in Africa 2025” report
The State of AI Policy in Africa 2025 report by Gideon Onunwa and Mo Shehu is a landmark analysis of how far Africa...
Nov 17, 20257 min read
Policy Updates
OpenAI’s new policy on ChatGPT’s use for professional services
Imagine the average citizen, for whom every dollar counts, experiencing a troubling medical symptom. Instead of navigati...
Jan 19, 20263 min read
Policy Updates
Operationalizing Data Governance in Africa with the RICE Framework
In the global discourse on data governance, Africa often occupies a paradoxical space. It is simultaneously a continent ...
Sep 22, 20255 min read
Policy Updates
Google and the Ugandan Personal Data Protection Office: Africa's evolving data governance landscape
The architecture of the global digital economy is fundamentally built on the cross-border flow of data, a domain long go...
Jan 26, 20265 min read
Policy Updates
Architecting trust and sovereignty - The AU Data Policy Framework as Africa's blueprint for a just data economy
In the global race to harness the 21st century's most valuable resource, data, Africa is not merely catching up. With th...
Sep 29, 20255 min read
Policy Updates
Ghana Launches Privacy Seal
Ghana has taken a pioneering step in strengthening digital trust and data sovereignty with the official launch of the st...
Oct 27, 20251 min read
Policy Updates
African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
Imagine a single digital market where a payment processed in Lagos is received instantly in Nairobi, where an entreprene...
Feb 14, 20264 min read
Data Privacy
Data Trusts: Fiduciary stewardship as a mechanism for empowering data subjects and fostering responsible innovation
To comprehend the concept of a data trust, one must first understand its foundational legal analogue: The trust. In law,...
Jan 26, 20265 min read
AI
South Korea’s AI Regulation and the Future of Global AI Governance
South Korea’s AI Regulation and the Future of Global AI Governance
Feb 2, 20265 min read
Policy Updates
AGOA's One-Year Lifeline
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), a cornerstone of U.S.-Africa trade relations since 2000, has been granted...
Oct 3, 20253 min read
AI
Navigating the Evolving Landscape of AI Regulation: From the EU's AI Act to Global Implications
The European Union’s AI Act and the South Korea AI Basic Act stand as the world’s first comprehensiv...
Feb 16, 20266 min read
Technology and Innovation
The Monarch Africa Dataset by Africa Compute Fund
The Africa Compute Fund (ACF), which aims to provide scalable compute resources across the continent, has announced a ma...
Feb 14, 20262 min read
Technology and Innovation
Bridging AI ambition with Environmental Governance in National Policies
The surge of artificial intelligence(AI) promises a future of unparalleled economic growth and efficiency. Its core...
Feb 9, 20265 min read
Fintech
Data Protection and Open Banking in Emerging Markets
Rapid technological advancement has fundamentally transformed the global financial ecosystem. The long-standing notion t...
Aug 4, 202511 min read
Geopolitics
European Union’s green $13.3 billion investment meets South Africa’s strategic crossroads
In the high-stakes arena of international relations, investments rarely flow in a vacuum, they follow strategy, not sent...
Oct 20, 20253 min read
Geopolitics
The UAE to invest $1 billion in AI in Africa.
While the G20 summit was marked by a notable diplomatic chill between the United States and South Africa, another, the U...
Nov 24, 20252 min read
Digital Rights
The Kenya-U.S. Health Cooperation Framework of 2025
On 4th December 2025, Kenya and the U.S.A signed the Kenya-United States Health Cooperation Framework. This ag...
Dec 15, 20255 min read
Digital Rights
Safeguarding the Digital Consumer: A Regulatory Imperative for the Digital Age
The digital economy has fundamentally transformed how individuals interact with markets, governments, and one another. T...
Feb 2, 20266 min read
Business
Meta Invests in Safaricom’s $23 Million Undersea Fibre-Optic Cable Project
Meta Platforms, through its Irish subsidiary Edge Network Services Ltd., has taken a stake in Safaricom’s $23 million un...
Dec 22, 20252 min read
Business
Ensuring Proportionality in Data Privacy and Innovation
Are data privacy laws hindering innovation?Data has been called the "new oil" of the digital economy, powering everythin...
Dec 29, 20255 min read
Business
AGOA at a Crossroads: Why Africa Needs More Than a One-Year Lifeline
When the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) was signed into law in May 2000, it was hailed as a historic step in ...
Jan 12, 20264 min read
Business
Africa’s Economic Momentum: Why Investors Should Be Paying Attention
Africa’s economic narrative is shifting. Once overshadowed by debt burdens, inflationary pressures and global shocks, th...
Dec 1, 20253 min read
Business
Regional Integration for Technological Advancement in Africa
Africa stands at a pivotal moment in its development trajectory. The continent is young, connected, and increasingly dig...
Jan 5, 20269 min read