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TLG Capital Fund Reaches $120 Million Second Close
In the year since the fund’s $75 million first close in April 2025, AGIF II has already invested in nine SMEs across seven countries and seven sectors, with debt facilities ranging from $5 million to $15 million to each company.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Namibia Draws a Line as Starlink Faces Fresh Regulatory Roadblock
Southern African nation reinforces local ownership rules, delaying Elon Musk’s satellite internet ambitions and highlighting a broader debate over foreign investment in Africa’s telecom sector.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Livelihoods Launches €150 Million Fund to Support Nature-Based Climate Projects
Over a 25-year period, the fund aims to sequester or avoid between 7 million and 10 million tons of CO₂.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global
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The AI-Powered World Cup Runs on Thousands of Data Workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
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- Technology
- Region
- Global
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IFC Backs CrossBoundary Access with US $10 Million Equity Investment
This investment supports the continued construction and expansion of CrossBoundary Access’s portfolio of distributed renewable energy assets, including mini-grids, battery-as-a-service (BaaS), and adjacent technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Energy, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WhatsApp Gets New Chief as Meta Taps India’s CRED Founder Kunal Shah and Invests $900 Million in Startup
India has emerged as a key battleground for Meta’s ambitions in business messaging and digital payments, areas seen as critical to WhatsApp’s next phase of growth.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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After the Grant Ends: Why Rural Water Utilities Fail — And What We Learned from Building One
For decades, rural water projects in low- and middle-income countries have followed a familiar pattern: Infrastructure is built, communities are trained, a ribbon is cut — and within a few years, the system stops working. After leading the early operations of Max TapWater, a social enterprise providing piped water in rural Bangladesh, Saif Islam identified a fundamental reason for these failures: Investment continues to prioritize capital infrastructure over the operational and maintenance budget needed to sustain it. He explores this challenge, and shares other lessons he has learned about how rural water facilities can sustain operations beyond the grant period.
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Analysis: Beyond the Signal: Why Africa’s Next Telecom Era Will Be Built Beneath the Surface
The subsea cable buildout underway represents the most significant transformation in the continent’s digital infrastructure since mobile telephony arrived in the 1990s. But capacity without distribution remains an abstraction; redundancy without policy coordination remains a vulnerability.
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- Technology, Telecommunications
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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