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Edition Nº 46 · AIThe World Bank wants to rent GPUs to African governments, and names Cassava and Nvidia as partners
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
Edition Nº 45 · BankingNedbank completes its takeover of 66% of NCBA, and the shares stop trading on Wednesday
Monday, 19 October 2026
Edition Nº 44 · MobilityTesla finally shows the Roadster, nine years late, with thrusters and a 2028 production date
Friday, 16 October 2026Also in Edition Nº 46
- Money market funds now average 9.3%, and savers are moving to riskier funds
- Chrome may have put a 4GB AI model on your laptop, and deleting the folder will not keep it off
- TECNO's Spark 50C has a smaller battery and slower charging than the Spark 40C
- Pesapal stretches RACK from payments into stock and sales software for shops and restaurants
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Edition Nº 46 · 5 stories
The World Bank wants to rent GPUs to African governments, and names Cassava and Nvidia as partners
- Money market funds now average 9.3%, and savers are moving to riskier funds
- Chrome may have put a 4GB AI model on your laptop, and deleting the folder will not keep it off
- TECNO's Spark 50C has a smaller battery and slower charging than the Spark 40C
The Daily Savannah · Tuesday, 20 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 45 · 5 stories
Nedbank completes its takeover of 66% of NCBA, and the shares stop trading on Wednesday
- Neural Labs and Me-Nasoma win Meta's Nairobi pitchathon
- Safaricom's cheaper M-Pesa fees for small businesses end on 31 October
- Kenya climbs to fifth in Absa's ranking of Africa's financial markets
The Daily Savannah · Monday, 19 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 44 · 5 stories
Tesla finally shows the Roadster, nine years late, with thrusters and a 2028 production date
- A Senate committee rejects Kenya's AI Bill as too harsh on a young industry
- Ten Kenyan AI startups pitch to Meta in Nairobi today for two US$5,000 prizes
- Her Startup reopens for African women founders: training, a stipend and a US$5,000 loan that is not a grant
The Daily Savannah · Friday, 16 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 43 · 5 stories
Murang'a says the national government switched off its hospital records system; the Health Ministry says it never controlled it
- Kenyan-founded Satlyt raises US$8 million to run AI on satellites, but the NASA headline is mostly not cash
- Gemini 4 Argon is live, and the cheapest way to use it in Kenya is KES 3,700 a month
- Bolt Plus costs KSh 280 a month, and a rider has to spend KSh 5,600 to earn that back
The Daily Savannah · Thursday, 15 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 42 · 5 stories
Kenya recorded 11.12 billion cyber threat events in a year, up 29%, and small businesses are the soft target
- KEPSA tells Parliament to reject the Bill that would put a meter on home internet
- The CMA wants independent risk ratings on money market funds and the firms that run them
- TECNO and Infinix's parent Transsion raises about US$390 million in Hong Kong, mostly for AI and marketing
The Daily Savannah · Wednesday, 14 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 41 · 4 stories
The CA wants your comments on how satellite operators get licensed in Kenya
- Treasury says an IMF review mission is due in December — a new programme is still unresolved
- Some WhatsApp users are deleting their usernames and going back to phone numbers
- Getty Images plans a prepackaged Chapter 11 as AI disrupts stock photography
The Daily Savannah · Tuesday, 13 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 40 · 5 stories
Microsoft's Africa Development Centre in Nairobi is reportedly closing
- Dangote refinery GDRs: the minimum drops from KES 107,000 to KES 535 — offer closes tomorrow
- KRA beats its September customs target by KES 965 million
- PwC struggles to sell Koko's carbon credits, and creditors face steep losses
The Daily Savannah · Monday, 12 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 39 · 3 stories
Why tech companies keep struggling to operate in Kenya
- Google Wallet tap-to-pay is not available in Kenya, despite a DTB pilot post
- GirlCode hackathon winner Naulisako wants to fix fare tracking for matatu owners
The Daily Savannah · Friday, 9 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 38 · 3 stories
Cloud9 raises US$500,000 from Alliance to expand cross-border payments
- PawaPay gets a Bank of Mozambique licence to onboard merchants directly
- Spotify says audiobooks reach Kenya by year-end — price and hours still unknown
The Daily Savannah · Thursday, 8 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 37 · 4 stories
Safaricom launches Ziidi Shari'ah, an Islamic money market fund on M-PESA
- The CA tells MPs how a recycled number is meant to be handled
- Dan Kwach returns to Cassava for its AI data centre push
- Equity's Finserve is piloting EMMA, a new mobile money wallet — without a price list
The Daily Savannah · Wednesday, 7 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 36 · 2 stories
M-PESA's "Jumbe" is a second SMS that proves you paid, minus your balance
- Safaricom takes its Home Internet clinic to an Embakasi estate
The Daily Savannah · Tuesday, 6 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 35 · 4 stories
The CBK wants the power to take over a payment firm
- Quickmart goes to the NSE at KES 7.50 and a KES 30 billion valuation
- MPs ask what happens when your phone number is given to someone else
- Abdi Mohamed takes over at I&M with the digital numbers already working
The Daily Savannah · Monday, 5 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 34 · 3 stories
Emergency SMS will now override Do Not Disturb
- Safaricom's AI Pay reads the receipt so you don't type the PayBill
- Airtel Money puts KSh37 million into two Marigat schools
The Daily Savannah · Friday, 2 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 33 · 3 stories
Airtel Money prices in London at $7bn — and shuts African retail investors out
- M-PESA arrives at the till as a tap
- Bolt Send passes a million deliveries, and Kenya is its fastest-growing market
The Daily Savannah · Thursday, 1 October 2026 -
Edition Nº 32 · 6 stories
The High Court orders Copia into liquidation
- CBK licenses 29 more digital lenders, taking the total to 281
- The float in your wallet could start earning — for someone
- Kenyans will be able to buy Dangote — as a depositary receipt on the NSE
The Daily Savannah · Wednesday, 30 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 31 · 4 stories
Kenya Airways puts an AI engine behind its fares
- Moringa's survey: 73% of Kenyan employers are still at square one on tech capability
- The iPhone 18 is not on sale yet, but the fake stores are open
- Vodacom puts sign-language interpretation inside the M-PESA app
The Daily Savannah · Tuesday, 29 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 30 · 6 stories
How Airtel Money went from rounding error to 11%
- Twelve deals, little paper: an audit of Kenya's Big Tech engagements
- A dialysis clinic in a shipping container reaches the Africa Prize final
- I&M opens 25,000 accounts a month without a paper form
The Daily Savannah · Monday, 28 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 29 · 4 stories
Absa Next opens to people who do not bank with Absa
- "AI assists. Deterministic rules decide." M-PESA draws the line
- Tecno takes two IFA golds — for a 4.9mm modular phone and a mini gaming PC
- WSO2Con Africa closes on governance, not models
The Daily Savannah · Friday, 25 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 28 · 4 stories
Latitude59 brings its pitch contest back to Nairobi
- Yellow Card hires Monzo's former group financial controller as CFO
- Kenya maps a route from university lab to company
- The enterprise AI problem is not the pilot, it is everything after it
The Daily Savannah · Thursday, 24 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 27 · 5 stories
22,000 digital services, and a backend that is "still pretty manual"
- KPC's Inuka fellowship placed 30% of its first cohort
- Equity moves payment approval to your face or thumb
- Posta's parcels jumped 549% in a quarter — and still fell for the year
The Daily Savannah · Wednesday, 23 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 26 · 6 stories
The Payment Bill would prise open M-PESA's data
- The CBK's own survey says the banks are already fintechs
- KCB's Pesapal stake is 22.23%, and Tanzania told us
- EPRA lifts the ceiling that punished busy charging stations
The Daily Savannah · Tuesday, 22 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 25 · 5 stories
This Is Digital turned one chatbot question into a business training 800 professionals
- Spiro takes another $18m, doubling its AfricaGoGreen facility to $36m
- Two Kenyan musicians, two phone campaigns, two questions nobody settled in writing
- Google runs "Tutunge na Gemini" for Nairobi creators and students
The Daily Savannah · Monday, 21 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 24 · 5 stories
88 million SIMs, and the feature phone is finally losing
- Mobile money grew. The agents didn't.
- Safaricom gained where the market grew, held where it didn't
- Fixed internet up 32% — and Starlink had to stop selling
The Daily Savannah · Saturday, 19 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 23 · 7 stories
Airtel shuts its Kenyan wholesale fibre unit after two years of zero revenue
- HustleSasa draws a German investor as it grows beyond ticketing
- KRA waives penalties and interest over iTax downtime
- PAPSS volumes jump 1,000% as the pan-African rail turns to adoption
The Daily Savannah · Friday, 18 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 22 · 4 stories
Claude gets Docs and Slides, and aims them at Google Workspace
- Equity wants to stop lending against raw hides
- Absa will finance the rent on Shell forecourts
- Visa signs five years with Ethiopia's Dashen Bank
The Daily Savannah · Thursday, 17 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 21 · 6 stories
Kenya tenders for the fibre it needs to hit 100,000km before the 2027 vote
- Vodacom will appeal; Safaricom is "reviewing the judgment"
- TikTok starts collecting tax details from Kenyan creators
- Kenya takes a Konza cloud expansion and a spaceport to Seoul
The Daily Savannah · Wednesday, 16 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 20 · 6 stories
High Court nullifies the Safaricom stake sale to Vodacom
- Stanbic Bank Kenya confirms Michael Mutiga as CEO
- The next Hustler Fund wants your bank, Sacco and mobile-lender record
- Spiro and Yadea team up as Kenya's e-boda market gets crowded
The Daily Savannah · Tuesday, 15 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 19 · 7 stories
Twiga Foods ends up in administration
- MPs find gaps in the rules for the KES 340 billion Safaricom-sale fund
- Watu Credit raises $7m in debt to keep financing bikes and phones
- CBK drafts a "too big to fail" regime for Kenyan banks
The Daily Savannah · Monday, 14 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 18 · 3 stories
The NSE is building an exit ramp for investors who cannot get out
- Sidian's CEO wants an MSME bond, not just more bank lending
- Kenya's REIT rules were written for buildings, not for data centres
The Daily Savannah · Sunday, 13 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 17 · 6 stories
One screen, $250: the part that explains the iPhone Duo's price
- A Nigerian cloud provider opens its first Nairobi zone
- Digital Parks Africa adds a Tier IV carrier-neutral build in Lagos
- Siemens puts its industrial software into six African markets through Redington
The Daily Savannah · Saturday, 12 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 16 · 6 stories
Anthropic caught a Kenyan bot farm using Claude to manufacture grassroots praise
- Mworia wants Kenya's pension savings financing its roads and grids
- 700 Garissa youth start a 25-week course in cloud, AI and data
- The dividend revival is quietly reshaping who owns the NSE
The Daily Savannah · Friday, 11 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 15 · 6 stories
87% of Kenyans use AI every week — against a 64% global average
- Mombasa's $1.5bn AI data centre plans to build its own power station
- Kenyan funds near KSh1 trillion as the money-market habit breaks
- Uber says Kenya stays, a week after leaving Nigeria and Uganda
The Daily Savannah · Thursday, 10 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 14 · 6 stories
ARC Ride raises $33.3m to take Nairobi's battery swapping continental
- LuLu plans a 500km protected cable from Mombasa to Lamu
- KEMIS meets its first real deadline — and 1.2 million learners are in the queue
- Apple's foldable is real, and it is called iPhone Duo
The Daily Savannah · Wednesday, 9 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 13 · 6 stories
No human effort, no copyright: Kenya's tribunal rules on AI-generated work
- CA proposes a standalone licence for data centres
- Digital Realty switches on NBO2 in Nairobi
- Two bank deals put Kenya top of Africa's M&A table
The Daily Savannah · Tuesday, 8 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 12 · 6 stories
Nairobi drops nine places — and Mombasa is the only Kenyan city climbing
- Ten years in, Bolt puts its Kenya bill at KES 19 billion
- Safaricom Ethiopia's real test is not subscribers — it is March 2027
- James Mworia leaves Centum to run Kenya's National Infrastructure Fund
The Daily Savannah · Monday, 7 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 11 · 4 stories
DStv collapses six bouquets into three — and cuts Premium by KES 4,400
- Google Translate goes background-mode — with Swahili on the list
- From Eastlands to Copenhagen: the Kenyan wiring Nordic money to African startups
- Mobile money's next fight is engagement, not sign-ups
The Daily Savannah · Sunday, 6 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 10 · 6 stories
Sun King crashes the financed-phone race with a KES 55-a-day handset
- Safaricom Ethiopia crosses 15 million subscribers four years in
- Hisa opens US IPOs to Kenyan retail investors
- Equity and IFAD launch a $200m climate fund for East African farmers
The Daily Savannah · Saturday, 5 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 9 · 7 stories
Kenya arms its cybercrime prosecutors as a scan finds 4.8 million leaked credentials
- Kotani Pay takes stablecoin payouts continental with DCSPay
- Ruto rolls back the cargo taxes squeezing small online importers
- Standard Bank wants Stanbic to be Kenya's biggest bank by 2030
The Daily Savannah · Friday, 4 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 8 · 6 stories
High Court suspends the 18% ride-hailing commission cap
- FlexPay founders arrested over a missing KES 31.2 million
- Four Chinese nationals held as DCI cracks a SIM-swap ring
- Women in STEM Africa Summit opens at KICC with an investor pitch arena
The Daily Savannah · Thursday, 3 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 7 · 6 stories
After $20 billion in invoices, Kenya's DigiTax opens in the UAE
- Technopolis Authority puts KES 1 million behind a new logo
- NBK half-year profit jumps 61% to KSh 1.72 billion
- Uber leaves Nigeria after twelve years — Kenya unaffected
The Daily Savannah · Wednesday, 2 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 6 · 6 stories
Kenya's creators ask Treasury to pause the 5% withholding tax
- CA moves to recycle numbers dormant for three months
- BAKE proposes an Office of the Creator Ombudsman
- Intel puts free AI courses inside Kenya's public libraries
The Daily Savannah · Tuesday, 1 September 2026 -
Edition Nº 5 · 6 stories
Airtel bids for Tier 1 infrastructure and gateway licences to take on Safaricom
- Kenya's Digital Cooperation Organization membership gets the green light
- KRA plugs eTIMS into IFMIS to vet every government supplier invoice
- WHO switches on an AI-assisted health data hub for all 47 African member states
The Daily Savannah · Monday, 31 August 2026 -
Edition Nº 4 · 6 stories
Google will withhold 5% of Kenyan creators' YouTube earnings for KRA
- NCBA and BasiGo strike deal to finance 1,000 electric matatus
- SUN Mobility launches an open battery-swap network from Nairobi
- HFCB posts record half-year profit as its capital raise pays off
The Daily Savannah · Sunday, 30 August 2026 -
Edition Nº 3 · 7 stories
Meta starts charging Kenyan businesses for every WhatsApp reply
- Kenya applies to join the Digital Cooperation Organisation
- I&M's half-year profit climbs 22% as 92% of customers go digital
- Britam profit jumps 52% as it digitises marine cargo cover
The Daily Savannah · Saturday, 29 August 2026 -
Edition Nº 2 · 7 stories
CA brings Uber, Bolt and Glovo parcel deliveries under licence
- Kenya's power reserve margin collapses to 3.34%, reviving rationing fears
- Kenya moves closer to joining the Budapest Convention on cybercrime
- Nairobi's Flowt raises pre-seed to turn messy books into loan-ready data
The Daily Savannah · Friday, 28 August 2026 -
Edition Nº 1 · Launch · 6 stories
Kenya slips to third in Africa's startup funding table
- Safaricom cuts M-Pesa fees for businesses in sweeping tariff revision
- Kenya's national AI policy heads toward Cabinet after public consultation
- Ziidi Trader puts the NSE inside 35 million M-Pesa wallets
The Daily Savannah · Thursday, 27 August 2026
