The Gathering
Technology and science
Reported from here rather than about here.
TechCabal
Nigeria
Lagos-based reporting and analysis on African technology and the companies building it. Several substantive pieces a day.
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31 Oct
Nigeria’s AI ambitions depend on building for local realities
Nigeria’s AI progess will be judged by the local problems it solves, as Nigeria can adopt the latest AI tools but still fail to solve the…
Muktar Oladunmade
2 min -
31 Oct
How Vectar Energy moved from selling solar generators to building carbon-market infrastructure
In 2025, Biodun Ogunleye, the Lagos State Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, said that about 30,000 deaths occur annually in the state due to exposure…
Opeyemi Kareem
7 min -
31 Oct
Stablecoins gain ground in African trade but face hurdles to wider use
Stablecoins are giving African businesses an alternative way to pay overseas suppliers, but costs, security concerns and fragmented blockchain networks remain obstacles to wider use, industry…
John Adoyi
3 min -
30 Oct
Credit Direct wants a bigger role in how Nigerians access financial services
Credit Direct, the consumer lending subsidiary of FCMB Group, a Nigerian financial services group, is expanding beyond traditional lending into embedded finance as it seeks to…
Opeyemi Kareem
2 min -
30 Oct
Banks must become ‘invisible’ to compete in digital finance
Banks must anticipate customers’ needs and embed financial services into everyday transactions to compete with digital platforms, executives from Access Holdings and OPay told Moonshot by…
John Adoyi
3 min -
30 Oct
From salary splits to loans: How Grey plans to turn FX paychecks into credit
Grey, the Y Combinator-backed cross-border payments company, is looking to use foreign currency salary records to help remote workers access credit, addressing a gap in how…
Emmanuel Nwosu
2 min -
30 Oct
Breet makes case for simpler crypto payments at Moonshot
Making cryptocurrency payments easier to use is as much a challenge as building the infrastructure behind them, Breet chief operating officer Vivian Mbene told Moonshot by…
Progress Godfrey
1 min -
30 Oct
Grey’s next bet is making African trade less dependent on the dollar
Grey, the Y Combinator-backed cross-border payments company, says it has built direct currency conversion routes to help African businesses pay suppliers across borders without first converting…
Emmanuel Nwosu
4 min
SciDev.Net
Pan-African
Science, health and development journalism reported from the continent rather than about it. The Sub-Saharan desk only.
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30 Sep
Why early nutrition should measure human development
Nutrition in the first 1000 days of life should be a core measurement of development progress argues former Ethiopian deputy prime minister Demeke Mekonnen.
Demeke Mekonnen Hassen
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26 Sep
Uganda monitors cancer patients with automated calls
Automated voice calls are helping Ugandan doctors track cancer patients between treatments, World Cancer Congress hears.
John Musenze
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14 Sep
Ebola outbreak is DRC’s worst. Where is the vaccine?
Vaccine development to fight Bundibugyo Ebola virus advances while the outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo moves at unprecedented speed.
Ogechi Ekeanyanwu
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8 Sep
The long wait for fistula surgery in Liberia
Some Liberian women with obstetric fistula spend years seeking treatment as specialist care remains limited.
Tina S. Mehnpaine
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27 Aug
Science training helps Tanzanian banana farmers curb virus
Tanzanian researchers team up with journalists to protect banana farmers from the destructive banana bunchy top virus.
Syriacus Buguzi
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21 Aug
Nigerians turn to faith healers as HIV aid dries up
After US aid cuts disrupted free HIV treatment, some Nigerian patients turn to unproven ‘cures’.
Yahuza Bawage
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10 Aug
Funding cuts leave Liberian girls without contraception
Donor funding gaps are limiting contraceptive access for Liberian women and girls, raising fears of unsafe abortions.
Tina S. Mehnpaine
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5 Aug
Building African evidence for cancer care
Nigeria's paediatric radiation oncology pioneer says saving children with cancer means saving their caregivers too
Titilope Fadare
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