Ghana and The Gambia Partner for Free Mobile Roaming in 2025

Free roaming will be implemented in 2025 for Gambians and Ghanaians

What’s happened this Week:

• South Africa launches AI institute

• YellowCard gets Crypto license in South Africa

• and more!

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In The News This Week:

Yellow Card Secures South Africa’s CASP License Amid Stablecoin Boom

Yellow Card, Africa’s leading stablecoin-based infrastructure provider, has been issued a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) license by South Africa’s Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA).

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South Africa To Launch Its First AI Institute

Wits University launched its inaugural artificial intelligence institute, the Machine Intelligence and Neural Discovery (MIND) Institute, on November. 19 in South Africa

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Ghana Partners with The Gambia to Implement Free Roaming Initiative

The National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana, in partnership with the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation and mobile network operators (MNOs), is advancing talks with stakeholders in The Gambia to implement the ECOWAS Free Roaming Initiative.

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In the rest of the news:

• Meta Is Testing a Feature to Reset the Algorithm in Your Instagram Feed

• Trump’s Africa Policy Will More Transactional and Focus On “Pro-Business” Deals

• Africa’s Investment Future: Insights from the 2024 Africa Prosperity Summit

• TLP Advisory Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary with Report Highlighting Nigeria Tech Ecosystem

• Ghana Tightens Rules on Pension Fund Offshore Investments

• Ghana Rises to 18th Globally for Students in the US

• CNCF and Andela Partner to Train 20,000+ African Tech Professionals

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Africa Ecosystem Activity

• Early-stage VC fund Launch Africa Ventures makes first exits; tweaks strategy for Fund II

• Nigeria’s Shyft Power Solutions acquired by UK’s SteamaCo, secures funding

• Egyptian supply chain startup Qara raises $2.6m funding, expands to Saudi

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