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Clean Cooking in Africa 2026: The 900 Million Access Gap and the Slow Transition From Wood to Clean Fuels
Approximately 900 million Africans lack access to clean cooking fuels, relying on wood, charcoal, kerosene, or other traditional fuels with severe health, environmental, and social consequences. Clean cooking is one of Mission 300's explicit priority areas. This report maps the scale of the problem, the operators working on the transition, and the structural conditions that have made clean cooking one of the slowest-moving components of African energy access.
The African EdTech Adult Learning Pivot 2026: Why the Sector Is Abandoning Children for Adults and What It Means
African edtech is undergoing a structural pivot away from K-12 consumer models toward adult learning, driven by the specific commercial logic that adults paying for their own training have stronger and more durable payment motivation than parents paying for children. This report examines the pivot, its causes, and its implications for the sector's next phase.
African Warehousing and Fulfillment Infrastructure 2026: The Grade A Shortage, the Industrial Park Push, and the E-commerce Fulfillment Layer
African warehousing infrastructure is dominated by informal storage facilities with limited Grade A capacity for modern distribution and e-commerce fulfillment. Industrial parks being developed in multiple countries aim to address the gap with purpose-built logistics real estate. This report maps the warehousing landscape, the operators and developers building modern capacity, and the e-commerce fulfillment layer that depends on it.
African Pension Tech and the Long-Term Savings Gap
Only a small fraction of African workers participate in any formal retirement savings system. Nigeria's Contributory Pension Scheme covers approximately 10 million workers out of a workforce of over 70 million. Kenya's NSSF coverage is similarly narrow. PiggyVest has 7 million users saving short-term but pensions remain underserved. Inside the gap, the emerging digital operators, and why retirement may be the next great African fintech opportunity.
Nigeria · Financial Services African Vaccine Manufacturing 2026: Afrigen's mRNA Technology Transfer Hub, Biovac, Moderna's USD 500 Million Kenya Plant, and the BioNTech BioNTainers
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed African dependence on imported vaccines and triggered a wave of commitments to build continental vaccine manufacturing capacity. The WHO mRNA technology transfer hub at Afrigen Biologics in Cape Town is one of the most ambitious responses. Moderna signed a USD 500 million Kenya plant MoU. BioNTech is deploying BioNTainer modular factories to Rwanda and Senegal. This report maps the category.
South Africa · HealthTech African Alternative Proteins and Emerging Food Systems 2026: Black Soldier Fly, Plant-Based, and the Protein Gap
African protein consumption lags most other regions, creating both a public health challenge and a commercial opportunity for alternative protein sources. Black soldier fly farming, plant-based proteins, and insect protein for both human and animal feed applications have emerged as the most active categories. This report maps the emerging food system opportunity.
Natural Gas and LNG in Africa 2026: Mozambique, Senegal-Mauritania GTA, Egypt Export, and the Transition Question
African natural gas projects represent the largest fossil fuel investments being made on the continent in the 2020s. Mozambique LNG, Tanzania LNG, the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim project on the Senegal-Mauritania border, and Egyptian LNG export capacity together represent over USD 100 billion in planned and committed capital. The transition question, whether African gas is a bridge fuel or a stranded asset, is the defining strategic debate of the category. This report maps the current state.
Mozambique · Energy and Power CBDCs in Africa: The eNaira, the eCedi, and the Adoption Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About
Nigeria launched the eNaira in October 2021, becoming the first African country and only the second globally to roll out a retail CBDC. By 2024, less than 0.5 percent of Nigerians had used it. By 2025, eNaira wallets reached approximately 13 million but 98.5 percent had never been used (IMF). Ghana's eCedi remains in pilot. Morocco and Egypt are running a cross-border CBDC experiment. Inside what has and has not worked, and why private stablecoins are winning where CBDCs have failed.
Nigeria · Financial Services Mobile Money Agent Networks: The Cash-In Cash-Out Economy Underpinning African Fintech
Safaricom M-Pesa operates approximately 298,890 agents serving 35.82 million customers and KSh 38.29 trillion in FY25 transaction volume. OPay and PalmPay have built comparable agent networks in Nigeria. Uganda's Agent Banking Company supports over 20,000 shared agent outlets. Agents are the bridge between digital money and cash economies. Inside the unit economics, fraud problems, and the reason mobile money cannot work without them.
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