Everything is hard. Nothing works the first time. It all feels pointless. That’s when you realize you’re going to have to will it into existence with every ounce of your fucking soul. And that’s when it starts to happen.
Nomba DRC is extending its payments corridor into Zambia 🇨🇩🇿🇲
Zambia’s goods exports to the DRC hit $1.6B in 2025, up about a third in 2024. Our CEO @YinkaAdewale joined @cnbcafrica to talk about cross-border payments between the two markets 👇
https://t.co/B8g9Lq8QiA
Host a handful of journalists, and they’ll prattle on endlessly about our dear tech ecosystem. Will they debate how the media business they work in is hanging on for dear life? Don’t hold your breath.
Notadeepdive is back early:
https://t.co/qZJUfnQHJ5
I recently found out that: If you have a COMESA ID, you get to do trades between DRC and Zambia with a Visa.
You can just walk through the border, super cool!
With gratitude to the people of Zambia and the COMESA member states, this morning we assumed the role of Vice Chairperson for COMESA. The work to elevate the role COMESA will play in facilitating intra Africa trade starts now. We will, as usual, count on your support.
I think developers are some of the hardest people to sell software to.
You can have the nicest website, the most impressive demo, and all the marketing in the world.
They'll install your tool, run one command, and know within five minutes whether you've been exaggerating.
Excited to share that @swoopappng has averaged over 550 daily orders this week… from a single restaurant! A huge thank you to the restaurant team for making this possible and preparing over 3 orders per minute at peak times!
And we are welcoming our 2,000th restaurant partner to the platform this week as well.
We launched Swoop in Lagos less than six months ago. This rapid growth is a testament to our work to make food delivery faster and more affordable for all Nigerians. Next up: bringing Swoop to more Nigerians, starting with our first cities outside Lagos.
Deutsche Bank AG is going long on Nigeria’s naira against the dollar and has also added the west African nation to its frontier index monitor which now features several African currencies including Angola’s kwanza and Ghana’s cedi https://t.co/zibJ7ma4jp
In Lusaka this week. Spent today with banks and the Central Bank.
Heading up to the Copperbelt next.
Nomba moves money for businesses trading between Zambia and the DRC.
Big part of this trip is meeting the people on the ground, from Lusaka to Kasumbalesa, and seeing how we serve them better.
Traders, truckers, EPC firms, mine suppliers. If that's you, DMs are open.
AFC and the DRC recently signed agreements to support continued development of the 25km MetroKin urban rail project in Kinshasa, and the development of the 463km Kinshasa–Matadi–Banana railway, which is expected to connect the capital to DRC’s emerging deep-water port at Banana.