AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoCybersecurity for SMEs: Kaspersky says only 18% of SMBs in the META region avoided a cyber incident in the past year, with spyware, password-stealer attacks and backdoors rising in Africa—plus 1.6m online attack attempts blocked in Nigeria in H1 2026. SME Growth & Visibility: A Ghana piece argues the real bottleneck isn’t marketing—it’s production capacity, as many SMEs are active on WhatsApp but struggle to post consistently online. AI for Small Business Marketing: Meta rolled out AI tools that connect Facebook/Instagram and Google Workspace for performance analysis and report generation, but WhatsApp Business is notably left out despite WhatsApp driving most Meta AI prompts in sub-Saharan Africa. Payments & Trade Rails: Research forecasts cross-border payments infrastructure growth from $190T (2024) to $320T by 2032, pointing to real-time networks and interoperable systems. Funding & Awards: South Africa’s News24 x Lula SME Awards return with R300,000 in prizes, while Mamor Capital secured a R300m first close for a gender-lens VC fund targeting post-revenue tech businesses. Energy Costs Hit Business: South Africa’s Eskom turnaround shows fewer blackouts and a return to profit, but Ramaphosa warns rising electricity costs still threaten households and firms. Cross-border Compliance Pressure: Kenya exporters face higher costs to meet new EU food-contact packaging rules banning PFAS and pushing reuse/recovery targets.
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