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How one of Afrika's most popular social platforms failed

At its peak, MXit was reported to have 50 million registered users across 120 countries. And then towards the end of 2014, after silence from the company, it was revealed it had declined to 5 million users. What happened?

Kenya's 19-year-long telecommunications war

A look back at 19 years of the dirty telecommunications war in Kenya, Safaricom's market dominance, and (the now collapsed) the possible merger between Airtel Kenya and Telkom Kenya.