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Adetola Omotayo Odunubi

Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief · The Insider Loop

Adetola Omotayo Odunubi covers entertainment, celebrity culture, and breaking pop-culture stories for The Insider Loop, monitoring hundreds of sources to surface the angles that matter before everyone else catches on.

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"Better Armed Than the Government": Robert Agenong'a on Who Actually Sets the Rules for DRC Cobalt - inside-impact news
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"Better Armed Than the Government": Robert Agenong'a on Who Actually Sets the Rules for DRC Cobalt

At a Madrid conference designed to chart the future of the cobalt industry, one of the roughly 280 delegates was an Indigenous lawmaker from Ituri Province. Robert Agenong'a sat through three days of supply-chain panels in a room sponsored by Glencore, IXM, and CMOC. His argument is that the Democratic Republic of Congo is at risk of repeating its extractive past not because the mineral wealth has changed, but because the institutional layer meant to govern it never grew strong enough to. The numbers favour the operators.

Jun 11, 20267 min read
Payment Was the Easy Part: Inside Apexloads' Bet That African Freight's Real Bottleneck Is Verification - inside-impact news
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Payment Was the Easy Part: Inside Apexloads' Bet That African Freight's Real Bottleneck Is Verification

Charles Thuo left Boeing to build a logistics technology company in Nairobi without raising a cent. His argument is that the African freight industry has been chasing the wrong fix. Mobile money cleared the payment layer a decade ago. What is still missing is verification, the trust infrastructure that lets a financier extend credit, a shipper hand over cargo, and a transporter expect to be paid. Apexloads is unfunded, scrappy, and built on a thesis that runs against the prevailing African logistics playbook.

Jun 11, 20267 min read

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