Regional payment infrastructure, mobile money, banking ecosystems, fintech development, PAPSS and regulatory intelligence across 55 African Union member states and special markets, grouped into North, West, Central, East and Southern Africa. No African country has a published Country Intelligence page yet; every entry below is marked honestly as Coming Soon.
Eight West African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo) share one currency — the West African CFA franc (XOF), issued by the BCEAO under WAEMU/UEMOA — and six Central African countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon) share a separate one, the Central African CFA franc (XAF), issued by the BEAC under CEMAC. GPIR models each as a single shared currency record referenced by every member country, not as 14 (or 6) independent national currencies. Separately, Western Sahara is listed under the African Union framework as a special market / territory / political entity rather than a sovereign country record — it has no independent ISO 4217 currency code, and GPIR does not fabricate one where none exists.
Seven North African markets, plus Western Sahara (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) as a special market with no independent ISO 4217 currency.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, remittances and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, remittances and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Listed under the African Union framework as a special market / territory / political entity, not a sovereign country with its own national currency.
Fifteen West African markets. Eight share the West African CFA franc (XOF) under WAEMU/UEMOA rather than each having its own national currency.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, mobile money and diaspora intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
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Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, fintech and cross-border corridor intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Nine Central African markets. Six share the Central African CFA franc (XAF) under CEMAC rather than each having its own national currency.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
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Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Fifteen East African markets, each with an independent national currency.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Mobile money, payments and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, mobile money and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, mobile money and remittance intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Mobile money, payments and cross-border intelligence.
Mobile money, payments and cross-border intelligence.
Eight Southern African markets. Lesotho, Eswatini and Namibia each have their own currency, with the South African rand widely accepted alongside it under the Common Monetary Area — this is noted as a secondary currency, not a replacement for their own ISO 4217 code.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence. R ZAR widely accepted alongside (Widely accepted alongside the lilangeni due to the Common Monetary Area, but not the country's own ISO 4217 currency.)
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence. R ZAR widely accepted alongside (Widely accepted alongside the loti due to the Common Monetary Area, but not the country's own ISO 4217 currency.)
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence. R ZAR widely accepted alongside (Pegged 1:1 and legal tender alongside the Namibian dollar due to the Common Monetary Area, but not a replacement for the country's own ISO 4217 currency.)
Payments, banking and cross-border corridor intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
Payments, banking and cross-border intelligence.
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GPIR intends to build a regional Africa view covering cross-border P2P volume, diaspora and migration concentration, mobile money adoption, corridor economics (e.g. Nigeria–United Kingdom, Kenya–United Kingdom, Ghana–United States, Egypt–GCC, Morocco–France, South Africa–Zimbabwe), the fintech ecosystem, payment infrastructure, PAPSS and regional payment systems, and regulatory developments across all 55 markets above — the same intelligence layers already scoped for each individual country. None of that regional-level data has been compiled or validated yet, so it is listed here as roadmap topics rather than populated with figures. Corridor significance will be driven by validated data, not hard-coded assumptions, once sourced:
CY2025 and YTD 2026 cross-border P2P volume, aggregated only if a supportable methodology exists.
Regional migration and diaspora heat map, sourced per country as pages are built.
Active accounts, transaction volume/value and interoperability across mobile money providers, sourced per country as pages are built.
Pan-African Payment and Settlement System participation and other regional/continental settlement infrastructure, by country.
Major inbound/outbound corridors across the region, ranked only once volume data is validated.
Regional count of payment fintechs, digital banks, MTOs, PSPs and mobile money providers.
GPIR will not aggregate individual country figures into a regional total unless the underlying methodology genuinely supports it — a regional number will not be published as a shortcut once countries are researched independently.
This directory reflects the GPIR Africa roadmap honestly: no African country has a published Country Intelligence page yet, so every one of the 55 entries above is shown as Coming Soon, with its flag and currency still fully visible. Countries are grouped by North, West, Central, East and Southern Africa for navigation only, following African Union regional conventions — this does not imply that payment ecosystems, regulation, currencies or economic conditions are identical within a grouping. West African CFA franc (XOF) and Central African CFA franc (XAF) countries are tagged with their currency zone (WAEMU / CEMAC) rather than being modelled as separate national currencies, and Western Sahara is listed as a special market with no fabricated currency code. As each country is researched and published, it will move from Coming Soon to Active using the same reusable Country Intelligence template built for APAC, LATAM, Europe/SEPA and the Americas — extended with a Mobile Money intelligence layer given its structural importance across African markets — so Africa never needs 55 separate page designs.
