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Banks are rapidly deploying artificial intelligence across critical functions like credit decisioning, fraud detection, and customer engagement, but beneath the efficiency gains lies a growing risk: AI debt.

One year into the ECOWAS Regional Competition Authority’s merger control function, what lessons have emerged for dealmakers navigating West Africa’s evolving antitrust landscape?

For decades, Southern Africa’s electricity transmission landscape was defined by state control. Transmission lines, substations, system operations remained firmly in the hands of vertically integrated national utilities whose investment capacity could no longer keep up with demand, rising urbanisation, and the surge of independent power generation.