{
  "id": 17206704,
  "title": "Poetic Licence: The New Scramble for Africa Is Digital",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/poetic-licence-the-new-scramble-for-africa-is-digital",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-30T08:40:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/ios/opinion/2026-10-30-poetic-licence-the-new-scramble-for-africa-is-digital/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "South Africa is having a conversation with Elon Musk's Starlink. And judging by the intervention of the United States ambassador, we are apparently being unreasonable for insisting that a foreign company play by the rules of the country in which it wants to do business.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}