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  "id": 6632967,
  "title": "Why Africa’s smart cities will also need smarter finance",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/why-africas-smart-cities-will-also-need-smarter-finance",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-10T18:11:42.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Rio Times",
    "slug": "the-rio-times",
    "url": "https://www.riotimesonline.com/africa-smart-cities-smarter-finance-2026/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Kenya · INFRASTRUCTURE Key Facts —What happened Kenya’s Konza Technopolis, a 2,024-hectare smart city launched in 2008, has an estimated total project cost of about US$14.5 billion. —The money Phase 1 infrastructure was financed by Italy’s UniCredit SpA at roughly KSh 50.4 billion (about US$391 million), while Huawei built core systems under a China Eximbank […] The post Why Africa’s smart cities…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "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."
}