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			<news:title>MTN Banking Licences and AI Data Centres: Who Owns the Upside?</news:title>
			<news:keywords>MTN banking licences,MTN AI data centres, MTN Africa Data Hub Holding, Africa AI infrastructure, African digital infrastructure, MTN fintech strategy, MTN mobile money lending, MTN banking Africa, AI data centres South Africa, AI data centres Nigeria, Gulf investment in Africa</news:keywords>
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			<image:title>MTN Banking Licences, Credit Expansion and Gulf-Funded AI Infrastructure</image:title>
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