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Africa Tech News: Startups, Fintech and Innovation

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Paystack Shuts Down Allawee After Quiet 2025 Acquisition 10 hours ago

Huawei Launches Agentic AI Cloud in Nigeria to Drive AI Adoption 15 hours ago

PayPal Shares Sink 13% as Advent, Stripe Drop $53 Billion Takeover Bid 15 hours ago

Mozambique Launches AI Association to Drive National Tech Ecosystem 4 days ago

Nigeria Picks French, Israeli Firms to Build New Communications Satellites 4 days ago

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FinTech & Digital Money

Paystack Shuts Down Allawee After Quiet 2025 Acquisition

by Kingsley Okeke

August 31, 2026

Nigerian card-issuing fintech Allawee will close its business and personal account services on December 1, 2026, after Paystack quietly acquired...

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huawei AI cloud in Nigeria

Huawei Launches Agentic AI Cloud in Nigeria to Drive AI Adoption

August 31, 2026

PayPal Shares Sink 13% as Advent, Stripe Drop $53 Billion Takeover Bid

August 31, 2026

Mozambique AI announcement

Mozambique Launches AI Association to Drive National Tech Ecosystem

August 28, 2026

Fintech News

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FinTech & Digital Money

Paystack Shuts Down Allawee After Quiet 2025 Acquisition

by Kingsley Okeke

August 31, 2026

Nigerian card-issuing fintech Allawee will close its business and personal account services on December 1, 2026, after Paystack quietly acquired...

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Paypal

FinTech & Digital Money

PayPal Shares Sink 13% as Advent, Stripe Drop $53 Billion Takeover Bid

August 31, 2026

Opay office

FinTech & Digital Money

OPay Plans NGX Listing Ahead of Potential $4bn US IPO

August 28, 2026

lisk chain closure

FinTech & Digital Money

Lisk Pivots to Business Finance Platform and Announces Chain Shutdown

August 26, 2026

Global News

Facebook Marketplace seller app interface showing listing management dashboard

Facebook launches Marketplace Seller App and free verification

YouTube

YouTube AI Slop Policy: What Creators Need to Know in 2026

Check Point Threat Report June 2026

Check Point June 2026 Threat Report Shows 17% Global Cyber Attack Surge

Trump threatens 100% tariffs on European countries over digital services taxes

Trump threatens 100% tariffs on European countries over digital services taxes

Monzo Brings Direct Naira Transfers to 15 Million UK Users

Monzo Brings Direct Naira Transfers to 15 Million UK Users

Google Finance Android app interface

Google Finance Android App Launches With AI Tools and Portfolio Tracking

Tech Policy in Africa

meta pays $18 billion

Policy & Regulations

Meta to Pay Up to $18 Billion Over Claims Facebook and Instagram Harmed Children

by Kingsley Okeke

August 27, 2026

Meta has agreed to pay up to $18 billion to settle a sweeping lawsuit brought by nearly all US states,...

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Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, Director General of NITDA

NITDA Urges Nigerian Army to Adopt AI and Data as Strategic Warfare Tools

August 21, 2026

Ben MacWilliams employed by Terra industries

Terra Industries Names Former SpaceX Executive Ben MacWilliams VP of Strategy

August 20, 2026

The WhatsApp app on a smartphone, showing the two-step verification setting that prevents most account hacks

How to Protect Your WhatsApp From Being Hacked

Nigeria Revenue Service NRS TheCable4

NRS Releases Guidelines on Virtual Asset Taxation

Exclusive Interviews

Axon AI observability platform created by Nigerian software engineer Feyi Ogunsanya

Exclusive Interviews

Meet the Nigerian Engineer Behind Axon: The Open-Source Tool Helping Developers Debug AI Agents

by Covenant Oluwadunsin Aladenola

When Feyi Ogunsanya found herself spending more time piecing together logs than building AI applications, she realized the problem wasn't...

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Trippa's delivery platform, built to tackle Nigeria's last-mile delivery costs through routing, dispatch automation, and real-time tracking

E-Commerce

How Trippa Is Solving Africa’s Most Expensive Delivery Problem

by Onyinye Moyosore

Last-mile delivery eats up 35 to 55% of shipping cost in African e-commerce, nearly double the global average. Trippa's head...

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Exclusive Interviews

Bootstrapped? No Excuses: How Paul Ugochukwu Obere Faced Giants, Grew Revenue, and Dropped CAC for One of Nigeria’s Leading Crypto Exchanges.

by Onyinye Moyosore

Crypto is an unforgiving market. Low barriers to entry, fierce competition, and no room for campaigns that look good but...

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chidinma chebani

Exclusive Interviews

Google Ads Adoption. Cloud. Fintech. AI. Chidinma Aroyewun Has Been at the Frontier of Every Wave. Here Is What She Learned.

by Ifeanyi Abraham

Across the world, artificial intelligence is changing how businesses find customers, measure performance, automate marketing, and make growth decisions. In...

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Women Entrepreneurs

Exclusive Interviews

EXCLUSIVE: These 6 Women Entrepreneurs & Leaders Share What They’re Building, Their Journeys and How They’re Driving Impact

by Faith Amonimo

December 2, 2025

In this spotlight, we meet inspiring women leaders who are rewriting the rules. They are bold thinkers and builders who...

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Artificial Intelligence

Mozambique AI announcement

Artificial Intelligence

Mozambique Launches AI Association to Drive National Tech Ecosystem

August 28, 2026

Intron AI team after sahara v2.5 launch

Artificial Intelligence

Intron Voice AI Launches Sahara v2.5 With Support for 63 African Languages

August 27, 2026

Digital Parks Africa, ECOBLOX and Stratos Lab

Artificial Intelligence

South Africa Launches Africa’s Most Powerful AI Cloud With Stratos Lab, ECOBLOX and Digital Parks Africa

August 27, 2026

Openai Jalapeño

Artificial Intelligence

“We Made a Chip and It Is Fast”: Inside OpenAI’s New ‘Jalapeño’ Silicon

August 26, 2026

Digital Apps, Tools & Software

whatsapp rates for business

Apps, Gadgets, Tools & Softwares

WhatsApp to Start Charging Businesses Per Message on October 1: What It Means for African Startups

August 21, 2026

YouTube redesigns it user interface

Apps, Gadgets, Tools & Softwares

YouTube Overhauls Its Design In What It Calls The Platform’s Biggest Visual Rework Yet

Spotify adds personalisation workout

Apps, Gadgets, Tools & Softwares

Spotify Launches Running Mode to Create Personalised Music for Workouts

Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

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African Startup Ecosystem

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African Startup Ecosystem

Mr Eazi’s Choplife Joins Itana Digital Free Trade Zone to Scale Across Africa

by Kingsley Okeke

August 14, 2026

Choplife, the entertainment and technology company founded by Nigerian musician and entrepreneur Oluwatosin "Mr Eazi" Ajibade, has moved its operations...

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Ladi Delano and Jide Odunsi, co founders of Moove

Nigeria’s Moove Hits Unicorn Status After Raising $250 Million Series C Round

Food Delivery startups in nigeria

Why Food Delivery Startups Struggle in Nigeria: A Deep Analysis

Startup automation workflow for recurring tasks in finance, onboarding, support, and operations

The Startup Automation Playbook: What, How, and When to Automate

Golemon shuts down

GoLemon Shuts Down: Lagos Grocery Delivery Startup Ends Operations After Funding Setback

E-commerce

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E-Commerce

Contact Marketing Services Limited(CMSL): The Woman Who Stopped Buying Your Brand

August 24, 2026

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E-Commerce

Jumia Raises $50 Million in New Capital Round Backed by IFC

August 12, 2026

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FinTech & Digital Money

Paystack Shuts Down Allawee After Quiet 2025 Acquisition

by Kingsley Okeke

August 31, 2026

Nigerian card-issuing fintech Allawee will close its business and personal account services on December 1, 2026, after Paystack quietly acquired...

Read more

huawei AI cloud in Nigeria

Technology

Huawei Launches Agentic AI Cloud in Nigeria to Drive AI Adoption

by Kingsley Okeke

August 31, 2026

Huawei has unveiled its Agentic AI Cloud and related artificial intelligence solutions in Nigeria, marking a fresh push to strengthen...

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Paypal

FinTech & Digital Money

PayPal Shares Sink 13% as Advent, Stripe Drop $53 Billion Takeover Bid

by Kingsley Okeke

August 31, 2026

PayPal Holdings has lost a major chunk of its market value after private equity firm Advent International and payments processor...

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Mozambique AI announcement

Artificial Intelligence

Mozambique Launches AI Association to Drive National Tech Ecosystem

by Kingsley Okeke

August 28, 2026

Mozambique has launched the Association of Artificial Intelligence (AMIA) to help steer the growth of the country's AI ecosystem, according...

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Nigeria Picks French, Israeli Firms to Build New Communications Satellites

Technology

Nigeria Picks French, Israeli Firms to Build New Communications Satellites

by Kingsley Okeke

August 28, 2026

Nigeria has approved a plan to build two next-generation communication satellites with manufacturers from France and Israel, a move set...

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