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Africa Tech News: Startups, Fintech and Innovation

Where Africa’s Tech Revolution Begins.

Your ultimate source for insights on Africa’s thriving tech ecosystem. Explore transformative startups, innovative solutions, and the latest developments shaping the continent’s economic future. From fintech to agritech, stay connected to the pulse of Africa’s technological advancement.

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Tesla Roadster Flips Midair in Explosive SpaceX Powered Unveiling 13 hours ago

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MoneyHash Partners With Ozow to Expand Online Payment Options in South Africa 1 day ago

Spotify Brings Audiobooks to Nigeria in Major 180-Market Expansion 2 days ago

Nigerian-Co-Founded AI Startup Minicor Raises $3.8 Million to Connect AI With Legacy Business Software 2 days ago

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Technology

Tesla Roadster Flips Midair in Explosive SpaceX Powered Unveiling

by Kingsley Okeke

October 16, 2026

Tesla has finally shown its long-delayed next-generation Roadster, and it did so with a stunt that looked closer to a...

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Econet InfraCo Shows a Template for Using AI Fuel Management to Cut Diesel Costs

October 15, 2026

Ozow and moneyhash

MoneyHash Partners With Ozow to Expand Online Payment Options in South Africa

October 15, 2026

Spotify adds personalisation workout

Spotify Brings Audiobooks to Nigeria in Major 180-Market Expansion

October 15, 2026

Minicor Raises $3.8 Million

Business & Markets

Nigerian-Co-Founded AI Startup Minicor Raises $3.8 Million to Connect AI With Legacy Business Software

October 14, 2026

MTN SA Hits 10Gbps in Upper 6GHz 5G-Advanced Trial

African Telecommunications

MTN SA Hits 10Gbps in Upper 6GHz 5G-Advanced Trial

October 14, 2026

Oluwatosin Thompson talks about the African currency

Explainers

Africa Wants to Trade in Its Own Currencies. Why Does the Architecture of Money Still Depend on Foreign Currency?

October 14, 2026

NCC Abuja

African Telecommunications

NCC Steps Up Enforcement to Block Fake Smartphones

October 14, 2026

Opay legal suit

Reports

OPay Makes More Money Lending Than Moving Money in Nigeria

October 14, 2026

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News

Moroccan Agritech Startup YoLa Fresh Shuts Down After Failing to Secure Funding

October 13, 2026

Fintech News

Ozow and moneyhash

FinTech & Digital Money

MoneyHash Partners With Ozow to Expand Online Payment Options in South Africa

by Kingsley Okeke

October 15, 2026

MoneyHash, a payment orchestration platform operating across emerging and global markets, has partnered with South African fintech Ozow to widen...

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FinTech & Digital Money

Dollar Crunch Pushes African Firms Towards Stablecoins

October 8, 2026

MNT-Halan IPO

FinTech & Digital Money

Egypt’s MNT-Halan Secures EGP 2bn CIB Backing as Fintech Opens IPO

October 7, 2026

CapitalSage Chimoney acquisition

FinTech & Digital Money

CapitalSage Completes Chimoney Acquisition Months After Fintech Announced Shutdown

October 7, 2026

Global News

Google Gemini 4 Argon

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon and the New Rules of AI Competition

October 5, 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs addressing UN Security Council on AI regulation

Two AI CEOs Warns that AI could risk humanity if managed poorly

September 25, 2026

Code on a laptop screen, illustrating Hacktron AI security research that reached OpenAI's internal systems

How a 3-Person Team Used Claude to Hack OpenAI in 72 Hours

September 21, 2026

WhatsApp Opens to Third-Party AI Agents After EU Ruling

September 21, 2026

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Facebook launches Marketplace Seller App and free verification

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

Tech Policy in Africa

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Policy & Regulations

TikTok Sued in Abuja Over Access Blackout in Northern Nigeria

by Kingsley Okeke

October 8, 2026

A digital rights group has taken TikTok to court over reports that users in four northern states cannot properly use...

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Kredete licence announcement

Kredete Acquires South African Crypto Licence to Power Stablecoin Payments

October 7, 2026

Digital banking trust in Nigeria as banks strengthen cybersecurity and customer protection

How Breach Claims Can Strengthen Trust in Nigeria’s Digital Banking

October 6, 2026

NDPC REGISTRATION GUIDELINE

NDPC Registration in Nigeria: How Data Controllers and Processors Can Register

October 5, 2026

Meta Appeals Lagos Ruling on Ad Tracking

Meta Appeals Lagos Ruling That Bars Forced Ad Tracking

October 5, 2026

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

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Artificial Intelligence

Pewbeam AI Attracts Investors as Nigerian Church Tech Startup Grows Fast

October 12, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence

Africa Has Just 0.6% of Global Data Centre Capacity as World Bank Warns of AI Readiness Gap

October 7, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence

INEC Boosts BVAS Security and Plans AI for 2027 Elections

October 6, 2026

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Artificial Intelligence

Meta Unveils Hologram Calls for VR Glasses and Ray-Ban Display

October 6, 2026

African Startup Ecosystem

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African Startup Ecosystem

South African Startup Vambo AI Launches Open AI Model for 12 African Languages

by Kingsley Okeke

October 12, 2026

Most AI tools still treat African languages as an afterthought. A Johannesburg-based startup, Vambo AI, is trying to change that...

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Lagos Life funding

Nigerian Developer Shalom Rayhamen Raises $500,000 for Lagos Life Just One Week After Launch, Valued at $10 Million

October 9, 2026

Glovo Nigeria MD

Glovo Nigeria MD Lamide Akinola Steps Down After Building Business Into $80m Operation

October 6, 2026

digital postcode system

Nigerian Startup Milsat Powers New Digital Postcode After Mapping 65 Million Properties

October 6, 2026

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African Startups Can Now Pitch to 30 Plus Investors at SiGMA Africa 2027

October 5, 2026

E-commerce

An image of a shopify website on a laptop

E-Commerce

Paystack Launches First Onsite Shopify Card Checkout In South Africa

September 25, 2026

Newly deployed LagRide vehicles, part of a 400-car rollout across Lagos ahead of the Ember months

E-Commerce

LagRide Ember Rush: 400 New Vehicles Deployed, 1,000+ More Captains Targeted before Detty December

September 1, 2026

News

A picture of tesla roadster

Technology

Tesla Roadster Flips Midair in Explosive SpaceX Powered Unveiling

October 16, 2026

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Uncategorized

Econet InfraCo Shows a Template for Using AI Fuel Management to Cut Diesel Costs

October 15, 2026

Ozow and moneyhash

FinTech & Digital Money

MoneyHash Partners With Ozow to Expand Online Payment Options in South Africa

October 15, 2026

Spotify adds personalisation workout

Apps, Gadgets, Tools & Softwares

Spotify Brings Audiobooks to Nigeria in Major 180-Market Expansion

October 15, 2026

Minicor Raises $3.8 Million

Business & Markets

Nigerian-Co-Founded AI Startup Minicor Raises $3.8 Million to Connect AI With Legacy Business Software

October 14, 2026

MTN SA Hits 10Gbps in Upper 6GHz 5G-Advanced Trial

African Telecommunications

MTN SA Hits 10Gbps in Upper 6GHz 5G-Advanced Trial

October 14, 2026

Oluwatosin Thompson talks about the African currency

Explainers

Africa Wants to Trade in Its Own Currencies. Why Does the Architecture of Money Still Depend on Foreign Currency?

October 14, 2026

NCC Abuja

African Telecommunications

NCC Steps Up Enforcement to Block Fake Smartphones

October 14, 2026

Opay legal suit

Reports

OPay Makes More Money Lending Than Moving Money in Nigeria

October 14, 2026

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