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16-Year-Old Belusochim Ugochukwu Joins Apple’s ML Team

At sixteen, Nigerian developer Belusochim Ugochukwu has joined Apple's

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Meta Launches AI Academy Nigeria With FG, Offers $5,000 to Startups

Meta has partnered with Nigeria's government to launch AI Academy Nigeria,

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Egypt's NTRA, Telecom Egypt and Huawei have completed Africa's first mobile

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Nigeria has soft-launched the Government Service Portal, a single digital

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Lesotho Begins Work on a National AI Strategy and Data Centre Plan

Lesotho has opened a five-day Maseru workshop to draft a National AI Strategy

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Terra Industries Closes $52M Seed Round to Expand Global South Push

Terra Industries has raised an additional $18 million, closing its seed round at

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Why Summits Africa Fintech & Banking Summit 2026 - Nairobi Edition

Africa Fintech & Banking Summit 2026 Heads to Nairobi

Why Summits has released the agenda for the Africa Fintech & Banking Summit 2026

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Jumia Raises $50M as Equity Nearly Hits Zero, IFC Anchors Half

Jumia has raised $50 million in new equity, split evenly between IFC and a group

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Africa’s Top 20 AI Figures in 2026

From Bosun Tijani's seat on the UN's new AI for Good Commission to Kate Kallot's

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YouTube Doubles Monetisation Bar: What It Means for Africa

YouTube Just Made Monetisation Harder — African Creators Feel It First

YouTube is doubling the watch-hour and Shorts-view thresholds required to join

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Nigeria Brings Crypto Further Into Its Tax Net With New NRS Rules

Nigeria's Revenue Service has released guidelines taxing crypto at nearly every

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Nigeria’s Project BRIDGE Enters Execution Phase With Bridge OA Incorporation

Nigeria has incorporated Bridge Open Access, the company tasked with delivering

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GoMed and UNFPA Launch Digital Health Platform for UNILAG Students

GoMed Nigeria has partnered with UNFPA and the Lagos State Government to launch

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NCC Sets August 27 Workshop to Advance Universal Acceptance

NCC has invited Nigeria's tech community, academia, and government institutions

byFatima Oladunni

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NITDA Partners Women Educators to Expand Digital Literacy Push

NITDA has agreed to explore a nationwide digital literacy programme with the

byFatima Oladunni

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Moove Raises $250M at $2.1B Valuation, Becomes Africa-Born Latest Unicorn

Moove has raised $250 million in a Series C round led by Abu Dhabi’s

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Top Tech Bootcamps in Africa 2026: Which Ones Actually Lead to Jobs?

A 22-year-old in Yaba can spend six months and a chunk of savings on a coding

byBetty Wangari

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Grants, Fellowships & Accelerators for Africans

Grants, Fellowships and Accelerators Africans Can Apply for in August 2026

A cluster of deadlines lands in the first two weeks of the month of August,

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Africa’s 10 Most-Funded Climate Tech Startups in 2026 So Far

Spiro's roughly $320 million haul dwarfs the rest of the field, but the real

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GoLemon Shuts Down, Ending Ex-Paystack Founders’ Grocery Bet

GoLemon, the Lagos grocery delivery startup founded by four ex-Paystack

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Climate Tech Startups in Africa Are Winning the Funding War.

Climate tech has overtaken fintech as the sector investors trust most in Africa,

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How to Land Remote Foreign Tech Jobs While Living in Africa

Remote tech jobs from Africa have gone from rare to routine, with 52,000 open

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Africa’s 2026 Startup Graveyard: Every Major Shutdown So Far

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Zedcrest Acquires Leatherback in Nigeria’s Latest Fintech Consolidation Play

Zedcrest Group has completed its acquisition of Leatherback, folding the

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Nigeria Brings Crypto Further Into Its Tax Net With New NRS Rules

Nigeria’s Project BRIDGE Enters Execution Phase With Bridge OA Incorporation

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GoMed and UNFPA Launch Digital Health Platform for UNILAG Students

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Zedcrest Acquires Leatherback in Nigeria’s Latest Fintech Consolidation Play

10 Cheapest Money Transfer Apps to Send Money to Nigeria from the UK in 2026

Nigeria’s Senate Advances Bill Forcing Meta, TikTok to Open Local Offices

Countries Leading AI Adoption in Africa: Who’s Actually Ahead

ZainTECH and Nile Launch AI-Driven Network-as-a-Service

Nedbank Secures 79.9% Shareholder Approval in $855M NCBA Takeover

Fusepay Launches Fuse360, an AI-Native OS for African Trade

Now Open: Founders Fund Africa Opens $50K Creative Economy Accelerator

Nigeria Crosses $250 Million Startup Funding Mark For First Time Since 2022

Court Upholds FCCPC’s Power To Regulate Nigeria’s Digital Lending Market

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