Moniepoint Lent ₦1 Trillion Using Payment Data as Gospel. Two Massive Defaults Just Exposed the Limits of Knowing Everything Except What Happens Next. Nigeria's fastest-growing fintech disbursed ₦1 trillion to 70,000 businesses in byBolu BabalolaMarch 6, 2026
Francophone Africa’s VC Awakening: How AfDB’s €6.5M Saviu Fund Is Shifting the Power Map West and Central For years, African VC has meant Lagos, Nairobi, and Cape Town byFatima OladunniMarch 6, 2026
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Big Tech Must Pay Up: ECOWAS’ Emerging Strategy to Force Fair Compensation for African News in the AI Training Era While OpenAI pays Western publishers $1-5M annually for training data, African byBolu BabalolaMarch 4, 2026
Africa NewsOctober 13, 2024 Peach Payments and Sukhiba team up for conversational commerce. Peach Payments, a leading South African online payment has partnered with byFausat Abiola
Africa NewsOctober 13, 2024 Egypt’s Qardy partners Waseela to digitise consumer finance Egypt-based online lending marketplace Qardy has announced a strategic byFausat Abiola
Africa NewsOctober 9, 2024 WiASSUR Partners with AXIAN Group for Strategic Growth in Ivory Coast’s Insurtech Sector. Ivorian insurtech startup WiASSUR has secured a significant equity investment byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsOctober 8, 2024 The Egypt’s Entrepreneur Awards has announced its 15 winners. Fifteen innovative startups have been recognized as winners in the fourth byBolu Babalola
Africa News StartupOctober 7, 2024 South African fintech startup LittleFish has secured funding from TLcom and Flourish. South African fintech startup LittleFish has successfully secured funding from byFausat Abiola
Africa NewsOctober 7, 2024 Acumen fund invests $3.25 million in Malawian and Zambian solar companies. Off-grid solar companies Yellow Malawi and Zambia’s RDG Collective have secured byFausat Abiola
Africa NewsOctober 7, 2024 Egypt’s EdVentures funds 8 new ed-tech startups. Egyptian ed-tech startup EYouth, in partnership with a group of prominent local byFausat Abiola
Africa Fintech NewsOctober 3, 2024 Ivorian fintech startup Daba Finance wins Ecobank’s fintech challenge. Ivorian fintech startup, Daba Finance, has emerged as the grand winner of the byFausat Abiola
Africa NewsOctober 2, 2024 The Unstoppable Africa event in 2024 highlighted the numerous opportunities for investors in Africa. The 2024 Global Africa Business Initiative (GABI), held on the sidelines of the byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsSeptember 30, 2024 Kwiks, a Moroccan HR technology company, secures $827K. Moroccan recruitment platform Kwiks has successfully raised $827,000 in a byFausat Abiola
