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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 NewsFebruary 17, 2026 Flextock Just Raised $12.6M to Fix the Broken Backbone of Middle East E-Commerce. With a modular suite spanning fulfillment, shipping, cross-border trade, byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsFebruary 16, 2026 South Africa Just Made Digital Transformation a National Imperative—50+ Commitments, Zero Deadlines President Cyril Ramaphosa walked into Cape Town City Hall on February 12, 2026 byBolu Babalola
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 16, 2026 African Defence-Tech Startup Terra Industries Raises $22M in Seed Extension, Bringing Total Funding to $34M Terra Industries, the Nigerian defence technology startup building autonomous byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsFebruary 16, 2026 Lupiya Closes $11.25M Series A After Two Years and “Multiple Rejections”—Here’s Why That Matters for African Fintech Evelyn Chilomo Kaingu didn’t sugarcoat it When Lupiya’s CEO and byBetty Wangari
News NigeriaFebruary 10, 2026 Nigeria Just Collected ₦7.2 Billion in Data Privacy Penalties—And It’s Just Getting Started While Silicon Valley debates AI ethics and Brussels refines GDPR, Nigeria has byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 9, 2026 Google Opens Applications for Accelerator Africa Cohort 10—Now It’s an AI Research Lab, Not Just a Startup Program After nearly a decade of backing African startups, Google is fundamentally byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaFebruary 6, 2026 SouthWest Innovation & Tech Co. Launches Inaugural Pre-Accelerator, Backing 28 African Deep Tech Startups Nigeria’s innovation landscape just got a structural upgrade byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsFebruary 4, 2026 TymeBank rebrands as GoTyme Bank, signaling global ambitions beyond South Africa South Africa–based digital lender TymeBank has officially rebranded as GoTyme byBolu Babalola
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 4, 2026 Afreximbank backs eight African startups in first accelerator cohort, offering up to $250k The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has selected eight African startups byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaFebruary 4, 2026 LemFi secures AUSTRAC approval, deepening its push into Australia’s remittance market African fintech LemFi has received formal approval from AUSTRAC to operate as an byFatima Oladunni
