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Attention Is the New Oil. In Africa, the Drilling Rights Are Still Up for Grabs Oil built fortunes by controlling something everyone needed but few could byFatima OladunniMay 12, 2026
Niche Platforms Are Eating African Mass Media From the Inside The Lagos newspaper that once reached two million readers is printing fewer byBolu BabalolaMay 11, 2026
Telcos Are Back — and African Startups Should Be Worried Africa's telcos — MTN, Airtel, Safaricom — are no longer sleeping byBolu BabalolaMay 11, 2026
Africa NewsMarch 17, 2026 EIB Commits €40M to Speedinvest’s €200M Africa Fund: Why Vienna Becoming a New Fundraising Corridor Matters More Than the Money On March 16, 2026, EIB Global committed €40 million to Speedinvest's first byBetty Wangari
News NigeriaMarch 17, 2026 Nigeria’s iDICE Tech Fund Finally Lands With a $729K Startup Grant: Three Years, $618M Pledged, and the First Check Is ₦1 Billion for 100 Founders Three years after Nigeria launched one of Africa's most ambitious digital byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaMarch 16, 2026 NDPC to Nigerian Content Creators: Filming Strangers for TikTok Violates Privacy Law—And Yes, You Can Be Prosecuted On March 13, 2026, Nigeria's data protection regulator put content creators on byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaMarch 13, 2026 CBN Mandates Automated AML Systems Across Nigerian Financial Institutions On March 10, 2026, CBN killed manual anti-money laundering compliance in byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsMarch 11, 2026 South Africa’s Draft AI Policy Expected to Be Gazetted This Month: The Middle Road Between EU Over-Regulation and India’s Hands-Off Approach After two years of deliberation, South Africa's Draft National AI Policy is byBetty Wangari
News NigeriaMarch 11, 2026 Nigeria’s NITDA Partners With NKENNEAi to Build African Language AI Infrastructure When NITDA announced its partnership with NKENNEAi in late February 2026, it byFatima Oladunni
Africa News NigeriaMarch 11, 2026 CcHUB’s 2025 Impact Report: 3,312 African Startups Backed, $4.18M Deployed. Most African tech hubs talk about supporting startups byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMarch 9, 2026 Rwanda Claimed It Became Africa’s First TikTok Monetization Market. Then the Government Said It Didn’t. The Real Story Is More Complicated When Bruce Melodie asked President Kagame to help unlock TikTok earnings at the byBetty Wangari
Africa NewsMarch 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 Oladunni
Events News NigeriaMarch 4, 2026 Enugu’s Quiet Tech Takeover: Can Nigeria’s Southeast Become the Continent’s Next Lagos or Nairobi? With 53,000 people at its tech festival, $50M in startup funding facilitated, byFatima Oladunni
