Nairobi’s Stock Exchange Is Finally Building a Tech Board. Can It Compete With Johannesburg — Or Will It Join Nigeria’s Zero-IPO Club? After decades as a home for banks, telcos, and brewers, the NSE is creating a byBetty WangariFebruary 20, 2026
Anthropic Just Signed Its First African Government Deal — And Rwanda Is Betting Its Digital Future On It In a three-year MOU covering health, education, and public services, Rwanda byFatima OladunniFebruary 20, 2026
South Africa’s Araxi Just Dropped R1 Billion on Pay@ — And It’s a Bet on the End of Fragmentation In the biggest payments consolidation deal South Africa has seen in years, byBolu BabalolaFebruary 18, 2026
Gabon Just Flipped the Kill Switch on Social Media — Indefinitely. Here’s What That Actually Costs. The Central African nation joins a growing list of governments using internet byBetty WangariFebruary 18, 2026
Africa News StartupNovember 20, 2024 Google selects 6 South African startups for its Black Founders Accelerator. Six innovative South African startups have been selected to join the Google for byFausat Abiola
Africa NewsNovember 20, 2024 Amenli, a Cairo-based insurtech startup, has raised $2.3 million Egyptian insurtech startup Amenli has secured a $2 byFausat Abiola
Africa Events NewsNovember 18, 2024 Latitude59 Unveils 10 African Startups for Final Pitch Showdown. Ten African startups have been shortlisted for the regional final of the byBolu Babalola
News NigeriaNovember 14, 2024 Zenith Bank Invites Tech Innovators to Zecathon 4.0 Zenith Bank has announced the highly anticipated return of its annual startup byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsNovember 14, 2024 ITIDA and Flat6Labs Join Forces to Accelerate Egyptian Tech Innovation Egypt’s Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) and venture byFausat Abiola
Africa NewsNovember 14, 2024 Egyptian E-Procurement Startup Teradix Awarded $140K Grant Egyptian e-procurement startup Teradix has won a $140,000 grant from the byFausat Abiola
Africa NewsNovember 12, 2024 Four African Startups Receive Strategic Investment from Visa. Visa, a leading global payments technology company, has announced a strategic byBolu Babalola
News NigeriaNovember 8, 2024 Nigeria’s Beacon Power Services secures Series A investment to drive growth. Beacon Power Services (BPS), an innovative Nigerian energy technology company, byFausat Abiola
Africa NewsNovember 8, 2024 Ghanaian retail-tech startup Tendo acquires counterpart Shopa to boost supply chain infrastructure Tendo Technologies, a Ghanaian retail-tech startup known for empowering byFausat Abiola
News NigeriaNovember 1, 2024 Techstars Lagos Accelerator Shuts Down After Two Years. Two years after launching its accelerator program in Nigeria, ARM Labs Lagos byFatima Oladunni
