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Editor-in-Chief · London
Oliver Bennett is the Editor-in-Chief of AfroEuropa, leading a newsroom with bureaus across Europe and Africa from London, United Kingdom. Every story is editor-reviewed and credits its original reporting.
TikTok has reached a confidential settlement with a Florida teenager, exiting a Los Angeles jury trial set for July 27 and leaving Meta and Snap to face the case alone.
Africa's largest telecom operator confirms Jerry Soko as permanent CEO of its Eswatini unit, reinforcing a strategy of promoting executives from within.
The US president's 2025 financial disclosure reveals more than $1 billion in earnings from crypto ventures, even as the wider market cooled.
The subsidiary of Japan's SBI Group is winding down its Bitcoin mining pool, giving miners until July 31 to redirect their hashrate.
Eighty students from six South African institutions built financial-inclusion solutions at a UCT hackathon that saw women feature in every top-three team for the first time.
StirlingX raised $20M for its sovereign intelligence platform while Manchester's BidScript secured €701k, underscoring European appetite for specialised AI.
Bitcoin gained more than 4% to top $61,000 after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation pressures had softened, shrugging off a sharp sell-off in South Korean equities.
The brokerage unveiled its Arbitrum-based Robinhood Chain at a London event, rolling out tokenized stocks in 120+ countries and confirming crypto trading is coming to the UK.
Singapore's OCBC has added two AI-powered avatars to its app, offering round-the-clock personalised wealth management services.
Oppo's new Reno 16 series is rolling out market by market with steep price hikes, but Nigeria and South Africa still have no confirmed launch date.
European financial institutions are increasingly framing digital sovereignty as a central outcome of banking transformation, alongside streamlined operations and compliance.
At its debut African Cloud Summit in Johannesburg, Google unveiled AI labs, accelerators and infrastructure aimed at making South Africa the launchpad for the continent's AI economy.
A three-week hands-on test of AI stock and forex bots concludes discipline and risk control matter more than any promise of predicting the market.
A brand press feature spotlights everyday acts of kindness within Nigeria's ride-hailing ecosystem, a sector increasingly central to urban mobility.
Lucida AI's €6.1M seed and Saltroad's £1.5M raise underline how voice-native AI is drawing capital across Europe, with growing relevance for emerging markets.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe described advanced artificial intelligence as comparable to digital nuclear weapons, signaling a shift in the agency's tech posture.
A cluster of partnerships spanning AI tooling, embedded B2B payments and travel commerce points to where financial services is investing next.
The KIDS Act cleared the US House of Representatives with strong bipartisan support, though analysts say Senate approval remains unlikely.
