Editorial & Sourcing Policy

AfroEuropa is an independent newsroom covering the technology and business corridor between Africa and Europe. Our stories are written in our own words under human editorial oversight; most are produced with our in-house newsroom engine, and every machine-assisted story is labelled as such on the page.

We monitor a curated set of named, reputable technology and business outlets across Africa and Europe through their public RSS feeds. We use these to learn what is happening: the underlying facts and events, which no publisher owns.

We do notrepublish other outlets' articles. When several outlets cover the same event, we read their reporting and write our own original account of the facts.

Each story is synthesised from the underlying facts and re-reported in our own words. Our system is explicitly instructed never to copy or closely paraphrase source wording, never to fabricate quotes, numbers, names, or dates, and to keep framing neutral and factual.

Automated writing can still make mistakes. Higher-risk stories, in particular those centred on a named individual, are routed to a human for review before they can be published.

Every story credits the outlets whose reporting informed it and links back to them, so readers can go to the original sources. We treat attribution as mandatory, not optional.

Wherever we can, cover images come from license-clean sources such as Pexels and Wikimedia Commons, credited where the license requires it.

Where no license-clean image exists for a story, we may instead use the image the source outlet published alongside its own article (the one it distributes in its public feed for exactly this purpose), credited to that outlet on the story.

If you are a rights-holder and you do not want your image used here, tell us and we will remove it, no argument and no questions. Write to editorial@afroeuropa.com. We would rather lose a picture than use one you did not want us to have.

We aim to be accurate, but if you spot an error, or if you are a publisher or the subject of a story and would like a correction or your material removed, please contact us and we will review it promptly.

Email editorial@afroeuropa.com. Please include the article link and what you would like corrected or removed.

Articles produced by our newsroom engine carry a "From the AfroEuropa desk" note on the page, which says in plain words that our automated writing system helped produce the story. We believe readers should always know how a story was made, and they should never have to guess.

Some features on AfroEuropa are commissioned and paid for: executive and professional profiles, thought-leadership pieces, and startup spotlights. These travel in a separate lane from our reporting, and the lane is always visible:

• Every paid or partner-supplied feature is labelled "Partner content" on the page, permanently. The label does not come off after publication.
• Partner features are identified as advertiser content in our structured metadata and feeds, and their outbound links carry rel="sponsored" attribution.
• Partner features receive an editorial pass for accuracy and standards before publication, and we decline pieces we cannot stand behind.
• Independent editorial coverage is not for sale. Payment never buys, removes, or softens coverage, and the subjects of our reporting have no editorial control.

Questions about a specific article's status? Email editorial@afroeuropa.com.