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This September, more than 200 young innovators from over a dozen countries will spend 48 hours in Accra building working AI a government-backed bet that the continent can turn its strategy documents into something people can actually use. Africa is not short of artificial-intelligence strategies. Nearly a dozen governments have published national AI plans in the past three years, and Ghana added its own earlier in 2026.

Clydestone Ghana Plc, one of only two technology companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange, has taken MTN’s parent companies to court over intellectual property it says it developed nearly two decades ago and was never compensated for.

WhatsApp is finally letting people call each other from a web browser. Until now, that feature was limited to the mobile app and WhatsApp’s standalone desktop program. Meta, which owns WhatsApp, is rolling the capability out to WhatsApp for Web starting this week. The web version will get its own Calls tab, mirroring what’s already in the desktop and mobile apps. That tab keeps a log of call history and a list of favorite contacts.

Quidax, the first digital asset exchange to receive a provisional license from Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission, is expanding its stablecoin payment infrastructure to more than 21 countries and 14 currencies, the company announced Tuesday. The move positions the exchange to capture a larger share of Africa’s cross-border payments market, which loses an estimated $5 billion a year to fees and delays.

Meta is rolling out a new free verification badge on Facebook, aimed squarely at a problem the company itself has helped create: it’s getting harder to tell whether the account on the other end of a Marketplace listing, a dating match, or a Group post belongs to an actual person or an AI-generated front. The feature, called Facebook Verified, asks users to record a short video selfie, which Meta then checks against a person’s existing profile photos.

Village Capital has committed a combined $500,000 to three Ghanaian startups, closing out the initial Ghana portfolio for a $4 million pilot fund backed by Dutch development finance institutions and bringing the firm’s total investment in the country to $850,000 across five companies. The three recipients — Built Financial Technologies, GrowForMe and SAYeTECH — join Rivia Clinics and VDL Fulfilment, which received a combined $350,000 in May.

M-KOPA, the London-headquartered fintech that finances phones and solar products for Africa’s informal workforce, announced that it has reached 10 million customers across five countries — a milestone that took 14 years to build but only six to mostly complete. The company’s timeline tells its own story about where the growth came from.

Ghana’s telecom regulator has formally launched the country’s first competitive auction for 5G spectrum, inviting mobile operators and new entrants to bid for airwaves that will determine who controls next-generation wireless capacity in the country for the next 15 years.

Ghana’s telecom regulator has made official what industry watchers have anticipated for weeks: Next Gen Infraco Limited (NGIC) is no longer the sole company permitted to build and operate the country’s wholesale 5G network. The National Communications Authority (NCA) said Wednesday it had amended NGIC’s Wholesale Electronic Communications Infrastructure Licence, striking the exclusivity clause that had reserved wholesale 5G infrastructure for the company alone.

Lagos-based SeamlessHR, the payroll and HR software company that counts Sterling Bank, PwC and Coronation among its roughly 2,000 corporate clients, is changing its name. The new entity, Seamless Technologies, is meant to signal something more than a rebrand: a bet that the company’s real long-term value lies not in HR software itself, but in the financial data that HR software generates.