Editorial standards
What we publish, how it is checked, and what happens when we get something wrong.
Selection
We publish stories with a commercial consequence: capital moving, capacity being built, rules changing, companies scaling. A story earns a place when it carries a verifiable number and a named actor. Stories framed around poverty, disaster or conflict are not part of our remit.
The role of AI
We use AI as a newsroom tool, under human control. It helps us monitor sources, score which stories fit our remit, draft in our house format, and suggest headlines and summaries. It does not publish. Every article is reviewed and approved by a person before it goes live, and the facts and sources in a draft are checked against the original reporting.
Articles that began as an AI draft are held to exactly the same standard as any other: original wording, at most one short quotation, and a link to the specific source article.
Sources
Every story lists its sources by publication name, each linked to the exact article we relied on. We do not link to homepages. Where we build on our own earlier reporting, we link to it in the text.
Corrections
If we publish something wrong, we correct it on the same URL rather than quietly deleting it. A corrected article carries a dated correction note explaining what changed. Material corrections are never hidden from readers who arrive from a search engine or a shared link.
To report an error, write to hello@africaspoint.com with the article link and the specific point at issue.
Sponsored content
Commercial content is always labelled as sponsored, both on the article and on every card that links to it. Advertisers get no say over editorial coverage, and sponsored pieces are never presented as newsroom reporting.
Images
Every image on the site carries its licence, its source and a credit to the photographer where one exists. Where people appear in an image accompanying African business coverage, the image shows the people the story is actually about.