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An innovative app, named Malaicha is helping Zimbabweans living in South Africa to order and send groceries to Zimbabwe.
Usually, citizens in Zimbabwe depend on food supplies from South Africa,
Nairobi-based healthcare incubator and investor Villgro Kenya has committed a total of $90,000 into Kenya’s The Pathology Network and Uganda’s clinicPesa.
Villgro Kenya is an early-stage business
Senegal online food company, Club Kossam has doubled its sales due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This boost in sales comes after when coronavirus reached Senegal. Residents who live in the
Egyptian startup, Interact Labs, has raised funding commitments worth US$60,000 after it took part in the Zoom-based digital accelerator event “The Nest”.
Interact Labs designs effective and affordable
Ventures Platform has invested in three African tech startups, namely; Tambua Health, Brass, and FunnelJoy to help them scale their operations.
Ventures Platform is a Pan-African seed and early-stage fund
Social media giant, Facebook Inc has acquired GIPHY to join Instagram’s team.
GIPHY is a leader in visual expression and creation. It contains a searchable library of animated GIFS
Zimbabwean fintech company, Bitkesh, has rolled out a new WhatsApp-based digital wallet named, Uhuruwallet to help unbanked foreign nationals in South Africa make payments.
The Uhuru digital wallet is a
MTN Group Ltd. cuts off spending for the year to save money and maintaining networks as Africa’s biggest wireless carrier amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
According to a statement
Facebook Inc. in collaboration with China’s largest Telecom carrier, China Mobile Ltd, and other Telecom carriers will build a giant undersea cable to give Africa a faster and more
Uber, the leading ride-hailing service provider, has mandated all its drivers in the United States, Canada, India, most of Europe and Latin America, to wear a mask before offering services.
Digital pitch event ‘The Nest’ is helping African startups acquire over US$135,000 in funding.
The Nest which is supported by UNTAPPED is a Zoom-based digital event where each
Egypt-based digital lending startup, Shahry has received $650,000 in pre-seed funding from the investment arm of Egbank, a leading Egyptian bank.
Shahry uses a proprietary AI-based credit scoring engine
