A digital platform to ease trading activities across the African continent has just been launched by The Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat.
The initiative is an interconnect public
SEACOM and British Telecommunications (BT) today announced a strategic partnership that will enable SEACOM to deliver new networking, security, and communications solutions to enterprise customers in Africa while also strengthening
Sharwa, an Egyptian Social commerce startup has today announced the closing of $2 million in Nuwa Capital and Hambro Perks Oryx Fund-co-led pre-seed funding round, with participation from several strategic
Convertedin, an Egyptian startup that operates a marketing operating system for e-commerce brands, announced today that it has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Saudi-based Merak Capital,
One of the recent winners of the International Koffi Annan Awards, myPaddi, a Nigerian-owned Health-tech, plans to launch E-pharmacies with the prize money from the competition. This was revealed during
In order to help the government quickly fix potholes, the Transport Minister, Fikile Mbalula, has urged the public to report them via a recently released app for municipal and provincial
OneOrder, an Egyptian restaurant tech startup that provides logistical services to restaurants via software and artificial intelligence, has secured a $6.5 million (EGP 125M) working capital facility from Contact
Africa is not new to fiber-optic networks. According to some estimates, African nations have installed more than 1.389 million kilometers of terrestrial fiber lines, 936,000 of which were
South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has advised that the country establish a formal schedule for the phase-out of 2G and 3G connections to modernize the
The Women Techsters Fellowship (WTF) Technology For Social Change and Development Initiative, class of 2023, taking place in Lagos, Nigeria has selected Sixty-Eight (68) women from Kenya, to be admitted
More startups are beginning to explore for alternative funding sources, like crowdfunding and revenue-based finance, to help them expand. Because of the failure of many enterprises caused by the misalignment
OpenServe, the wholesale network infrastructure division of Telkom Group, a provider of mobile networks in South Africa, has announced it will henceforth operate as a separate subsidiary.
Following the conclusion