North Africa Dominates Desalination Market by 79.9%

The desalination market in Africa has recovered from the global economic downturn in 2015-2017, which resulting in low desalination investment across the continent with North Africa leading by 79.9 percent.…

Read More

Microsoft Opens First Data Centres in Africa

Microsoft has opened its first data centres in Africa, becoming the first global provider to deliver cloud services from data centres on the continent. Microsoft has announced the opening of…

Read More

Ethiopia Gebeya Secures IFC Funding for Women Software Developers

Gebeya and IFC, a member of the World Bank Group through the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), has signed a $500,000 advisory services agreement to implement the Digital Gender-Ethiopia Program.…

Read More

Paylater Secures $5m Facility, Migrates to Full Service Digital Bank in Nigeria

Nigerian fintech, One Finance Limited has has secured a $5M debt facility for its consumer facing platform, Paylater enabling it to migrate to full digital bank. The facility comes from…

Read More

Somali Delivery Startup Gulivery adds e-hailing Services

Somali startup Gulivery, which provides delivery services to restaurants, shops and e-commerce platforms, has added e-hailing functionalities to its platform. Gulivery developed a mobile app that allowed people to order…

Read More

Nigeria’s NINE Appointed Jack Ma’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative Regional Partner

NINE,(Network of Incubators & Innovators in Nigeria) has been selected as regional partner for Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma’s Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI). NINE, is a network of Business/Technology…

Read More

World’s First Global Self-Service IP to Automate Time-consuming Manual Process

The launch of the world’s first global self-service IP (Internet Protocol) address management platform, Switch, will help automate a time-consuming manual process saving companies and government organisations critical time and…

Read More

Paradigm Initiative Commends Liberia, Tasks Nigeria, Ghana on Free Press

Paradigm Initiative has commended the Liberian President, George Weah for signing into law, a Bill to decriminalize libel in Liberia through an Act to Amend the Liberian Codes Revised, Penal…

Read More

Personal Computing Device Shipments to Continue Slow Decline

According to a new forecast from Latest statistics from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Personal Computing Device Tracker reveals that unit shipments for the worldwide personal computing devices…

Read More

MTN to Raise $1b from Asset Sales as FY Profit Surges

MTN Group plans to raise more than 15 billion rand ($1.05 billion) in asset sales over the next three years, Africa’s biggest telecoms group said on Thursday after reporting a…

Read More