Kenya’s Fidelity Shield Insurance has launched a new digital health coverage scheme known as ‘My Afya Shield’ which is designed to transform healthcare access in the...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has entered into a partnership with South African health-tech startup, Lenmed Hospital Group, aimed...
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced signing an agreement that will see it commit $100 million in trade finance facility in favour of Democratic Republic of...
Airtel Africa has announced the successful activation of the 2Africa submarine cable system that will connect Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa. In a statement by the...
Airtel Kenya has announced an expansion of its 5G network to 39 counties and 285 wards in the country. The expansion, according to the giant telco...
Potcast Production, an Egypt-based innovative company that specializes in podcast production, has announced securing an an undisclosed pre-seed funding round to help enhance its content production...
Kenyan influencer marketing platform, Wowzi, has announced a partnership with Mastercard and Masria Digital Payments which will see it disburse $2.04 million to transform the financial...
The Mastercard Foundation has extended its EdTech Fellowship Egypt following earlier programmes in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. The EdTech Fellowship, which was launched in 2019,...
Pan-African financial services company, Ecobank Group, has opened applications for its 2024 Fintech Challenge with a whopping $50,000 prize money up for grabs. The annual competition...
Mastercard has announced the winners of the third edition of its Women SME Leaders Awards which celebrates the achievements of women-owned and led businesses across diverse...
DigMo, a gamified fintech startup which helps users to build wealth tools from low to middle-income earners, has been launched...
TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) became the third team to win the 2024 African Women’s Champions...
American rapper, Onika Maraj, popularly known as Nicki Minaj, has poured encomium on Nigerian Afrobeats superstar, David Adeleke, aka Davido,...
The Small-Scale Farmers Development Agency (SAFADA) of Zambia has warned of uncertainty on the future of the agricultural sector, stating...
A Nigerian civil society organization, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has called on President Bola Tinubu to launch...
South African disc jockey, DJ Black Coffee, has been named the World’s Best DJ 2024 at the Golden Moon Awards....
The draw for the 2024 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) holding in Morocco from July 5 to 26 next...
The Zambian government has announced the successful repatriation of a one-year-eight-month-old child who was trafficked to Mozambique. Making the announcement...
Some Nigerians based in Finland have been thrown into panic mode following the arrest and detention of the self-styled Prime...
In an effort to maintain a tight eye on the economy, Mauritius’ Prime Minister, Navin Ramgoolam, who took office this...