East Africa
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June 23, 2018 •
East Africa, Lists, Mobile and Telecoms, North Africa, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Much of 2018’s growth in internet users in Africa has been driven by more affordable smartphones and mobile data plans. Mobile phone users in Africa are up by more than 20 percent, with the reported number of internet users in Mali increasing by almost 6 times since January 2017. The number of internet users in [&hellip...
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June 22, 2018 •
East Africa, Finance •
Neo Sesinye •
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Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda offer investors a reward score above the African continent’s average, according to the 2018 Africa Risk-Reward Index from Control Risks and Oxford Economics. Ethiopia and Tanzania lead the list of the top rewarding...
June 18, 2018 •
East Africa, Finance, North Africa, Opinion, Southern Africa, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Africa has long been considered a global leader in fintech innovation and adoption. The continent’s low penetration rates for traditional banking services coupled with high penetration of mobile phones makes it a rich breeding ground for fintech...
June 18, 2018 •
East Africa, Finance, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa •
Neo Sesinye •
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Postal services can play a pivotal role in delivering remittances, lowering the transfer costs and providing access to basic financial services in Africa, according to a report released today by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and...
June 17, 2018 •
East Africa, General, North Africa, Southern Africa, Startups, Top Stories •
Neo Sesinye •
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Innovation and entrepreneurship play an ever-increasing role in growing Africa’s emerging technology ecosystem. According to research by the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator, over the past two years alone, Africa has seen the number of innovation hubs double....
June 16, 2018 •
East Africa, Opinion, Southern Africa, West Africa •
Neo Sesinye •
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Money received from loved ones working abroad can transform a family’s living standards. From Albania to Australia and from Bahrain to Bangladesh, the essential bridges built between countries due to remittances support migrant families and keep children in...
June 14, 2018 •
East Africa, Sponsored, Startups •
Neo Sesinye •
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TIFAT a farm technology that connects farmers to a buyer’s marketplace emerged the winner of the DEMO Africa Uganda Innovation Tour. TIFAT beat a field of more than 15 other startups from Uganda in a two-round contest at the Hive Collab in Kampala. 30...
June 14, 2018 •
East Africa, Finance •
Neo Sesinye •
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Mastercard announced today that Salah Goss has been appointed as Head of the Mastercard Labs for Financial Inclusion, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Salah brings extensive experience in financial inclusion specializing in mobile enabled solutions, agent banking and...
June 14, 2018 •
East Africa, Opinion, Southern Africa, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Despite the fact that Africa’s e-learning market doubled from 2011 to 2016, reaching $513 million, the continent’s three biggest economies, South Africa, Nigeria, and Kenya, are not yet moving their training applications to the cloud en masse. This...
June 13, 2018 •
East Africa, Healthcare, North Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa •
Neo Sesinye •
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Pharmaceutical company, Sanofi’s Afric@Tech initiative – which was created as a part of the recent Viva Technology event in Paris, France, took place this May 2018 with its overall winner emanating from South Africa. Aligned to Sanofi’s objective of...
June 11, 2018 •
East Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, Startups, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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Google has announced that applications for Class 2 of the Launchpad Accelerator Africa program are open. Google also announced it is extending the program to include startups from a further 12 African countries. This means it is now accepting applications...
June 11, 2018 •
East Africa, North Africa, Southern Africa, Startups, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
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AfriLabs has announced the admission of 40 new hubs; its largest hub admission to date into its network making it a total of 100 hubs across 30 African countries. This also extends the company’s reach to 6 new countries; Morocco, Algeria, Somali Land,...
June 8, 2018 •
East Africa, North Africa, Opinion, Security, Southern Africa, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on A new malware is making its mark in Africa
There’s a new cyber threat on the block, and it’s sneakier than anything we’ve seen before – undoubtedly the reason why it’s the malware of choice for hackers across Africa right now. In fact, though crypto-mining malware is...
June 7, 2018 •
East Africa, Education •
Neo Sesinye •
Comments Off on African Development Bank launches coding for employment program
The African Development Bank, together with partners – The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook – launched the Coding for Employment Program at the African Innovation Summit in Kigali, Rwanda. By training youth in demand-driven Information and...
June 7, 2018 •
East Africa, Events •
Neo Sesinye •
Comments Off on Africa Innovation Summit kicks off in Kigali
The Prime Minister of Rwanda, the Honourable Edouard Ngirente, this morning officially declared the Africa Innovation Summit (AIS) 2018 open in Kigali, Rwanda. AIS II will focus on innovative and disruptive solutions to the major challenges facing African...
June 7, 2018 •
Cloud Computing, East Africa, Southern Africa, Top Stories, West Africa •
Fundisiwe Maseko •
Comments Off on Liquid Telecom widens availability of Microsoft Azure Stack across Africa
Pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has announced the availability of Microsoft Azure Stack – an extension of an ever-expanding set of cloud services to consistently develop and run hybrid cloud applications – to select African markets....
