Egypt
Egypt fintech KIWE receives first financing from Digital Finance Holding (dfin)
Egypt fintech KIWE a peer-to-peer money exchange app has closed its first investment round led by Digital Finance Holding (dfin) alongside participation from EFG Hermes, ...
Africa
Zambia: Airtel Money, Mastercard partner to accelerate digital payments in Zambia
Mobile money company Airtel Money has launched a virtual payment solution called Airtel Money Mastercard in Zambia. The solution enables its customers and even ...
News
Nigeria: Diaspora collaboration to drive Nigeria’s economic growth —Zenith Bank boss
The Group Managing Director of Zenith Bank Plc, Mr. Ebenezer Onyeagwu, yesterday, called for increased collaboration of Nigerians in the diaspora to support ...
News
SA: IHS Towers acquires MTN’s over 5000 telecom towers at $412 million in South Africa
In a deal that will see the MTN group forfeit some of its towers to one of the largest telecommunications infrastructure providers in ...
News
Nigeria: Crypto firms practise high-level illegality, alleges Emefiele
The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeira, Godwin Emefiele, has again expressed the apex bank’s disapproval for cryptocurrency transactions in Nigeria, saying ...
News
Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in UK
Amazon (AMZN) is to cease accepting payments made by UK-issued Visa (V) credit cards from next year, it has revealed. The online retail ...
News
Nigeria: Senate passes Real Estate Regulatory Council bill
The Nigerian Senate has passed a bill to establish the Real Estate Regulatory Council of Nigeria. The passed bill would help curb fraudulent ...
Africa
African Development Bank’s Coding for Employment program set to expand digital skills among rural youth
Coding for Employment and its technical partners, Microsoft Philanthropies, will offer the digital ambassadors an intensive three-month program featuring in-demand skills The African ...
Intelligence
Kenya: The number of malicious URLs recently detected by Kaspersky threatening Kenyan and Nigerian Internet users reaches 6.5 million combined
More than 30 million web threats were seen across South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria combined between April – June 2021 While the number ...
News
Nigeria: VFD Group, Afreximbank partner to support intra Africa trade fair
As part of its initiative to explore cross border partnership within Africa and beyond, VFD Group Plc, is partnering with African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) ...