News
Rwanda: Rura, Enviroserve Rwanda Launch Competition to Boost E-Waste Collection
The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) and Enviroserve Rwanda, together with partners of the Rwanda e-waste campaign, have launched a competition dubbed “Drop-off ...
News
Zimbabwe: Cost of RBZ Gold Coins to Be Based On International Prices
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is set to commence the trading of gold coins this month in a bid to introduce an ...
Kenya
Kenya: M-Pesa launches interest-free loans for buying goods
Safaricom has unveiled a zero-interest credit service that will allow millions of its customers to shop for goods up to Sh100,000 and pay ...
Namibia
Namibia: Fitch Downgrades DBN Too
CREDIT rating agency, Fitch Ratings has knocked the Development Bank of Namibia’s creditworthiness down to the last notch before investors start seeing the ...
Kenya
Kenya: Kenya Power to Launch its Fixed Internet Services in 2023
In March Kenya Power, a state-owned electricity distribution company announced it will start selling fixed internet. It has now announced that it will ...
Egypt
Egypt: Egypt issues LE10 plastic note, continues to work with its paper counterpart
The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) issued Tuesday plastic LE 10 notes. The new banknote was produced using the latest banknote production lines ...
Namibia
Namibia: Namibia’s MTC rolls out voluntary SIM registration campaign
Namibia’s Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC), has announced that it has begun its voluntary sim-card registration campaign which will run until 01 January 2023. ...
Innovation
Kenya: Flocash and Visa Partner to Promote Digital Capabilities for African SMEs
The first step in this partnership is the launch of Flostore, powered by a Visa digital wallet and the Flocash pan -African payment ...
Kenya
Kenya: Kenya Prepares to Migrate from IPv4 to IPv6 in 2023
The Communications Authority of Kenya announced that the country it is preparing to move from Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to Internet Protocol ...
News
South Africa: aYo Joins Forces with Clickatell to Launch WhatsApp Customer Channel
African insurtech aYo Holdings has launched a WhatsApp channel in its markets across Africa to make it easier for its customers to communicate with the ...