Regulatory
SA Competition Commission Approves Afrihost, Cool Ideas Merger
South Africa’s Competition Commission, the country’s business practice watchdog, has unconditionally approved the merger of ISPs: Afrihost, and Cool Ideas. In June, Afrihost ...
News
Nigeria: FG needs $100bn annually to address infrastructure deficit —Emefiele
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, on Saturday, said that the Federal Government needed about US$100 billion annually to address ...
Egypt
EGYPT:VODAFONE EGYPT DENIES ANY ACQUISITION TALKS WITH “STC”
Vodafone-Egypt denied the existence of any acquisition talks between Vodafone International and STC and the sale of Vodafone’s global stake in Vodafone Egypt. ...
News
SOUTH AFRICA:RESERVE BANK KEEPS REPO RATE UNCHANGED
The South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 3.5% per annum. In a ...
Africa
Africa’s Top Ten Countries Ranked by Internet Speed in 2021
Internet and connectivity speed tester Ookla last month released its global market analysis, ranking all countries in terms of fastest mobile and fixed ...
Africa
Africa: UnionPay and S2M to accelerate digital financial Inclusion
UnionPay International partners with S2M to drive digital financial inclusion in Africa Access to financial services in Africa is getting better as data ...
Morroco
Morocco: 11 startups to participate in Plug and Play accelerator program in Morocco
Following the success of Plug and Play’s Smart Cities Batch 1 program, the company is launching a second accelerator in the region which ...
Egypt
Egypt: Plug and Play establishes local presence in Egypt as investments in tech startups rise
ITIDA has signed an MoU Plug and Play, a global startup enabler company specialized in startups in an effort to boost Egypt’s entrepreneurship and startup ...
Africa
Africa Crypto and Blockchain Accelerator seeks to help startups scale their solutions
In a bid to help ventures develop their solutions in the sector, Cardano Foundation and Seedstars have organised the Africa Crypto and Blockchain ...
Egypt
Egyptian social commerce startup Brimore secures investment from Fawry
Egyptian social commerce startup Brimore has raised funding from e-payments solutions and banking services provider Fawry, the North African country’s first startup “unicorn”, ...