Egypt
Egypt: Communications Minister Seeks Bilateral Cooperation with Singaporean Envoy in the ICT Domain
Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat discussed on Monday with Singaporean Ambassador to Egypt Dominic Goh means to develop bilateral relations ...
News
Tanzania and Rwanda Agree to Promote Telecommunications Sector
Tanzania and Rwanda have agreed to work together to promote the telecommunications sector, especially Information and Communication Technology, in order to increase productivity ...
Africa
Cyber Attacks in Africa Comparable to World Wide Rates – Kaspersky
With digital transformation a top priority on the corporate agenda as companies identify new ways to grow their business, cyber attackers and opportunist ...
Regulatory
Rwanda gives nod to KCB to buy bank from Atlas Mara
Rwandese authorities have approved the KCB Group deal to buy Banque Populaire du Rwanda (BPR) from London-listed financial services firm Atlas Mara Limited. ...
Kenya
Kenya Issues Draft Regulations for Crowdfunding Platforms
The Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Planning has published regulations that require all persons who operate or intend to operate an investment-based ...
Africa
Connectivity, collaboration, competition: The 3 essential Cs for Africa’s growth
Africa’s population is rapidly expanding. In fact, forecasters predict that the continent’s population will nearly triple by 2050. This could pose threats or opportunities, ...
Innovation
NITDA – GITEX 2021 Application Closed
Application has now closed for startups bringing innovative initiatives for their pitch in the NITDA – GITEX 2021 competition. Once accepted, the startups ...
News
Nigeria:Loans to Firstmonie agents hit N100 billion – First Bank
First Bank empowers over 114,000 Firstmonie agents with N100 billion loans a year after it launched its agent credit scheme. This was recently ...
Regulatory
Uganda shuts down 2.2 million mobile money accounts
The Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has revealed in its Market Performance quarterly report that about 2.2 million inactive mobile money accounts were removed ...
Nigeria
Nigerian investment platform Chaka secures $1.5M pre-seed after bagging country’s first SEC license
When Robinhood raised its $3 million seed round in 2013, it was a couple of months old with huge ambitions of democratizing securities ...

