Innovation
Nigeria: GIGM dive into financial services space
Nigeria’s GIGM makes super-app play with new e-wallet and bills payment service. What do you call a situation where a business that does ...
Innovation
SA: Mukuru enables eCommerce purchases for South African customers
Mukuru, one of Africa’s largest remittance companies has announced that its Mukuru Card has been activated for online purchases in South Africa, allowing holders ...
Innovation
Nigeria: MTN, Mafab win 3.5GHz Spectrum Auction for 5G . NCC rakes in $546m
MTN Nigeria and Mafab Communications have been declared winners of the two slots of the 3.5GHz spectrum auction for the Fifth Generation (5G) network ...
Africa
Africa: CorpsAfrica, Mastercard Foundation to Create Opportunities for Africans
CorpsAfrica and the Mastercard Foundation has announced a three-year partnership aimed at providing opportunities for young Africans to become change-makers in public health, ...
Innovation
Nigeria: Savings platform, Digikolo relaunches app to deepen financial inclusion
One year after its initial launch, Digikolo, a savings platform driven by Digital Space Capital that aims at encouraging a proper savings culture ...
Africa
Cassava Technologies and Mitsui Sign a Memorandum of Understanding to Accelerate Digital Transformation in Africa
Partnership will further development of digital infrastructure and services in Africa Cassava Technologies (CassavaTechnologies.com), Africa’s first integrated tech company of continental scale, today announced that ...
Egypt
Egypt: Orange Egypt and the German Development Cooperation inaugurate the 7th Orange Digital Center in Africa and the Middle East
To Train, Develop and Empower Young People Today, Orange (www.Orange.com) and the German Development Cooperation are inaugurating, the 7th “Orange Digital Center” (ODC) in ...
Global
SWIFT launches ISO 20022 translation services for cross-border payments
Global provider of secure financial messaging services SWIFT has announced the translation availability for its ISO 20022 customer testing environment for cross-border payments. In-flow translation ...
Africa
Seychelles: Airtel Africa and Ericsson launch data centre in Seychelles
Telecoms operator Airtel Africa has selected Ericsson to drive the relocation and modernisation of their existing network and core services to a new ...
Africa
Angola Cables, CVTelecom join forces to expand connectivity in West Africa
Angola Cables and CVTelecom (Cabo Verde Telecom) have signed an agreement to identify synergies to expand connectivity and network capabilities in West Africa. According ...