Annie Njanja

Umba, a US-based digital bank with a focus on emerging markets, has acquired a majority shareholding of Daraja, a Kenyan...

Facebook users were yesterday unable to engage in discussions or see comments on popular pages, sending confusion to som...

A new report detailing the cost of mobile data in different markets across the world, bears the evidence of why internet...

Rights groups are calling on Meta to halt attempts to silence Daniel Motaung, a South African content moderator and whis...

After spending years in London, matching Kenyans in the diaspora with investment opportunities back home, and later on a...

South Africa’s digital industry is among the fastest-growing segments of its economy. However, the low level of racial i...

Big tech companies are facing increased scrutiny in South Africa for dominance abuse and anti-competitive behavior, just...

SendSprint, a money transfer startup based in the UK but with operations in the US and Nigeria, has been launched today ...

Persistent Energy has raised $10 million Series C funding to grow its clean-tech venture building business in Africa, in...

The music catalog of the Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest record company, will be available to users of ...

Flutterwave has come out to deny the fraud and money laundering claims leveled against it by Kenya’s Asset Recovery Agen...

Automotive e-commerce company Autochek has expanded to new markets in Africa after acquiring CoinAfrique, a classified a...

The U.S commodities regulator, Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has filed civil charges against a South Afri...

Meta’s main subcontractor for content moderation in Africa, Sama, will retain its BCorp certification until the case aga...

In February 2020, as the world was shutting down, and as businesses downsized on account of the Covid pandemic, John Kam...

Kune, a Kenya-based startup that started out as an on-demand food delivery service before changing tact over the last fe...

When she was 10 years old, Ope Bukola’s family relocated from Nigeria to the US, where she advanced her studies to later...

After extending credit to thousands of customers over mobile phones since 2015, Ghana-based fintech Fido is now in searc...

RansomHouse, a ransomware gang, has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack on Shoprite, Africa’s largest retailer. T...

Kenya-based Crossboundary Energy Access (CBEA), a mini-grid infrastructure fund, has raised $25 million from ARCH Emergi...

The construction industry in Kenya is so big that it is among the few globally that expanded amidst the Covid lockdowns ...

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of Work Bank, plans to make an equity investment of ...

American social media giant Meta is seeking to have a case filed against it in Kenya dropped saying that the East Africa...

TikTok is fueling disinformation and political tension in Kenya ahead of its August general elections, new research by M...

Global digital payments giant, Visa, and East Africa’s biggest telecom Safaricom, the operator of the M-Pesa mobile mone...

Many businesses looking to set up pan-African operations are often met with the challenge of establishing payment servic...

Ayoken, an NFT marketplace for creatives, has raised $1.4 million pre-seed funding to enable users grow their revenue st...

About 80% of household retail in sub-Saharan Africa is delivered through informal channels, which perennially face sever...

Affordability is one of the biggest impediments for insurance penetration in Kenya. Often, policy holders are required t...

South African edtech startup Foondamate has secured $2 million seed funding in a round led by LocalGlobe, the UK-based v...