Marking World Intellectual Property Day, on Tuesday, UN patent experts announced the champions of this year’s youth video competition. Selected among 142 entries from 63 countries, the top three winners come from Syria, Ghana, and China, the World Intellectual...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Government of Tanzania, through the European Union (EU) funded AGRI-CONNECT flagship program, have launched a national nutrition campaign to develop healthy eating habits in Tanzania based on...

Skaleet, an international fintech providing a next-generation Core Banking Platform (CBP), announces a partnership with Thunes, the leading global cross border payments provider to complement its existing ecosystem. Skaleet wanted to find a partner that could offer an instant,...

Wave Digital Finance, a Senegal-based fintech unicorn, has been granted an e-money license by the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), a central bank serving the 8 francophone West African countries—Benin, Guinea Bissau, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali,...

Investors pumped record amounts of private equity and venture capital into Africa last year, according to a new report by the African Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (AVCA.) The ‘African Private Capital Activity Report’, released on 19 March...