On February 22, 2022, MarketForce, the Nairobi-headquartered B2B platform for retail distribution of consumer goods and digital financial services in Africa, announced the closing of a $40 million Series A round, the largest Series A round of it’s kind...

While analyzing the threat landscape of African countries, Kaspersky experts saw a steady decline in attacks on mobile devices in the region, as cybercriminals consolidated their efforts to focus on more complicated, dangerous and profitable threats instead.Overall, in 2021,...

The Islamic Development Bank Institute (IsDBI) and the Total Official Support for Sustainable Development (TOSSD) Secretariat at the OECD with the support of the European Union hosted a series of capacity-building webinars on a new international standard for monitoring...

GE Healthcare and Kenya-based startup Afya Rekod have announced a strategic collaboration that seeks to transform care delivery through improved access to personal health data in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. The partnership will give patients an accessible record...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and European Union have confirmed new cooperation with First Capital Bank to transform access to finance for agricultural businesses across Malawi. The impact of the new EUR 12.5 million EIB financing to First Capital...