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Jumia Kenya and Twiga Foods have signed a partnership agreement that will enable shoppers on the platform to buy fresh produce as well as processed foods distributed by the farm…

Tanzania’s Ubongo recently launched its Toolkits platform, a large library of quality, African-made early learning materials and educational resources for pre-teens. Meanwhile, in Liberia education officials say they have learned from the Ebola epidemic and…

Among all the stories of doom and gloom, the SA Treasury has committed R488 million to the Green Outcomes Fund (GOF) to grow green small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) in SA. The…

Ethiopia’s Central Bank will allow locally-owned non-financial institutions to start offering mobile money services as it seeks to boost non-cash payments in the country. Ethiopia is in the middle of massive economic reforms including the…

A new data center, the Raxio Uganda facility, built on the outskirts of Kampala, will have access to 1.5MW and is being marketed as a co–location facility, pitching for Ugandan financial businesses and…

Sub-Saharan Africa’s clothing and footwear market is worth $31bn, according to Euromonitor. The growth has prompted the expansion of foreign and local brands into the African clothing market. Companies are…

MTN Uganda, the country’s largest telecoms firm, has eliminated some charges on its mobile money platform to help spur greater use of digital transactions and discourage the use of cash…

African governments are teaming up with technology giants including Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp to fight misinformation about coronavirus on social media platforms. The regulations on the lockdown in South Africa has criminalized false news.…

The SA Government has agreed to zero-rate educational sites for VAT over the lockdown period. The telecoms are responsible for applying this to relevant sites that they carry. So far…

Amazon has removed the deals page and product recommendations from its homepage, eliminated the ‘frequently bought’ list for each product and is no longer accepting new discount coupons from brands. The company…