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Ghana-born entrepreneur Ashifi Gogo, moved to the United States in 2001 as a student and founded Sproxil in 2009 to tackle the problem of counterfeit medication in Africa. Sproxil’s mobile authentication technology,…

The M-Pesa mobile-money service, founded in 2007 by Vodafone and Safaricom, is used by over 200,000 African businesses to make payments. COVID has had a big impact on small and…

As we reported last month, the SA’s Cybersecurity Bill still awaits the President’s signature. Meanwhile in its regular report on cybersecurity, Kaspersky, whom we have often quoted in this Newsletter, says there…

The new wave of African innovations has brought governments, universities, corporates and small business together to come up with solutions to combat COVID. In Rwanda new ideas are emerging, from clever face masks to ventilator machines, and…

The Competition Commission issued a discussion paper on 7 September and invited comments. The paper is very broad in its scope, covering ecommerce, fintech, banking, on-demand entertainment, telecommunications services among…