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Finnfund, the Finnish development financier has invested $1-million in Kasha, an ecommerce platform that aims to improves women’s access to health, hygiene and self-care products in East Africa. Kasha was founded in…

Jumia has donated face masks to the health ministries in Nigeria, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Uganda and Morocco. Naspers has donated 1bnR ($5.5m) of PPE equipment to the South African government. The genomics research startup 54gene has…

Recently the East African Community (EAC) and Trademark East Africa (a business initiative) have worked to reduce customs clearance between the 7 EAC member states. It is claimed that customs…

Safaricom will sell 4G smartphones in partnership with Google. The telco announced the plan during its earnings call on April 29. Under a device financing scheme, it will provide people…

In March, Kenyan telecom operator Safaricom announced a move that on the surface appeared counterintuitive – for a 90-day period, it made all person-to-person (P2P) transactions under $9 free on the…