Pwani Oil products in partnership with Shujaaz Inc, and the Ministry of Education through the Kenya Primary School Headteachers Association (KEPSHA) have announced the start of a three month mentorship program for its national essay [c]
CEOs continued to face pressure generated by the ongoing COVID pandemic and market conditions such as rising inflation, supply chain disruptions and the ‘Great Resignation’ in parts of the world including Africa. Despite the array [c]
SEACOM Kenya has reaffirmed its commitment to the provision and expansion of telecoms services during a meeting between SEACOM’s regional MD, Tejpal Bedi and Director General of the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), Ezra Chiloba. [c]
Millions of people rely on Medicaid to provide and meet their medical and healthcare needs and requirements. For many of those covered by Medicaid, who number slightly above 76.3 million as of June 2021 according [c]
SAP has appointed Emmanuel Raptopoulos as the new President for SAP’s EMEA South region, which comprises Southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In this capacity, he will report to Scott Russell, SAP Executive Board [c]
The informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 38% of the region’s GDP. What’s more, according to the International Labour Organization, retail and wholesale is the second biggest employer across the region after agriculture. However, [c]
Safaricom Ethiopia is building a $100 million data centre in Addis Abeba. The new facility was designed and assembled in China before before being shipped to its final destination via Djibouti. According to Addis Fortune, [c]
Nigeria’s Co-creation Hub, in collaboration with Google, Mojaloop Foundation, and the government of Rwanda, have launched the Fintech Innovation Programme. The programme was unveiled on Saturday, December 11, 2022 at the Hanga Pitchfest 2021. Fintech Innovation Programme [c]
Glovo, one of the world’s leading multi-category delivery players, has been ranked top in the gig workspace in Kenya, as revealed in the new report. Glovo scored 7/10 according to the Fairwork report. In the inaugural [c]
Mobile applications have become an integral part of our lives, with digital lifestyles becoming more common. Being able to head on over to HUAWEI AppGallery to search for and download the latest app, whether it [c]
Equity has introduced an enhanced centralised digital payment solution for merchants through One Equity Till Number. The solution, a first in the Kenyan market, has an interoperability feature that enables merchants to receive payments from [c]
Three social groups based in Nairobi, Kiambu and Kajiado counties respectively have emerged as the 2021 winners of the LG Electronics Ambassador Challenge that seeks to promote the growth and self-reliance of local communities. The [c]
Financial success is an important goal to many people and rarely misses in new year resolutions. Most of us focus on the most logical option to achieve our financial goals – increasing our income. While [c]
The deadline for the submission of entries for the eighth Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards has been extended to Friday, 28 January 2022. Africa Magic and MultiChoice are calling on all film and television industry [c]
LG Electronics’ (LG) updated concept of green living will be unveiled at CES 2022 with its modern freestanding indoor gardening appliance, LG tiiun. Tiiun, which means “to sprout” in Korean, is an apt name for [c]
The Kaspersky Employee Wellbeing 2021 report unveils that while organisations regularly face employee data leakage, 36% of respondents from the Africa, Middle East and Turkey (META) region prefer not to disclose these incidents publicly. At [c]
MultiChoice has further expanded its hyperlocal offering with the launch of two new TV channels – Maningue Magic and Kwenda Magic – for audiences in Mozambique and Angola respectively. The group’s long-established hyperlocal strategy is [c]
The availability of domestic credit is a key requirement for consistent economic growth in developing countries. The vitality of financial services such as banking, savings, debt and equity financing, investment management, and point-of-sale lending is [c]
OPPO, the global smart device brand, has announced availability of two new smartphones in the mid-price segement in Kenya, the OPPO A16K and OPPO A55. The OPPO A16k comes with a stylish design, lightweight body, [c]
LG Electronics (LG) has announced the availability of Google’s cloud gaming service Stadia on its Smart TVs running webOS 5.0 and webOS 6.0 in 22 countries. Native support of Stadia gameplay on LG Smart TVs [c]
Kaspersky experts have uncovered a series of attacks by advanced persistent threat (APT) actor BlueNoroff against small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) worldwide resulting in major cryptocurrency losses for the victims. The campaign, dubbed SnatchCrypto, is [c]
Routed, VMware Cloud Verified and VMware Principal Partner, has launched its channel partner portal. It aims to provide curated resources for partners, managed services providers, and ISPs selling, marketing, and operating as resellers of VMware [c]
Liquid Intelligent Technologies Rwanda, a business of Cassava Technologies, is rewarding its customers by increasing internet capacity on existing home packages while keeping it at the same price. The promotion runs from December 2021 to [c]
Cisco has released its latest cybersecurity report, Security Outcomes Study Volume 2, which was compiled after surveying more than 5,100 security and privacy professionals across 27 markets to determine the most impactful measures teams can [c]
The Realness Institute, in partnership with Netflix, has announced an extension for submissions for the 2022 Episodic Lab and Development Executive Traineeship (DET) programmes due to a surge of interest from filmmakers from Africa and [c]
Yellow Pages have announced the launch of a new service, Yellow Connect, specifically designed to help SMEs grow the visibility of their businesses both online and offline, and reach more customers with prices starting from [c]
By Sunil Geness Following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on governments and citizens, countries across the African continent are looking at e-government with renewed interest and urgency. In its latest E-Government Survey, the UN notes [c]
Lipa Later, one of the pioneer buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) companies with operations in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, and Nigeria, has raised $12 million from a consortium of investors. The funding, which is a mix of equity and [c]
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region are recognizing digitalization as essential to staying competitive in a transformed business and economic environment. The insight is one of many in [c]
A young female artist from Nairobi, Anncatherine Njuhi, has emerged the winner of the competition by Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) to design a new logo as the company turns 100 years later this year. Ms. [c]
Olympic marathon gold medalist Peres Jepchirchir has been named the LG Sports Journalists Association of Kenya (SJAK) Sports Personality for the month of November. Jepchirchir won the award after her sizzling performance in November, where [c]
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