Alexey Likhachev, Rosatom Director General, and Mohamed Shaker, the Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy gave the green light to the pouring of the “first concrete” for the El-Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 [c]
Cairo-headquartered daily fantasy football platform, Eksab has secured a $3 million Seed funding round, led by 4DX Ventures with participation from Darwazah Capital, Golden Palm Investments, P1 Ventures, and a number of strategic angel investors [c]
In a move that will see enhanced financial services for people in Egypt, Mastercard and Egyptian fintech Kashat have signed a five-year agreement that will digitize the onboarding, disbursement, and collection processes for MENA’s first [c]
Mastercard has partnered with Schoolvoice, a school-parents communication platform based in the UAE, to digitize the education experience for schools in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The collaboration will help simplify communications [c]
South African-born SweepSouth, which currently operates in Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria, is excited to announce its acquisition of Egyptian start-up, Filkhedma. Filkhedma is Egypt’s leading home services marketplace operating across three regions on the [c]
Breadfast, Egypt’s leading grocery delivery platform, has secured $26 million in a Series A round, co-led by Vostok New Ventures and Endure Capital. The round included participation from JAM Fund, led by Justin Mateen, Co-Founder [c]
Africa’s carrier-neutral co-location data centre provider, Africa Data Centres (ADC), has announced plans to build large hyperscale data centres throughout Africa, including the North African countries of Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. The project will involve [c]
MaxAB, the largest Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform that serves food and grocery retailers, has acquired WaystoCap, the Morocco-based B2B e-commerce and distribution platform that connects retailers with suppliers across Africa. The acquisition will see MaxAB [c]
Taager, the Egyptian social ecommerce platform empowering online merchants with end-to-end logistics, has secured $6.4 million in a Seed round, led by 4DX Ventures, a pan-Africa focused venture capital firm. The round included participation from Raed Ventures, Beco Capital, Breyer [c]
MaxAB, the largest Egyptian B2B e-commerce platform that serves food and grocery retailers, has secured $40 million in a Series A round, led by RMBV, a major impact investor in North Africa. The round included [c]
TradeTech innovator, Ovamba Solutions and financial services provider, Singularity Finance, have partnered to deliver financial inclusion and growth capital to small and growing businesses in Egypt. Singularity becomes the first company to sign a Reseller [c]
African ICT students emerged among the world’s best at the Huawei ICT Competition Global Final, taking top prizes at an online awards ceremony held this weekend. Two teams from Nigeria won grand prizes, while teams [c]
The Global Final of the Huawei ICT Competition 2019–2020 came to a successful conclusion on November 14, at Huawei’s Songshan Lake campus in Dongguan. Focusing on the theme of “Connection · Glory · Future“, this [c]
North Africa’s Mai Nagy has emerged winner of the ATU Africa Innovation Challenge 2020. The 31-year old Egyptian national who will be taking home $5,000 is the creator of a virtual science lab that allows [c]
The Ladima Foundation and DW Akademie have announced the ten selected films in the African Women in the Time of Covid-19 Short Film contest. The selected films will premiere via a live stream on July [c]
After the 2020 edition of VivaTech that was scheduled to be held in Paris was cancelled by the organisers of the event, Sanofi will on June 11, 2020 organise an online pitch session as part [c]
Carbon has set up a $100,000 pan-African fund to address the lack of funding and support holding back budding tech entrepreneurs on the continent. Carbon’s Disrupt fund, the first of its kind by an African [c]
The five winners of the 2019 World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Awards were revealed recently at WFP’s annual Global Management Meeting in London, UK. From microloans for mothers to pop-up retail shops in emergencies, the [c]
Kaspersky experts have detected a new online fraud scheme designed to trick people into thinking they are owed compensation. Under the pretext of offering compensation for personal data leaks, scammers instead urge users to buy [c]
Andela, the technology firm which links talented engineers from Africa to global jobs, has launched its operations in Egypt. In a ceremony attended by Andela’s co-founder and CEO, Jeremy Johnson, ITIDA VP, Ahmed El Sobky, [c]
Mastercard has signed a deal with e-finance, Egypt’s first fintech company, to support the digitization of online government payments across the country. The collaboration will introduce faster, more flexible online payment solutions to improve citizens’ [c]
The Africa Netpreneur Prize Initiative (ANPI), which called for applications starting from March to June 2019, has announced the list of the Top 10 finalists from across the continent set to compete for US$1 million [c]
The number of users that encountered at least one commercial spyware often used as a tool for domestic espionage (also called stalkerware) installation attempt surpassed 37,000 in the first eight months of 2019, that is [c]
VC4A has announced the 12 firms (11 Series A and 1 Seed+) for its 2019 Venture Showcase. The 12 companies, which represent the best investment opportunities according to VC4A, have been vetted by 40 VC [c]
The World Radiocommunication Conference 2019 (WRC-19) will open in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, from October 28 to November 22, 2019. Before the WRC-19, the Radiocommunication Assembly 2019 (RA-19) will be held in the same venue from [c]
Mobile research firm GeoPoll has released a new report on the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament which looks at awareness, interest, viewership plans, and betting plans across Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Ivory Coast, DRC, [c]
Visa, the official sponsor of the 2019 Total Africa Cup of Nations, has unveiled the five Kenyan children who will have the opportunity to be player escorts, leading some of the world’s best football players [c]
Mastercard recently unveiled its payment innovation at Seamless North Africa 2019 while discussing its business priorities over the coming years, which are designed to help Egypt achieve its digital economy vision. Speaking at the event, [c]
As Africa’s top footballers get together in Egypt this June for the continent’s biggest football tournament, SuperSport will bring all the action live and in HD. Kenya will play its first match on June 23, [c]
When we think of amazing casino resorts, our mind usually goes to the ones found in Las Vegas or Macau. However, there are other places in the world which are home to some of the [c]
Egyptian PM Mostafa Madbouly met with Li Jie, Chairman of Huawei’s Supervisory Board, at the Prime Minister’s Office. During the talks, the two sides conducted in-depth talks regarding new capital smart city construction related technologies [c]
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