Pay television operator StarTimes Media is set to broadcast the African Championship of Nations, FIBA AfroBasket 2021 tournament. The 30th edition of the men’s basketball continental championship is scheduled to take place between 24 August [c]
The Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX), a programme put in place by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to support Africa’s creative and cultural industries, has announced a series of virtual forums in the lead-up to the [c]
The GSMA has announced it will host MWC Africa in Kigali, Rwanda in 2021, bringing the global event series to Africa for the first time. GSMA Director General, Mats Granryd, announced the news during his [c]
Andela has announced applications for its 5-month program, StackUp, which is open for aspiring and entry-level engineers in Kigali, Rwanda. Leveraging Andela’s experience over the past 5 years, the intensive remote program will provide engineers [c]
Andela, the company which builds distributed engineering teams with Africa’s top software engineers, is recruiting mid and senior level developers in 2019, as part of a new Power of “✗” campaign, as it looks to [c]
Kaspersky Lab has announced plans to open a new office in Kigali, Rwanda, to support the rapid growth of its business in East Africa. This strategic move will provide more room for development as well [c]
The Kigali, Rwanda-based Co-creation Hub [CcHUB] has launched the ‘CcHUB Design Lab’. The design lab is key step in Africa’s growing tech sector, and is set to become a leading creative space where its multidisciplinary team [c]
Phanes Group, an international end-to-end solar provider headquartered in Dubai, UAE, has announced Mr Mbaye Hadj and his Gossas Solar Farm Project (30 MW) as the winner of the second edition of its Solar Incubator. [c]
Liquid Telecom is supporting young entrepreneurs at the Westerwelle Startup Haus Kigali through its high-speed internet and cloud-based services. Soft-launched in early August (but officially opened this week), the Westerwelle Startup Haus is a hub for [c]
By Kenny Ewan A stranger enters the room, from another world, and tells a long-time team to do things differently. And the chances of a great outcome, based on human psychology, are not great. Most [c]
After her Bachelors’ Degree in Mathematics and Statistics at Southern Methodist University, she got a job in the US, working in the country for over 3 years. But unlike those who settle and build both [c]
Andela, the company building high-performing engineering teams with Africa’s most talented software developers, has announced the launch of a pan-African technology hub in its fourth African market in Kigali, Rwanda. To fuel the expansion, Andela [c]
The African Development Bank, together with partners – Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook – launched the Coding for Employment Program at the African Innovation Summit (#AIS2018) in Kigali, Rwanda. By training youth in demand-driven ICT curriculum [c]
The Africa Innovation Summit 2018 (AIS 2018) team in partnership with NEPAD Agency has announced the meeting of the African Union (AU) High Level Panel on Emerging Technologies (APET) during the #AIS2018. The High Level-APET has [c]
Millions more people in Africa now have access to financial systems thanks to cashless systems using digital technology, and more and more people are seeing the benefits of mobile banking, according to Ecobank. Ecobank was [c]
Liquid Telecom has announced its sponsorship of the Africa Tech Summit and will join innovators from Africa at this week event set to take place at the Marriott Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, from February 14 – [c]
Rwanda is set to play host to eLearning Africa 2018, the 13th edition of the annual event. The conference, which is being jointly organised by ICWE GmbH and the Rwanda Convention Bureau under the patronage of [c]
Ihaba and the government of Rwanda have announced that the second Africa Innovation Summit (AIS II) will take place on June 6 – 8, 2018 at the Kigali Convention Center in Kigali, Rwanda. The AIS II [c]
The 2017 edition of Transform Africa Summit is set to open in Kigali, Rwanda this week on May 10 and run for three days till may 12, 2017. Transform Africa Summit an annual African forum which [c]
The Internet Society (ISOC) has announced that it will hold the first ever Africa Regional Internet and Development Dialogue from May 8 – 9, 2017 in Kigali, Rwanda, in partnership with UNESCO and Republic of Rwanda [c]
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) Ambassadors Programme is currently inviting applications from young scientists from Africa. NEF Ambassadors, who are all under 42 years, drive the NEF’s local public engagement activities while growing their own [c]
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) has launched the search for 54 science and technology Ambassadors, one champion from each African country. The selected NEF Ambassadors will join the NEF Fellows Class as part of the [c]
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF) and the Government of Rwanda hosted the second NEF Ministerial Meeting to leverage research networks and funding mechanisms to drive Africa’s long term progress in Kigali this week. Under the [c]
Startups from the continent have an opportunity to pitch their ideas and innovations at the Seedstars Africa summit set for Kigali, Rwanda in the first week of December this year. The Kigali regional summit is [c]
The MasterCard Foundation has awarded its second annual Clients at the Centre Prize to Hello Paisa. The US $150,000 Prize recognizes the company’s innovative work in South Africa to facilitate international money transfer for foreign [c]
SAP wrapped-up the second edition of Africa Code Week on Saturday October 22, 2016 in Cape Town, after a week marked by over 1,500 coding events taking place across 30 African countries. This year, with [c]
By Jürgen Stock (This post is the Opening Address delivered by the INTERPOL Secretary General during the 18th Eastern Africa Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization (18th EAPCCO) AGM on September 1, 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda). A very good afternoon [c]
Agility has announced the winners of its Africa 2016 Photo Competition, a series of photographs that show how quickly Africa is modernizing, growing and even leading the way in new technology. The winning images depicted a fisherman [c]
Financial inclusion is beneficial to businesses and poor people in developing countries, in particular to people living in rural or remote areas. Research shows that access to formal financial services can boost job creation, increase [c]
Carnegie Mellon University’s commitment to educate Africa’s next generation of technology leaders and entrepreneurs received a boost today with a US $10.8 million commitment from The MasterCard Foundation. This new partnership, which will be established [c]
SAP is set to train more than 150,000 youth in 30 African countries this year to foster digital literacy and equip the continent’s rising generation with job-relevant digital skills. SAP’s Africa Code Week 2016 will [c]
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