AGRA has announced the winners of the 2023 Women Agripreneurs of the Year Awards (WAYA2023) at the Africa Food Systems Forum, AGRF2023 held in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. These winners have illuminated the path to excellence through [c]
All roads lead to Dakar, Senegal for a series of events happening during the Enrich in Africa week which starts on the 22nd of May with a Learning Expedition held by incubator Bond’innov. Key highlights [c]
Africa’s tech Accelerator, Startupbootcamp AfriTech, together with founding partner and leading telecom giant, Telecel Group have selected the participants of the much-coveted Accelerator Program, the Africa Startup Initiative Program (ASIP). The intrinsic value of startups [c]
Ecobank Group, the private pan-African banking group, has announced the six finalists for the fifth edition of the Ecobank Fintech Challenge. The finalists come from the DRC, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Togo. The six [c]
Multinational media company and digital TV provider StarTimes Group has officially launched business operations in Senegal with an opening ceremony of its main agency on July 19, 2022. Created in 1988, StarTimes has already made its digital [c]
Sokowatch, the African e-commerce company leveraging innovative technology to transform the informal retail supply chain, has announced the close of a $125 million Series B equity round, the largest venture financing round ever raised for [c]
Haskè Ventures, the venture builder for Francophone Africa, has boosted the growth of Senegalese distribution chain innovator ProXalys by investing $150,000 in pre-seed funding in December 2021. ProXalys, founded in 2021 by finance expert Thierno [c]
Eutelsat Communications and Intersat, a major provider of internet solutions in Africa, have signed a multi-year deal representing several hundred Mbps to address the connectivity needs of enterprises, institutions and individuals in Gambia, Guinea Bissau [c]
The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) and Speak Up Africa (SUA) will exclusively announce the final three winners of the first Africa Young Innovators for Health Award. The announcement will take place during [c]
Health start-ups in Kenya and Uganda have been selected as winners in the VivaTech 2020 Global Challenge amid the coronavirus pandemic. This follows an online final challenge organized by Sanofi following the cancellation of the [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]
As part of this year’s celebration to mark International Women’s Day, and under the banner of this year’s theme #EachforEqual, Facebook has honoured women from across Africa who have been using their voices to bring [c]
Orange has inaugurated its new facility entirely dedicated to innovation, an “Orange Digital Center” in Dakar, Senegal. The launch event was attended several personalities, including: Ms Ndèye Tické Ndiaye Diop, Minister for the Digital Economy [c]
Mastercard Foundation has announced Young Africa Works in Senegal, an initiative that aims to enable 3 million youth to access jobs by 2030. The initiative builds on the significant groundwork undertaken by the government, which [c]
Senegal’s General Delegation for the Acceleration of Entrepreneurship for Women and Young People (DER), through the office of the President, has signed a partnership agreement with GreenTec Capital Partners, the German investor into African start-ups. [c]
A new digital platform – SUNUCMU – has been launched in Senegal by L’Agence de Couverture Maladie Universelle du Sénégal (Agency for Universal Health Coverage in Senegal – CMU). The Agency for Universal Health Coverage [c]
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