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Kenyan agritech startup Rhea Soil Health Management is taking a fresh $100,000 investment into an expansion strategy that could take its soil-intelligence technology from Kenyan farms into other agricultural markets across East Africa.…
Bank of Kigali has become the first bank headquartered in East and Central Africa to join China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) as a direct participant, giving Rwandan businesses a more direct route for yuan payments to and…
Kenyan agritech startup Rhea Soil Health Management is taking a fresh $100,000 investment into an expansion strategy that could take its soil-intelligence technology from Kenyan farms into other agricultural markets across East Africa.…
Bank of Kigali has become the first bank headquartered in East and Central Africa to join China’s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) as a direct participant, giving Rwandan businesses a more direct route for yuan payments to and…
Absa Bank Kenya has launched Absa Next, a neo-banking platform aimed at a new generation of consumers and entrepreneurs, as the lender accelerates its shift toward digital banking and seeks to move beyond traditional banking models. Absa…
Yellow Card, a stablecoin-enabled payments, infrastructure firm has appointed Ross Everett as Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to lead the company’s global finance function and support its continued international expansion. Ross was the…
Paymob, the Egypt-founded payments infrastructure company, raised $35 million in a pre-Series C funding round co-led by Abu Dhabi sovereign investor Mubadala Investment Company and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, as…
South African fintech Mission Mobile has secured as much as 500 million rand ($30.8 million) from investment firm DN Invest as it seeks to expand smartphone financing and deepen its partnerships with mobile network operators. The…
A credit card is a crucial financial tool. Apart from providing instant revolving cash, it can help you improve your credit score if you use it well. This is especially important if you plan to apply for a mortgage or vehicle financing…
Kenya has signed a cooperation agreement with U.S. artificial intelligence company Anthropic covering AI skills, research, public-sector applications and safety as the East African country seeks to build local capacity in the rapidly…
Ask a growing business how it manages its payments and customer communication, and you’ll often hear a familiar story. One provider handles collections. Another handles payouts. Bulk SMS runs through a third-party vendor. Each relationship…
Every legal cannabis package in the state carries a code that links back to a single plant lot. That link is traceability, and the whole supply chain depends on those files. The cannabis dispensaries hold such data as part of the product…
Absa Bank Kenya, the United Nations Capital Development Fund and the United Nations Development Programme have agreed to a financing arrangement aimed at expanding solar-powered cold storage in Kenya, seeking to address an estimated $2.1…
Samsung has expanded access to Care+, a service plan built to help owners of eligible Galaxy smartphones in East Africa manage the cost of accidental damage, most commonly a cracked screen, through the company’s authorized service network…
City Distro, a Nigerian startup, wants to digitise the distribution of fast-moving consumer goods, starting with a network covering seven Nigerian hubs and targeting expansion across Africa. The company connects manufacturers with…
Kenya’s mobile-money subscriptions reached 54 million by June, extending the country’s long-running shift toward mobile-based payments and financial services. Mobile-money subscriptions increased 13.2% during the 2025/26 financial year to…
Earlier this month TECNO, a global AI-driven innovative technology brand, achieved two IFA Global Product Technology Innovation Awards at IFA 2026 for its products: the revolutionary TECNO Modular Phone and the ultra-compact Tonino…
Prices shift while an investor sleeps or sits in a meeting. An algorithm won’t remove uncertainty. It follows pre-set instructions, perhaps entering a position when two moving averages cross or standing aside when costs climb. Code acts on…
Airtel Money plans to list on the London Stock Exchange in an IPO that will see existing shareholders sell shares, with the International Finance Corporation agreeing to invest up to $90 million as a cornerstone investor. The mobile…
Electric motorcycle maker Spiro has secured an additional $18 million in debt financing as it expands in Uganda and Rwanda. The latest funding, from Africa Go Green Fund, takes the fund’s total commitment to the company to $36 million and…
Binance has invested $100 million in Circle Internet Group Inc. and agreed to extend its strategic partnership with the stablecoin issuer for five years, deepening its push to expand the use of USDC in emerging markets. Binance said…
Kenya is seeking to build a clearer path for university research and locally developed technologies to reach the market, as government, academia and industry push to extract more commercial value from the country’s research base.…
Samsung Electronics has begun the official rollout of One UI 9, bringing new Galaxy AI features, personalization tools and security capabilities to more Galaxy devices. The rollout starts with the Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26+ and Galaxy S26…
Google is targeting Kenya’s growing community of digital creators, media professionals and university students with hands-on training on how to use its Gemini artificial intelligence tools for research, storytelling, content production and…
