See the complete nominee list for the 2025 TikTok Awards Sub-Saharan Africa, featuring the continent's biggest and rising creators.
Mastercard launches its new "World Legend" card and "Collection" benefits in EEMEA to capture high-spending consumers.
Ventures Platform secures $64M for Fund II, expanding to Series A and new African regions to fund 'painkiller' tech solutions.
Kenyan startup Phindor has launched JuaFlow, a platform empowering businesses to create, deploy, and govern their own custom AI agents.
Safaricom's M-PESA is piloting Ziidi Trader, letting users buy and sell stocks, expanding its Ziidi investment platform beyond money market…
Tanzania's recent internet shutdown and ongoing X ban have cost its economy over $238 million, a new report warns.
YouVersion's Bible App surpassed one billion installs, seeing 18% daily usage growth, largely driven by its "Lite" app in Africa.
Mastercard launched new payment tech, like Merchant Cloud, at its Nairobi summit, targeting Africa's $1.5 trillion digital economy.
Stanbic Bank's new plan offers 100% financing and 10-year loans to help Kenyan homeowners and SMEs easily adopt solar power.
Saudi fintech Stream raises $4M seed to automate business billing, solving MENA's major gap in recurring digital payments.
The deal is KCB's second major fintech acquisition in 2025, signaling a massive strategic push to build a "full-stack" financial…
Safaricom's M-PESA Foundation is investing KES 30 billion to digitally upgrade 600+ schools and fund 10,000 scholarships in Kenya.
First Circle Capital has $6 million in backing from the IFC to find and build "Series A ready" startups at…
A WhatsApp joke, "we see you," caused a privacy firestorm as users, distrustful of Meta, feared their encrypted messages were…
Kenyan banks paid KES 195B (8.09% of all government tax) in 2024, with the Affordable Housing Levy surging, a report…
