Browsing: #africa

As Lesotho breathes a sigh of relief following a temporary 90-day suspension of sweeping 50% U.S. tariffs, the highest imposed…

PayTic, a Casablanca-based fintech helping banks and payment providers automate their daily operations, has raised $4.4 million in fresh funding…

Umba, a digital bank headquartered in Nairobi with operations in Kenya and Nigeria, has raised a $5 million debt facility…

With only two doctors per 100,000 people, far below the WHO’s recommended one per 1,000 Zimbabwe’s public healthcare system is…

Despite concerns over the 14% export tariff recently introduced by former U.S. President Donald Trump, Nigeria’s telecom industry remains largely…

A Kenyan court has ordered Marketforce Technologies, once a rising star in Africa’s B2B e-commerce sector, to pay KES 2.1…

Lipa Later, a leading Kenyan buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) fintech company, has been placed under administration as of March 24, 2025, after…

The Africa Stablecoin Consortium (ASC), the team behind Nigeria’s first regulatory-approved stablecoin, cNGN, has entered early talks with major African…

Baobab Group, a global financial services company with a loan portfolio exceeding $900 million, has fully acquired Baobab Nigeria, its…

A Nairobi court has thrown out a lawsuit filed by Davidson Ivusa, a Kenyan innovator who claimed Safaricom copied his…