Kenyan Solar Pioneer SunCulture Secures $5M Strategic Investment from WaterEquity’s Climate Fund. Market-leading AgriTech company becomes first investment from new Water & byBetty WangariSeptember 23, 2025
Tanzanian AgriTech MazaoHub Secures $2M in Oversubscribed Pre-Seed to Scale AI-Powered Climate-Smart Farming. Tanzanian agricultural technology startup MazaoHub has successfully closed a $2 byBetty WangariSeptember 23, 2025
Canal+ Completes $2.8B MultiChoice Takeover, Creating Africa’s Largest Digital Entertainment Platform. What started as a traditional media acquisition has evolved into something far byBolu BabalolaSeptember 23, 2025
Last Chance for African AgriTech Startups to Join the SAIS 2026 Investment Readiness Programme. African agricultural technology startups have less than two weeks remaining to byBetty WangariSeptember 23, 2025
News NigeriaMay 31, 2024 Breaking: Nigeria to Host GITEX Africa, the Continent’s Biggest Tech Show, in 2025. On Thursday afternoon, Kachifu Inuwa, the Director General of the National byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsMay 30, 2024 16 African Fintech Startups Selected for Visa’s Fintech Accelerator Program. Visa has announced the African startups chosen to participate in the second byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsMay 30, 2024 Safaricom picks 9 Kenyan startups for M-Pesa Spark Accelerator. Nine early-stage Kenyan startups have been chosen to participate in the Spark byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsMay 30, 2024 African Banker Awards name Flutterwave 2024’s Fintech of the Year. The prestigious African Banker Awards named Flutterwave, Africa’s most valuable byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsMay 30, 2024 Flutterwave gets the green light to operate in Mozambique with a preliminary payment license. Flutterwave, one of Africa’s foremost payment companies, has achieved a byMuhammed Mustapha
Africa NewsMay 29, 2024 Starlink Obtains Operating License in Botswana. Botswana has granted an operating license to Starlink, the satellite internet byFatima Oladunni
News NigeriaMay 29, 2024 Paystack acquires Brass, and fires top management. Brass, a Nigerian banking startup, has been acquired by a consortium led by byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsMay 29, 2024 WFF Startup Innovation Awards for Agri-food startups, Applications now open. African agri-food startups are invited to apply for the WFF Startup Innovation byFatima Oladunni
Africa NewsMay 29, 2024 Copia Kenya’s parent company enters administration after funding failure. B2C e-commerce company Copia Global, the parent company of Copia Kenya, has byBolu Babalola
Africa NewsMay 28, 2024 MPOST launches digital e-P.O.Box system in Rwanda. East African digital postal service MPOST has officially launched its e-P byBolu Babalola
