Global Markets

According to a survey produced by the Canadian think tank Fraser Institute, Singapore has dethroned Hong Kong as the world’s

The International Financial Inclusion Conference (#IFIC2023), Nigeria’s premier Financial Inclusion event, will host its second edition on October 5 and

The revised Truecaller logo represents a renewed and strong focus on consumer privacy and better communication safety; the overall design

“We are proud to align with Google Pay, as it exemplifies our commitment to delivering cutting-edge payment solutions that facilitate

The second batch of 29 firms for Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a pan-African initiative for start-ups creating the future of healthcare supply chains, has been revealed. The goal of i3, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Microsoft, Chemonics, Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), and Cencora (formerly AmerisourceBergen), is to aid in the commercialization of promising early- and growth-stage businesses. Selected entrepreneurs receive a $50,000 award, connections to key donors, governments, and industry leaders, as well as specialized investment readiness help from top accelerators Villgro Africa, IMPACT Lab, Startupbootcamp Afritech, and CcHUB. The 29 selected start-ups provide digitally enabled healthcare supply chain solutions across 21 different African nations. In addition to providing inventory management services for pharmacies, clinics, and hospitals, supply chain data analytics, product protection, product visibility, and other services, innovators are establishing online pharmacies and telemedicine businesses. 17% of the chosen businesses are operating in Francophone Africa, and 38% of them are run by women. Following is a list of the chosen businesses in alphabetical order: Afia Group Limited, Aimcare Health, Bena Care, BioCertica, Chari Pharma, CheckUps Medical, Chefaa, Dawa Mkononi, Drugstore Nigeria, Famasi Limited, Field Intelligence, Inc., GICMED, Grinta, Healthtracka, Kapsule, Medical Diagnostech, Medpharma Alliance International Limited, Octosoft Technologies Limited, Pharmarun, Pharmaserv Health Project Nigeria Limited, Reductiona, Welo, SASA Health Limited, Tech Care For All

MicroEnsure Ghana, a trailblazing microinsurance firm from MIC Global, was acquired by Turaco, Africa’s largest tech-enabled cheap insurance company. As

In order to combat inflation, the European Central Bank stated on Thursday that it will be raising its main interest rate for the tenth time in a row. Rate increases have brought the primary deposit facility of the central bank from -0.5% in June 2022 to a record 4%. The freshly released staff macroeconomic estimates for the euro area, which predict inflation will average 5.6% this year, up from the previous forecast of 5.4%, and 3.2% next year, down from the previous projection of 3%, appeared to be a major factor in the increase on Thursday. The carefully monitored medium-term projection was shifted from 2.2% to 2.1%, though. It also mentioned that future hikes might not be on the table for the time being in a market-moving remark. “Based on its current assessment, the Governing Council considers that the key ECB interest rates

The award-winning, top pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, APO Group, and the International Telecommunications Week Africa (ITW

APO Group (https://APO-opa.com/), the premier Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, is pleased to announce the introduction of

The United Kingdom will grant a multi-million pound boost to promote health workers recruitment and retention in three African nations

China’s Baidu has released its ChatGPT rival ERNIE Bot to the general public. This is a significant step for the nation’s tech industry as it seeks to capitalise on the artificial intelligence gold rush. ChatGPT rival ERNIE bot This month, the Chinese government unveiled new rules for AI developers in an effort to keep pace with companies like Microsoft and ChatGPT manufacturer OpenAI while closely regulating internet material. The first domestic AI app that is completely accessible to the general public in China is ERNIE Bot. It is not accessible outside of the nation. In a statement released on Thursday, Baidu said: “We are thrilled to share that ERNIE Bot is now fully open to the general public starting August 31.” Along with ERNIE Bot, Baidu will soon release a number of new AI-native applications that will provide consumers access to the four fundamental capabilities of generative AI: comprehension, generation, reasoning, and memory. Although the chatbot was released in March, there were few of them available. According to CEO Robin Li, by making it widely available, Baidu would be able to gather “massive” human feedback and quickly develop the app. Chatbots like ERNIE Bot and other generative AI applications are trained on a great amount of data as well as on user interactions so they can respond to queries, even difficult ones, in a human-like manner. The guidelines released this month stipulate that Chinese generative AI apps must “adhere to the core values of socialism” and refrain from endangering national security. When put to the test by the AFP news agency on Thursday, ERNIE Bot quickly responded to uninteresting inquiries like “What is the capital of China?” and “Do you have any hobbies?” Looking down at the pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, it spoke the phrase “Let’s change the topic and start again.” China forbids public discussion of the Tiananmen incident, and online information about it is heavily restricted. ERNIE Bot gave a more detailed response when asked about Taiwan, a self-governing island that China claims as its own. It answered, “Taiwan is a part of the People’s Republic of China’s sacred territory.

A personalised, AI-powered food and recipe platform called Samsung Food has been launched, according to Samsung Electronics. With more than

TikTok just unveiled Search Ads, which will allow marketers to have adverts displayed alongside organic content in the app’s search

IBM has started the company’s first advertising campaign to formally promote watsonx, its next generation enterprise-focused artificial intelligence and data

Commonstock, a broker-agnostic social and community-based platform that drives insights for individual investors, has been acquired by Yahoo. The acquisition

Samsung Electronics, a major player in the visual display market, has introduced the future of gaming monitors with the Odyssey

Marketers are forced to navigate today’s more fragmented and rapidly evolving social media ecosystem, which includes the recent advent of

As the global competition for technological leadership heats up, Alibaba released new artificial intelligence model, Qwen-VL and Qwen-VL-Chat, on Friday

SAP Africa has announced the launch of GROW with SAP , a new service to assist midsize businesses in adopting

Nestlé (up 8% to USD22.4 billion in brand value) has been named the world’s most valuable food brand once again,

Functional Fluidics, a biotechnology business based in the United States, has announced plans to expand into Nigeria in the fourth

Cyber dangers are evolving, posing new problems for worldwide businesses. According to Kaspersky, an evolving threat environment exists in which

In Cape Town, South Africa, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has built its first international AWS Skills Center. AWS Skills Centers

The low-Earth orbit satellite constellation Starlink, operated by SpaceX, will be used by Africa Mobile Networks (AMN) to link its mobile network’s base stations to high-speed, low-latency services, enabling it to reach even the most remote and rural communities in the world. AMN is steadfast in its commitment to its goal of a fully connected society, where no community of size is without telecommunications services for the populace’s social, educational, and economic good. As a direct result of the AMN towers, telecommunications services are now available to more than 10 million people in close to 4,000 communities throughout 14 sub-Saharan African countries, demonstrating that AMN has made substantial progress towards realising its objective. A single radio node put atop one of AMN’s inexpensive base stations can provide 2G (GSM), 3G (HSPA+), or 4G (LTE) services thanks to the company’s proprietary Radio Access Network (RAN) technology. The announcement makes that goal more attainable than ever and enables AMN to provide high-quality 3G and 4G services to rural regions as well as provide the rising demand for bandwidth and data volumes while still operating profitably. Starlink’s high-speed, low-latency link, combined with AMN’s flexible RNA, allows us to deliver 3G and

Mercedes-Benz is investing more than €2 billion in the qualification of its global employees through the Turn2Learn qualification initiative through

TECNO (www.TECNO-Mobile.com) today introduced the SPARK 10 Pro Magic Magenta Edition, a game-changing improvement to their popular SPARK 10 Series.

In 2022, ransomware attacks were most common in the education sector, according to a new analysis from cybersecurity company Sophos. According to the paper The State of Ransomware in Education 2023, higher education institutions reported being attacked by ransomware 79% of the time, while lower education institutions reported being targeted 80% of the time—an rise from 64% and 56%, respectively, in 2021. The sector also reported one of the highest rates of ransom payments, with almost half [47%] of lower

Every year on August 1st, World Lung Cancer Day is observed to promote awareness and educate people all over the

Every year on July 28th, the world comes together under a unified theme for the World Depatitis Day to raise

A UN research has proposed that countries, governments and authorities should ban smartphones in schools to reduce classroom disturbance, promote

The African Trade and Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI), formerly known as the African Trade Insurance Agency – (ATI), held its

Standard Chartered Bank and Access Bank have agreed to sell Standard Chartered’s stakes in its subsidiaries in Angola, Cameroon, The

On the final day of the 2023 Islamic Development Bank Group (IsDB) Annual Meetings in Jeddah, the International Islamic Trade

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) issued a new US dollar global benchmark bond, raising $2 billion to promote private businesses

Ethiopian Airlines (ET) will be able to reclaim up to $100 million airline funds that has been trapped in Nigeria

The African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) has change name and rebranded to African Trade and Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI). African

Bolt, the European mobility leader, has revealed that it has reached 150 million customers across 45 countries and 500 cities.

Due to the overwhelming demand for the first-ever malaria vaccine, 12 African nations will share a total of 18 million

Cooperators from all over the world celebrated the International Day of Cooperatives on Saturday, July 1, 2023, under the theme

According to Liquid C2, a division of pan-African technology company Liquid Intelligent Technologies (https://www.Liquid.Tech), there have been 76% more cyberattacks

Galactic 01, the long-awaited first commercial mission of Virgin Galactic, which Sir Richard Branson created in 2004, was successfully completed

Every year on June 29, people celebrate International Day of the Tropics, #InternationalDayOfTheTropics. Its goal is to appreciate the tremendous

International Days have been around since before the United Nations was founded, but the UN has embraced them as a

Nigeria’s anticipated growth rate for 2023 was kept at 2.8 percent in the Global Development Prospect report for June 2023

According to a recent Reuters Institute Digital News report 2023 poll, Kenya tops the world in TikTok usage. Kenya dominates

In an effort to raise the standard of antivenoms sold on the market, the World Health Organization has released the

Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a leading global provider of solutions for essential digital infrastructure and business continuity, has unveiled significant upgrades

TradeMark Arica (TMA) has unveiled its third strategy plan to encourage more inclusive, greener, and digital trade activities after over

SEC said Binance Nigeria Limited, a subsidiary of Binance, is not registered with or subject to its regulation in a

In order to increase the already low penetration rate, Huawei Technologies has urged everyone to use the 2.6 GHz band

The Global Business Complexity Index (GBCI), a prominent supplier of compliance and administrative services, has just released its tenth edition.

According to the World Bank’s most recent Global Economic Prospects report, global growth has severely slowed and the risk of

Token.io, a provider of account-to-account (A2A) payment infrastructure in Europe, and Flutterwave, an African payments technology firm, worked together to

The Canadian government revealed final rules to require a health warning to display directly on every cigarette, a world first,

Today, we’re announcing new and extended Airband collaborations that will bring high-speed internet to almost 40 million people in Latin

Tizeti (www.Tizeti.com), a leading West African internet service provider, announced an expanded collaboration with Microsoft to solve the issue of

Africa’s great app ayoba has announced that it has surpassed the 25 million monthly active user mark. This represents an

The debut of AppsFlyer’s new measurement and Data Clean Room support for ChatGPT plugins has been announced. Now that ChatGPT

The Nokia MEA Mobile Broadband Index, which provides a complete picture of the MEA region’s mobile broadband scene, has been

MainOne (www.MainOne.net), West Africa’s leading connectivity and data center services provider, has enhanced its interconnection capabilities by leveraging Equinix Fabric

Due to the fact that there were twice as many travelers during the first quarter of 2023 as there were

Microsoft has revealed that its Xbox Studios Game Camp will be held in Africa through its Africa Transformation Office (ATO),

The “Magic Skin,” the most recent material innovation in smartphone design from global inventive technology brand TECNO (www.TECNO-mobile.com), has just

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed by the Pan African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) and the African Securities

To finance the Bank’s support for African private sector operations, the African Development Bank and the Japan International Cooperation Agency

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, H.E. Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, signed grant agreements with 15 training Centers to increase

The world’s first Chat Commerce Platform as a Service (CCPaaS) has been launched by Clickatell, a leader in mobile messaging

The largest referral networking organization in the world, BNI® (Business Network International), has announced that it has crossed the 300,000

According to the GSMA’s annual ‘State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2023’, released today, mobile money services are

In its most recent World Economic Outlook, the IMF reduced its worldwide prediction for 2023 from 2.9% y/y forecasted in

The innovative A. Catalyst Innovation Hub will embrace new technologies, including AI; projects include significant collaborations with Medsol AI in

In order to increase aviation’s contribution to Africa’s economic and social development and to increase connectivity, safety, and dependability for

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the international organization for exchanges and CCPs, recently unveiled the WFE Green Equity Principles,

The largest bank in Nigeria, Access Bank, which has operations in 17 nations, has joined with the digital payments network

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) has the potential to shift the course of Africa’s economic development by providing

ThetaRay, a provider of AI-powered transaction monitoring technology, and Zone (formerly Appzone), Africa’s first regulated layer-1 blockchain network for payments,

According to the most recent 2023 Africa Wealth Report, released by Henley & Partners in collaboration with New World Wealth,

In order to continue working together on international connection and mobility for Africa, MTN GlobalConnect and BICS have renewed their

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) call on all nations to drastically accelerate action

The leading mobile network provider in Africa, MTN, has tested a first-of-its-kind 5G Stand Alone Core that is completely deployed

Multinational technology business, SLB (previously known as Schlumberger) (www.SLB.com), formally opened its new West Africa regional headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria.

If governments don’t immediately enact stricter salt regulations, seven million people might pass away from diseases associated with excessive salt

PAPSS benefits individual businesses in Africa involved in any form of cross border trade and payments

In order to find, qualify, and certify elite engineers, Andela, a worldwide network for remote technical talent, has acquired Qualified,

There is a quiet murderer among us. It is a leading cause of death worldwide, affecting 850 million people. Despite

For the fifth year running, Moody’s Investors Service (“Moody’s”) has confirmed the African Trade Insurance Agency’s (ATI) A3 insurance financial

Western Union and MFS Africa have teamed to make it possible for people and businesses across the continent to accept

Cardi B, a Grammy-winning rapper and songwriter, has teamed up with Africa’s Delight Cosmeceutical Labs to introduce her own range

In 2022, Kaspersky’s (www.Kaspersky.co.za) anti-phishing system globally stopped more than 500 million attempts to reach phony websites. When compared to

The vaccine alliance, better known as Gavi, has announced the selection of Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate as its new CEO.

Over the next two years, Bolt expects to invest €500 million (Ksh. 67 billion) to improve its operations in Africa.

This past weekend, Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta is introducing paid verification for Facebook and Instagram. The Meta CEO disclosed

The Central Emergency Fund for Africa has received its largest-ever allocation of $250 million, according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres.

The education of 222 million crisis-affected girls and boys will be supported by the US$826 million pledged by world leaders

Today, 7UP® is happy to reveal a brand-new, contemporary design that adds moments of “UPliftment” to the daily while also

In the midst of a worldwide outbreak, cholera infections are surging in Africa. Over 30% more cases were reported across

The Mobile Financial Services Mastery Award was given to MTN and Ericsson at the London-hosted 2022 Global Telecom (Glotel) Awards.

In order to enable seamless service deployment throughout the two nations, Nigeria and the Republic of Niger have inked a

One of the 20 different NTDs, lymphatic filariasis affects more than 120 million people in 72 countries throughout Asia, Africa,

The Trypa-NO! partnership, a project run by FIND (https://www.FINDdx.org), the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), and the

World Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) Day is observed today, on January 30 of each year, and in recognition of this,

Today the World celebrates the International Day of Education. Every year on January 24, there is a celebration of International

What new obstacles will GDPR laws pose for cyber security teams? The introduction of GDPR regulation in the UK and

Yellow Card announced that its ground-breaking new payment option, Yellow Pay, is now formally offered throughout Africa. With Yellow Pay,

In its Digital Defense Report for 2022, Microsoft highlighted the need for everyone to take proactive measures to hedge against

The cybercriminals are persistent, frequently highly skilled, and unrelenting. Attacks are predicted to rise significantly in the upcoming year in

According to Kaspersky’s detection algorithms, there were 400,000 malicious files sent daily on average in 2022, up 5% from 2021.

According to the World Bank additional adverse shocks could cause the global economy to enter a recession in 2023, with

The U.K. government on Friday launched a deal with the German company BioNTech to test new vaccinations for cancer and

Nigeria is the first nation in Africa to secure partnership for the deployment of Elon Musk’s Starlink. Before the year’s

After joining the European Union (EU) about ten years ago, Croatia has reached two significant milestones: the adoption of the

On Sunday, Dubai eliminated its 30% tax on alcohol sales in the sheikhdom and made the needed liquor licenses freely

As 2023 sets in, it is inheriting the past momentous year of 2022 with is many dramas and events and

The year 2022 would go down as yet another memorable year with major and significant events. These events included the

Soccer Legend, Tamar Pele, real name Edson Arantes do Nascimento, is dead. He died yesterday at the Albert Einstein hospital

Ecobank, Nestle, IHS Towers and AstraZeneca have been named among Africa’s Top Best Places to Work for in 2022 The

Meta today announced its 2022 Africa Year in Review which highlights some of the company’s activities and investments in Sub-Saharan

The Coalition for Digital Africa is a project started by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) with

Today, Daughters for Earth announced awards to 26 women-led projects in 17 countries working to preserve and revitalize the planet

The BNI Foundation has launched a humanitarian effort called Heaters & Hope Initiative to support Children in need in war

The Ukranian President, Volodymyr Zelensky and “the spirit of Ukraine” has been named a Time Magazine’s 2022 Person of the

After more than two decades, Angelina Jolie and the UN organization for refugees are no longer working together. The Actor

Today, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) and EVA Pharma (http://www.EVAPharma.com/) announced their partnership to help at least one million

A new cooperation between Microsoft’s Airband Initiative and Viasat has been revealed in order to provide internet access to ten

The African Women Impact Fund (AWIF), a partnership between Standard Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, has

In honor of this year’s International Human Rights Day, Paradigm Initiative (PIN), a prominent Pan-African human rights and advocacy organization,

Access Bank Pic has moved to purchase a 51% majority stake in Finibanco Angola S.A . Finibanco Angola S.A. has

By exchanging data, including indications of compromise (IoCs) on various cyberthreats and types of cybercriminal behavior targeting African nations, Kaspersky

Following a number of successful pilot tests using low earth orbit (LEO) satellites in the US and UK, World Mobile

It is 20 years since the last drug for Alzheimer’s was licensed in the UK. Since then, huge advances have

On the 19th of November, 2022, The World’s Leading Cryptocurrency Exchange and Asset Trading Platform, CoinW (http://bit.ly/3gHpB26), organized a VIP Day

Three years of flatlined progress on HIV treatment and prevention affect 2.7 million youth  . Some 110,00 youth under age

 APO Group (www.APO-opa.com), the leading Pan-African communications consultancy and press release distribution service, today announced a content agreement with Pan-African

With the global population recently reaching 8 billion, we can celebrate many signs of human progress. Better health and longer

MMV (http://www.MMV.org) and Shin Poong Pharm. Co., Ltd. welcome the formal inclusion of Pyramax® (pyronaridine-artesunate) in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Guidelines

Africa Data Centres, a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, is proud to be the colocation provider for

Partner2Connect is an international digital alliance that aims to deliver digital connectivity to more than 80 countries by 2025. It

Ramani, the African software company building a cloud network of micro-distribution centres for Africa’s $1 Trillion consumer-packaged goods supply chain,

The African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development Bank have signed a grant agreement to implement Phase 1 of the

Developing countries celebrated on Sunday morning as crucial climate talks ended with a “historic” deal on their most cherished climate goal: a

Qrios, the Digital Economy Empowerment Platform has built a utility for commerce. It is designed from the ground up to

Hard Rock Cafe is expanding upon its partnership with world-renowned soccer legend Lionel Messi with its latest release of its fan-favorite Messi

Elon Musk issued an ultimatum on Wednesday, and as a result, Twitter offices are closing and staff members are quitting

Paystack has joined a number of other providers that have been granted payments license to operate in Kenya.  The company

The global population is projected to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022, signalling major improvements in public health that

Internet users in Africa will soon have faster access to services on the Internet and better protection from cyberattacks. The Internet Corporation

Britain’s stock market has lost its position as Europe’s most-valued, with France taking the top spot, data shows. A weak

The framework supports environmental investments across the world, thus contributing to green, resilient and equitable development.The EIB (www.EIB.org) is enhancing the

Only 46% of people living with diabetes in the African region know their status, raising the risk of severe illness

Banks, financial services providers, and telecommunication companies from 12 African countries lost $11 million to hacking attacks between 2018 and

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has closed a deal to acquire Twitter, ending a monthslong saga that cast Musk as suitor,

Ghana has been recognized as the only country in Africa to achieve 100% access to financial inclusion on the continent.

The third straight rate hike this year was announced by the European Central Bank on Thursday along with a reduction

The Mastercard virtual payment solution, linked to Cellulant’s payment gateway – Tingg, can unlock a host of opportunities for consumers,

Andela, the global marketplace for remote technical talent, has opened applications for its upcoming EPIC Tournament. In partnership with HackerEarth,

Sub-Saharan Africa faces one of the most challenging economic environments in years, marked by a slow recovery from the pandemic, rising

Mastercard has introduced a new program to enable financial institutions to bring secure crypto trading capabilities and services to their

Nigeria and Cameroon have expressed interest in joining the alliance for economic relations on cocoa between Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana;

The IMF’s World Economic Outlook released last week forecasts that global economic growth will slow from 3.2 percent this year to 2.7

TECNO (www.TECNO-Mobile.com), the global premium smartphone and smart device brand, today launched its brand-new SPARK 9 Pro Sport Edition for

The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) has left its global forecast for 2022 unchanged at 3.2% y/y and has

Nokia has today announced the launch of a marketplace for broadband network automation applications. Seven apps are available at launch,

The creative economy offers a feasible development option to all countries, particularly developing economies, says UNCTAD’s Creative Economy Outlook 2022. UNCTAD defines

MultiChoice has announced its media broadcast partnership with The Earthshot Prize to help accelerate and spotlight the ingenuity and ambition

West Africa and the Sahel are experiencing a continuous deterioration of food and nutritional conditions as a result of the

The gauge for world food commodity prices declined for the sixth month in a row in September, with sharp drops

The World mental health day 2022, #WorldMentalHealthDay, will be celebrated today Monday October 10th with the theme: Make mental health

According to Kaspersky’s Financial Cyberthreats report, attacks in the financial sector are becoming increasingly corporate-oriented and shifting away from consumers. Kaspersky Security

In a 2019 vector alert, WHO identified the spread of Anopheles stephensi as a significant threat to malaria control and elimination – particularly

 Climate disasters and skyrocketing fuel prices have made the need to “end our global addiction to fossil fuels” crystal clear,

Africa has been losing from 5 to 15% of its GDP per capita growth because of climate change and its

As a mission-driven company, M-KOPA’s tremendous growth is rooted in commitment to both commercial and social goals. The report presents

The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners have launched a roadmap to stop by 2030, bacterial meningitis outbreaks on the

Meta has announced the launch of ‘Creators of Tomorrow’, a new campaign  that celebrates emerging talents from around the world

Euro zone inflation hit a new record high in August of 9.1%, according to flash figures from Europe’s statistics office

Moove, the world’s first mobility fintech, has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding [MoU] with MUFG, one of

I recently read this mind-blowing article (https://bbc.in/3CJ0Iff)  on the BBC website. It describes the story of E Bruce Harrison and

The Federal Government of Nigeria has demonstrated its commitment to a clean and sustainable future with the global launch of

African health ministers today launched a campaign to ramp up awareness, bolster prevention and care to curb the toll of

The African space economy keeps growing at a rate beyond Africa’s GDP growth rates and becoming a strategic tool for

Countries are using innovative methods to measure and monitor plastics leakage on land and into rivers and regional seas. Globally

As a marine biologist in Fiji I am used to seeing plastics in our waterways. I’ve written of plastics in the sand, sea

Nigeria. Nigeria’s official Customer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.89% to 18.60% in June, from 17.71% in May. This is

Maritime authorities are considering stricter controls on the ocean transport of billions of plastic pellets known as nurdles after a series

Exclusive Networks Africa, which represents the continental arm of this global, trusted cybersecurity specialist for digital infrastructure, is continuing its

Koolboks, the sustainable cooling company providing accessible cold storage solutions to businesses across Africa, has closed a $2.5M Seed funding

Popular ride-hailing company Bolt has announced it has quadrupled its business since the start of the pandemic, recording its most successful

BNI® (Business Network International), the world’s largest and most successful business netw orking organization, today publicly announced that BNI Members

The Republic of Togo and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) are pleased to announce their signature of

Kaspersky researchers have been tracking attack campaigns from the DeathStalker hack-for-hire group since 2018. Recent analysis shows that the threat actor updated

Z Zurich Foundation (ZZF) announced today—International Youth Day—that it will partner with JA Worldwide and JA Africa, building on relationships

Is the crypto winter finally over? (And in the scorching heat of summer no less?) Bitcoin prices have stabilized around the $23,000 to

The environment contains thousands of hazardous chemicals from plastics. A recent study shows that at least four of these plastics have pushed us beyond

The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on virtual currency mixer Tornado Cash, accusing it of helping hackers, including from North Korea,

Secretary Blinken travels to South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda this week, where the United States

WHO has released new guidelines for the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV and called for

Women and girls who seek to advance their STEM education have long faced incredible challenges in a field traditionally dominated

Women’s World Banking announced today the 2023 Fintech Innovation Challenge, a global competition to highlight and advance solutions to close the

The new Global Alliance for Ending AIDS in Children by 2030, made up of UN agencies, civil society groups, governments

Speaking from Dakar, Senegal, WHO Assistant Director-General for Emergencies Ibrahima Soce Fall said that “we have been working on monkeypox in Africa for

The African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) and the Secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) have signed a

Distribution transformers will continue to dominate the overall transformer market growth opportunities due to rising urbanization and industrialization, says Frost

When G20 Finance Ministers meet this weekend in Bali, their meeting will likely be no more harmonious than their Foreign Minister

Leading digital payment solutions provider Network International has announced it will bring WhatsApp for Business banking services to financial institutions

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday reconvened the Monkeypox Emergency Committee to assess the public health implications of the

The United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Nigeria Mr. Matthias Schmale, has commended the Sterling One Foundation for creating a

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a new ransomware group that further underlines the trend of ransomware actors turning to cross-platform functionality.

The World Health Organization (WHO) welcomes the launch by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, of the landmark opportunity for countries to

Plastics are polluting the world’s oceans and waterways faster than scientists can measure the effects on marine life, livelihoods, human

Cassava Technologies (Cassava) (www.CassavaTechnologies.com), Africa’s first integrated tech company of continental scale, announced today that it has secured a US$50

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund approved an $11.02 million support package to the Permanent Secretariat of the

Crypto funding falls during bumpy first half of year It’s been a brutal year for crypto. Investment in VC-backed crypto

Over 500,000 conflict-affected people in northeast Nigeria will be tossed “a lifeline,” thanks to a new UN humanitarian and development

The Euro has fallen below the dollar for the first time in nearly 20 years as the war in Ukraine

The Africa Narrative (TAN), a non-profit focused on supporting African creatives, today launches the AfroCreatives WikiProject, funded by the Wikimedia

India is set to surpass China as the world’s most populous country in 2023, with each counting more than 1.4

The latest UN projections suggest that the world’s population could grow to around 8.5 billion in 2030 and 9.7 billion

Microsoft announced a wide range of new features and capabilities for Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 at its recent Build

The Togolese Republic has today announced the completion and re-launch of its electronic visa issuance system (e-Visa), Togo VOYAGE. The

It has been popularly believed that the world of business is a world of men. In the past women played

The West is finding it more difficult to compete with Asian and African countries as people in these regions are

The UK’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Ambassador Simon Manley, delivered a statement explaining the UK’s position ahead of the

The International Wine Challenge, the world’s most influential, impartial and rigorously judged wine competition, has announced the 40 highest scoring wines

To coordinate, support, monitor, and evaluate the implementation of the African Union One Health Strategy for Zoonotic Disease Prevention and

Binance (www.Binance.com), the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency infrastructure provider, is celebrating its 5th anniversary by eliminating trading fees

A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy

A quarter of countries still have discriminatory nationality laws that deny women the same nationality rights as men, reveals a

Today, Meta (www.Facebook.com) announced that it has built and open sourced ‘No Language Left Behind’ NLLB-200 (https://bit.ly/3yJo7KS), a single AI

“ChinaDan” posted in an online cybercrime forum that they lifted the data of 1 billion Chinese citizens from a Shanghai

We’re kicking off with a word you’ve waited so long to hear: “deflation.” It may not be as good as

TMF Group, a leading provider of compliance and administrative services, has today launched the ninth edition of its Global Business Complexity

Kaspersky experts have brought to light a poorly detected Session Manager backdoor that was set up as a malicious module

The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has revealed the Travel & Tourism sector in Nigeria is expected to create

Last week, leaders came together to make incredible pledges to help fight malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). Governments, the

Twelve African countries have so far reported 1,782 cases of monkeypox cases, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

IBM has announced it will provide in-kind grants valued at $5 million to help address cybersecurity resiliency in schools worldwide.  For the

As a result of the worst shock to education and learning in recorded history, learning poverty has increased by a

Almost 8 million children under 5 in 15 crisis-hit countries are at risk of death from severe wasting unless they

USAID has announced the launch of its new flagship initiative to combat ocean plastic pollution globally—the Save Our Seas Initiative.

The East African Community has unveiled the Regional Bioeconomy Strategy 2021/22-2031/3 at the EAC Headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.  The strategy

A promising regional recovery has been disrupted by the war in Ukraine. Last year, activity surprised on the upside, lifting

WTO members successfully concluded the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) in Geneva on 17 June, securing multilaterally negotiated outcomes on a

Premium smartphone brand TECNO (www.TECNO-Mobile.com) announced today the renewal of its partnership with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to support

ZTE Corporation (0763.HK / 000063.SZ), a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet,

Online education has become a prominent industry during the past decade. According to the numbers presented by StockApps.com, the online

Global wealth shot up to new levels of $530 trillion (or N217.8 Quadrillion @N411/$) in 2021. A MoneyTransfers data presentation

Dow  has announced the expansion of its Project REFLEX initiative in Egypt and Guinea, following a successful pilot phase in

The global travel insurance market size was valued at $12.38 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach $119.31 billion

It was recently revealed that the TECNO CAMON 19 series global launch event will be held in the iconic Rockefeller

Skaleet, an international fintech offering a next-generation Core Banking Platform (CBP) has today announced its partnership with Salv, an Estonian RegTech company. This enables them to provide