The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) has opened nominations for the 2021 annual AWIEF Awards. Entries and nominations for the 2021 AWI...
The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) prize competition, established by the Jack Ma Foundation, has held its first ever pan-African summit, gathering over 1,600 at...
Real estate developer, Gateway Real Estate Africa (GREA), has handed over a donation of Ksh. 4,328,000 ($40,000) to Buildher Kenya. Buildher, a non-profit opera...
Mr. Alex Gitari has been appointed as the new Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) new Managing Director and CEO, effective 8th July, 2021. The announcement was made ...
CDC Group has announced a Ksh. 5.4 billion ($50 million) trade finance facility with Ecobank International (EBISA), the Paris based member of the Ecobank Group,...
AIfluence, an AI-powered Kenya-based influencer marketing platform, has closed Ksh. 108 million ($1 million) in seed funding. The investment round was led by Du...
Glovo, a delivery platform, has announced the expansion of its operations to Thika and Kiambu towns. The expansion comes after the company raised Ksh. 58 billio...
OLA Energy has signed an agreement with Ecobank, expanding their partnership and providing innovative digital financial services at service stations in Africa. ...
MoData, a digital and finance solutions company, has partnered with Mazars Consulting to provide clients with sustainable solutions to enhance profitability.
...
Huawei Mobile Services has partnered with Safaricom to launch a new payment method on its AppGallery. Huawei users can now make in-app purchases in their favour...
Carrefour, a retail chain owned and operated by Majid Al Futtaim in Kenya, has expanded its footprint across the country with the upcoming opening of two new st...
Manufacturers from Kenya and Tanzania have called for the resolution of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) and the review of the East African Community Common External ...
Kenya Re-Insurance Corporation (Kenya Re) has named Jennifer Karina as the chair of its board with effect from July 8th.
Mrs. Karina, a psychologist and coac...
Babajide Duroshola, ex-country head SafeBoda Nigeria, has been appointed as M-KOPA's General Manager. His appointment comes as the company plans to expand opera...
Things have changed immensely thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many employees have decided to resign from their current jobs so they can find higher-paying alte...
Ogilvy Africa, a marketing and branding agency, has named Alex van Niekerk as Group Creative Director. Alex joins the network’s creative leadership team to serv...
MarketForce, a Kenyan retail distribution platform, has raised Ksh. 215,880,000 ($2 million) to launch in Nigeria and to scale up operations in RejaReja to more...
Safaricom has announced a Ksh. 20 million sponsorship for Team Kenya at the Tokyo Olympics. The funds have been set aside for the ceremonial kit that will be us...
Sendy, a logistics company, is planning on launching its first electric vehicle fleets to help promote clean transportation in Nairobi. The company has partnere...
Kenya Airways (KQ) has launched the Fahari Innovation Hub, a platform for new ideas and data-driven innovations to accelerate impact-driven solutions that addre...
To serve the growing number of customers travelling through the Emirates Hub, the airline has re-opened its First Class Lounge at Dubai International (DXB’s) Co...
The Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved Ksh. 18,448,655,000 ($170.9 million) in financing for the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Leveraging En...
Pipit Global has partnered with Cellulant to enable consumers in Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Mali, Senegal, and Ghana to make transactions through the Pip...
Knight Frank, a property advisory company has partnered with Rennie Property, a South African commercial property specialist. According to Knight Frank, this pa...
The MTN Business App of the Year Awards is inviting app developers and coders from Africa to make submission of entries. The Awards aim to promote local busines...
Liquid Technologies and Facebook have announced a partnership to build an extensive metro fibre network in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The network i...
Microsoft has unveiled a new cloud-based business management solution dubbed Dynamics 365 Business Central to streamline SMEs operations in Africa and the Middl...
Merck has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the African Federation of Fertility Societies (AFFS). Through the MoU, the two organ...
InTouch, an African payment and digital solutions company has announced a strategic partnership with CFAO Group. The partnership aims to invest with Mobility54 ...
The Global Partnership for Ethiopia (GPE) has appointed Anwar Soussa as the Managing Director (MD) of the Operating Company in Ethiopia, effective 1st July, 202...
Copia Global has expanded its operations to Uganda. In Kenya, Copia serves more than 1 million customers and is doubling in size every year. The expansion is ex...
BTE Renewables and Craftskills have announced the completion of Kipeto wind farm located in Kajiado County. Kipeto is BTE Renewables’ fifth project to reach com...
EFG Hermes, a brokerage firm in Kenya, has launched its new online equity-trading platform dubbed EFG Hermes One. The new platform will see the firm offer retai...
Rwanda Finance (RFL) and the East Africa Venture Capital Association (EAVCA) have partnered to enable private investment in Africa through their respective mand...
Jua Kali artisans from the informal sector have called on the government to reduce importation of PPE and support growth and creation of local production of the...
Kenya Breweries Limited (KBL) through its Guinness Hop House 13 brand has introduced a new a barbecue experience dubbed Flavor by Fire. The Flavor by Fire conce...
Fusion Capital, a private equity firm, has raised Ksh. 800 million for the completion of Greenwood City Mall in Meru from local and international investors.
...
Hotel owners in the Maasai Mara Wildlife Sanctuary are optimistic that its industry will recover following the current increase in bookings ahead of the wildebe...
Pwani Oil Products has partnered with the Ministry of Education and Kenya Primary School Headteachers Association (KEPSHA) to roll out an essay writing competit...
Stanbic Kenya Foundation (SKF) recently partnered with the US African Development Foundation (USADF) to provide grants to MSMEs, cooperatives, and producer grou...
The Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) has announced a partnership with Zydii to provide free digital training to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)...
PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) has announced the admission of Isaac Otolo to its partnership, effective 1 July, 2021. Otolo's admission to PwC Kenya’s partnership...
