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| Aug 17, 2020 | Liveizy is a home rental startup connecting property owners with managers and tenants | Share this article:
While serving as a business development executive in CBC EMEA, a technology conglomerate, Adesanya Tochi got interested in housing and real estate.
He felt the real estate industry was an important one and decided to bec... |
| Jul 30, 2020 | Sexist and incomplete data hold back the world’s Covid-19 response | How many women have died of Covid-19?
How many women have lost their jobs in the economic crisis it created?
And how many have had to stop working because schools and day cares have closed and now have to take on unforeseen and added child ... |
| Jul 21, 2020 | What Ever Happened to Digital Contact Tracing? | In May of this year, Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged the United Kingdom would develop a “world beating” track and trace system by June 1 to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus. But on June 18, the government quietly abandoned its ... |
| May 24, 2020 | China’s Failed Pandemic Response in Africa | Editor’s Note: As the United States retreats from its traditional global leadership role, China is filling the void. Perhaps nowhere has China’s growing influence been more apparent than in Africa, where China’s economic and security clout ... |
| May 19, 2020 | SportPesa Generated $200M in May 2019 Betsspo, Leaked Regulatory Document Revealed | SportPesa, Kenya’s leading bookmaker before having its license suspended and being forced to abandon operations, has reportedly generated nearly $200 million from bets in May 2019, a recently leaked regulatory paper revealed. Betting Mania
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| Apr 29, 2020 | Kenya confiscates, destroys smuggled fish from Somalia | Kenya’s suspension of seafood trade with Somalia through the Indian Ocean routes has not been lifted, and anyone caught engaging in the business will be arrested and the fish confiscated and destroyed, according to a Kenyan government offic... |
| Apr 15, 2020 | Kenya blocks rogue digital lenders from blacklisting borrowers | Share this article:
In what seems to be another strategic move given the uncertain economic times, the Central Bank of Kenya has announced that unregulated digital lenders, will no longer have access to the country’s credit reference bureau... |
| Apr 8, 2020 | MPesa’s next level is now fully under Safaricom and Vodacom’s control | MPesa, the mobile money service, has been an African product for 13 years. But it has not necessarily been run under African management. That is set to change.
This week, Safaricom and Vodacom acquired the intellectual property rights to th... |
| Mar 17, 2020 | Safaricom, Airtel Kenya waive mobile money fees for 90 days due to COVID-19 | For the next 90 days, person-to person mobile money transactions below Ksh. 1,000 ($9.67) on MPesa, the mobile money service owned by Safaricom, will incur no costs to Kenyan customers.
It is Safaricom’s response to a demand by the Kenyan g... |
| Mar 17, 2020 | Charges on mobile money waived for Kenyans amidst coronavirus scare | Share this article:
The Kenyan government released a directive through the country’s apex bank to encourage the use of mobile money. With effect from March 16, financial institutions are expected to remove charges on mobile money transactio... |
| Mar 13, 2020 | Blurry regulatory lines still ahead for bus-hailing startups in Lagos | In Lagos, the absence of okadas and kekes is creating an opportunity for bus-hailing companies to enter the market and possibly thrive.
Already, operational companies like Plentywaka have experienced a surge in their numbers; passengers hav... |
| Dec 18, 2019 | According to website rankings, betting sites are becoming more popular in Nigeria | Share this article:
Despite the economic decline the country is facing, the online sports betting industry in Nigeria appears to be thriving. It seems to be making the most of the considerable youthful population with increasing Internet pe... |
| Sep 22, 2019 | Succession Politics and the Renewed Threat of Ethnic Violence in Kenya | Editor’s Note: Kenya’s politics often appear peaceful, but they are punctuated by dangerous periods of intense violence, particularly during election season. For now, Kenya’s main groups are at peace, but Narrelle Gilchrist of the Universit... |
| Sep 1, 2019 | Counterproductive Counterinsurgency: Is Mozambique Creating the Next Boko Haram? | Editor’s Note: Mozambique has a small terrorism problem, but the government’s response threatens to make it a big one. Hilary Matfess of Yale University and Alexander Noyes of RAND Corp. contend that Mozambique is overreacting to the danger... |
| Aug 22, 2019 | Kenya strives to end illegal fishing, ramp up seafood production | Kenya has launched a new Coast Guard Service (CGS) to fight rampant illegal fishing and help the country increase its own seafood yields.
The CGS was launched by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in November 2018 with the mandate of fighting ... |
| May 17, 2019 | Social Media Roundup: How Guccy Branch became a social media sensation | Share this article:
Last week Friday, we heard that Nigerian musician and Am I a Yahoo boy crooner Naira Marley was arrested by officers of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Lagos for cyber fraud, alongside Zlatan Ibile... |
| May 15, 2019 | The Kenya–Somalia Maritime Dispute and Its Potential National Security Costs | The at-times fraught relationship between Kenya and Somalia took a new turn in 2014, when Somalia submitted a compromis before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) claiming that Kenya was conducting illegal acts in what Somalia claimed ... |
| Apr 16, 2019 | Online sports betting in Africa: Between morality and an opportunity for revenue generation | Share this article:
Recent activities by governments across Africa indicate growing concerns about the continent’s online sports betting industry. These concerns centre around revenue generation as well as morality.
Recently, the Kenyan gov... |
| Mar 20, 2019 | African cities are running out of water, and the continent needs almost R1 trillion to avoid a crisis of disease and dehydration | African cities are running out of water.
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African cities are experiencing devastating water shortages as their populations continue to grow.
These water shortages have led to sanitation problems, which ca... |
| Nov 27, 2018 | The innovation supply chain: How ideas traverse continents and transform economies | Alex Lazarow Contributor
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| Aug 17, 2018 | Social Media Round: Overhaul SARS | Share this article:
After long months of calling on the government to end the misconduct of officers of the Nigerian Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Nigerian youths have gotten the break they have been pushing for through the #End... |
| Jul 5, 2018 | A Brief Look At Insurtech In Kenya | Insurance in Kenya dates as far back as 1930 when the first insurance company, Pioneer Assurance was founded. It wasn’t until 2015 that Kenya’s first set of Insurtech startups began to appear. Today, Kenya’s insurance companies are re-imagi... |
| May 24, 2018 | Africa News Roundup — May 24, 2018 | Share this article:
Here are this week’s top news headlines about startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech around Africa.
What’s new with Naspers? South African media group and former Konga investor, Naspers reportedly led a recent $... |
| May 7, 2018 | Africa News Roundup — May 7, 2018 | Share this article:
Here are last weekend’s top news headlines about startups, entrepreneurship, innovation and tech around Africa.
WUZZUF raises $6m. Egypt-based online recruitment platform and 500 Startups alumnus, WUZZUF recently announc... |
| Mar 30, 2018 | Uber and Taxify are going head-to-head to digitize Africa’s two-wheeled taxis | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
Nigeria’s Autochek raises ... |
| Mar 7, 2018 | CBN’s manoeuvre and the role of telcos in Nigeria’s financial inclusion | Share this article:
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has a target of 80% financial inclusion by the year 2020. Regardless of this, current regulation exempts telecommunication companies (telcos) from owning mobile money licenses.
In a move... |
| Sep 8, 2017 | Africa Roundup: eBay expands, Google CEO visits Lagos, Ghana enters space | Jake Bright Contributor
Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa.
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African fintech startup Chipper Cash raises $30M backed by Jeff Bezos
Nigeria’s Autochek raises ... |
| Sep 1, 2017 | Improving Electoral Cybersecurity in Kenya | This morning, the Kenyan Supreme Court announced it cancelled last month’s presidential election and ordered a new election within 60 days. Chief Justice David Maraga affirmed that the August 8th election, which declared incumbent Uhuru Ken... |
| Aug 31, 2017 | World Bank’s XL Africa programme announces its first cohort | 1 – Putting the app before the horse ??
From Techmoran (emphasis mine):
The Nigeria Police Force in partnership with indigenous and foreign technology firms, has rolled out an app named Hawk Eye, aimed at curbing insecurity across the count... |
| Apr 9, 2017 | South Africans are Learning that they’re not that Exceptional After all | wp_booster error:
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| Mar 19, 2017 | The Case of Kenya: Will Technology Deliver a Free and Fair Election? | wp_booster error:
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| Mar 3, 2017 | TechCabal Daily: Bricks and mortar | Hi there! Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re reading this, you’re probably not subscribed to TechCabal’s daily digest. Click here to get this goodness in your mailbox every day at 7am (GMT +1). First off, m... |
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| Feb 17, 2017 | TechCabal daily: Peeping Toms and monitoring spirits | Hey there! Today’s TechCabal digest is brought to you by Tizeti; they are offering Lagos residents unlimited internet for N5,000, and you can sign up for that here. Here’s everything interesting in African technology today. If you’re readin... |
| Jan 5, 2017 | The Benefits Of Mobile Money In Kenya | A recently published study on the long-run effects of mobile money on economic outcomes in Kenya provides some valuable insights that will benefit economic development and financial inclusion policies across Africa. by Sarah Logan
The study... |
| Jan 5, 2017 | The Benefits Of Mobile Money In Kenya | |
| Dec 16, 2015 | Rwanda’s Not-So-Improbable Ambition To Be A Startup Hub of Africa | It’s an odd feeling to come from California, one of the world’s most prodigious economies where the infrastructure and public systems are simultaneously falling apart in plain view, and arrive in the tiny, landlocked East African country of... |
| Sep 23, 2015 | EduTech solutions to use amidst Kenya’s teachers’ strike | Share this article:
It has been almost 4 weeks since the national teachers strike began in Kenya. Here are some EduTech startups that are providing the much needed relief to students and parents with their innovations since the absence of t... |
| Jul 27, 2015 | Was President Obama’s Visit to Kenya a Snub to the International Criminal Court? | One aspect of President Obama’s historic visit to Kenya under-reported by the U.S. press and almost entirely ignored by U.S. human rights groups was that the President met with two Kenyan leaders who had been indicted by the International C... |
| Jul 27, 2015 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Turkey has made a dramatic entrance into the war against the Islamic State. Following an agreement late last week about between Turkey and the United States to allow American forces to utilize a Turkish air base, officials in Washington and... |
| Jul 6, 2015 | Kenya's Ingenious Solution To Cybercrime: Register Every Wi-Fi User And Device With The Government | Good news! Kenya has developed an ingenious, foolproof plan to put an end to the menace of cybercrime as we know it: they’ll soon be requiring that all Wi-Fi users register with the government before going online. Since most of us realize t... |
| Jul 1, 2015 | Kenya to require users of public Wi-Fi to register with government | reader comments 69 with 47 posters participating, including story author
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The head of Kenya's Communications Authority, Francis Wangusi, announced a new set of regulations o... |
| Aug 18, 2014 | Kenyan Institute, Bola Associates Waters New Resource Centre With $2.7m | Kenya Water Institute (KEWI) and Bola Associates, a water technologies adviser in the country, are partnering to build a regional resource centre worth Sh240 million ($2.7 million) in Nairobi, Kenya’s capital city.
Research, training and in... |
| Jul 17, 2014 | Britam Raises $84m From Bonds | American Investments Company (Britam), says the Sh3 billion ($34.2 million) corporate bonds it issued last month in a bid to fund expansion of the company has been oversubscribed by 147 percent.
“The massive participation in the corporate b... |
| Nov 5, 2013 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Kenyan authorities have charged four in connection with the siege of the Westgate Mall in September. Read the Daily Nation story.
Today the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Bond v. United States, a case addressing the scope of Congress... |
| Jul 10, 2013 | Bitcoin and M-Pesa: Why money in Kenya has gone digital | When thinking about the future of money, many of us now invariably have thoughts about bitcoin. Where is it going? What role might it play in our financial lives? No matter what you think about it, bitcoin is great for starting a debate on ... |
| May 20, 2013 | Online Portal Targets Kenyan Cooperatives | The Kenyan government has launched an online portal encouraging cooperative societies to fully incorporate ICT to meet Vision 2030 targets.
A developed web portal, Africoop, enables cooperatives intending to create their web page to do busi... |
| Apr 24, 2013 | Ten African Multimillionaires You've Never Heard Of | Salwa Idrissi Akhannouch |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Si Si Wakenya?: The World's Most Important Election Belongs To Kenya | Kenya's Deputy Prime Minister and Jubilee Alliance Presidential candidate in the upcoming... [+] Presidential elections, Uhuru Kenyatta, (R) and running mate William Ruto wave to supporters during a plotical rally in the capital Nairobi on ... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | Africa Gets Cutting-Edge Solar Broadband, Phones From Microsoft | Microsoft has launched a Kenyan pilot network of solar-powered towers that tap into unlicensed “white space” frequencies to provide wireless connectivity to rural communities in the east African nation. Microsoft also said it would contribu... |
| Jan 23, 2013 | SA Retailers Edgars, Foschini To Open Store In Nairobi – Actis | Africa-focused private equity firm Actis has said that South African luxury fashion houses Edgars and Foschini are some of the retailers that have booked stores in its Sh12.6 billion ($144 million) 50,000 square metres Nairobi shopping mall... |
| Mar 16, 2012 | TPS Eastern Africa, Kenyan holding company for the Serena chain of hotels, records 19% rise in after tax profit | er cent, riding on growth in the country’s tourism segments.
The firm’s net profits grew to Sh616 million up from Sh516 million in 2010. Turnover stood at Sh5.5 billion up from Sh4.5 billion in 2010.
The company, which owns a string of reso... |
| Mar 14, 2012 | Kenya: Investors get advice on opportunities | Foreign investors have been urged to exploit Kenya’s business opportunities, arising from its strategic position in Africa.
The country is the gateway to the East African Community, which has a population of about 90 million people and acce... |
| Mar 11, 2012 | Kenyans Demand an Apology: Social Media Power On #SomeoneTellCNN | If you are online right now and you are wondering what #SomeoneTellCNN is all about, here is a good place to start.
CNN reported that there was violence in Kenya, an exaggerated coverage of the Nairobi grenade blasts that occurred yesterday... |
| Jan 30, 2012 | [Updated] Google Fires Kenya Lead Over Mocality | Google has reportedly fired its Kenya country manager, Olga Arara-Kimani, over a fraudulent use of Mocality’s data.
Nairobitech reported:
“The Google Mocality saga has drawn its first casualties. Kenya country lead for Google, Olga Arara-Ki... |
| Sep 7, 2010 | Kenyan bank invests in e-payment | Kenyan bank invests in e-payment
Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) has rolled out an online payment service to bolster electronic tourism, as most bookings and payments are made on the Internet, reports The Daily Nation.
The bank is working with ... |