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| Yannick Lefang With the rise of a middle class and a consumer market estimated to reach $1.2 trillion in value by 2020, Africa is becoming a more commercially desirable location for businesses... read |
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| Kaspersky Lab introduces new partner program in Africa to drive business growth for managed security services providers... read |
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| The popularity of Bollywood programming in Nigeria and television channel, Zee World, has inspired a new Nollywood series... read |
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| Tom Jackson Nigerian fintech startups have the opportunity to pitch for NGN3 million ($10,000) worth of incubation and prize money of NGN500,000 ($1,600) at the Fintech Startup Challenge in June... read |
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| It has emerged that financial services within Nigeria's digital economy could add US$88 billion and create over 3 million new jobs in the next 10 years.... read |
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| Award-winning Australian filmmaker Rachel Perkins in Accra to hold workshops and discussions on storytelling, film-making and rights and activism with Ghanaian film producers and students... read |
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| The latest prepaid solutions are being made available across Africa to government institutions, financial services and corporate sector and consumers... read |
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| Leigh Andrews It's no secret that TV viewers have changed their consumption habits. Luckily, some broadcasters have changed with their audience and are now embracing all new digital channels... read |
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| API Events has launched African Property Skyline magazine. The publication covers real estate investment and development on the continent... read |
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| Veeam commissioned ESG to survey more than 1,000 business professionals and senior decision makers for the sixth annual Veeam Availability Report... [infographic] read |
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| Tom Jackson African tech startups can thrive by finding solutions that work for informal markets, yet most are continuing to ignore the opportunities in this space... read |
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| Innovate Ventures re-runs successful tech accelerator for Somali startups, to support and invest in the next wave of tech startups in Somaliland and Somalia... read |
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| Airtel Networks Limited and ZTE have announced a strategic partnership to launch 4G (fourth generation wireless mobile telecommunications technology) in Nigeria... read |
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| WGSN, a London trend forecasting company for fashion, unveils four key trends of African design in 2017 and 2018... read |
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| Mastercard has launched a biometric card that uses fingerprints to enable purchases, revealing that it had been piloting the card, a global first for the company, in SA... read |
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| Jay Smith In a dazzling splash of lights, big screens and booming sound, Adobe hosted over 12,000 attendees at their 2017 Summit in Las Vegas... read |
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| Yana Vardomatskaya It is expected that there will be 3.9 IoT-based devices per person by 2020. However, along with all the potential improvements, the potential rise of smart nodes and transferring of data is causing new concerns... read |
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| Marilyn Dutlow Munga Here's why social watching is so important and a handful of health and wellness brands using Instagram to become part of the new cultural conversations... read |
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| MTN and Huawei have partnered to bring the first LTE Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) network in Africa... read |
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| French sport equipment and sportswear company, Decathlon, has opened its first shop in Ghana, now the largest store in West Africa... read |
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| A new Tigo call centre has been launched in Tanzania, complete with embedded data security measures to protect customer information and identity, to offer Tigo customers dedicated worldclass service... read |
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| Goodbye Malaria recently sold its one millionth Goodbye Malaria bracelet, raising $1million for malaria elimination programmes in Africa... read |
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| Internet access restored in anglophone Cameroon after three months, following a widely-criticised government shutdown... read |
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| Day two of Facebook's annual event... read |
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| Issued by Joe Public United Engage Joe Public, the PR and communications offering of Joe Public United, entered the 2017 African Excellence Awards and succeeded in winning two awards this past week... read |
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| Two of the world's richest men, Bill Gates and Aliko Dangote, have spread their philanthropic wings to drive basic healthcare and disease prevention in Africa... read |
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| SMEs in East Africa have seen encouraging growth in recent years, especially in the areas of IT, with ecosystems such as the Silicon Savannah forecast to be worth more than $1bn in the next three years... read |
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| Abraham Cambridge Africa is on the cusp of an energy revolution. We are seeing exceptional and pioneering solutions to how we generate, use, and pay for energy... read |
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| Alistair Anderson Pan-African property income fund Mara Delta has enjoyed a strong nine months to March, completing key acquisitions in Mauritius and Mozambique... read |
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| Lesley Lokko Like it or not, we measure the success (or failure) of cities according to broad principles of urban culture inherited largely from the west... read |
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| “StayEasy Maputo is in a magnificent location, and being part of a mixed-use development, will undoubtedly be popular with both business and leisure travellers looking for the best and latest accommodation in the economy branded sector.” read |
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| According to the World Malaria Report 2016, the rate of new malaria cases fell by 21% globally between 2010 and 2015... read |
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| Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi will take part in a pilot programme that will make the world's first malaria vaccine available in selected areas... read |
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| Will headline GDP growth translate into qualitative development across the continent..? read |
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| Olushola Fadairo Nigeria recently began a fresh effort to ascertain its climate change obligations under the Paris Agreement... read |
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| Sally Matthews Non-governmental organisations have become key actors in responding to poverty and related suffering... read |
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| Angola Cables has completed the marine survey for the South Atlantic Cable System (SACS), as well as started cable loading on the Angolan side of SACS... read |
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| The number of people in need of food aid in Ethiopia's drought-hit regions has surged to 7.7 million... read |
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