News - West Africa

Jetstream Africa, a Ghanaian logistics startup, has raised $3 million in debt and equity to support its aim of enabling...

Ghana launched its first fully digital national Housing and Population Census (PHC) in an effort to determine the exact population...

Jiji, one of Africa's leading online marketplaces, has announced the acquisition of cars45, a transactional car marketplace with operations in...

FSD Africa Investments (FSDAi), FSD Africa's investment arm, has invested US$4.5 million in Nithio FI, a renewable energy financing intermediary...

In a landmark ruling, the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its...

Twelve creative industry professionals from Kenya, Nigeria, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe were chosen from over 500 applications to participate...

Paga, a mobile payments startup based in Nigeria, aspires to be Africa's next billion-dollar corporation. There are 17 million unique...

According to a central bank of Nigeria official, Nigeria may deploy a central bank digital currency (CBDC) before the end...

Nigeria's government announced that Twitter's operations have been halted indefinitely, two days after the platform deleted a tweet by President...

Gov. Ernest Addison of the Bank of Ghana (BOG) said the agency is now “in the advanced stages” of creating...

MTN Ghana, the country's largest mobile telecommunications company, announced that it will invest $25 million over the next three years...

AppsNmobile, a Ghanaian Fintech startup, has received a $1 million investment from Oasis Capital. This investment is expected to help...