News - West Africa

Mastercard has announced the launch of its SME Dining Series “Start Something Priceless”  in Abuja and Lagos to help small businesses....

BFREE, a Nigerian fintech, aims to improve consumers' financial health by providing a tech-enabled credit management solution that makes collection...

Maviance PLC, a Cameroon-based fintech firm, reported that it has closed a USD 3 million seed investment round from MFS...

Elon Musk's SpaceX aerospace company has applied for a license from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to provide high-speed internet...

Gozem, the super app that is already available in a number of West African cities, has launched a taxi booking...

Paystack, a Nigerian payments platform, has started operations in South Africa after a six-month pilot, making it the startup's third...

Uhuru Investment Partners (Uhuru) a middle-market private equity company based in Lagos and Abidjan, announces the US$113 million first close of Uhuru Growth...

Microsoft has outlined many initiatives aimed at accelerating Nigeria's transition to a more digital economy in a joint announcement with...

MEST has announced the top three performing Ghanaian tech startups that recently graduated from its Beta 2020 cohort of the...

As it continues to power e-commerce for Africa, Afrikrea, the e-commerce platform for "all things made of Africa," is launching...

Olusegun Ogunsanya has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and...

Tolulope George-Yanwah has been appointed as Ghana's new Chief Executive Officer by Jumia, Africa's leading eCommerce platform. Tolulope George-Yanwah succeeds...