News - West Africa

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...

AfricArena has announced the dates for a two-day summit on June 22 and 23 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in...

Uche Ogboi has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Lori Systems, an African e-logistics platform. Josh Sandler, the...

Chipper Cash, an African fintech startup that allows cross-border payments, has raised $100 million in a Series C financing. This...

CribMD, a Nigerian healthtech firm, has raised $2.6 million to expand its offering. Sputnik ATX, Norrsken Foundation, and The Guardian...

OPay, an African fintech platform, could be raising $400 million, according to reports. OPay states to have processed $1.4 billion in...