Tunisia has launched its first home-made satellite. Challenge ONE was launched on 22 March with the help of a Russian launching rocket from a base in Kazakhstan.

Challenge ONE is a research and innovation project that offers a new approach to information technology and its practical application. Tunisia’s first satellite, Challenge ONE has been launched onboard Soyuz-2 rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It was announced in 2019 by Tunisian...

GSMA has published its annual 'State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money'. It reveals a dramatic acceleration in mobile transactions during the COVID-19 pandemic as lockdown restrictions limited access to cash and financial institutions.

The report found that the number of registered accounts grew by 13 per cent globally in 2020 to more than 1.2 billion – double the forecast. The fastest growth was in markets where governments provided significant pandemic relief to their...

Newly launched "click and collect" service reinvents shopping experiences in Egypt to offer customers more convenience and choice.

Majid Al Futtaim, the shopping mall, communities, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, has launched its free “Click and Collect” service across its four shopping malls in Egypt. The introduction of the digital offering addresses the rise in demand for online services by offering customers the opportunity to shop, order and...

Mobile users in Africa are increasingly concerned about mobile risks and the potential for digital identity theft; however, this is not stopping them from using their favourite messaging platforms and applications.

This emerged in new research carried out by KnowBe4 among over 700 smartphone users in Nigeria, Mauritius, Egypt, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Morocco and Botswana. The KnowBe4 Mobile Users in Africa survey gauged the opinions of Africa’s...

Nigerian fintech startup Team Apt has launched an internship program to support women in Technology.

The internship program is targeting female graduates especially in the technology space with an aim to fill the gender disparity gap within The Nigerian Tech ecosystem especially the Fintech space. The program will run for six months providing a platform for young women to grow their skills by getting the exposure necessary to advance their...

On-demand delivery startup Glovo has launched its operations in Kenya. Glovo entered Africa in 2018 and is currently present in four countries. 

Glovo’s users will now be able to receive deliveries anywhere in Accra from local restaurants, stores and businesses in the city through the Glovo App. The app also has a special feature known as the “anything” category, which allows consumers to order whatever they want from restaurants, grocery chains, pharmacies and retail stores. “We are excited about...

Everlytic, South Africa’s provider of multi-channel bulk messaging and automation-driven marketing software, recently launched its Channel Partnership Programme with the aim of partnering with like-minded businesses and agencies in South Africa, Africa, the United Kingdom, Western Europe, and Scandinavia.

The pioneering technology company, which has been ranked the fastest-growing tech company in South Africa and the third fastest in Africa by Deloitte, is looking for channel partners...

Esinam Yevu is Co-Founder and Communications Lead at Ghanaian fintech startup, PayBox. 

Please introduce PayBox as a startup and explain what it does.

PayBox was founded in 2019 and operates within the financial services and technology industries simultaneously - what has come to be known as the Fintech space. As such, we provide SMEs with digital business tools and a cross-border payment solution to enable growth. One of our goals is to...

Elizabeth Akinyi is the Customer Success Manager at Incentro Africa, an IT service provider delivering custom build cloud-based software solutions for the European and African market.

Kindly introduce yourself and your role at Incentro Africa

My name is Elizabeth Akinyi, I joined Incentro Africa in 2018. I am Google Workspace certified deployment specialist and Professional collaboration Engineer. At Incentro, I lead our Enterprise Collaboration services across 26 countries in Africa  including French-speaking nations. At the core of this...

As one of the largest companies in pest control and office hygiene, Rentokil Initial has a large dynamic staff spread across the globe.

As one of the early adopters of Chromebooks, they have been able to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) on endpoints while making management and deployment more secure and less time-consuming...

The pace at which digital transformation has swept across industries continues to increase rapidly in response to Covid-19. There is no doubt that many businesses across all sectors have leapfrogged several years of progress within a matter of months.

In the early years of the digital revolution, the mining industry, like many others, experienced a disconnect between expectations and reality. Early progress did not keep pace with slow adoption rates and implementation challenges, which...

In our previous Africa Cloud Review report, we highlighted how cloud adoption is no longer merely an option but a necessity that promises tremendous rewards across entire organizations.

Africa is currently witnessing a revolution in new cloud and data centre capacity, with a growth forecast of 80 per cent and 50 per cent. In fact, Xalam Analytics has previously noted that African data centres are the hottest growth area in the African ICT market.  The emergence of cloud in Africa as the Cloud...