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AWIEF
Accelerator Women

Nedbank, AWIEF Partner For Fourth Cohort of AWIEF Growth Accelerator

The Africa Women Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (AWIEF) is hosting the fourth cohort of its flagship AWIEF Growth Accelerator, sponsored

MoMo Agent
Partnership Payment

Mercy Corps Partners MoMo Agent to Deliver Cash Transfers to Vulnerable Households in Yobe State

Mercy Corps’ ‘Building Resilience in Complex Crisis (BRICC)’ programme funded by the European Union, has signed a new partnership with

OKO
Interview

OKO Finance: Helping Smallholder Farmers Secure Their Income Via Digital Insurance

African Farmers-80% of them smallholder farmers or family-run- are grimly exposed to drought, insect attacks, and flooding. They suffer huge

Twitter
Social Media Twitter

Twitter Launches Tip Jar, a Feature That Allows Users to Send & Receive Tips

Twitter has launched Tip Jar, a new feature that allows users to send and receive tips. The company said in a

Flextock
Funding Investment Logistics Venture Capital

Fresh Out of Y Combinator, Egyptian Startup Flextock Secures $3.25m

Flextock, an Egyptian on-demand logistics platform, has raised $3.25 million just two months after graduating from Y Combinator’s Winter 2021

Leapfrog Ventures
Funding Investment

GIZ Egypt Unveils $120m Funding Targeted at First-time Fund Managers

GIZ Egypt, in partnership with Egyptian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (MSMEDA), Endure Capital and Changelabs, has launched

Sanlam
Acquisition Insurtech

South African Insurance Firm, Sanlam Acquires 22.8% Stake in Morocco’s Saham Assurance

Sanlam Group, the South African insurance company, has announced its acquisition of a 22.8% stake of Saham Assurance Maroc, for

CDC Group
Funding

CDC Group Supports Uhuru Growth Fund I in Reaching $113m First Close

Uhuru Investment Partners (Uhuru), a leading middle-market private equity firm based out of Lagos and Abidjan, has announced the first

MSMEs
Entrepreneurship SMEs

Meet MSMEs Selected For MTN’s Accelerator Programme, Y’ello 200

In the past five years, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria, have contributed an estimated 48% to the

First Bank
Banking Regulation

CBN Removes Ibukun Awosika & Other First Bank Board of Directors, Reinstates Sola Adeduntan As MD

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has wielded its regulatory big stick on First Bank of Nigeria, by removing all