African fintech raised over $1.3 trillion in 2021 alone, making it the continent's fastest-growing start-up sector. This success was fueled by a number of trends, including rising smartphone ownership, falling Internet costs, expanded network coverage, and a young, rapidly expanding, and urbanizing population. According to McKinsey & Company, African fintech...

By Kestér Kenn Klomegâh Russia has made military-technical cooperation its key component in relations with Africa, and African leaders with high enthusiasm express readiness to pay for deliveries. Some African leaders have bartered for such deliveries by granting complete access to lucrative natural resources. Reports indicate that Russia has signed...

by Hardeep Sound, Regional Sales Director for East Africa at SAP NAIROBI, Kenya, 5 December 2022 -/African Media Agency(AMA)/- When the early days of the pandemic pushed industries across East Africa into survival mode, it sparked a wave of cloud adoption that has swept through the region.  Focused at first on ensuring...

Byline: By Susan Sitemere, Country Manager, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, WorldRemit HARARE, Zimbabwe, 5 December, 2022,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- Remittances continue to offer a crucial lifeline in most developing countries across Sub–Saharan Africa, contributing significantly to changing the lives of millions of people. In Zimbabwe, diaspora remittances increased to $1.4 billion...

PORTSMOUTH, United Kingdom, 5 December 2022,-/African Media Agency (AMA)/- The President of Sierra Leone, Dr Julius Maada Bio, his Zambian Counterpart, President Hakainde Hichilema, alongside the first female Director General of the World Trade Organization, Dr Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, among others, have been announced as the winners in the 11th...

Sadly African health authorities for several months have pursued vaccines for halting mpox and its further spread mostly in vain as worldwide outbreaks were reported during this year. But there is some light at the end of the tunnel as some considerable assistance might come from the Republic of South...

It was a colourful moment of celebration yesterday, 3rd December 2022 as the Youth President of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, City of David Area, situated in Jikwoyi, Abuja, Moses Mosee Agam wedded his heartthrob, Jemima Sokogaza Akpam. The couple, who are both from Kogi State, were wedded at...

The African Development Bank Group is providing  $301 million to overhaul  the Kampala-Malaba Meter Gauge Railway (MGR) in Uganda. The railway line is part of the East African Community’s Northern Corridor linking the capital, Kampala, to Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa. The East African Community Railway Rehabilitation Support Project will...

African leaders reviewed the continent’s progress in industrialization, economic diversification, and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in the context of global shocks, debt vulnerabilities, climate change, and security concerns. Twenty heads of state and government as well as their representatives attended the African Union Extraordinary Summit on Industrialization,...

A 33-year-old Christian man was arrested on false accusations of fraud in Al-Hasahisa in Sudan’s Gezira State on 21 November. Abdalla Haroun travelled to Lebanon in 2020, and upon returning to Sudan in February 2022, professed to be a Christian. According to his lawyers, when he returned, he offered to...