Startups from Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa have been invited to apply for five challenges aimed at harnessing innovators’ power to reduce waste. The challenges are organized by KTN Global …
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Radarr Africa Business Desk
The Radarr Africa Business Desk reports daily on companies, markets, banking, energy, technology and policy across Nigeria and Africa. Stories are reviewed and edited by The Radarr Africa Editorial Team in Lagos. Story tips and corrections: business@radarr.africa.
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Kenyan fintech startup Alvin secures $740k pre-seed funding round for expansion
Alvin, a Kenyan smart money manager app that helps users align their daily spending around savings goals, has secured a pre-seed funding round of $740,000 as it continues to develop …
Two new entrepreneurship programmes designed by the University of Oxford are open to aspiring entrepreneurs and innovation-driven startups in Nigeria. The Oxford Foundry, University of Oxford, and FMDQ Private Markets …
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Morocco-ABA Technology Deal To Boost Medical Manufacturing
ABA Technology Group and the Morocco Medical and Biomedical Industrial Cluster (MMI) signed a partnership deal in December 2021 in Casablanca, laying the foundation for Moroccan-made medical devices. Under the …
Morocco and China on Wednesday signed an agreement sealing a strategic partnership between the two nations as part of Beijing’s “Belt and Road” initiative. The accord, a roadmap for the …
The aviation regulator has revealed that Dubai banned all inbound and transit passenger flights from Kenya because travellers from Nairobi were testing positive for Covid-19 after arrival in the Middle …
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Drought of foreign investors’ dollars pushed return on Nigerian stocks’ to brink
The prospect of many Nigerian stocks getting their latent value unlocked and their prices further appreciating through more patronage from overseas investors failed to materialise in 2021 as trade volumes …
Telkom has introduced the T-kash App, an easy-to-use application that will enable its customers to access a wider service offering on its digital financial services platform. The T-kash App, which …
Kenyan passport holders cannot access 40 countries, a marginal drop from the 43 in October last year and 54 in July despite a massive vaccination campaign put up by Nairobi. …
Equity Group has acquired a USD 165 million (Sh 18.6 billion) loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to help it increase working capital and trade-related lending to its small …