Africa

Booming demand for medicinal cannabis from Europe to Australia has seen a South African producer sell all of its output for next year in advance. SafriCanna signed sale deals with …

South Africa’s Competition Commission approved Heineken’s purchase of wine and cider company Distell Group in South Africa as long as the merged entity invests more than R10 billion over five years …

The latest report on foreign trade by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that Nigeria recorded transactions worth N7.4trn to foreign countries in the second quarter of 2022. The …

Social media platform TikTok has partnered with free public Wi-Fi company Think WiFi to launch 50 new free Wi-Fi hotspots as part of a pilot programme in South Africa. The …

 ThetaRay, a leading provider of AI-powered transaction monitoring technology, has announced that ARCA, a premier African payment services provider, will implement ThetaRay’s advanced SONAR SaaS anti-money laundering (AML) sanctions list screening …

The federal government of Nigeria says it will penalise foreign airlines selling tickets to Nigerians in dollars, insisting that such practice is a violation of Nigerian laws. This was disclosed …

The federal executive council (FEC) has approved the signing of a bilateral air services agreement (BASA) between Nigeria and Kuwait. This was disclosed by Hadi Sirika, the Aviation minister after …

South Africa’s largest food company Tiger Brands Ltd is recalling its Purity Essentials baby powder products as a precautionary measure after traces of asbestos were detected in test samples, it said …

Apple has been barred from selling iPhones without a charger in Brazil and fined more than $2 million over the issue, the government said Tuesday, after accusing the US tech …

South Africa, the world’s second largest exporter of citrus fruit after Spain will voluntarily stop the exports of Valencia oranges, from areas in South Africa affected by a fungal disease …