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Guest post by Charles Onyango-Obbo, highlighting innovative projects tackling entrenched gender inequality among African women entrepreneurs. As ride-hailing apps proliferate the globe, An Nisa Taxi in Kenya is one of the standouts in Africa. Developed by 33-year-old Mehnaz Sarwar, An Nisa is run by women and serves female passengers... -
Kaspersky Lab researchers tracking the activity of malicious spammers and phishers have uncovered multiple operations during May seeking to exploit people’s desire to secure a good bargain. Among other things, the researchers found more than 8,000 phishing attacks disguised as offers from popular lodging platforms, as well as several... -
A MEST Africa portfolio company, Jumeni Technologies has launched their cloud-based field service management solutions to tackle waste management in Ghana. MEST portfolio company Jumeni Technologies has announced the launch of its flagship product for the waste management industry! Founded by members of the MEST Class of 2018, Jumeni specializes in... -
Interview Series with Kamogelo Sesing, co-founder of Bookbeak on empowering African storytellers by sharing their stories. Africa is awash with stories, and storytellers. From historic events and happenings, and folklore of the past to comedy, music, cartoons, fantasy and imaginative write-ups of today, there are millions of written, audio... -
Google is offering 30,000 scholarships to aspiring and existing developers to improve their employability skills and advance their careers. Don’t miss this opportunity. Building upon our pledge to provide mobile developer training to 100,000 Africans to develop world class apps, today we are pleased to announce the next round... -
Africa can be thought of as having a blank canvas. It is not marred by legacy systems which inhibit the adoption of new technologies. This invariably necessitates the creation of a robust infrastructure across Africa to allow for the construction and development of telecommunications systems, mobile payment systems, and... -
Tech-enabled logistics platform which connects the supply of trucks with the demand of transport services by freight/cargo owners, Kobo360 has officially launched operations in Ghana. One of the fastest growing technology companies in Africa focused on the logistics/ supply chain framework, Kobo360 has officially widened its operations to Ghana... -
Identifying entrepreneurs willing to replicate and scale their businesses in Liberia. The World Bank is helping the Government of Liberia to prepare an urban development project for the capital city Monrovia and its region... -
Pan-African e-commerce company Jumia filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange today, per SEC documents and confirmation from CEO Sacha Poignonnec to TechCrunch....
