Category: Key developments

London-based off-grid solar energy firm Bboxx is relocating its headquarters to Kigali, Rwanda.

Core DAO has announced the launch of the African Innovation Fund, a groundbreaking initiative to provide resources and networks to support local Web3 builders and projects across the African continent.

Paymob, the leading financial services enabler in the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (MENA-P), has announced a partnership with Mastercard to accelerate digital payment acceptance across the MENA region.

A baby girl named Daniella in Cameroon received the symbolic first jab, marking the world’s first-ever routine malaria vaccination program.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has launched timbuktoo, a $1 billion innovation fund aimed at backing African startups.

A game-changing partnership between Mastercard and Illicocash, the fintech arm of Rawbank, is opening doors to e-commerce for millions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

AfDB has launched a $1 billion fund called the African Climate Risk Insurance Facility for Adaptation (ACRIFA) to insure African farmers.

E-mobility startup Mbay Mobility is embarking on an ambitious mission to electrify taxi fleets in Dakar, Abidjan, and Accra.

German biotech giant BioNTech has taken a significant step toward its ambitious goal of producing mRNA vaccines in Africa by setting up the first BioNTainer at its manufacturing facility in Kigali, Rwanda.