News Africa

Subscribe & Follow

Advertise your job vacancies

Recruit Image

The Loeries Young Creatives Showcase is opens for entries. The winners will not only gain bragging rights but will also secure a spot as finalists for the Loeries Young Creatives Award, to be presented at the annual Loerie Awards (Image supplied)

#Loeries2025: Loeries Young Creatives Showcase opens for entries

Image source: wayhomestudio from

After termination, are staff preferential interest rates up for debate?

By Terry Mwango, Quinter Okuta, Charles Omondi Oyeng and Kelsey Naluende 3 days

Source: © 123rf The CMO Council’s inaugural Marketing Vitality Index forecasts waves of vitality, volatility and velocity in 2025

The CMO Council Marketing Vitality Index points to a defining, milestone year ahead

19 Feb 2025

More news

Source: Reuters.

Markets & Investment

IMF and Uganda reach agreement for $240m in financing

22 Dec 2022

Source: Reuters.

Medical Law

Gambia lawmakers say Maiden to blame for child kidney injury deaths

22 Dec 2022

Source © Re Global

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Enabling Africa to be a global green hydrogen powerhouse

22 Dec 2022

Source Reuters.

Emergency Medicine

BioNTech ready to ship first mRNA vaccine factory kit to Africa

22 Dec 2022

Source: Pixabay.

HIV/AIDS

Injectable HIV treatment offers hope to Ugandan patients

22 Dec 2022

Source: © AV
The National Assembly in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Mining

Burkina Faso denies paying mercenaries with mine rights

21 Dec 2022

CAR delays crypto token listing, cites 'market conditions'

Fintech

CAR delays crypto token listing, cites 'market conditions'

Rachel Savage and Elizabeth Howcroft 20 Dec 2022

Edtech can power Africa's growing education market

Education

Edtech can power Africa's growing education market

Julien Deconinck 20 Dec 2022

Zimbabwe proposes incentives for $1bn solar projects

Renewables & Energy Efficiency

Zimbabwe proposes incentives for $1bn solar projects

Nelson Banya 20 Dec 2022

Ghana to default on most external debt as economic crisis worsens

Economy

Ghana to default on most external debt as economic crisis worsens

Christian Akorlie and Cooper Inveen 20 Dec 2022

TB is once again the deadliest disease in Africa - what went wrong?

Tuberculosis

TB is once again the deadliest disease in Africa - what went wrong?

Tom Nyirenda 20 Dec 2022

Africa's ports race is hyped as 'development' but also creates pathways for plunder

Shipping

Africa's ports race is hyped as 'development' but also creates pathways for plunder

Ricardo Reboredo and Elisa Gambino 20 Dec 2022

Radisson opens first Zambian resort

Hospitality

Radisson opens first Zambian resort

20 Dec 2022

Image supplied. Felix Abely (L) and Joseph Sandu (R), Best Fintech Journalists of the Year

Education

First African journalists graduate from fintech-focused journalism programme

19 Dec 2022

World Bank's IFC sees 'huge' potential to boost investment in Africa

Markets & Investment

World Bank's IFC sees 'huge' potential to boost investment in Africa

Andrea Shalal 19 Dec 2022

Source: Supplied

E-commerce

Senegal's Kwely launches made-in-Africa wholesale marketplace

19 Dec 2022

Source:

Sales

Egypt announces committee to set 'fair price' for basic goods

Ahmed Tolba 19 Dec 2022

Source: Supplied. Alice Tomdio, chief financial officer at Yellow Card Financial.

Fintech

Paving the way for women in crypto

Katja Hamilton 15 Dec 2022

Nigeria's female-led startups winning investors in fight to close cash gap

Funding

Nigeria's female-led startups winning investors in fight to close cash gap

15 Dec 2022

Source: © Oleksandr Pidvalnyi The digital switchover process from analogue to digital TV has marooned in Africa

TV

Analogue to digital switchover in Africa process marooned

15 Dec 2022

Source: Reuters.

Banking

Visa to invest $1bn in Africa over 5 years to cash in on e-payments boom

15 Dec 2022

Luisa Ortega named new president of Cola-Cola's Africa business

FMCG

Luisa Ortega named new president of Cola-Cola's Africa business

14 Dec 2022

Grocery delivery service Yassir Express launches in Gauteng

E-commerce

Grocery delivery service Yassir Express launches in Gauteng

13 Dec 2022

Source: iStock.

Fintech

Swiss financial centre tests trading and settlement of tokenised investment products

13 Dec 2022

When it comes to entrepreneurship, money isn't everything

Entrepreneurship

When it comes to entrepreneurship, money isn't everything

Adam Molai 13 Dec 2022

With $1m in grant funding, ACCF launches entrepreneurship project for women, youth

Climate Change

With $1m in grant funding, ACCF launches entrepreneurship project for women, youth

12 Dec 2022

Uganda says it will not renew Eskom's hydropower licences next year

Energy

Uganda says it will not renew Eskom's hydropower licences next year

Elias Biryabarema 12 Dec 2022

Source:

Markets & Investment

New e-platform links 7 African capital markets with $1.5tn market capitalisation

12 Dec 2022

Source: Reuters.

Public Health

Spread of cholera threatens eastern Congo camps of displaced persons

9 Dec 2022

New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature

Research & Development

New food technologies could release 80% of the world's farmland back to nature

Chris D Thomas, Jack Hatfield and Katie Noble 9 Dec 2022