Kenyan healthcare startup Access Afya receives from MIT Solve through its new venture vehicle, as part of a US$900,000 bridge funding round. The Kenyan startup Access Afya is a client-centered organization that offers high-quality health products and services to clients who have poor health options in Kenya. MIT

Popular web browser Opera has announced the launch of Opera Mini 50 – the latest update which introduces a fully revamped user interface. Opera Mini 50 is integrating a new and versatile status bar at the top of the browser screen. The new status bar adds a touch of personalization – one

AFGRI Agri Services has launched “Axl” a new agri-tech platform enabling farmers to find, rent, and pay for agricultural equipment through a secure online portal. The platform also enables service providers, equipment owners, retailers, and contractors, to build their business and grow revenue streams and optimizing the process of renting

South African office management and facial recognition startup Kenai, has introduced a new feature that helps businesses screen employees for COVID-19 as the country prepares to end the lockdown. Kenai leverages facial recognition technology to transform visitor’s books in offices with a slip iPad application, enabling companies to manage

Kenya’s Gaming tech start-up, Usiku Games has launched the first Made-in-Africa video conferencing system, Gumzo. The platform comes at a time when there is a video conferencing has substituted normal human activities to control the spread of the deadly coronavirus. Gumzo is free for users to attend meetings, and

MTN Zambia is planning to commit $9.8 million to boost network capacity to offer high-speed data services on 337 3G and 4G (LTE) network sites across Zambia. The site-by-site technical roll-out will focus on areas with the highest demand pressure. It will start in the Copperbelt northern regions followed

South African ed-tech startup Syafunda has received US$140,000 in funding from Edge Growth. The investment will enable the startup to scale its operations to meet the growing demand for digital learning due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Also, the funding will cover the development of the new online bookstore

Nigerian fintech startup Carbon has rolled out Carbon Express, a keyboard extension that allows customers to access its financial services within any app they are using. Carbon Express enables users to make financial transactions such as Peer-to-Peer transfers and bill payments from the keyboard without opening the Carbon app or

Facebook has announced a new feature for Messenger designed to cut down on malicious parties looking to scam users this morning. The feature aims to both cut down on scammers and users posing as other people, along with helping to protect minors from bad actors. The company scans accounts for

South African fintech company, Peach Payments has secured an undisclosed investment round led by Umkhathi Wethu Ventures (UW Ventures), in partnership with Allan Gray to enable it to expand across Africa. Other industry executives from Europe, South Africa, and existing investors took part in the round. The South African fintech,

South African agri-tech startup, Aerobotics has obtained $5.5 million in funding from Naspers Foundry. The investment will help Aerobotics to scale its growth trajectory that has taken its solution to the United States (US). Aerobotics is a data analytics company that uses aerial imagery from drones and satellites, and

Facebook has launched shops to bring more businesses online during the pandemic. The company today announced the launch of Shops, a convenient way for businesses to set up free storefronts on Facebook and Instagram. The shops are designed to turn the social network into a shopping destination and  will be

BECO Capital, a venture capital firm, will commit up to $150,000 in a new pre-seed initiative to fund exceptional founders of tech-enabled startups in  North Africa and the Middle East. The program, known as Launch with BECO, will select up to 10 founders and provide each one of them

An innovative app, named Malaicha is helping Zimbabweans living in South Africa to order and send groceries to Zimbabwe. Usually, citizens in Zimbabwe depend on food supplies from South Africa, however, these supplies were suddenly prohibited when the two countries restricted across border movements in March in a bid to

Nairobi-based healthcare incubator and investor Villgro Kenya has committed a total of $90,000 into Kenya’s The Pathology Network and Uganda’s clinicPesa. Villgro Kenya is an early-stage business incubator and impacts investor that provides mentoring, funding, and access to networks to startups in the healthcare and life sciences

Senegal online food company, Club Kossam has doubled its sales due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This boost in sales comes after when coronavirus reached Senegal. Residents who live in the capital now ordered groceries online. Club Kossam is a dairy home-delivery service sourcing fresh local Senegalese milk to serve customers.

Egyptian startup, Interact Labs, has raised funding commitments worth US$60,000 after it took part in the Zoom-based digital accelerator event “The Nest”. Interact Labs designs effective and affordable hardware and software solutions that enhance collaboration, increase engagement in the educational sector in Egypt. Its product, TACT is a

Ventures Platform has invested in three African tech startups, namely; Tambua Health, Brass, and FunnelJoy to help them scale their operations. Ventures Platform is a Pan-African seed and early-stage fund that supports successful startups building capital-efficient platforms to fill infrastructural gaps, connect underserved communities, create efficiencies, solve for non-consumption, and

Social media giant, Facebook Inc has acquired GIPHY to join Instagram’s team. GIPHY is a leader in visual expression and creation. It contains a searchable library of animated GIFS that have integrated with a variety of apps. According to Facebook, 50% of GIPHY’s traffic comes from the Facebook

Zimbabwean fintech company, Bitkesh, has rolled out a new WhatsApp-based digital wallet named, Uhuruwallet to help unbanked foreign nationals in South Africa make payments. The Uhuru digital wallet is a platform that allows people to perform transactions such as person to person, person to merchant, cash-in, cash-out, utility bill payments,

MTN Group Ltd. cuts off spending for the year to save money and maintaining networks as Africa’s biggest wireless carrier amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. According to a statement by the telecom company, MTN will invest 21 billion ZAR ( $1.1 billion ) to 22 billion ZAR in 2020, which

Facebook Inc. in collaboration with China’s largest Telecom carrier, China Mobile Ltd, and other Telecom carriers will build a giant undersea cable to give Africa a faster and more stable internet. The cost of the project will not exceed $1 billion, however, the exact budget has not been made

Uber, the leading ride-hailing service provider, has mandated all its drivers in the United States, Canada, India, most of Europe and Latin America, to wear a mask before offering services. As cities begin to relax their lockdown policies, Uber drivers will not be able to offer hail riding or delivery