Nigerian fintech startup, Nearpays has emerged as the overall winner of the highly coveted Fintech and Blockchain Technology category at the Gitex Africa tech conference. The startup, which provides a comprehensive financial payment platform, clinched the $10,000 prize by outperforming the fierce competition in the Supernova Challenge held in

Egypt’s leading payments Fawry has entered a partnership with global cloud communications platform, Infobip to enable payments through META channels. The new deal offers Fawry’s users a seamless payment experience while giving Infobip access to the Egyptian market. The partnership will see Fawry leverage Infobip’s omnichannel solutions

Jordan Arabic Content Publisher, Mawdoo3, has partnered with global ad-tech company ArabyAds and its publisher monetisation platform, ThePubverse. The partnership will enable ArabyAds to be Mawdoo3’s media representative,  bringing on board the advertiser base of ArabyAds and ThePubverse. Since its establishment in 2010, Mawdoo3 boasts of having more than

Payment solutions provider PayTabs has entered into a  partnership with revenue-based financing platform FlapKap to support the growth of UAE e-commerce. The partnership will enable UAE-based small and medium-sized e-commerce firms (SMEs), webpreneurs, and PayTabs entrepreneurs to swiftly and seamlessly get finance offers. Through the collaboration, more SME companies will

Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan’s (MENAP’s) fast-growing fintech startup, Paymob has obtained Saudi Arabia’s Payment Technical Services Provider (PTSP) certification to fully operate in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This development allows Paymob to provide its seamless, secure payment gateway services to merchants in KSA. In

The UAE’s Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) has entered a partnership with Israeli VC fund OurCrowd, to promote the growth of the university’s AI technology ecosystem. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) will create an AI-focused VC fund to attract local and global AI technology startups

Largest telecommunications provider in Kenya, Safaricom, has rolled out its 5G Wi-Fi network in the country making it the first in the East African region. This comes after its announcement in March 2021 where it stated it has activated its service in Nairobi, Kisumu, Kisii and Kakamega. According to the

* Round-up of 5G in African countries * Rise of virtually-enabled world * SA 5G temporary spectrum * MTV vs. ICASA * Nigeria’s religious views * Kenya and Ethiopia’s mobile phones adoption * China’s ZTE remote coronavirus diagnosis 5G network is the successor of 4G; the fourth generation technology and it has significant characteristics

07 Therapy, an Egyptian health tech startup pioneering access to online mental health services for Arabic-speaking people around the world through technology-enabled and evidence-based therapeutic services delivered by a selected network of psychiatrists and psychotherapists, has signed a first-of-its-kind partnership agreement with Kuwait’s insurance company, Boubyan Takaful Insurance company,

Africa-owned fintech firms, Chipper Cash which facilitates cross-border payments across Africa, and Esusu, a digital payment solution designed to simplify and automate the process of thrift savings, collection, microcredit, and financial inclusion for Africans have been named in the prestigious Forbes Fintech 50 list, 2022; Chipper Cash under Payments and

Pan-African digital payments company MFS Africa has announced plans to acquire U.S.-based Global Technology Partners (GTP) in a cash-and-shares deal worth $34 million. This deal, which is a very rare incident of an African company buying a U.S one will help MFS Africa consolidate on its next

Kenyan-based digital pharmacy network, Maisha Meds, has reached 1,000 active facilities, making it one of the largest digital pharmacy networks in Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2017 with operations across Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia and more recently Nigeria, Maisha Meds provides a business management software and reimbursement programs for pharmacies,

B2B eCommerce and embedded finance platform in Africa, TradeDepot, has appointed former Coca Cola HBC Nigeria Executive, Chidi Akubuiro as its Managing Director for Anglophone West Africa. Effective from May 1st 2022, Akubuiro will lead further expansion of TradeDepot’s services across more key cities in Nigeria and Ghana, and

Sudan-based innovation hub 249Startups Hub has announced the launch of an equity fund “Rhino Investments” to help fund 14 seed-stage startups and SMEs in the country. The hub would allocate $500,000 in capital and also launch an acceleration program to help these startups scale and grow their businesses through

Softline, the leading company in digital transformation, cloud, and cybersecurity services, unveiled a plan to increase its business and investments in Egypt. The company recently held a series of meetings with officials in different sectors and government institutions including the Ministry of Communications and Information, The General Authority for Investments,