COVID-19 and e-commerce
Africa’s leading e-commerce platform, Jumia, has published its first Africa e-commerce report dubbed, Jumia Africa e-Commerce Index 2021. The report leverages the company’s extensive consumer data to unpack trends in online shopping throughout the pandemic.
The most significant...
Safaricom Foundation’s third phase of its Ndoto Zetu initiative is set to benefit over 1.2 million people across the 47 counties. The initiative offers Kenyans an opportunity to partner with the foundation by nominating dreams and aspirations which they...
Boeing forecasts that Africa’s airlines will require 1,030 new airplanes by 2040 valued at $160 billion and aftermarket services such as manufacturing and repair worth $235 billion, enabling growth for air travel and economies across the continent. Boeing...
Africa ClimAccelerator has launched a call to local entrepreneurs to apply for funding, expertise, and mentorship via the first pan-African accelerator focused on scaling the most promising climate-focused innovations. The programme aims to enhance the development and deployment of...
Mental health and wellbeing: Small business owners are often managing many aspects of their business simultaneously and may not have the luxury of delegating the task to someone else. While running one’s own business is perceived to entail greater...
For Orbit Products Africa Limited (Opal), which is the contract manufacturer in Kenya for Reckitt, Colgate-Palmolive and Unilever owned by brothers Sachen and Dirchen Chandaria, the deal has brought in a cash sales price of $53.6m.
However, the Chandaria firm’s manufacturing...
Mazao Talks: With support from the EU, MARKUP Kenya is excited to announce a partnership with podcast producing company SemaBOX to create and produce a podcast series called Mazao Talks.
The first season of Mazao Talks will focus on agri-business...
Today, Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) and the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) launched the NHIF mini-app within the M-PESA Super App.
The NHIF mini-app will provide all NHIF services through the Super App, empowering customers to access services wherever they...
East African Breweries Ltd (EABL) Group MD and CEO, Ms. Jane Karuku, has been enlisted in The Africa.com Definitive List of Women CEOs, unveiled during The Definitive List Summit held on 13th October, 2021.
She is part of the 50...
Boeing has partnered with Bethel Network; to officially launch the Maragua Ridge Food security and Water project in Murang’a county. This undertaking is in quest to ensure that the community has a reliable source of water that will in...
