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- 22 Aug 2024
TikTok Inaugurates Industry-First Sub-Saharan Africa Safety Advisory Council
TikTok is taking major steps to boost safety on its platform across Sub-Saharan Africa with the launch of its inaugural Safety Advisory Council and the expansion of its #SaferTogether community…
- 25 Oct 2024
BasiGo Secures $42M in Funding to Scale Public Transport Electrification in Sub-Saharan Africa
BasiGo, a provider of electric bus solutions in sub-Saharan Africa, has announced the successful closing of a US$42 million in new capital. The funding round consists of US$24 million in Series A…
- 6 Sept 2022
Uber Launches Suite of New Product & Safety Features Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Uber yesterday announced the launch of multiple new products and features which are going live this month in South Africa, Ghana, Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria. The launch, which took place…
- 10 Aug 2022
Ericsson, SkyMax Partner to Build 5G Broadband Network in Sub-Saharan Africa
Following two years of negotiation, multinational wireless communications engineering company SkyMax Network Limited (SkyMax) and Ericsson have entered into an MoU to build a next-generation 5G…
- 8 Dec 2022
Ericsson Mobility Report Projects Sub-Saharan Africa 5G Subscriptions to Reach 150M by 2028
Mobility Report projects that 5G subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa will grow from 7 million in 2022 to 150 million by the end of 2028, accounting for 14 percent of total connections at that time.…
- 31 Mar 2022
Mobile Money Records Huge Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2021
Mobile money adoption and use saw continued growth in 2021, processing a record US$1-trillion annually. The industry enjoyed a substantial increase in the number of registered accounts, up 18% since…
- 5 Aug 2020
StarTimes, NBCUniversal Networks Launch DreamWorks in Sub-Saharan Africa
StarTimes, Africa’s leading pay-TV operator and NBCUniversal International Networks (NBCUIN) have announced the launch of DreamWorks – the 24-hour channel dedicated to kids and family entertainment –…
- 30 Sept 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa 5G Connections to Reach 18m by 2025 - Report
Mobile technologies and services are expected to significantly increase in Sub-Saharan Africa, with over 137 million new mobile subscribers forecast to be added in the region by 2025. An estimated…
- 27 Apr 2018
IFC Venture Capital Supports Disruptive Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has announced that it led the $8.6 million Series A equity investment in Africa’s Talking, a Kenyan based communication-platform-as-a-service (“cPAAS”) API…
- 28 Jun 2021
Reckitt Opens New Sub-Saharan Africa Head Office in Lagos
Reckitt – a global leader in hygiene, health and nutrition, and the company behind world-renowned brands such as Dettol, Mortein, Durex, Airwick and Jik – has announced the opening of its Sub-Saharan…
- 7 Sept 2022
Meta Launches ‘Creators of Tomorrow’ Campaign Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Meta on Tuesday announced the launch of ‘ Creators of Tomorrow ', a new campaign that celebrates emerging talents from around the world who are inspiring a new movement of creative content online.…
- 23 Sept 2021
Ericsson Report: Sub-Saharan Africa Mobile Financial Services Use Grow more than Triples
A major new Ericsson Consumer and Market Insight report titled Mobile Financial Services on the Rise reveals that nearly half of all consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa use mobile financial services in…
- 14 Sept 2020
Yomi-Ajayi, UBA USA CEO Appointed to US EXIM’s Sub-Saharan Africa Advisory Committee
Sola Yomi-Ajayi, the CEO of the United Bank for Africa (UBA)’s operations in the United States, has been appointed to the Export-Import Bank of the United States (US EXIM) Committee on Sub-Saharan…
- 21 Sept 2021
YouTube Appoints Addy Awofisayo Head of Music, Sub-Saharan Africa
YouTube on Tuesday announced the appointment of Addy Awofisayo as Head of Music, Sub-saharan Africa for YouTube and YouTube Music. Addy Awofisayo as Head of Music, Sub-saharan Africa for YouTube and…
- 28 Sept 2015
DHL Express Appoints new MD for Sub-Saharan Africa
Hennie Heymans, currently Managing Director of DHL Express South Africa, has been appointed as Managing Director of DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), effective from 1 October 2015. In his new…
- 21 Jul 2020
Google Launches 'Think with Google' in Sub-Saharan Africa
Google on Tuesday launched ‘Think with Google’ in Sub-Saharan Africa to help marketers on the continent get the locally relevant insights they need. Speaking about the launch, Asha Patel, head…
- 17 Mar 2012
Scorto Teams up with Financial Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Scorto Corporation, a globally recognized provider of decision management and risk mitigation solutions and services is teaming up with financial institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa to enhance their…
- 21 Jul 2019
Youth to Drive Mobile Growth Across Sub-Saharan Africa – GSMA
Sub-Saharan Africa will remain the world’s fastest-growing mobile region over the coming years as millions of young African consumers become mobile users for the first time, according to a new GSMA…
- 4 Jan 2016
Sub-Saharan African Mobile Subscription to Hit 100% by 2021- Ericsson
Ericsson Mobility Report Launched recently shows that while Sub-Saharan Africa total mobile subscription penetration currently sits at 80 percent, the region expects to see 100 percent mobile…
- 30 Nov 2015
Asoko Insight Appoints Obi Ejimofo as Head Sub-Saharan Africa Operations
Asoko Insight on Monday announced its first executive appointment with Obi Ejimofo, joining to head operations as the venture shifts gears on the heels of its recent funding round. Ejimofo, who…
- 13 May 2020
Sub-Saharan Africa’s Digital Exclusion Woes Persist - Goodluck
Akinwale Goodluck, head of Africa at the GSM Association (GSMA), has said that though a lot of people in Sub-Saharan Africa are covered by a mobile broadband (MBB) network, they still don’t subscribe…
- 17 Jul 2019
Youth Population to Drive Strong Subscriber Growth Across Sub-Saharan Africa- GSMA Study Revealed
Sub-Saharan Africa will remain the world’s fastest-growing mobile region over the coming years as millions of young African consumers become mobile users for the first time, according to a new GSMA…
- 16 Jul 2019
GSMA says Youth Population to Drive Strong Subscriber Growth Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa will remain the world’s fastest-growing mobile region over the coming years as millions of young African consumers become mobile users for the first time, according to a new GSMA…
- 20 May 2021
Sub-Saharan Africa most Expensive for Remittances - Report
A new report by the World Bank, Resilience COVID-19 Crisis Through a Migration Lens, in partnership with KNOMAD, stated that the rate of remittances overall in Sub-Saharan Africa dropped by an…
- 9 Nov 2017
Ericsson Report Forecasts 310m LTE Subscriptions in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2023
By peter oluka The latest regional appendix to the upcoming Ericsson Mobility Report forecasts that LTE subscriptions will expand by 47 percent from 30 million in 2017 to 310million by 2023 in…
- 6 Jun 2021
Eutelsat Partners Facebook to Extend Wi-Fi Connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Eutelsat Communications is expanding its use of the Express Wi-Fi platform in partnership with Facebook to provide broadband services via satellite across several regions in Sub-Saharan Africa. With…
- 22 Apr 2016
Ericsson Appoints Geha, New President for Sub-Saharan Africa
Ericsson on Friday announced the appointment of Jean-Claude Geha as Head of the sub-Saharan Africa Region effective from July 1, 2016. Jean-Claude replaces Fredrik Jejdling who will take up a new…
- 12 Dec 2013
Ericsson launches Consumer Lab report for Sub-Saharan Africa
With global smartphone subscriptions set to reach 5.6 billion by 2019, smartphones have the potential to bridge digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa by providing universal access and connectivity to…
- 8 Oct 2019
Facebook Expands its Third-party Fact-checking Programme to 10 Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
Joining third-party fact-checking programmes in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Cameroon and Senegal, Facebook today announced the expansion of its Third-Party Fact-Checking programme to 10 additional…
- 8 Dec 2025
Nigeria Dominates 2025 TikTok Sub-Saharan Africa Awards with Six Wins
Nigerian creators have emerged dominant at the 2025 TikTok Awards for Sub-Saharan Africa, winning six of the ten categories at the ceremony held in Johannesburg, South Africa. TikTok Sub-Saharan…