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- News11 Sept 2026
How Fidelity Bank PAPSS Is Helping Nigerian Businesses Trade Across Africa
For many Nigerian businesses, the next growth opportunity may be located beyond the country. A fashion entrepreneur may source premium fabrics from Ghana. A pharmaceutical distributor may purchase essential products from Kenya. A manufacturer may pay suppliers across several African markets, while a technology company in Lagos may serve customers in Rwanda or Zambia.
- News27 Oct 2025
Airtel Africa Foundation Partners ITU, RISA & Cisco to Boost Digital Skills Development in Rwanda
Airtel Africa Foundation has partnered on a Joint Initiative with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Rwanda Information Society Authority (RISA) and Cisco on capacity and digital skills…
- News13 Oct 2025
IHS Closes Deal to Sell Rwanda Operations
IHS Holding Limited (IHS Towers), an independent tower company, has completed the sale of 100% of Rwanda operations to Paradigm Tower Ventures. First announced in May, the deal is worth $274.5…
- News15 Sept 2025
Aero Contractors Showcases Upgraded MRO Capabilities at Aviation Africa Summit
Aero Contractors, Nigeria’s oldest aviation company, made a strong statement at the just-concluded Aviation Africa Summit and Exhibition in Kigali, Rwanda, by showcasing its upgraded and expanding…
- News3 Jun 2025
Google's Open Buildings Data Empowers Africa's Health and Climate Progress
Fresh, on-the-ground evidence from health planners and climate analysts in Rwanda, Nigeria and South Africa shows how the Open Buildings dataset, which maps more than 1.8 billion structures, is…
- News1 Oct 2024
ALX Africa Leads Tech Innovation with New Batch of Pioneer African Data Scientists
ALX, Africa’s leading tech career accelerator, a few weeks ago announced the successful graduation of over 2,800 learners across Africa. The countries include Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Ethiopia,…
- News30 Jul 2024
Google for Startups Accelerator Africa Program Gets Cohort 8
Google today announced the 8th cohort of its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program. This year’s cohort features ten innovative startups from Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, and South Africa,…
- News8 Dec 2023
Shopper Wins Business Class Ticket in Partnership with RwandAir
As part of activities to reward its loyal customers, Konga Travels and Tours, a prominent player in the travel and tours industry, in collaboration with RwandAir has gifted the highest shopper during…
- News16 Nov 2023
Kaspersky Opens Africa’s First Transparency Centre
As part of the Africa Cyber Defence Forum, Kaspersky has created its first Transparency Centre on the continent. The Kigali, Rwanda, centre will also open as part of Kaspersky's Global Transparency…
- News17 Oct 2023
GSMA MWC Kigali Opens its doors to Mobile Operators, Policymakers
MWC Kigali 2023 on Tuesday returned to the Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda, with Paul Kagame, the President of the Republic of Rwanda participating in the event’s celebratory opening ceremony.…
- News15 Mar 2023
Flutterwave Secures Two Additional Licenses in Rwanda
Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company has announced that it has received its Electronic Money Issuer and Remittance Licenses from the National Bank of Rwanda(NBR). This will help…
- News15 Dec 2022
Zipline Inks New MoU with Rwandan Govt to Serve the Entire Country with Instant Logistics
Zipline, the global leader in instant logistics and deliveries, on Thursday announced a new partnership with the Government of Rwanda that aims to complete nearly 2 million instant deliveries and fly…
- News22 Jun 2022
Salubata Technologies, Nigerian Start-up Wins $10,000 at CYF in Kigali
Salubata Technologies, a Nigerian start-up has emerged as one of the top four winners of Kigali Startup Festival 2022 at the Commonwealth Youth Forum (CYF) in Kigali, Rwanda. Yewande Adebowale, the…
- News27 Mar 2022
Young African Team Wins PMI’s First-Ever Make Reality Challenge
Four Rwandan students enrolled at the African Leadership University beat tough competition from 10,000 other Rising Leaders to emerge winners at the first ever global Make Reality Challenge hosted by…
- News8 Dec 2021
Bento Aims to Digitise HR, Payroll in 10 New African Markets in 2022
Bento, a pan-African digital payroll and HR Management (HRM) platform, has announced its launch into Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda to grow the company’s reach across the continent. The company describes…
- News18 Jun 2021
Spotify Announces Grammy Nominee Somi to Join Its EQUAL Music Program
Spotify has announced Rwandan-Ugandan jazz singer and songwriter Somi as the latest African singer to join its EQUAL Music Program. Spotify created EQUAL as a global initiative to cultivate gender…
- News3 Jun 2021
Austin’s Five Forces Model for Analysing Sustainable Development
By Austin Okere The sustainability challenge is becoming clearer. Being a Consultant at the Sustainable Development Goals, Africa Centre (SDGCA) in Rwanda and on the Global Agenda Council of the…
- News22 Nov 2020
Meet Ogbuagu, Nigerian Doctor behind Historic Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine
Dr. Onyema E. Ogbuagu, a Nigerian-American is one of the medical masterminds behind the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine breakthrough. Paul Kegame, President of Rwanda and Dr. Ogbuagu Dr. Ogbuagu is a twin…
- News14 Oct 2020
Econet Launches Pan-African Wi-Fi Marketplace
Econet, through its subsidiaries Liquid Telecom Group (LTG) and Cassava Fintech International (CFI) has launched a network of #SasaiWiFiFinder hotspots in Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and Rwanda, to provide…
- News18 Mar 2020
ATCG Launches Ten MyAfCFTA Nodes Across Africa
The African Tech and Creative Group (ATCG) is announcing the launch of ten MyAfCFTA nodes located across Africa in CcHUB (Nigeria/Rwanda), Afrinolly (Nigeria), iSpace (Ghana), iHUB (Kenya), BongoHive…
- News6 Feb 2020
MTN Phases Out Scratch Cards in Rwanda
MTN Rwanda has announced that it will phase out the sale and distribution of physical airtime vouchers as of February 15, 2020. Airtime will only be purchased and loaded through MTN’s digital…
- News10 Dec 2019
Ecobank Wins ‘Bank of the Year’, ‘Best Bank’ in Prestigious London Awards
Ecobank wins “Bank of the Year” and “Best Bank” at The Banker and EMEA Finance Awards in London. Ecobank Cameroon, Gambia and Rwanda won Bank of the Year at The Banker Awards on 28th November. This…
- News30 Oct 2019
Siemens, Volkswagen Launch First Africa Electric Car Pilot Project in Rwanda
Rwanda becomes the first African country to introduce Volkswagen electric car; Volkswagen and Siemens sign joint development agreement to conduct electric mobility feasibility project; Pilot Project…
- News9 Oct 2019
Rwanda Launches First 'Made in Africa' Smartphones
Rwanda’s Mara Group launched two smartphones this week, describing them as the first “Made in Africa” models and giving a boost to the country’s ambitions to become a regional technology hub. The…
- News13 Jul 2019
Glo-sponsored CNN African Voices Highlights Story of 3 Vocal Artistes
Rwanda’s Sherrie Silver, dance choreographer, actress, creative director and philanthropist; Shifa Amankwah-Gabbey, a spelling bee winner from Ghana, and Pretty Yende, a singer from Mpumalanga, South…
- News1 Apr 2019
Glo Shines in Kigali as African Leaders Throng Stand for Solutions
Globacom’s stand at the just concluded Africa CEO Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, was the cynosure of all eyes as scores of chief executives of multinational companies visited to seek the operator's…
- News6 Jul 2018
Omobola Johnson among New Speakers as GSMA Announce Date for 2018 Mobile 360 Series Conference
The GSMA on Thursday announced additional speakers participating in the Mobile 360 - Africa conference, which will take place 17-19 July 2018 at the Kigali Convention Centre, Kigali, Rwanda. …
- News21 Dec 2017
Bharti Airtel To Become 2nd Strongest Teleco in Rwanda After Millicom’s Deal
By peter oluka Bharti Airtel Limited (“Airtel”), a leading global telecommunications services provider with operations in 17 countries across Asia and Africa, Tuesday said that, through its…
- News21 Aug 2017
Lessons in Digital Rights Advocacy from The Kenyan 2017 Elections
In an earlier blogpost, I had drawn the attention of the world to watch out for digital rights violations during 3 critical African elections in August – in Kenya, Rwanda and Angola. Digital rights…
- News1 Aug 2017
Mozilla-Backed Research Reveals Main Barriers to Internet Access in Africa
Compelling Mozilla-backed research, carried out by Research ICT Africa, finds that significant barriers to internet access remains in four African countries – Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa.…