Browsing: Fintech & Télécom

Nigerian based Moniepoint Inc is planning to buy a 78 percent stake in Kenya’s Sumac Microfinance as it expands its…...

The South Sudan government is looking at a $74.32 million fine over a failed agreement with Vivacell, a telecommunications company…...

Kenya’s ministry of finance plans to sell a big stake in Safaricom before the fiscal year ends in June, the…...

IHS Towers, one of the largest independent owners, operators and developers of shared communications infrastructure in the world by tower…...

Kenya’s largest telecom, Safaricom Plc, has reported a net profit of $354.3 million (Ksh45.8 billion) for the year ended March…...

Airtel Africa has partnered with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to expand high satellite internet speed across the continent. The partnership was…...

Investors have snubbed Ethio Telecom’s shares offered in an initial public offering (IPO) amid local investment rules in the Horn…...

Somalia’s communications authority has granted Elon Musk’s Starlink an operating license as the internet service provider expands its offerings on…...

Airtel Africa is set to receive $100 million from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to support capital expenditures towards network…...

MTN Group and Airtel Africa have entered into agreements to share network infrastructure in Uganda and Nigeria while looking for…...

Ethiopian state-owned telecommunications firm Ethio Telecom recorded a half-year revenue rise of 43.3 percent to 61.9 billion birr ($491.57 million).…...

Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI) has partnered with Nium, a Singapore-headquartered cross- border payments company for seamless cross border payments across…...

Kenya’s largest telecommunications company, Safaricom Plc has acquired an insurance license ending a four year wait as part of its…...

Telkom Kenya lost more than one million customers in the one year period to June 2024, new industry data shows,…...

Elon Musk’s internet service, Starlink has paused new subscriptions in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, and five neighbouring regions, because of high…...

Airtel Kenya has disclosed it secured an extension of its operating licence for two years from January in the newly…...

East African investors have been locked out of the initial public offering (IPO) of the Ethiopia’s state owned telecommunications company. …...

Safaricom’s Mpesa and Airtel’s paybill and till numbers used by millions of Kenyans to make daily transactions across the country…...

Kenya’s listed telecommunications company Safaricom Plc spent less in the year ended March 2024 on its expatriate staff by 17.7…...

Safaricom Plc has revealed it added 350,000 customers in the quarter to June 2024, according to new disclosures by the…...

Ollo Africa, an african fintech based in Togo has announced the launch of an application called Ohana Africa, designed to…...

Safaricom Plc, Kenya’s largest telecommunication and East Africa’s most profitable company reported a 17.5 per cent decline in share price…...

In a significant development for West Africa’s digital economy, the Fonds Commun de Titrisation de Créances (FCTC) Sonatel bond, underwritten…

Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services with a presence in 14 countries across Africa, has…

Louis DIAKITÉ, a hardworking and visionary man, created AFRIPA TELECOM in 1994 in Cotonou, Benin. Specializing in telecommunications, the company…

Economic Affairs Officer at the Economic Commission for Africa, Mactar Seck, highlights the need to promote the representation of women…

Sanlam and MTN Group are pleased to announce that our strategic alliance to market and distribute insurance and investment products…

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has handed over 15,000 electronic tablets and accessories to the government of Togo to…

Tunisie Telecom, BSA telecommunication and COMATEL announce the signing, on March 14, of an exclusive agreement with the company TELECEL…