Omniretail, the Nigerian startup trying to reshape informal retail through tech and embedded finance, has raised $20 million ...

NEW YORK, NY AND CHICAGO, IL / ACCESS Newswire / April 23, 2025 / BridgeFT, a cloud-native, API-first wealth infrastructure software company, and iCapital[1], the global fintech platform driving ...

In his 47 apostolic journeys outside Italy, Pope Francis, who passed away on Easter Monday, April 21, at the age of 88, visited 68 countries — 10 of them in Africa. He began with Kenya in ...

As well as welcoming Volodymyr Zelensky to South Africa, President Cyril Ramaphosa has been busy talking to key players in the conflict, including US President Donald Trump. Also, Kenya's food ...

Wandile Sihlobo is the Chief Economist of the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (Agbiz) and a member of the Presidential Economic Advisory Council (PEAC). South Africa, the only ...

They are particularly active forums, especially given that the organization also provides training and consultancy to teams with existing dog units, such as the Akashinga Rangers, Africa’s first ...

Award-winning economist Dawie Roodt warns that South Africa’s current trajectory is unsustainable and that the country needs to make big changes to jumpstart economic growth. South Africa’s ...

BANGUI, Central African Republic — Central African Republic’s capital had been torn apart by inter-religious violence leading up to Pope Francis’ 2015 visit, its streets haunted by fear and ...

The proposal to raise the VAT by 1 percentage point over two years, which was intended to boost state revenue, met resistance as Africa's most industrialized economy grapples with sluggish growth ...

United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs announcement on most trading partners, including several in Africa, will affect businesses and people across the continent and likely force more ...