When Timi and Ehis got married in a small, intimate ceremony in Lagos last October, it marked the start of their new lives together—but it was not one they planned to live in Nigeria.
More than a century after the malaria parasite was first discovered in Algeria by a French physician, the country is now rid of the deadly disease.
After Africa’s largest economy suffered a recession in 2016—its first in over two decades, the government came up with an answer. Or at least it thought it did.
As part of its fight to root out fake news and misinformation, Facebook is also going after networks of fake accounts.
Three years after it was first mooted as part of the $1.6 billion settlement in a sim card authentication dispute with the Nigerian government, the listing of Africa’s largest telecoms company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange is finally complete.
Last year, when Microsoft executives were doing their due diligence ahead of paying $7.5 billion for GitHub, the software engineer marketplace, they might have been surprised by one unexpected data point: Nigeria had the fourth-fastest growing developer community on the platform the previous year.
Nigeria accounted for over 25% of non-immigrant visas issued to Africans in 2018 alone—but that may be set to change.
As far as individual awards in soccer go, winning the Golden Boot for scoring the most goals in a competition is one of the most elite.
The first quarterly earnings call after last month’s initial public offering offered Jumia executives a chance to push back against claims of alleged fraudulent dealings.
The Cinderella run on the New York Stock Exchange for the largest e-commerce operator in Africa appears to be slowing.
The latest boost local movie industries in Africa are getting is data.
For MTN, Africa’s largest telecoms company, Nigeria has long been its most problematic market. It is also MTN’s largest market.
Les start-ups opérant en Afrique ont fait l’objet d’un battage publicitaire et d’un investissement mondial au cours de la dernière décennie, mais une grande partie a été orientée en particulier en direction de l’Afrique anglophone.
Startups operating in Africa have been subject of global hype and investment over the past decade—but much of it has been skewed particularly towards Anglophone Africa.
South Africa’s MTN is one step closer to listing publicly in Nigeria—but it won’t be doing so via an initial public offering (IPO).
It’s been an remarkable couple of weeks for Jumia, the largest e-commerce operator in Africa, as it made tech history by listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s initial public offering has been lauded as game-changing in African tech circles especially given previous concerns about a lack of exits for investors in tech startups as well significant operational challenges in e-commerce across the continent.
After a billion-dollar landmark initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange, what comes next? For Jumia, the largest e-commerce operator in Africa, it’ll be even more work.
Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni have had a good week by recent standards for African strongmen leaders.
Andela, the developer training and outsourcing company with operations in four African countries, already has a high-powered roll call of investors including the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and a former US vice president.
Five Africans have been listed on Time magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential people globally.
On Ivanka Trump’s first official visit to Africa, there have been no colonial-era helmets or Trump-style gaffes—just business.
The Trump administration is considering a new immigration measure to impose visa restrictions on countries whose citizens have a track record of overstaying beyond the validity of their short-term US visas, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports.
This story has been updated
This story has been updated
