The startup’s own stack for Africa and Middle East is now handling more than 17,000 calls per day.
Fortescue‘s recently-acquired turbine subsidiary Nabrawind has done something that was believed to be impossible: they’ve installed a full-scale, energy producing wind turbine in harsh Namibian conditions using a new, crane-less deployment process.
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The African nation of Uganda has announced a new National E-Mobility Strategy that it hopes will energize its manufacturing sector by transitioning the country’s public transit sector fully away from fossil fuels by 2030.
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Francis Dufay told Bloomberg TV the African e-commerce company is implementing AI across operations, logistics, finance, and marketing, and intends to be profitable by the end of the year. The 200 jobs disappearing now sit on top of a workforce that ha…
South Africa’s Department of Communications and Digital Technologies spent months drafting a national artificial intelligence policy. It proposed a National AI Commission, an AI Ethics Board, an AI Regulatory Authority, an AI Ombudsperson, a National A…
While the US is still stuck debating EVs, the rest of the world has already plugged in and charged ahead – and nowhere is that more obvious than Africa, where one country has banned ICE vehicles outright and another is rapidly electrifying mines that a…
Ethiopia made history in 2024 by becoming the first country to ban the sale and import of new internal combustion-powered vehicles. Despite the predictions of the anti-EV hysterics, they’re doing just fine — but the process hasn’t been without its chal…
Terra Industries, the African defense company, announced Monday that it had secured an additional $22 million in funding to further expand the business.
African defense company Terra comes out of stealth with a $11.75M round led by Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC.
Africa’s largest fintech company, Flutterwave, has acquired Nigerian open banking startup Mono in an all-stock deal valued between $25 million and $40 million, according to people familiar with the transaction. The acquisition brings together two of Af…