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Johnstone Kpilaakaa

Johnstone is a journalist covering innovation and social responses in Africa. He is 2024 MTN Media Innovation Fellow at School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University in Nigeria. He was formerly a senior reporter at Condia.
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Sub-Saharan Africa’s top 10 remittance recipients in 2022

According to the World Bank, Nigeria accounted for the highest remittance flow into Sub-Saharan Africa in 2022.

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Pan-African VC, P1 Ventures launches $50M fund to back early-stage startups

Pan-African Seed VC fund, P1 Ventures has completed the first close of its $50m fund to invest in African startups with transformational software businesses.

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BD Insider 194: Kenya gets more funding to drive e-mobility

Kenya gets more funding to drive e-mobility. We also covered the latest about BioNTech's vaccine factories in Africa and the landing of 2Africa in DRC.

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Microsoft-backed FAST accelerator selects 12 African startups for AI program

Out of the 12 startups in the FA23 cohort, nine are Nigerian, and one each from Kenya, Tanzania, and Ghana. Also, fintech startups dominated the cohort.

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CBN launches portal for microfinance bank licence applications

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Wednesday announced that it has unveiled a digital platform for the submission of Microfinance Bank (MFB) licence applications.

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LatAm fintech, Ebanx expands into eight African countries

EBANX has expanded into eight African countries: Ivory Coast, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. The LatAm fintech unicorn is now present in eleven African markets.

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Nigeria drops two places on the Digital Quality of Life Index

The Digital Quality of Life Index is an annual study that ranks 121 countries by their digital well-being based on five core pillars—internet quality, internet affordability, e-security, e-infrastructure, and e-government.

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ANKA raises $5M pre-series A extension to drive e-commerce in Africa

Ivorian e-commerce startup, ANKA has recently closed a $5 million pre-Series A extension, this latest round brings ANKA’s total pre-Series A to $13.5 million.

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Ex-CEO of 54gene launches Syndicate Bio, another genomics startup

Former co-founder and CEO of 54gene, Abasi Ene-Obong has co-founded another genomics startup, Syndicate Bio.

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Roam introduces Kenya’s first locally manufactured electric bus

Roam (formerly Opibus) has launched Kenya's first locally manufactured electric bus, to power a truly sustainable mobility ecosystem that electrifies the region’s public transport network.

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BD Insider 191: What we know about the UAE visa ban on Nigerian travellers

Ahead of the United Nations General Assembly this week, Bosun Tijani, Nigeria's minister of communication, innovation and digital economy has released the agenda that he intends to pursue at the sidelines of the assembly in New York.

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What Kenya’s president, Ruto told tech investors at Silicon Valley

Kenya's president, William Ruto was in Silicon Valley last week to pitch his country as “Africa’s business process outsourcing and creative economy hub”. How did it go?

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