Kinshasa enters shipping business, set to rock EA boats
May 22, 2022 | DR Congo | The East African
A vessel docks at the port of Dar es Salaam. The DR Congo says it has obtained yard spaces in Mombasa and Dar es Salaam to roll out offices for its new shipping line, The Lignes Maritimes Congolaises, that will start…
Djibouti becomes 10th member of Digital Cooperation Organization
May 20, 2022 | Djibouti | Arab News
Saudi initiative aims to promote social prosperity through more inclusive participation and growth across the digital economy RIYADH: Djibouti has officially joined the membership of the Digital Cooperation…
TIA develops 39-measure roadmap to boost investment
May 20, 2022 | Tunisia | Tap Info – Tunisia
(TAP) - The Tunisian Investment Authority (TIA) has developed a roadmap 39 measures based on a consultation between the public and private sectors to boost investment in Tunisia. This roadmap will be soon submitted to a…
Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets
May 19, 2022 | Kenya | Tech-church
Victory Farms, an aquaculture startup and farm for tilapia fish comprising hatcheries, nursery ponds and deep-water cages, has raised $5 million in new funding. The investment was led by Ed Brakeman, a senior managing…
World’s longest subsea cable lands in Djibouti, East Africa
May 18, 2022 | Djibouti | Data Center Dynamics
Meta's 2Africa subsea cable has landed in Djibouti City, Djibouti. Djibouti Telecom announced on 13 May that the country’s 9th subsea cable, which is 45,000 km long, had landed in the capital. At 45,000 km and circling…
Kenyan Software Startup Bamba Secures $3.2M Seed Funding
May 18, 2022 | Kenya | Pyment.com
Enterprise software startup Bamba secured $3.2 million in a seed funding round led by 468 Capital with participation from Presight Ventures, Jigsaw VC and angel investors Mato Peric, Leonard Stiegeler, Laurin Hainy and…
Egypt’s Instabug raises $46m Series B to build expand product capabilities
May 18, 2022 | Egypt | Disturb Africa
Egyptian startup Instabug, a mobile monitoring, crash and bug reporting solution for mobile teams, has raised US$46 million in Series B funding to add to its product and build what it says will be the first mobile…
Egyptian IT firm Benya to establish investment arm in Saudi Arabia next month
May 17, 2022 | Egypt | Arab News
RIYADH: Egyptian Information and communications technology provider Benya Group is planning to establish an investment arm in Saudi Arabia by the end of this year, according to a report published in Daily News Egypt.…
Egypt Investing $40Bn To Green Hydrogen Projects
May 17, 2022 | Egypt | Rigzone.com
Egypt’s pipeline for green hydrogen projects stands at 11.62 gigawatts (GW), equivalent to over 1.57 million tons of green hydrogen, ranking the country in the top three green hydrogen pipelines globally, after…
Rwandan startup listed among World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers of 2022
May 17, 2022 | Rwanda | The News Times
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has unveiled a list of 100 innovative tech startups for its 2022 Technology Pioneers cohort which include a Rwandan firm, Ampersand. According to WEF, the Technology Pioneers’ list is an…
Nampula Trade Missions in Mozambique from 6th to 11th September, 2021
Start date: September 6, 2021 10:00 am | End DateSeptember 11, 2021 3:00 am | Address: Republic of Malawi
Trade Missions in Mozambique from - ( Nampula ) April 6, 2021 The Malawi Investment and Trade Centre has organized a trade mission to Nampula in Mozambique from 6th to 11th September 2021. The overall goal of the trade missions is to promote sales of various…