Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1st September 2026 – WIOCC Group, Africa’s leading carrier-neutral digital infrastructure platform, has announced the signing of a Shareholder Subscription Agreement (SSA) with Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) and Vision International Investment Company (Vision Invest), through which the two investors will jointly invest US$300 million in the company. The agreement was signed at…

When Moove, the mobility company that began financing cars for Lagos ride-hailing drivers in 2019, closed a $250 million Series C on August 5, most coverage focused on the headline figure: a $2.1 billion valuation, making it the largest disclosed African-linked funding event of the month by a wide margin. Less attention was paid to…

The Airtel Africa Foundation has selected the first cohort of 25 young Malawians for the Airtel Nzeru Fund Tech Scholarship, supporting their pursuit of science and technology-related studies at the Malawi University of Science and Technology. The scholarship recipients come from 17 districts across Malawi and will study fields including Sustainable Energy Engineering, Computer Systems,…

Benin has called for greater use of technology to transform the media sector and improve information accessibility, digital inclusion, cultural preservation and information sovereignty across Africa. The country presented its vision at the 7th Forum on China-Africa Media Cooperation in Beijing, which brought together public institutions, media organisations, audiovisual enterprises, universities and research centres from…

The ghost worker problem Nigeria thought it had buried nearly two decades ago has returned with a more sophisticated face, exposing fresh vulnerabilities in the government’s payroll and financial management systems and raising questions about how billions of naira can still be exposed to manipulation despite successive reforms. The Federal Government has approved a forensic…