NAIROBI Research into drugs to treat mosquito-borne flaviviruses such as Zika and dengue as well as COVID-19 will benefit from a major funding boost, says a group of international scientists using artificial intelligence to discover new oral antivirals.

In a Goma factory floor, east of DRC, students are busy on their working stations. They are in the 6th year of mechanic studies at the Institute of technology and industry.

The startup or entrepreneurial journey has never been an easy feat. The journey captures moments when a founder has to brainstorm all through the night, engage in a series of personal development programs ...

GoMyCode has raised a US$8 million Series A funding round to drive its expansion plans across Africa and the Middle East.

Some stakeholders are already speculating of a possible funding crunch for African startups in the nearest future. And it's easy to see why they are worried - global VC funding has recently been declining on a monthly basis according to...

Buy Now Pay Later startup Motito and eight other African startups have been selected to take part in the second edition of the Norrsken Impact Accelerator, which is designed to find the world’s most promising impact startups, and help them...

Africa’s largest fintech interoperability hub, MFS Africa, will reportedly acquire US-based payments software company Global Technology Partners (GTP) in a $34 million deal.

The World Food Forum (WFF) collaborated with Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) to host an associated event at Stockholm+50 on “Agrifood Tech Innovations for a Healthy Planet: Creating opportunities and empowering the next generation of agripreneurs.”

LaFiya Telehealth has also partnered with Israel-based company TytoCare to provide patients with kits that facilitate more precise diagnosis during virtual consultations.