KCB Bank Kenya has inked a partnership with Mobex (an affiliate company of Terra-Pay Group, a UK-headquartered digital payments infrastructure and solutions provider). The partnership will enable KCB customers to seamlessly receive funds from the diaspora to their accounts in Kenya
With TerraPay onboard, KCB Bank says it is seeking to fortify its position as a key player in strengthening...
Shelter Afrique is developing a Sovereign Lending product to supplement its traditional products that attend to both the demand and supply sides of the housing value chain, the pan-African housing development financier has disclosed.
Speaking in Nairobi, Shelter Afrique Ag. Managing Director Kingsley Muwowo said Africa’s GDP contraction resulting from COVID-19 was an alarming sign of a slump in the...
The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) is engaging county governments to consider ringfencing health budgets and integrating information technology solutions to facilitate operating efficiencies and prompt payments for health commodities supplied by the Authority.
Speaking when she made the Authority's submission to the Nairobi City County Health Reforms Taskforce, KEMSA CEO Terry Ramadhani decried the prompt settlement challenges for...
Launched by The LEGO Foundation, the Build A World of Play Challenge enables organizations that aim to make a positive impact on the youngest children anywhere in the world
Africa’s leading creator and producer of children’s educational media, Ubongo (www.Ubongo.org), is delighted to announce that it has been chosen as one of the 10 finalists in the Build A World...
It's a big, hairy, audacious goal but Huawei is committed to training 1 million ICT professionals over the next two years to help address the global skills shortage
Unpacking the skills deficit
Driving the need for this investment is the increasingly rapid pace of digital transformation worldwide - a trend that chafes against the World Bank's talent deficit forecast of 10...
A Cybereason report shows that 49% of enterprises who pay the ransom either get only part of their data back, or none at all
By Ning Yun, Director of Data Storage Department of Huawei SAR (Huawei.com)
Ransomware is striking at an alarming rate. Information technology research and consultancy company Gartner predicts, by 2025, at least 75% of IT organizations will...
The licence, in accordance with Section 11 of the Virtual Asset Act, 2022, was issued by the Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority
Pan-African cryptocurrency leader, Yellow Card (www.YellowCard.io) has made another significant stride in the industry, becoming the first cryptocurrency company on the continent to be granted a Virtual Asset Service Provider licence to operate in Botswana. The licence,...
Seclore, the platform leader in data-centric security, announced
today that it has signed a strategic partnership with Tech First Gulf (TFG), an IT infrastructure and
Cybersecurity Value Add Distributor, to deliver digital asset protection for Africa’s largest businesses.
The move comes against a backdrop of steadily rising cases of cyber threats and attacks that,
according to a report by Deloitte, have affected over...
HUAWEI CONNECT Dubai was held in the United Arab Emirates, with more than 3,000 industry stakeholders coming together to discuss around the theme of "Innovative Infrastructure to Unleash Digital". Representatives from Egypt's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Nigeria's Galaxy Backbone Limited, Huawei (https://e.Huawei.com), and other organizations shared their latest digitalization practices, exploring new paths to industrial digital...
The eighth meeting of the Statistical Commission for Africa will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 24-28 October 2022 under the theme “Modernizing data ecosystems in Africa to support regional Integration”.
Data and statistics are the lifeblood of development planning. Reliable statistics and analysis boost effective implementation of development programmes to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Accurate, high quality,...
