Africa

Guaranty Trust Holding Company Plc (GTCO), annual food and drink festival is set to hold its 6th Edition and food lovers across Africa and the world. The event is slated to hold from Saturday, April 29th till Monday, May 1st, 2023,…

Google, on Tuesday, announced applications for the third cohort of Black Founders Fund for Startup opened in Africa and Euroupe in line with its commitment to digital transformation and support to black-founded startups. This year,…

YouTube today has announced the expansion of efforts to support creators and the creative economy in Africa through the 2023 #YouTubeBlack Voices creators and artist cohorts. Now in its third year, the initiative from YouTube is a…

Dr. Samuel Lamptey, Representatives of the ECOWAS Commission in Cape Verde has revealed that religious intolerance poses a threat to West Africa’s region’s development and integration process. Lamptey made this known at the ongoing…

Google has announced that 60 eligible black-founded startups across Africa have been selected for the second cohort of Google for Startups Black Founders Fund (BFF) for Africa. The startups joining the program will receive a total of…

The Flutterwave Graduate Trainee Program has officially begun, according to Flutterwave, the top payments technology business in Africa. Through the education of technical and soft skills, exposure to Flutterwave's solutions and…

As more Africans gain access to smartphones, the internet, and fintech, the continent is increasingly positioning itself as a lucrative marketing opportunity in the e-commerce industry, which, according to StockApps, will generate $46.1…

United States government has announced that it will ship nearly 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to two of the most populous African countries – Nigeria and South Africa on Wednesday (today) as the continent battles the third wave of…

United States has on Friday announced that it is shipping 25 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Africa, starting with Burkina Faso, Djibouti, and Ethiopia. Shipments to the first three countries will go out within days, with a total of 49…

European Commission has named Ghana as one of its possible manufacturing hubs of COVID-19 vaccines in Africa. A statement signed on Friday by Eugene Arhin, spokesman for the president, said the announcement was made during a two-day…

COVID-19 crisis has disproportionately affected tourism, a sector that accounts for millions of jobs around the globe. While no one can say with certainty when the sector will recover, people are starting to dream of getaways again -…

World Health Organization has said that there are 19 potential COVID-19 vaccines in clinical trials. WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, disclosed this in a series of tweets on Thursday night. It added that South…

President of Liberia, Goerge Weah has announced a partial reopening of churches and mosques to hold prayer programmes regardless of the lockdown extension in the country. In a statement, the President said emergency measures to curb…

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health in Uganda has disclosed that people living in institutional quarantine in the country have started having sex with each other. In a recent interview on Radio One talk show, Permanent…