Tag: east africa

• How digital commerce is evolving in Kenya

  March 5, 2023

  As Amazon-type e-commerce—personified in Jumia—flounders, African entrepreneurs are finding ways to sell online that combine how people shop in malls with the convenience of retail corner shops, the shops that… more ›

• Russia: Yevgeny Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin’s Africa machine

  August 11, 2022

  Everyone was sworn to secrecy and told that the meeting in Khartoum would never take place. For months, however, secret negotiations took place to plan it. Emissaries flew by helicopter… more ›

• Cardano Africa

  May 3, 2021

  Input Output, the technology company that created Cardano and Atala PRISM, has been working on the African continent since 2017. Charles Hoskinson, CEO, reflects on the road so far and his… more ›

• China Leads Africa’s Digital Currency Race

  February 7, 2021

  With years of public investment and plenty of penetration for its phone makers, China is well placed to establish a digital currency in Africa. Since the mid 2000s, China has… more ›

• Mozambique: Sophistication of Islamic insurgency threatens LNG plans

  September 20, 2020

  Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jammah (ASWJ) has developed into a well-equipped and coordinated insurgency and is now closing the capability gap with Mozambican security forces. https://www.theafricareport.com/38238/mozambique-sophistication-of-islamic-insurgency-threatens-lng-plans/ more ›

• USA’s DFC approves transactions to Mozambique totalling $1.7 billion

  September 20, 2020

  The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), Donald Trump’s secret weapon to counter Chinese influence in Africa, has devoted almost half of its new investment funding to natural gas projects… more ›

• Kagame: “On Judgement Day, I will get better marks than those who criticise us over human rights”

  September 6, 2020

  From the struggle against the coronavirus, to the relationship with France and with the neighbours, and the state of human rights in Rwanda, an interview with Rwandan President Paul Kagame.… more ›

• Algorithmic Colonization of Africa

  August 23, 2020

  We live in a world where technological corporations hold unprecedented power and influence. Technological solutions to social, political, and economic challenges are rampant. In the Global South, technology that is… more ›

• The top 50 African Disruptors (41-45)

  August 8, 2020

  The Africa Report’s inaugural ranking of the top Africans who are disrupting the status quo in politics, business and the arts: from investigative journalists to world-class athletes and Nobel Peace… more ›

• Alphabet’s Loon starts beaming internet from balloons in Kenya

  July 9, 2020

  Alphabet’s Loon project has finally launched its internet-delivery balloons in Africa following a deal with the Kenyan government. It marks a significant milestone for Loon, once one of Google’s “moonshot”… more ›