CIO Africa

15 Jun 2022 - African fintech firm, Flutterwave has announced the appointment of Oneal Bhambani as its new Chief Financial Officer. He joins Flutterwave... Source

15 Jun 2022 - Kenya’s financial services sector, in particular its banking, is the largest, fastest-growing, and most mature in East Africa. This means... Source

15 Jun 2022 - MFS Africa, a digital payments network has secured $100 million in equity and debt, additional funding that takes its Series... Source

15 Jun 2022 - The Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) launched the Annual 2021 Report on The State of Human Rights and Freedoms in... Source

15 Jun 2022 - Aupa Monyatsi has been appointed as the new CEO of Letshego Group. He has held the same role in an... Source

15 Jun 2022 - Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) Registrar General, Mercy Kainobwisho has won the inaugural Africa Brand Leadership Award. The award recognises... Source

15 Jun 2022 - Bank of Uganda (BoU) is finally open to the idea of cryptocurrency businesses participating in its Regulatory Sandbox. They have... Source

15 Jun 2022 - Moroccan e-commerce startup, Chari, came out as one of the big winners at the Africa CEO Forum 2022. This was... Source

14 Jun 2022 - In many African households, money is a topic that is often avoided, so the continent is lacking in financial literacy.... Source

14 Jun 2022 - The shape of the telecommunications company (telco) is changing.  Today, it should be defined by digital – by the network... Source

14 Jun 2022 - Personalisation is becoming more critical for fulfilling customer expectations. But a changing consumer mindset about privacy makes the necessary data... Source

14 Jun 2022 - Global edtech company Snapplify has launched an online platform dubbed Teacha! to provide teaching resources to teachers in Kenya. Snapplify... Source

14 Jun 2022 - Dr Michael Lusiola has been appointed as the CEO/Director-General of Kenya BioVax Institute (KBI) effective June 2022. He takes over... Source

13 Jun 2022 - The Board of National Bank of Kenya (NBK) has appointed Peter Kioko as the acting Managing Director for the Bank,... Source

13 Jun 2022 - Telecommunications company Orange has developed an e-health platform Orange Santé (Orange Healthcare) in partnership with DabaDoc, the Moroccan start-up targeting the... Source

13 Jun 2022 - Africa, just like the rest of the world, is undergoing intense digital transformation. The transformation is happening so fast that... Source

13 Jun 2022 - Employees who receive 30-60 external emails per day could be wasting 11 hours every year looking through and identifying spam... Source

13 Jun 2022 - Pressure continues to mount on Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to reject the controversial ICT Practitioners Bill 2020 which sailed through... Source

11 Jun 2022 - Kenyan-based ICT Solutions company, DownToEarth Technologies (DTE Technologies), has set on a journey to give back to the local community... Source

10 Jun 2022 - Carbon, a credit-led Pan-African digital bank on Friday announced the launch of Carbon Zero, a buy now, pay later web... Source

10 Jun 2022 - Africa’s leading e-commerce platform Jumia has celebrated a decade in the industry both in Kenya and Ghana in an anniversary... Source

10 Jun 2022 - The government of Kenya has chosen Agrvision to provide AI powered technology to aid in developing a nation-wide unified platform... Source

10 Jun 2022 - The Government of Kenya officially launched the Coding and Computer Programming Curriculum to be used in Public Schools around two... Source

10 Jun 2022 - On Wednesday, a contentious ICT Practitioners Bill 2020 went through the final stage – third reading – in the Kenyan... Source

9 Jun 2022 - Schneider Electric has announced its new ‘mySchneider’ IT Partner Program, which will provide a simplified, innovative, and collaborative approach to... Source

9 Jun 2022 - The mobile phone industry is definitely up there when classifying sectors that have seen exponential growth over the recent years.... Source

9 Jun 2022 - GoMetro, a global mobility management technology company, on Thursday, announced a research partnership to investigate and advance the feasibility of... Source

9 Jun 2022 - Thirteen startups from East and West Africa are have been selected for a six week accelerator program by GreenHouse Capital... Source

9 Jun 2022 - Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are created, or “mined”, by the use of powerful computers that consume enormous amounts of electricity.... Source

8 Jun 2022 - According to a report by the Sophos Rapid Response team, there has been a 36% increase in dwell time by... Source

8 Jun 2022 - Smartphone manufacturer Tecno is preparing to launch the Tecno Camon 19 series globally and there has been a lot of... Source

8 Jun 2022 - One of largest digital payments network, MFS Africa, has announced that it has reached an agreement to buy Global Technology... Source

8 Jun 2022 - So that happened. Azimio came up with their Manifesto. It sweeps through some parts, doubles down on others. The gist... Source

8 Jun 2022 - Tizeti Network Limited, West Africa’s pioneer solar-based internet service provider on Wednesday, announced the appointment of Emmanuel Ikazoboh as its... Source

8 Jun 2022 - Kenyan energy production company KenGen has extended an invitation to cryptocurrency mining companies to consider setting up shop in the... Source

7 Jun 2022 - Africa Data Centres (ADC) is building a 30MW data centre facility in Accra, Ghana. The new facility is expected to... Source

7 Jun 2022 - Ethiopia’s central bank on Monday warned citizens against engaging in illegal transactions in cryptocurrencies like bitcoins. The National Bank of... Source

7 Jun 2022 - The Kenyan government through the ICT Ministry is thinking of setting up a Start-ups Advisory Board to aid the development... Source

7 Jun 2022 - Apple has now released the iOS 16 which introduces a plethora of new features that have excited the market. The... Source

7 Jun 2022 - A Pan African impact organization, Power Learn Project, has launched its flagship program to train 1 million young people with... Source

7 Jun 2022 - Doreen Nyiramugisha has been appointed Head of Marketing and Communications at Housing Finance Bank. She is the outgoing Head of... Source

7 Jun 2022 - Barely a week after quitting American electric vehicle startup Rivian Automotive where he served as Executive Vice President of Manufacturing,... Source

7 Jun 2022 - The financial technology industry, alias the FinTech industry, is characterized by a high degree of innovation within a complex ecosystem... Source

6 Jun 2022 - Africa will have its first smart city after Nigeria’s real estate company Bamboo Real Estate and Construction Limited has announced... Source

6 Jun 2022 - Rehmah Kasule, Uganda’s Founder of CEDA International, is among the 33 women who made it to the 4th edition CNBC... Source

6 Jun 2022 - Nonkululeko Merina Cheryl Nyembezi, also Nku has been appointed by Standard Bank Group as the Board Chair designate. Nyembezi will... Source

6 Jun 2022 - Funding to fintech companies fell 18 per cent in the first quarter of 2022 to $28.8B, even as deals reached... Source

6 Jun 2022 - MTN Group has further strengthened its executive team with the recent appointment of Andrew Goodrich as Executive for Banktech in... Source

6 Jun 2022 - Kenyans seeking to borrow digital loans will pay more for credit if last-minute changes proposed to the Kenyan Finance Bill... Source

6 Jun 2022 - Kendi Ntwiga, Former Country Leader at Microsoft Kenya is now the Global Head of Misrepresentation at social media giant Meta... Source