April 2018 - AfrikaTech

Orange Digital Ventures Invests in Africa’s Talking, Leader in Distributing APIs for Mobile Communication and Payment to Developers

April 30, 2018

Once completed, this operation will enable Africa's Talking to accelerate its internationalization in order to support its clients' expansion strategy. Orange Digital Ventures (www.DigitalVentures.Orange.com...

A Senegalese creates a software to “simplify” maths

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April 28, 2018

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At 25, Michel Seck already teaches mathematics at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. His specialties: coding, cryptology, algebra and applications. But that's not what makes him the most famous. The youn...

Cameroon: Learning Technology for Young People

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April 27, 2018

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Training as a basis for technological transformation in Cameroon. This is the goal pursued by the Genius Center. Located in Douala, the economic capital of Cameroon, the center offers workshops on computer code...

Ivory Coast: MainOne will boost connectivity in the region

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April 26, 2018

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As part of its West African expansion, MainOne, the data center and connectivity solutions operator, has been licensed to expand national and international connectivity services in Ivory Coast. The C1B license,...

Start-up of the week: in Morocco, AWIS rediscovers and modernizes an ancient technique to filter water

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April 26, 2018

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The Africa Water Innovative Solutions (AWIS) social start-up is modernizing an ancient technique for potabilizing water: the ceramic filter. Already present in Morocco, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Mauritania,...

Morocco: start-up lagare.ma raises 2 million dirhams to expand its activities in Cameroon, Tunisia and Egypt

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April 25, 2018

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Morocco's lagare.ma platform, which allows travelers to book and buy intercity bus tickets online, raised 2 million Moroccan dirhams ($ 216,766) from a private equity group whose identity was not disclosed. ...

Gabon: The country will invest 150 billion FCFA in the digital, over the next 3 years (Minister of Communication)

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April 24, 2018

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"Gabon will invest 150 billion FCFA in the digital, over the next 3 years. This was stated, April 19, Alain Claude Billie By Nze (photo), the Gabonese Minister of Communication, during his visit to Abidjan for ...

Waalam Invest: Financing African businesses through royalty crowdfunding

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April 22, 2018

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Founded in October 2016 by Gaissiri Dia, a young French-Senegalese based in Dakar, Waalam Invest is a crowdfunding platform that allows African entrepreneurs to present their projects in order to raise funds. T...

Start-up of the week: Andela focuses on African youth to find the developers of tomorrow

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April 19, 2018

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With more than a million developer positions available to grow the sector worldwide, Andela has set up in Kenya, but also in Nigeria and Uganda to train apprentices and make them available for companies. Thi...

Youth Entrepreneurship: Netherlands ambassador launches “Orange corners” concept in Abidjan

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April 19, 2018

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Ivorian startups now have a new platform to develop their skills and do their business. After South Africa and Mozambique, Ivory Coast is the third African country to welcome the concept of '' Oran...

Senegal: ARTP liberalises access to USSD codes

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April 19, 2018

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The USSD codes, which are currently owned and operated by the telephone operators, are now open to all players, especially value-added service providers. The Telecommunications and Postal Regulatory Authority (...

BNP Paribas will launch its “Ma Pub ici” contest in the Africa zone

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April 18, 2018

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For the first time, the BNP Paribas group will launch its "Ma Pub ici" contest in the Sub-Saharan Africa zone. This is an opportunity for entrepreneurs, artisans, SMEs, start-ups and innovative projects to win ...

In Ghana, plastic roads are made

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April 17, 2018

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A contractor creates pavers from plastic bags to create roads. A good solution to absorb some of the 22'000 tons of plastic waste per year. Recycle plastic bags to make roads? In Ghana, an entrepreneur took ...

Madinastores: The future Guinean Jumia

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April 17, 2018

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Founded in 2016 by Alpha Barry and Thierno Diallo, Madinastores is a Guinean E-Commerce company. In the image of the craze of E-commerce in many African countries (Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Morocco etc.), Madinasto...

Telecom: 660 million Africans will be equipped with a smartphone in 2020!

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April 16, 2018

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Deloitte unveils its study dedicated to Africa's changing usage, consumption and market trends in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector in 2018. 1. The smartphone at a time of invisible i...

Gaming: an income-generating activity still underestimated in Africa

PayDunya: Essay analyzing the success of African fintech

ICT and agriculture: the perfect symbiosis for the emergence of Africa

Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple: will the GAFA war take place in Africa?

YouTube: How are African content publishers doing to make money?

CoinAfrique: The Senegal-based classifieds site that convinced investors

Madlyn Cazalis: leader in 100% natural cosmetics Made in Africa

Orange Digital Ventures Invests in Africa’s Talking, Leader in Distributing APIs for Mobile Communication and Payment to Developers

A Senegalese creates a software to “simplify” maths

Cameroon: Learning Technology for Young People

Ivory Coast: MainOne will boost connectivity in the region

Start-up of the week: in Morocco, AWIS rediscovers and modernizes an ancient technique to filter water

Morocco: start-up lagare.ma raises 2 million dirhams to expand its activities in Cameroon, Tunisia and Egypt

Gabon: The country will invest 150 billion FCFA in the digital, over the next 3 years (Minister of Communication)

Waalam Invest: Financing African businesses through royalty crowdfunding

Start-up of the week: Andela focuses on African youth to find the developers of tomorrow

Youth Entrepreneurship: Netherlands ambassador launches “Orange corners” concept in Abidjan

Senegal: ARTP liberalises access to USSD codes

BNP Paribas will launch its “Ma Pub ici” contest in the Africa zone

In Ghana, plastic roads are made

Madinastores: The future Guinean Jumia

Telecom: 660 million Africans will be equipped with a smartphone in 2020!

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