East Africa

Technology used to aid blind education in Kenya

“A braille dictionary has 26 volumes and each one is quite heavy for most students to carry comfortably. A tablet can hold...

CEO of Safaricom shares how MNO's are evolving in Africa

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Safaricom CEO shares how they are evolving with tech start-ups

In a recent interview CEO of Safaricom Bob Collymore (BC) shared with Andrew Fassnidge (AF) from Appsafrica.com how the mobile network operator...

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BitPesa gains investment to grow BitCoin business in Africa

BitFury Group, the world’s leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company, has made an investment in BitPesa, one of Africa’s leading bitcoin...

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Tigo Tanzania launches free WhatsApp messaging service

Tanzania’s leading telecommunication company, Tigo, has announced free WhatsApp services for its 10 million users.

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Viber launches public chats in Africa

Viber has announced today that it has opened its latest social channel ‘Public Chats’ to partners in Africa and the Middle East.

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Mpesa enters Uganda with MTN

Ugandan customers can now make mobile money transactions with Kenya following a deal between Safaricom and MTN Uganda.

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Rwanda: SafeMotos celebrated in this year’s Nominet Trust 100

The Nominet Trust, the UK’s leading tech for good funder, has announced that SafeMotos has been named among the 2015 Nominet Trust...

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Tigo launches 4G LTE in Tanzania

Tigo has unveiled a new 4G LTE service which is about five times faster than the 3G technology currently available in the Tanzanian...

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Google launches wi-fi network in Uganda

Google has launched its first wi-fi network in Uganda as part of their plan to deliver affordable high-speed internet across Africa.

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Kopo Kopo to launch in Ghana, Uganda and Zimbabwe

Kopo Kopo the mobile money aggregator and micro-lender is set to launch its GROW Merchant Cash Advance product in Ghana, Uganda and...

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Orange and ENGIE to bring electricity to rural Africa

An estimated 69% of the population in sub-Saharan Africa and 90% of the rural population in the same region have no access...

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Best African App 2015?

The Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 attracted entries from 21 countries, across 3 continents, we now take a look at the Best App...

Worldreader, a global nonprofit dedicated to improving literacy in the developing world through digital books, has announced a new partnership with Opera Software that has provided 5 million readers in Africa access to 25,000 free digital book title

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Best Mobile Innovation Finalists

Hundreds of mobile services from across Africa competed for a place in the final for the Best Mobile Innovation at the Appsafrica.com Innovation...

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Future for money remittances in Africa

SimbaPay a fintech finalist in the upcoming Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015, is a digital money transfer provider that enables Africans living abroad to...

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Finalists announced for Appsafrica Innovation Awards 2015

The Appsafrica.com Innovation Awards 2015 attracted over 200 entries from 21 countries, across 3 continents. We can now announce the finalists our...

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How to sustain Africa’s momentum?

Having started trading from an early age, working 18 hours a day and not taking a holiday for 13 years Aliko Dangote,...

Worldreader Mobile (WRM) is improving people’s lives by attracting millions of users across Africa to read books on devices they already own.

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Millions of users across Africa read books on mobile

Research has shown that reading for pleasure is positively linked with literacy-related benefits such as writing ability, text comprehension and grammar. It...