Tanzania

Goodwell Invests $2M in East Africa Fruits

Goodwell Investments leads Series A in East Africa Fruits

East Africa Fruits Co., a Tanzanian company addressing food distribution challenges to improve efficiencies in the farm-to-market sector, announced that it closed...

Tigo Tanzania has extended its Mobile Money service across East Africa. Tigo Pesa subscribers can now send or receive money to or from M-Pesa in Kenya, MTN MoMo in Uganda or Airtel Money in Rwanda via mobile phone, enabling families to transfer money to relatives, and small businesses to continue their operations.

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Tigo Tanzania has extended its Mobile Money service across East Africa

Tigo Tanzania has extended its Mobile Money service across East Africa. Tigo Pesa subscribers can now send or receive money to or...

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Wefarm reaches over one million users and plans Tanzania expansion

Wefarm the world’s largest farmer-to-farmer digital network, today announced it has reached over 1.1 million users across Kenya and Uganda, with farmers...

Humaniq and Jamii Africa announce mobile micro-insurance partnership

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Humaniq and Jamii Africa announce mobile micro-insurance partnership

New generation financial services provider Humaniq has announced a new partnership with the Jamii Africa micro-health insurance startup, targeting the low income and informal sector to...

African Edtech Company Mwabu Concludes Series B Funding Round

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African Edtech Company Mwabu Concludes Series B Funding Round

Mwabu, the African focusedEdtech company, has concluded a significant Series B investment round led by Elma Investments to expand its education solutions and academy services in...

From AR to VoD, mobile entertainment is flourishing across Africa

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From AR to VoD, mobile entertainment is flourishing across Africa

Mobile news and entertainment is now a burgeoning industry across Africa from augmented reality (AR) to video on demand (VoD), new and...

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Delivering education through technology in Africa

80% of students in Africa don’t pass secondary school, while 4 out of 5 adults in english speaking Africa don’t finish high...

Tigo Tanzania uses mobile to drive registration of children

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Tigo Tanzania uses mobile to drive registration of children

Tigo Tanzania has announced a new initiative supporting the Tanzanian government utilising a mobile application that is accelerating provisioning of birth certificate for children...

Raspberry Pi helps drive education in Tanzanian school. www.appsafrica.com

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4 barriers to digital inclusion across Africa

The Director General of the GSMA, Mats Granryd lauded the impact mobile technology has had across Africa but identified a number...

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What3Words revolutionising global addressing system

75% of the worlds population have poor or inconsistent address. What3words has built a uniform global location reference system that gives everyone, everything...

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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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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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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...

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Deadline for Pivot East 2015 entries

PIVOT East the annual start-up pitching competition and conference run by m:lab East Africa is fast approaching with only four days left until...

Raspberry Pi helps drive education in Tanzania

Masekelo secondary school in Shinyanga, Tanzania has many challenges: there’s no electricity or water, so each pupil needs to collect 5 litres...

Tigo subscribers to enjoy 36m music tracks on their smartphones

Music streaming is the fastest growing area for the global music industry and music content is already the second most popular mobile...

The first mobile money service to pay profit to its users

Tigo has announced the first of its regular quarterly payments worth 3bn/- (US $ 1.8 million) to Tigo Pesa users in Tanzania

Tanzanian edu-tainment cartoon Ubongo targets expansion

Tanzanian social enterprise Ubongo is planning on launching its edu-tainment cartoon Ubongo Kids, which went live on terrestrial television in January, in...