Africa

So, how powerful a passport is, is measured with different factors put into consideration – the number of countries holders of that passport can visit without the need of the visa (Visa free), Visa on arrival; meaning you can get visa approval after you’ve arrived... Read More

Ampion (www.ampion.org) and Merck (www.merck.de) today announced the launch of the first healthcare specific accelerator in Africa. The accelerator, Ampion’s newest initiative for driving connectivity and innovation across the continent, will operate out of Nairobi, Kenya. Ampion will accept applications from e-health startups with a... Read More

Over the last year, Facebook has worked closely with more than a dozen mobile operators across 17 countries to give people access to relevant basic internet services without data charges. Today Internet.org is available to more than a billion people. African countries where Internet.org has... Read More

Facebook has today opened up internet.org, its platform that provides basic information-orientated services for free in developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Facebook will now allow developers to create apps on the platform which will be available free of charge through partner mobile... Read More

Silicon Valley: The 8 episode series on HBO that premiered on 6th April and is currently enjoying over a 1.6 millions views per week, behind Game of thrones' record breaking 6.6 million weekly views. Actually the metrics of the Silicon Valley series are quite a stunner given the fact... Read More

I was astonished by one of Africa’s leading entrepreneurs about the ideation process on the continent. Strive Masiyiwa, Chairman and Founder of Econet Wireless Group believes in utmost discretion of ideas. In the recent past, he has taken to social media with a machine-gun-like barrage... Read More

Nairobi, Kenya, March 12 2014 – Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), a leading telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa and popular  English football club Manchester United  have announced details of a new mobile application  designed to get its energetic fans in... Read More

Today marks 25 years of CRC. And, kampala, Uganda is the proud host of the event to commemorate the milestone. Uganda was selected as the host country for the first of a series of 10 ACTIVATE talks around the world to mark 25 years since... Read More

Remember the legendary Lion King? Mufasa! Hakuna Matata! Jambo! Of course you must be a 90's kid to really understand what I am talking about. Whereas Mufasa seemed to be the only thing that America has ever cared about from Africa --and of recent, the... Read More