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Nigerian different energy firm Cell Energy Restricted raises £1 million from All On to scale its providers

Nigerian different energy firm Cell Energy Restricted raises £1 million from All On to scale its providers

Image Source: All On All On, a Shell-funded independent impact investing firm, has announced that it has invested £1 million in Mobile Power Limited, to increase the growth of its Pay-per-use battery sharing platform in…

South Africa: Maintain the Corrupt Accountable

South Africa: Maintain the Corrupt Accountable

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has reinforced government's stance that corruption will not be tolerated in all spheres of the public sector. This after the arrest and court appearance of high ranking Transnet executives, Brian…

South Africa: Authorities Dedicated to Curbing GBV

South Africa: Authorities Dedicated to Curbing GBV

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the violence perpetrated by men against women and children is a devastating social problem that can only be solved by every part of society working together. While the latest crime statistics…

South Africa: Former Msukaligwa Municipal Managers Arrested for Fraud, Theft

South Africa: Former Msukaligwa Municipal Managers Arrested for Fraud, Theft

Two former Mpumalanga municipal managers have been released on R5000 bail after they were arrested on Monday for contravening the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA). Theron Zwelishe Shongwe (47) and Thusi Hezekiel Kubheka (65) who…

Ethiopia: Fees Filed In opposition to ‘Unlawful Digital Media Shops’ For Allegedly Making Nation Centre of Violence

Ethiopia: Fees Filed In opposition to ‘Unlawful Digital Media Shops’ For Allegedly Making Nation Centre of Violence

Addis Abeba — "The Federal Police Commission said it has filed charges against 111 "illegal digital media" outlets which were suspected of "working to make Ethiopia a center of violence" during the concluded Ethiopian Fiscal…

Uganda: Parliament Scraps Excise Responsibility On Sugar Confectionary, Chocolate

Uganda: Parliament Scraps Excise Responsibility On Sugar Confectionary, Chocolate

Parliament has passed the Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2022 scrapping taxes on sugar confectionery, sweets, gums, and chocolates. The bill was earlier passed in March 2022 but returned to Parliament for reconsideration by President Museveni.…

The Ethiopian Nationwide Influenza Laboratory will get acknowledged as a WHO Nationwide Influenza Centre

The Ethiopian Nationwide Influenza Laboratory will get acknowledged as a WHO Nationwide Influenza Centre

Following an on-sight assessment by a team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), the National Influenza Laboratory of the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) has been recognized as a World Health Organization (WHO)…

PIXXTASY: Meet The NFT Venture Preventing Drug Dependancy

PIXXTASY: Meet The NFT Venture Preventing Drug Dependancy

Many projects have used NFTs to support a noble cause, from women empowerment to nature conservation and more. The latest entrant to this ‘NFTs for social good’ space is PIXXTASY. Essentially, the charity project is…

LIV Golf continues to be the worst, however at the very least Harold Varner III was sincere about why he joined

LIV Golf continues to be the worst, however at the very least Harold Varner III was sincere about why he joined

This is the online version of our daily newsletter, The Morning Win. Subscribe to get irreverent and incisive sports stories, delivered to your mailbox every morning. Charles Curtis is filling in for Andy Nesbitt. We’ve written many…

Viamo has laid off “lots” of its staff

Viamo has laid off “lots” of its staff

Viamo, a Ghana-based social and technology company that helps NGOs, government agencies, donors and businesses to communicate directly with their audience by using local languages to disperse their messages via mobile phone, has laid off…

Zapper and Sew are partnering as much as allow one-click funds for South Africans

Zapper and Sew are partnering as much as allow one-click funds for South Africans

South African mobile payments platform Zapper is teaming up with the payments and data API platform Stitch to enable Zapper’s more than one million customers to make secure instant electronic fund transfers (EFTs) payments at…

From startup society to community state

From startup society to community state

This article was contributed to TechCabal by Chijioke Emole Echeme Emole* Imagine a country founded online. A country which is formed first in the cloud as a peculiar and purposeful ‘internet phenomenon’, and eventually as…