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Duniya Healthcare, a Zambia-based pharmaceutical and health logistics startup, says it helped rural health facilities avert 578 deaths in six months, nearly double the 299 deaths prevented at comparable facilities that relied on traditional procurement systems, according to a new impact report. The study, conducted by Duniya Healthcare in partnership with the Zambia Conference of

Zest, the fintech subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings, has reported its first profitable quarter since its 2023 launch. The turnaround reflects the growing maturity of bank-backed fintech subsidiaries as they move from early losses to sustainable growth. Zest posted a profit after tax of ₦543 million ($372,438) in the third quarter of 2025, compared to

She asked me to give her a symptom, something ordinary and real. I mentioned a small issue that had lingered longer than it should have, one which I had been meaning to check out. I watched as the artificial intelligence (AI) triage tool bubbled to life as she typed my symptom into the chat box

Frank Ireri, the former Housing Finance boss who spent more than a decade trying to turn one of Kenya’s oldest mortgage lenders into a modern financial group, has died of cancer in Nairobi. He was 63. For much of the 2000s and 2010s, Ireri was a familiar name in Kenya’s banking sector—a confident, sharp-witted banker

After spending his childhood across Zambia, Uganda, and Tunisia, Philippe Griffiths, now a senior associate at TLcom, an Africa-focused venture capital (VC) firm managing over $150 million, realised early that technology could “transform African lives.” Driven by that conviction, he left a consultancy job in Washington and relocated to Nairobi, where he offered scholarships to

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Travelling as a digital nomad can be expensive. Yet it costs more when you are privileged to travel and not take advantage of the opportunity, a Dubai-based digital nomad told me over a weekend chat in September. “There is a lot more to see in the world when you let go of [proclivities] you are

Nigeria’s informal economy accounts for an estimated 58% of its GDP; however, businesses within the informal sector face challenges when it comes to accessing credit. Hadi Finance began with a simple goal: to be a bank for Nigeria’s informal small businesses. But its co-founder, Bidemi Adebayo, quickly learned that in a market where the word

In Lagos, where uneven sidewalks and chaotic traffic turn every commute into an obstacle course, getting around can test anyone’s will. For the roughly seven million Nigerians who are blind or visually impaired, it’s a daily fight against an environment that rarely considers them, and available assistive tools are either too costly or not built