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Data Insights: Ease of Doing Business (Africa Region) – 2020
In 2020, the World Bank released a report on the “Ease of Doing Business” which ranked countries on…
Chowdeck Raises $2.5 Million Seed Funding to Optimize On-Demand Food Delivery in Nigeria
Lagos, 30 April 2024 – Chowdeck, Nigeria’s leading on-demand delivery service, has secured $2.5 million in seed funding…
Google Opens Applications For Its 2024 Africa Accelerator Program
Google has officially opened applications for the 8th cohort of its Google for Startups Accelerator Africa program. This…
Village Capital Partners with Norad to Strengthen Climate Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa
Village Capital (VilCap) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), have partnered to launch Empowering Sustainable Entrepreneurship…
Glovo To Shut Down Its Operations In Ghana On May 10
Glovo, a food delivery platform in Ghana, has sent emails to its restaurant partners that it will shut…
Norrsken22 Plans To Invest In 20 African Tech Companies By 2025
According to Lexi Novitske, General Partner at Norrsken22, an Africa-focused fund, African startups on the continent are too…
UK Company PZ Cussons Considers Exiting The African Market
British consumer goods company PZ Cussons which makes products including Imperial Leather soap, is considering selling its Africa…
Sustainable Tech Startup Kubik Raises $5.2 Million Seed Funding To Scale Production
Kubik, an African sustainable tech startup in Ethiopia, has raised a $5.2 million seed funding round. The seed…
Schengen Visa Rejection Rates (2022)
Henley Global put out its list of the top countries with the highest rejection rates when it comes…
Ghana Has Approved Starlink’s Satellite Internet Service. What Happens Next?
Last week, Ghana’s National Communications Authority (NCA) granted the green light to Space X for use of its…