China has become one of Africa's largest development financiers. Since 2000, Chinese and other state-backed institutions have ...

African startups raised between $1.3 billion and $1.4 billion in the first half of 2026, in line with the $1.4 billion recorded a year earlier, per data from TechCabal and The Big Deal, showing ...

Despite predictions of collapse after USAID cuts, sub-Saharan Africa is outpacing Asia in growth forecasts, fueled by trade ...

After defying the global funding slowdown of 2022, VC investments in African startups dropped considerably last year, mirroring the situation in other regions where capital taps were significantly ...

As the wave of unprecedented venture capital funding that surged across various markets during the pandemic loses its vigor, Africa is experiencing significant cutbacks. Funding raised by ...

Supercell opened applications for its first Developer Grants Program for African game studios, offering equity-free funding of between $20,000 and $200,000.The Finnish company behind Clash of Clans, ...

Yet the organizations closest to women and girls remain among the least resourced. This urgent contradiction was at the ...

Africa has an enormous ocean area at its disposal. There are almost 20 million square kilometers of ocean, seas and inland water that could be developed into environmentally sustainable blue economies ...

By Anait Miridzhanian and Sfundo Parakozov DAKAR/JOHANNESBURG, June 25 (Reuters) - Africa's top public health agency said on Thursday that funding needed to tackle the continent's Ebola outbreak was ...

Africa seemed to defy the global venture funding decline in the first half of 2022 after its startups raised $3 billion, double the amount secured over a similar period the previous year. However, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 15th edition of the Durban FilmMart, which ran July 19 – 22 in South Africa’s sun-splashed coastal mecca, wrapped on a high ...

Civil society organizations in South Africa says that adolescent girls and women are among the first to feel the impact of ...