Vodacom, a pan-African technology group, processed nearly $548 billion in mobile money transactions over the past year, signalling that the telecom giant’s future lies beyond phone calls and data bundles.
Author: Monah Anthony
The African Development Bank has finalised a loan of up to $15 million for South African vaccine manufacturer Biovac, adding to a wider international financing package intended to build Africa’s first end-to-end oral cholera vaccine facility.
South Africa’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged has drawn attention from economists, businesses, investors, and ordinary households across the country. The move reflects a careful balancing act by the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), which must manage inflation pressures while also supporting economic growth in a challenging global environment.
China’s GDP grew 5.0 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, 4.3 percent in the second quarter, bringing growth for the first half of 2026 to 4.7 percent. The release of China’s mid-year economic report has drawn close attention to the country’s growth performance. Yet some foreign media outlets have once again repeated the old narrative…
Vodacom Lesotho has launched Tsetela, a mobile investment platform that enables M-Pesa customers to access formal investment opportunities.
Amagi, a provider of an agentic industry cloud platform for unified broadcast, streaming, and monetisation, has announced the June 2026 edition of its Airtime Report, the company’s quarterly analysis of global FAST trends.
Vodacom Group processed $547.9 billion in mobile money transactions over the past 12 months, including Safaricom, as it expands deeper into financial services.
The renewed conflict involving the United States and Iran is creating an unexpected winner in Africa’s transport sector- electric vehicles.
Africa’s two biggest economies are expected to weather the immediate impact of the new United States tariffs, but economists say the measures reinforce a broader shift towards higher trade barriers that could force Nigeria and South Africa to diversify export markets and deepen regional trade.
Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Olayemi Cardoso, and Director General, World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, will lead dussions at the 7th Africa Emerging Markets Forum, hosted by the apex bank in partnership with the Emerging Markets Forum (EMF) and the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa…