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Jumia to Close Jumia Food in Multiple African Countries: Shifts Focus to Core E-commerce Business
Learn about Jumia's decision to shut down its food delivery service, Jumia Food, across seven African countries, including Nigeria and Kenya. Explore the company's strategy to emphasize its primary online retail operations and enh...
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You can now Call Huduma Kenya at Night
In recent updates, Huduma Kenya has made significant changes to enhance its operations, with the latest announcement being the extension of call hours. Customers can now reach the Huduma call center beyond regular working hours, u...
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Kenyan retail-tech startup Wasoko expands to Zambia
Kenyan retail-tech startup Wasoko, which leverages innovative technology to transform the informal retail supply chain, has expanded into Zambia, the company’s first location in Southern Africa.
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Glovo Expands Fulfillment Service By Opening its Third Micro Centre in Kenya
Ecommerce is big in Kenya, and many firms are trying to be appealing to their customers to maintain or grow their market share. It has not been an easy journey for these companies, but some of them have gone out of their way to la...
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Kenya’s first sign language interpreters’ application launched
assistALL app will revolutionize how the deaf participate in the social economic development in Kenya and beyond,
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Google launches first product development center in Nairobi
Google joins the growing list of tech giants setting up innovations hub in Nairobi. Two weeks ago and shortly after Microsoft launched a research and development centre in Lagos and Nairobi, Visa announced that it had set up its f...
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Kenyan e-commerce company Copia Global raises $50M to expand in Africa.
Copia focuses on customers in rural areas that struggle to access the same goods and services in terms of choice, price value and reliability that similar consumers in urban areas or of higher income levels can access.
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Kenyan fintech Asante raises $7.5m ln African expansion fund
The Kenyan fintech Asante Financial Services, which provides financial solutions to MSMEs in SSA, announced it has secured $7.5 million to expand across the region
