This is not the first time Egypt is cooperating with France as the French Space Agency has previously offered cooperation with Egypt in the manufacture of a satellite, training and outer space exploration.

Nigerian last-mile delivery startup Kwik Delivery has announced that it has closed its pre-Series A financing round. The company successfully raised $ 1.7 million in equity from institutional and high net worth investors.

FSD Africa signed a Co-operation Agreement with the Committee of SADC stock Exchanges (CoSSE) to support the development of a green bond market in the SADC region.

DEUTSCHE Konsum Reit-AG (DKR), a German property company, listed on the Main Board of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), becoming the third company to join the exchange this year.

The Mastercard Foundation has partnered with Nourishing Africa and U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF) to train 2,0000 young agripreneurs and provide small grants to 125 MSMEs in Nigeria.

Nigeria and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria have launched three new grants to strengthen the fight against HIV, TB and malaria and build resilient and sustainable systems for health.

The World Bank approved additional financing of $210 million in IDA Pre-arrears Clearance Grant and $210 million in donor contributions for the second phase of the Sudan Family Support Program (SFSP), the Thamarat Program.

The Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) announced the introduction of real-time Derivatives Market data on the Elektron Real Time platform offered by Refinitiv.

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) in Egypt has signed a MoU with Thales, a global company in high technology solutions to further develop Artificial Intelligence applications in the country.

Fidelity Bank Ghana has launched the Fidelity Young Entrepreneurs Fund (FYEF) to support existing businesses and startups of young entrepreneurs with financial and non-financial resources.

Meanwhile, shopper habits have changed considerably, and this means small businesses must continue to adapt and grow with the direction of the wind.

There has been much talk about natural gas as a transition fuel, primarily in helping to lower emissions and pollution by displacing coal in power generation, but also in complementing intermittent renewables, and targeting the (blue) hydrogen economy.

Capital expenditure for renewable energy projects is set for a new record in 2021, a Rystad Energy analysis shows, forecast to reach $243 billion, and narrowing the gap with oil and gas spending, which is projected to be relatively flat this year at $311 billion.

Africa has been described as the fastest-growing continents in the world. This growth, according to an article published on Forbes has been fueled by a young rapidly urbanizing population.

Lionel Mpfizi is the CEO of Awesomity Lab, an award-winning software development company based in Kigali, Rwanda.

Compared with other Data Centre markets around the world, Africa is unique in the sense it has a population of over 1.3 billion people and with a total landmass of 30,365,000 km.

IZICHANGE is a platform that help to make mobile money account to interact with online web wallet and vice versa. Okouin Marius is a Chief Operating Officer of this platform in Benin.

Africa started to deploy 3D printing over a decade ago and today there is an even bigger potential for additive manufacturing on the continent.

Indeed, so extreme is the anti-pesticide noise that we are in danger of plundering our food output and increasing our dependency on Europe for generations ahead.

Digital payments have become a very crucial service in Africa. Every day, millions of transactions are transacted across the continent leading to the rise of different payment technologies like Mpesa.