WeeTracker There is a new crop of prodigious talents that are expunging the old ways and blazing new trails in the African tech scene, and Ethiopia’s Betelhem Dessie might just sit atop the leaderboard of that talent-laden list. The 20-year-old techie seems to be on the fast-track as she has blitzed her way through the ranks to […]
Tech Crunch by Jack Bright@JakeRBright Nigerian digital payments startup Paga has acquired Apposit, a software development company based in Ethiopia, for an undisclosed amount. That’s just part of Paga’s news. The Lagos based startup will also launch its payment products in Mexico this year and in Ethiopia imminently, CEO Tayo Oviosu told TechCrunch The moves come a little over a year after […]
Day Transportation Many of the tech companies in the world made significant contributions that transformed the lives of almost every people worldwide through better communication to banking and online shopping conveniences. And today, Ethiopia, as an emerging market, is trying to catch up with other nations. Ehiopia – a historically important country Ethiopia is located […]
Xinhua ADDIS ABABA, — Officials from Ethiopia, China and Sri Lanka on Wednesday vowed to spur trilateral partnership under the South-South cooperation modality in the renewable energy technologies sector. They disclosed the joint commitments in the renewable energy technologies sector here on Wednesday during a high-level workshop, which focused on a trilateral South-South cooperation that […]
Telephotography By Tom Leins After years of speculation that market liberalization was coming in Ethiopia, in May 2020 authorities kick-started the long-awaited licensing process. The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) issued a request for expressions of interest (EoI) for two new telecom licenses. With the deadline now passed, we look at the bidders vying to disrupt […]
Last year, Safaricom Chief Executive Bob Collymore told the British newspaper Financial Times that the company was looking to export the M-Pesa brand to other countries in East and West Africa. Analysts expected the company to announce an impending entry into Ethiopia this year, especially following new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s effort to liberalize the country’s political and economic […]
Techcabal, by Abubakar Idris The African connectivity and cloud computing market is generating a lot of interest and deals as players position themselves for the boom in data services on the continent. Over the last four years, international cloud companies have rushed to develop data centres on the African continent. IBM announced its first Africa […]
PV Magazine Ethiopia’s state-owned utility the Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) has issued an invitation for bids to seek developers to deploy solar mini-grids in 25 villages, with the projects financed by the African Development Bank. Each village will receive a solar plant, back-up diesel generator and battery storage as well as operation and maintenance services for the […]
PV Tech Saudi Arabian energy developer ACWA Power has won a 250MW duo of World Bank-backed solar projects in eastern Ethiopia. The firm was one of five companies that submitted proposals for the projects, after the Ethiopian finance ministry’s public-private partnership directorate general launched a request for proposals in April. Which requested for Proposals (RFP) as […]
Capacity Medium The Raxio Group (Raxio) has acquired land at the ICT Park, in the outskirts of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to build the country’s first private uptime certified Tier III colocation data centre. The site, purchased through Raxio’s fully owned subsidiary in Ethiopia, Raxio Data Centre PLC (Raxio Ethiopia) is set to be commission in […]
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