Launched in 2012 as part of Kenya’s Vision 2030 development plan, Konza Technolopolisis expected to significantly strengthen STEM fields, whose growing attractiveness is increasingly linked to technological innovations. Josephine NDAMBUKI, Manager, Economic Development, Partnerships & Resource Mobilization at Konza Technopolis Development Authority provides in this interview the main keys to understanding this new development.

The reform of the international tax system that has been in the making for many years is now on track. It notably targets large digital companies. The project is both ambitious and difficult to implement, especially in Africa. In this interview, Asma CHARKI, Executive Partner in charge of tax at Mazars Morocco, and Nixon Omondi, Compliance Officer at Kenya Revenue Authority, discuss key challenges related to this issue.

Analysis: while the example of Jumia reveals the difficulty of achieving the same profitability of their model, the future of these delivery platforms is very much at stake in their “local” dimension. Do they help promote Made in Africa products? That’s what is at stake. Part three (final).

Jumia, Glovo, Gozem… Super-Apps are multiplying on the continent. Each one has its own model and range of services. If their ambitions to expand regionally have been slowed down by COVID-19, the pandemic has also revealed their flexibility and their ability to adapt to the new needs of the markets where they are based. Part two.

Delivery platforms that were not rather rooted in customs before the pandemic are booming in Africa, boosted by lockdowns. That business is at the same time diversifying. Part one.

The Covid-19 pandemic has galvanized the development of more than 120 health technology innovations that have been piloted or adopted in Africa, a new World Health Organization (WHO) analysis finds.

Enova Robotics manufactures 100% made in Tunisia robots exported to Europe. E-health, distance learning, security… Anis SAHBANI, its founder, looks back on the history of this pioneering robotics company in Africa.

Invited by the French president Emmanuel Macron, Uhuru KENYATTA, his Kenyan counterpart, joined the 6th edition of Bpifrance Inno Génération, happening in Paris. On this occasion, the French secretary in charge of digital Cédric O and the Kenyan TIC minister Joseph MUCHERU shared a cross interview. They explain their expectations for the future of the France-Kenya relationship concerning digital.

Kenya confirmed its status as the digital hub of Eastern Africa. The first buildings are coming out of the ground in the Konza Technology City – renamed “Silicon Savannah” – and the Kenyan ecosystem is getting stronger with more than a hundred incubators in Nairobi. A report in Nairobi.

While the deployment of Internet is accelerating on the continent, it remains a luxury product for many people. Moja, a solution developed by BRCK, adapted to specificities of African market, responds to this double problematic: inform and deliver digital tools particularly useful in pandemic period through an Internet subscription model affordable to all purses.