Rising Tide Africa backs used cooking oil firm Ororo Waste with $1 million
The investment comes as Ororo Waste attempts to scale a business around Nigeria’s used cooking oil waste stream.
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Honor Magic9 Pro Max: What’s new, from cameras to battery
Honor launched the Magic9 Pro Max in Beijing on September 28, 2026, with sales in China starting the same day at CNY 6,499 (about $969).
48 rejections later, Bode Roberts went from job seeker to opportunity builder
After years of struggling to find work, Bode Roberts co-founded Dataleum to bridge Africa’s digital skills gap, expand access to training, and connect African talent to global opportunities.
BuuPass started by selling bus tickets. Then it built the infrastructure.
BuuPass navigated a cofounder misappropriating over $100,000, COVID-19, multiple pivots in the past decade. Now, it processes $100 million in 2025.
Africa’s retail-investing boom is running into an infrastructure problem
The Dangote IPO shows how digital platforms are expanding retail investing in Africa, while exposing the infrastructure and cross-border hurdles that remain.
Copia Kenya ordered into liquidation after court finds rescue efforts exhausted
The ruling closes one of Kenya’s biggest startup funding stories and raises a bigger question about the economics of serving consumers outside the country’s main urban centres.
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How a Berlin-based developer turned Lagos traffic into a viral game
Built by Opeyemi Adeniran, a Berlin-based senior frontend engineer who posts on X as Eureka, the game has drawn more than 20,000 players within two days of its public release, according to him.
Zimbabweans can buy Dangote shares, but not quite through an app
The process also reveals how much of cross-border investing remains manual even as fintech platforms make domestic investing increasingly digital.
Kenya’s digital payment boom is leaving mobile money agents stranded
Between March and June, Kenya lost roughly 34,000 mobile money agents. The total number of registered agents dropped by 5.6%, falling from 602,470 to 568,463 in just three months.