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start-upsFor many small businesses, making a video is easy to postpone. The owner has the idea. They might even have the script. But finding someone to present it, recording several takes and getting the finished video edited can take up a whole day.
energySouth Africa's banks are financing solar farms while still lending to coal and other fossil-fuel businesses. Both things are happening at the same time.
motoringBuying an electric car is one thing. Finding someone to fix it five years later is another. That is a question South Africa's motor industry will have to deal with as more electric and hybrid vehicles make their way onto the roads.
agricultureZambia's honey industry has a problem that has little to do with the bees. A large share of the honey produced in the country is still sold informally.
energyGabon has signed a 10-year partnership with Norwegian geophysical data company TGS to commercialise, reprocess and potentially acquire offshore seismic data as the government seeks to attract new exploration investment into its deepwater and ultra-deepwater acreage.
sme-sCameroonian fintech REasy and Africa Global Logistics (AGL) are testing a service that combines supplier payments, cargo consolidation, shipping and shipment tracking to help small businesses importing goods from China.
fintechPayments infrastructure company Walapay has raised $4.6 million in seed funding to expand its cross-border payments network, deepen banking relationships and obtain additional licences in markets where businesses face difficulties moving money internationally.
fintechZimbabwe is in discussions with NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL), the international arm of India's National Payments Corporation, over the use of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) technology to upgrade the country's payments infrastructure.
start-upsCameroonian technology startup lensX has launched an online marketplace aimed at bringing businesses, vendors and customers together on a single digital commerce platform.
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