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AI and business stories from Africa.
The energy business, part of The Kanoo Group, says sales have passed $700 million as it adds exports to North Africa and Iraq and opens offices in Uzbekistan.
By Nakoda News Desk··1 min read
Its Auni assistant, built into M-Pesa's business app, analyses mobile-money records for about 6,000 firms, and the startup still has only its three founders as staff.
By Nakoda News Desk··2 min read
The new route connects Shanghai, Ningbo and Nansha with Dar es Salaam and Maputo, two African ports where DP World is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on expansion.
By Nakoda News Desk··2 min read
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank says it is the first UAE lender to send Egyptian pounds to bank accounts in Egypt at any hour over Visa's network.
By Nakoda News Desk··1 min read
Eligible Mastercard holders at participating Moroccan banks can now pay with compatible Samsung phones and watches, and the two companies are running a joint campaign to encourage use.
By Nakoda News Desk··1 min read
NRA Nimi-ya-Lukeni was launched at the Abu Dhabi Ship Building yard under a €1 billion programme, and EDGE presents it as proof that technology transfer from France's CMN Naval has worked.
By Nakoda News Desk··2 min read
The rack-scale system pairs Supermicro servers carrying eight Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs per node with Nutanix's agentic AI software, and Nutanix is pitching it to Middle East and African firms that want to control their inference costs.
By Nakoda News Desk··2 min read
Cloudflare's third-quarter disruption report counted 49 outages worldwide, and power failures in several African countries and a 10-day shutdown in Ethiopia's Tigray region add to the Middle East and Africa's connectivity risks.
By Nakoda News Desk··2 min read
The Spanish energy group, formerly Cepsa, did not disclose a price for its minority stakes in three Berkine Basin fields as it shifts toward hydrogen and biofuels.
By Nakoda News Desk··2 min read
Business banking on the new platform is due to launch in 2027 and retail services will follow, as Libya's central bank pushes for wider use of electronic payments.
By Nakoda News Desk··1 min read
The Chinese carmaker says the GX has more than 4,000 regional orders, 800 of them in the UAE, and that it is bringing its humanoid robot and flying cars to the Gulf.
By Nakoda News Desk··3 min read
Under the new rules, customers can open accounts and verify their identity at third-party outlets in areas without bank branches, and banks stay responsible for their agents' work.
By Nakoda News Desk··1 min read