Afrimarket, Cdiscount, Jumia in Cameroon and Rwanda... The successive closures of several major e-commerce players have cast a chill over the entire e-commerce market in the sub-region. Despite these successive closures across the e-commerce market in French-speaking Africa, some players are persisting, while others are innovating. Two years after Jumia's...
The TRACE Group launches its TRACE ACADEMIA app
The TRACE group is rolling out its training project, Trace Academia, as a free mobile app in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. This announcement follows the official launch of Trace Academia as a platform in South Africa in May 2021. The goal? To train 26,000 young Africans in digital professions....
The AFD Digital Challenge rewards African innovation
As part of its "Shared Innovation" series, AFD highlights innovative programs created or developed in our partner countries. Every year, the AFD Digital Challenge recognizes ten African start-ups whose remarkable innovations contribute to development. Here are the profiles of the ten winners of the 2021 edition, dedicated to climate and...
TikTok will share its advertising revenue with content creators
TikTok has just unveiled its intention to share its advertising revenue with content creators. The social network is formalizing this new strategy with the launch of TikTok Pulse, offering its most popular users the opportunity to monetize their content. On the advertiser side, TikTok is simultaneously evolving its offering, ensuring...
The WAN 2022 project organized on May 26
On May 26, on the sidelines of International Africa Day, the WAN (Worldwide Afro Network) project will once again bring together artists, leaders, and innovators to celebrate the continent. The event will once again take place digitally, on social media with the hashtags #JeSuisWan and #IAmWan. All those involved in...
A new edition for African Digital Week
After an edition themed "Augmented Africa," African Digital Week returns for a new edition in Abidjan from September 20 to 24, 2022. Organized in part by the Groupement des opérateurs du secteur des TIC (Gotic) and the Confédération Générale des Entreprises de Côte d’Ivoire (CGECI), African Digital Week is a...
Boomplay opens offices in Ivory Coast
Musical richness, a young population, high mobile penetration rates, and a proliferation of initiatives to democratize internet access are all opportunities for the development of music streaming on the continent. Local players are multiplying, particularly in the English-speaking part of the continent, which is a real hotbed of initiatives in...
Google adds 10 new African languages
Projects and initiatives are multiplying in an attempt to bring African languages into the digital world. For those behind these projects, there are many challenges involved in establishing a presence for African languages on the internet. In this context, digital giant Google has been offering ten new local African languages...
Paydunya launches its operations in Benin
Created to enable the digitization of businesses operating in Africa and meet all the payment needs of unbanked individuals, Paydunya continues to expand across the continent. Today, it is taking a new step forward by expanding into a new territory: Benin. Despite two difficult years linked to Covid-19, which significantly...
Cameroon: 4.5 million active social media users in 2022
CM d'Afrique, the community that brings together all Community Managers on the African continent, has compiled a new overview of the use of the main social networks in Cameroon. This new study highlights the evolution of the number of social network users in Cameroon between 2017 and 2022. Here are...