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Former heavyweight world champions Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua will meet on December 11th at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, UK, promoter Turki Alalshikh announced on social media on Thursday.

Across Africa, cities are changing rapidly. New residential developments are emerging, public and private housing programmes are being delivered, and companies, financial institutions, investors and public bodies are expanding their real estate portfolios.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is launching a school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy aimed at aspiring founders who have just graduated high school and have not yet attended college.

Bessemer Venture Partners announced on Wednesday that it has raised $5.75 billion across two new funds to accelerate its investment across all parts of the AI stack.

The Cape Town-based HisWay Labs, the company behind TrackView rail-integrity monitoring system, has secured funding from technology investment and product development firm Octoco Group as it prepares for international expansion.

Ghanaian agri-tech startup Complete Farmer has secured a US$2.4 million convertible loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to scale up and finance inputs and agronomy services for farmers, complemented by US$480,000 in advisory to strengthen its systems and capacity to expand farmer financing.

Entrepreneurs are often told which sales channel is "working right now". That advice is rarely useful, because the right channel mix depends on your market, your buyers and where you are as a business. There is no universal answer. There is, however, a simple framework for working it out.

The soft life is a philosophy that has been spreading across Nigerian social media and culture over the past few years. At its heart it is a simple idea: you deserve comfort, quality, and care. You deserve things that work well and feel good. You deserve to stop tolerating less than you are worth. The soft life is not about extravagance.

WVA and MSD continue their successful collaboration and launch the 2026 Veterinary Student Scholarship Program for a slot of 40 scholarships of US$ 5000 (of a total of $200,000) to be granted to selected students

China said on Tuesday it opposed “illegal” US sanctions on Iranian airlines, a day after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened potential measures in a televised interview.

OPUS and Investec Wealth & Investment International have announced the return of the Investec Early Stage Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, increasing the investment fund to US$250,000 from US$60,000.

Used-car retailing platform Spinny has confidentially pre-filed its draft IPO papers with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), three people aware of the matter told Entrackr.