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A Nigerian pharmacist and doctoral researcher at McGill University, Chika Onochie, has won a major research award worth up to CAD $100,000 from Québec's Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) for his research work on new biomarkers to assess male fertility in Canada.

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will increase fees for several immigration applications from October 16, 2026, affecting asylum applicants, employment authorization requests, etc

Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a pan-African initiative designed to help African health-tech startups scale and commercialise their offerings, announced four strategic partnerships between leading African health-tech innovators and global, regional, and private sector partners

Early-stage startups from Kenya and across Africa are invited to compete for non-equity funding, partner prizes, and the opportunity to pitch on the main stage of Latitude59 Kenya Edition in Nairobi this December.

South African mobile technology company Mission Mobile will receive up to ZAR500 million (US$30.1 million) in funding from investment holding company DN Invest (DNI) to help mobile network operators (MNOs) expand their customer base.

The joint US-Ukrainian reconstruction investment fund has sealed its first critical minerals deal alongside four other new projects, one of its top US officials told Reuters.

Indian luxury watch brand Bangalore Watch Company (BWC) has raised $1.4 million in a seed round from a group of its customers, including family office principals and high-net-worth individuals from India and overseas.

There are games that invite you into fantastical worlds, showering you with epic quests and heroic triumphs. And then there are games that lock you in a dusty, creaking house with a mallet-wielding, septuagenarian terror. Granny falls firmly into the latter category,

There's a quiet disaster unfolding across Kenyan finance departments right now. It started on 1st January 2026, when KRA quietly switched on a validation system that cross-checks every income tax return against three data sources: TIMS/eTIMS invoices, withholding tax records, and customs import data.

Kenya has spent years pushing businesses onto eTIMS. The logic was sound. Real-time invoice data means less underreporting, faster validation, and a cleaner tax base. On paper, it's the right move.

Egyptian startup Paymob, the leading payments infrastructure service provider in the MENA region, has secured US$35 million in a pre-Series C funding round to support its ongoing expansion across the region.

African ed-tech incubator and accelerator Injini will host the fifth edition of South African EdTech Week in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, with the event moving to Gauteng for the first time.