BuuPass navigated a cofounder misappropriating over $100,000, COVID-19, multiple pivots in the past decade. Now, it processes $100 million in 2025.

Anees Health, an Egyptian healthtech startup founded in 2025, has closed a seed round of an undisclosed amount. It’ll use the money to grow its model, in which one team manages a patient’s care from the first contact until their condition is stable. The company builds its clinical model around geriatric medicine, with family doctors […] The post Egypt’s Anees Health closes seed round to coordinate care for older and chronically ill patients appeared first on Tech In Africa.

The DRC is using anonymised phone records to map how people travel during its largest Ebola outbreak. Here is how the method works, where it flagged risks early and why coverage gaps still limit the fight against the Bundibugyo virus.

Kenya cyber threats reached 11.12 billion in the year to June 2026, according to the country’s communications regulator. That is 29% more than the 8.62 billion events recorded a year earlier. The sharpest jump came from DDoS attacks, which rose 114.3%. The figures come from the Communications Authority of Kenya’s (CA) fourth-quarter Sector Statistics Report, […]

How to Tell If Your Phone Is Hacked (and What to Do First) Your battery used to last until dinner. Now it’s dead by lunch. There’s an app on your home screen you don’t remember installing, and this morning a login code arrived for an account you weren’t trying to open. Here’s how to tell if your phone is hacked, and what to do about it. Any one […] TechCity

The Startup Compliance Mistake Fintech Founders Keep Making A founder builds a payments app, reads through the regulations, and can’t find a single rule that describes exactly what the app does. So they launch. Aderonke Alex-Adedipe knows that founder’s reasoning well enough to say it in their voice: “I’ve looked at all the regulations, there’s nothing spot on that affects me.” What comes […] TechCity

The Best Tablets of 2026 for Every Kind of User A tablet can be almost anything you want it to be. For one person, it is a bigger screen for Netflix and YouTube. For another, it is a digital notebook for university. Someone else may use one to edit photos, draw illustrations or replace a laptop while travelling. That makes choosing the best tablet 2026 […] TechCity

The Best Smartwatches of 2026 Ranked by What They Actually Do There is no single best smartwatch. That might sound strange when every smartwatch buying guide seems determined to crown one. But the watch that makes the most sense for an iPhone owner is not necessarily the one you should buy for running. A Samsung user has different options from someone with a Pixel, while an […] TechCity

Bank Zero broke even in August 2026 as about 500,000 Mukuru customers began moving onto its platform. Here is what the milestone means for you and how alliance banking and new lending plans shape Bank Zero profitability and expansion.

In one week, Washington committed more than R4bn to African networks. The money flows into undersea cables, backbone fibre and data centres. We look at who is paying, what they expect in return and why broadband internet in South Africa still stops at the suburbs.

In one week, Washington committed more than R4bn to African networks. The money flows into undersea cables, backbone fibre and data centres. We look at who is paying, what they expect in return and why broadband internet in South Africa still stops at the suburbs.

South African fintech startup Mission Mobile has secured $30.9 million (R500 million) in growth capital from investment company DN Invest (DNI) to expand its smartphone financing services and make mobile devices more accessible to consumers across South Africa. Founded in 2023 by brothers Tim and Adam Strike, the Johannesburg-based company provides smartphone financing through partnerships […] The post South African Fintech Mission Mobile Secures $30.9 Million from DNI to Expand Smartphone Financing appeared first on Tech In Africa.