MUMBAI: The crackdown has gone beyond fake profiles, with investigators uncovering the human cost behind the scams. Meta, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Adobe, Coinbase, Starlink and other technology companies have joined law enforcement agencies from 10 countries in a coordinated operation targeting online fraud networks in West Africa, leading to the removal of more than 3.7…
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– Meta, Coinbase, Microsoft join crackdown on West African scams; 117 trafficking victims rescued in Ghana
Market snapshot: Bharti Airtel’s mobile money arm, Airtel Money, is launching its initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange, aiming for an estimated valuation of $7 billion. The transaction is a pure secondary share sale of 270 million shares priced at £1.96 each, targeting proceeds of around $703 million. Conditional trading is scheduled to…
Ticket demand for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2027 has surged past the one-million mark, with more than one million applications submitted in less than three days since the ticket ballot opened on 1 October 2026.
01-10-2026 By Michelle Waweru | Channel: finance | Tags: Banking Cameroon Financial Services Manufacturing
UA.NEWS15 September 2026 05:36
US travel executives have asked President Donald Trump to help attract 100 million international visitors annually, even as a visa-bond programme introduced by his administration makes travel considerably more expensive for applicants from 30 African countries.
Smallholder farmers across East Africa are being offered a new route to finance climate-resilient agriculture through the Africa Rural Climate Adaptation Finance Mechanism, known as ARCAFIM. Launched by the International Fund for Agricultural Development and Equity Group at the Africa Food Systems Forum 2026 in Kigali, the US$200 million initiative will support farmers and rural…
African startups transitioning from Series A to Series B funding rounds will have an opportunity to attract investment this year after VC-firm Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV) closed its first fund at US$60 million.
South Africa welcomed almost one million international tourists in July, but arrivals from China and India moved sharply in the opposite direction.
