December in Africa: All the tech news you shouldn’t miss from the past month

Generally a quiet month, December saw some serious developments in the African tech space. Aside from the usual developments in e-commerce and mobile money, it is becoming clearer than ever before that venture capital is growing on the continent, which can only be good news for African startups and entrepreneurs. E-commerce companies focus on scale, more developments in mobile African e-commerce platform Jumia expanded into Tanzania, taking the number of African countries in which it is present to nine. The company in November secured US$150 million in funding, and is continuing its rapid expansion across the continent. As noted in…



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