Olugbenga Agboola is the Co-founder and CEO of San Francisco and Lagos-based Flutterwave. Photo credit: Shoppe Black Face2Face Africa By Abu Mubarik Nigerian fintech startup Flutterwave has reached a $3 billion valuation after raising $250 million in its single-biggest funding round to date. The latest valuation makes it the “highest valued” African startup, it said.

By Anadolu Agency French President Emmanuel Macron rejected on Friday Malian authorities’ demand to withdraw French anti-terrorist forces Barkhane and Takuba “without delay” from Malian territory. “We have announced the re-articulation of the device and it will be applied in good order to ensure the security of the UN mission and all forces deployed in

An image posted on Twitter by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights shows Princess Latifa and Michelle Bachelet in front of Chaussée d’Antin – La Fayette metro station in Paris By Middle East Eye The UN human rights chief met in private with the daughter of the emir of Dubai on

By Anadolu Agency Leaders from the European Union and African Union agreed on Friday to renew their partnership and launch a €150 billion ($170 billion) worth investment package. The European Union-African Union Summit is “something different,” an “opportunity for us to lay the groundwork for a renewed partnership,” Charles Michel, president of the European Council,

Kimberly Potter. Pool via REUTERS By Reuters A Minnesota judge on Friday sentenced former police officer Kimberly Potter to two years in the fatal shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop, a lighter sentence than the roughly seven years in prison sought by prosecutors. Potter, 49 — who mistook her handgun for

File Photo Somali Times/Somalia’s Finance Minister Abdirahman Beileh By Reuters A key IMF-supported programme funding military wages and other essential services in Somalia could expire in May if there are any further delays to elections, the chief International Monetary Fund representative in the country said. Riven by civil war since 1991, the impoverished Horn of

Fighter jets of the Russian and Belarusian air forces fly in a joint mission during the Union Courage-2022 Russia-Belarus military drills in Belarus, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022. Russia has deployed troops to its ally Belarus for sweeping joint military drills that run through Sunday, fueling Western concerns that Moscow could use the exercise to attack

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks near a poster advertising the NHS COVID Pass application during a visit to a National Health Service (NHS) coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination centre near Ramsgate, Britain, December 16, 2021. Leon Neal/Pool via REUTERS Reuters By Alistair Smout English medical leaders on Friday urged Boris Johnson not to be too

File – A woman walks past the Trump Building in New York’s financial district, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Mazars USA LLP, the accounting firm that prepared former President Donald Trump’s annual financial statements, says the documents “should no longer be relied upon” after investigators said they found evidence he and his company regularly misstated the

A security officer stands guard at the entrance of Saudi Arabia’s Abqaiq oil processing plant on 20 September 2019 (AFP) By Middle East Eye Saudi Arabia has declined requests from the United States to increase its production of oil in order to reduce gasoline prices, instead sticking to an agreement not to pump more oil