The Daily Dose

It was a relatively quiet month on the tech news front in Africa, yet August still saw some notable rollouts and another bumper package of funding rounds for the continent’s startups. A month of big launches Perhaps the biggest news of the month was the revelation that Chinese phone maker Xiaomi will be arriving in Africa in September after appointing a distributor. Another major player making strides in Africa is Google, which not only launched its Transit service in Kenya during August but also expanded its Android One programme to Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Egypt and Morocco with the…

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