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Cameroonian Startup Reimagines African Clinical Trials
From helping hospitals find life-saving blood to helping researchers test clinical trials before enrolling a single patient, Infiuss Health has undergone a remarkable evolution. Founded and led by Cameroonian entrepreneur and CEO Melissa Bime, the company began as a digital blood-supply platform before expanding into clinical-research technology. Today, Infiuss builds AI-powered medical digital twins from real-world and historical data, allowing pharmaceutical companies, rese
Spotlight In Africa
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Cameroonian Fintech Is Building Africa's Payment Rails
Led by CEO Dr. Nkwenti Azong-Wara, Maviance PLC is a Cameroonian digital financial-services company modernising how money moves across Central Africa. Its flagship platform, Smobilpay, connects banks, microfinance institutions, mobile-money operators, businesses and service providers through one digital ecosystem supporting bill payments, collections, bulk disbursements, e-commerce transactions, agent banking and cross-border payments. Since launching in Cameroon in 2012, Mav
Spotlight In Africa
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Africa Moves Up the Cocoa Value Chain
Africa produces around 70-75% of the world’s cocoa, yet captures only a fraction of the value generated by the global chocolate industry. Now, four of the continent’s largest producers—Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Cameroon—are seeking to change that. At the 2026 Cocoa Value Addition Summit in Abuja, the countries signed the Abuja Declaration, establishing the Cocoa Value Addition Alliance to shift Africa from exporting raw cocoa beans toward processing, manufacturing, a
Spotlight In Africa
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