France Football doled out its 2018 Ballon d'Or award, in addition to two new honors–a women's Ballon d'Or and the Kopa Trophy given to the world's best men's player under 21–in a ceremony on Monday, ...

M-KOPA, the asset financing platform that offers underbanked African customers access to “productive assets” and the ability to pay for them via digital micropayments, has secured more than $250 ...

LONDON, UK / ACCESS Newswire / September 22, 2025 / M-KOPA (www.M-KOPA.com), Africa's leading inclusive fintech, has surpassed 3 million active customers for the first time - a milestone that puts the ...

Young winger Lamine Yamal of FC Barcelona has once again claimed the Kopa Trophy, awarded to the best player under the age of ...

Battery indicator somewhat inaccurate. Port status indicators don't always work. If something goes wrong, battery isn't "user-replaceable." As I came off a hot and dusty Nairobi street into the ...

At the prestigious Ballon d’Or ceremony held in Paris on October 28, Barcelona’s rising star, Lamine Yamal, celebrated a significant achievement by placing eighth in the Ballon d’Or ranking. More ...

Across East Africa more than 300,000 households previously without electricity are powering homes and devices with solar panels and using mobile money to pay for it. Their power provider is M-KOPA, an ...

Tom Opiyo is the best-performing salesperson at M-Kopa Solar, a Kenyan company selling solar power systems to the very poor. Watching him work, it’s not hard to see why. Opiyo is a pastor who used to ...

A 2019 World Bank report says 85% of Africans live on less than $5.50 per day. A large percentage of these adults are unbanked and underbanked; thus, they don’t have access to credit and can’t afford ...

Raymond Kopa, who has died aged 85, was aside from Michel Platini the finest footballer to have played for France. A deep-lying maker of goals, Kopa enjoyed his best years in the late 1950s with Real ...

Raymond Kopa, a former Real Madrid attacking midfielder who became the first French player to win the Ballon d’Or, has died. He was 85. A graceful player with a magnificent eye for passing, Kopa won ...