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    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Interview
      ‘Amazon of Africa’ Jumia restructures after ousting co-founders

      Acting chief hunts for profits after continent’s first ever tech unicorn plunges 70% in value since New York listing

      Jumia’s app and logo
    • Tuesday, 10 December, 2019
      Africa’s Amazon hopeful Jumia retreats from big expansion

      One-time unicorn quits Rwanda after Cameroon and Tanzania as US-listed shares fall 90% from high

      FILE PHOTO: A woman works at the packaging unit at a warehouse for an online store, Jumia in Ikeja district, in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos June 10, 2016.REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye/File Photo
    • Monday, 13 May, 2019
      Lex
      Jumia/African tech: click wait Premium content

      The ecommerce group has plenty of work to do

      Few people choose to buy over the internet in Jumia’s largest markets in Nigeria and Egypt
    • Monday, 13 May, 2019
      Jumia denies fraud allegations as shares continue to fall

      Africa-focused ecommerce group ‘completely stands by’ filings with US SEC

      Jumia co-CEO Sacha Poignonnec, left, applauds as Jumia Nigeria CEO Juliet Anammah, center, rings a ceremonial bell when the company's stock begins trading, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, April 12, 2019. Jumia is recognized as the first African tech startup company to be listed on the NYSE. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
    • Friday, 10 May, 2019
      Jumia falls sharply after Citron claims fraud

      Africa-focused ecommerce site targeted by short seller

      A delivery man drives a transporter with an advertisement for Nigeria's e-commerce site Jumia in the Plateau district of Abidjan on April 24, 2019. - Jumia, the e-commerce site based in Nigeria, became on April 12, 2019 the first African start-up to make its debut on Wall Street. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP)ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images
    • Wednesday, 8 May, 2019
      David Pilling
      Complaints that Jumia is not African ring hollow

      Ecommerce group may be incorporated in Germany but we live in a global world

      Jumia co-CEO Sacha Poignonnec, left, applauds as Jumia Nigeria CEO Juliet Anammah, center, rings a ceremonial bell when the company's stock begins trading, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, April 12, 2019. Jumia is recognized as the first African tech startup company to be listed on the NYSE. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
    • Sunday, 5 May, 2019
      Jumia’s rise exposes challenges of online shopping in Africa

      Pan-African start-up wrestles with issues of logistics, traffic and customer trust

      A delivery man drives a transporter with an advertisement for Nigeria's e-commerce site Jumia in the Plateau district of Abidjan on April 24, 2019. - Jumia, the e-commerce site based in Nigeria, became on April 12, 2019 the first African start-up to make its debut on Wall Street. (Photo by ISSOUF SANOGO / AFP)ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images
    • Friday, 12 April, 2019
      Lex
      African e-commerce/Jumia: the first zebracorn Premium content

      Continent’s answer to Amazon has a lot of challenges to overcome

      NIGERIA-ECONOMY-INTERNET-AFRICA...A Jumia scooterman tries to speak to clients to be delivered with product at the Ikeja warehouse of the company in lagos on June 12, 2013. JUMIA is a Nigerian based online retail company, where customers purchase their electronics, books, phones, DVDs and other choice products and have them shipped directly to their homes or offices with several payment options to choose from. JUMIA, the fourth largest Nigerian website, which recently turned one years old have hit over half a million customers in the country. Jumia is funded by Rocket Internet, a Germany based Internet incubators globally responsible for starting market leading e-commerce companies. AFPPHOTO/PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 12 April, 2019
      Jumia becomes first African start-up to list in New York

      E-commerce company dubbed ‘Africa’s Amazon’ valued at more than $1bn

      NIGERIA-ECONOMY-INTERNET-AFRICA...TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Cecile DE COMARMOND A worker scans a product to ascertain its originality at the Ikeja warehouse of the company in Lagos on June 12, 2013. JUMIA is a Nigerian based online retail company, where customers purchase their electronics, books, phones, DVDs and other choice products and have them shipped directly to their homes or offices with several payment options to choose from. JUMIA, the fourth largest Nigerian website, which recently turned one years old have hit over half a million customers in the country. Jumia is funded by Rocket Internet, a Germany based Internet incubators globally responsible for starting market leading e-commerce companies. AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI (Photo credit should read PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP/Getty Images)
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