About Jumia

Jumia is one of the leading e-commerce Marketplace platform in Africa that partners with vendors. The company is built around a marketplace, Jumia Logistics, and JumiaPay. The marketplace helps millions of consumers and thousands of sellers to connect and transact its business.

Advertisement Jumia Logistics enables the delivery of millions of packages through their local network partners. While JumiaPay facilitates the payments of online transactions within Jumia’s ecosystem.

With over 1 billion people and 500 million internet users in Africa, Jumia believes that e-commerce is making people’s lives easier by helping them shop and pay for millions of products at the best prices wherever they live. E-commerce is also creating new opportunities for SMEs to grow, and job opportunities for a new generation to thrive.

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The company has partnered with over 50,000 local company and individual that have subscribed as vendors on its online marketplace.

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Jumia started operation in 2012 in Lagos, the company currently has a presence across more than 10 African countries.

“Prone to the outbreak of Covid-19” in Lagos, Jumia has announced the implementation of “contactless” delivery for “prepaid packages” on the platform, dated on 27th March, 2020. The company is taking additional measures to keep consumers, delivery agents and partners safe in the wake of the “COVID-19 outbreak” [Read More].

To drive the initiative, the ‘contactless safe delivery’ option has been implemented on JumiaPay, the payment platform. This enables consumers to make prepaid payments for products online and get it delivered without a direct body contact or cash exchange with the delivery agent.

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