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African E-Commerce Startup Wasoko Partners with Government of Zanzibar to Establish Innovation Hub
The Innovation Hub will focus on building world-class tech solutions to drive Africa’s e-commerce industry, as Wasoko becomes the first anchor company for “Silicon Zanzibar,” a new government initiative to attract tech companies from across Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Payment Service Banks: A Game-Changer for Financial Inclusion in Nigeria
Payment service banks are modelled on India’s Payment Banks, with a vision to similarly provide platforms for facilitating high-volume, low-value transactions in remittance, micro-savings, and withdrawals, in a secure technology-driven environment.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria, Indonesia, Five Others Home to Half of World’s Unbanked Population
World Bank’s 2021 Global Findex report said about 1.4 billion adults are still unbanked, and do not have an account at a financial institution or with a mobile money provider.
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- Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: These Four Countries Are Leading Africa’s Start-Up Scene — Here’s Why
The seventh edition of Disrupt Africa’s African Tech Startups Funding Report revealed that start-ups in the big four raised a combined $1.9 billion in 2021.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- startups
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South Africa Becomes First African Nation to Get Google Wallet
South Africa's rising trend of contactless payments has been given another boost with search giant Google launching its Google Wallet service.
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- Finance, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Africa’s Cold Rush and the Promise of Refrigeration
The International Institute of Refrigeration estimates that, globally, 1.6 billion tons of food are wasted every year, and that thirty percent of this could be saved by refrigeration.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- food security
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Why Are Impact Investors Ignoring African Healthcare?
The need to support the private sector – which largely consists of thousands of small-scale clinics and pharmacies – cannot be overlooked.
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, SDGs
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IProcure: Kenyan Agritech Startup Secures $10.2 Million Series B Funding
IProcure is enabling the lowering of food costs and lessening the climate impact of agriculture by ensuring smallholder farmers can plant their crops on time and achieve higher crop yields while using less land.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- startups
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