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Nigeria’s digital payroll platform Bento expands to Kenya, Rwanda and Ghana, to enter six other African markets in 2022

TechCrunch

In its next phase of expansion, Bento is eyeing Egypt, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Angola and Ethiopia by the end of next year. Employers don’t have access to locally customized, world-class payroll and HRM tools, and employees can’t easily access third-party services to help make life easier.

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NowNow raises $13M seed, plans to scale its ecosystem of financial products across Africa

TechCrunch

The fintech also has a consumer-facing product where people can send and receive money, pay bills and access value-added services such as insurance and lending via a debit card and a wallet in an app. Similar digital banking providers in this segment include the likes of Kuda , Carbon and FairMoney. .”

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This ship-to-ship battle looks amazing in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War’s multiplayer trailer

The Verge

Deep in the deserts of Angola, Central Africa, a top-secret, American-made reconnaissance satellite known as the KH-9 has been grounded, potentially by Perseus. Initial reports indicate that the area has gone hot and fighting has spilled out into the streets, prompting a second CIA-JSOC team to arrive at the scene as reinforcements.

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