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E-Mediat: Reflections from the Conference in Fez, Morocco

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference in Morocco was a “tri-lingual event” and was translated into French, English, and Arabic, although the content and instructional design were identical to the event in Jordan. Here’s an interview with the translators about best practices for facilitating training activities that need to be translated.

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Chari, a Moroccan startup digitizing mom and pop stores, raises $5M at $70M valuation

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Today, a new activity takes us to Morocco, where YC-backed company Chari just raised a $5 million seed round at a valuation of $70million. Rocket Internet, Global Founders Capital and P1 Ventures co-led the round, which is the largest of its kind in Morocco at the moment. “The more we grow, the more we have funding.

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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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Yassir pulls in $150M for its super app, led by BOND

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When CEO Noureddine Tayebi started Yassir, the plan was to build a super app that included services people — in the French-speaking Maghreb region consisting of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia — had little or no access to on one platform. So far, its execution has been spot on.

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African tech took center stage in 2021

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But two months into 2020, the pandemic did an excellent job of lowering expectations as investment activities from local and international investors slowed down. While global investors have previously invested in African startups, their activity seemed more prominent in 2021, probably because of their participation across the board.

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Tunisian edtech startup GOMYCODE raises $8M to expand across Africa and the Middle East

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In addition to Tunisia, GOMYCODE is present in Bahrain, Morocco, Egypt, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Senegal and Nigeria. Bouhlel says the company has local teachers in every country — over 500 in number — and they teach students in over 12 languages. It raised $850,000 seed in October 2020.

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Nigeria’s Curacel raises funding to power insurance offerings and expand into North Africa

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According to a McKinsey report, most African countries have experienced double-digit insurance growth in CAGR in local currency over the last five years, thus positioning the region as the second-fastest growing for insurance globally after Latin America.

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