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How to better support girls globally?

Fast Company Tech

Nations like Burkina Faso and Liberia are cutting the share of girls subjected to the practice over the last 30 years by half. Total cases are likely higher, as survivors and their families often dont come forward due to challenges accessing services or out of fear of retribution. But there is hope.

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Cleantech Qotto embarks on growth plan backed by $8M funding

TechCrunch

Qotto , a solar kits provider with operations in Burkina Faso and Benin, has raised $8 million in a Series A equity-debt round led by the IBL group, a billion-dollar conglomerate headquartered in Mauritius with business interests in a number of sectors including energy, financial services, logistics, distribution, and engineering.

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Molotov starts its international expansion with seven African countries

TechCrunch

First, the service will be available in seven African countries, starting with Ivory Coast where it’s already live, Senegal in January, Cameroon in February, Burkina Faso in March, Tunisia in April, Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo after that.

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Cameroon’s Ejara raises $2M to offer crypto and investment services in Francophone Africa

TechCrunch

Ejara has more than 8,000 users from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Senegal, as well as French-speaking Africans in the diaspora (Europe, Asia and the U.S.), Yet, the company plans to also diversify into providing other assets, including fractional shares, stocks and commodities. .

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Norebase raises $1M to allow companies start, scale, and operate in any African country

TechCrunch

These countries include Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Egypt, Mauritius and Burkina Faso. According to Norebase, companies that use its platform can be incorporated in any African country within “a few minutes” and expand to new locations in a week.

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4DX Ventures and Flutterwave back Francophone Africa’s CinetPay in $2.4M round

TechCrunch

.” The Ivorian startup acts as an online and point-of-sale payment solution for merchants to process payment from more than 130 different payment operators — mobile-money, bank cards, wallets — in nine French-speaking African countries: Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Congo, Guinea and Benin.

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Paris-based Koolboks closes $2.5M seed round to scale solar refrigeration across Africa

TechCrunch

These are markets where it has distributors or dealers; 13 of them are in sub-Saharan Africa: Benin, Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

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