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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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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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Sun King raises $260M to widen clean energy access in Africa, Asia

TechCrunch

Countries like South Sudan, Burundi, Chad, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Madagascar and Tanzania are among the least electrified in the world and could benefit from clean energy technologies. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 75% of the world’s population with no access to renewable energy solutions and electricity.

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Wave, a Stripe-backed African fintech valued at $1.7 billion, cut 15% of its staff in June

TechCrunch

Thus, the layoffs affected almost 300 employees, most of whom worked in Wave’s new markets: Burkina Faso, Mali and Uganda. TechCrunch reached out to Wave for comments on the matter and a spokesperson confirmed that “close to 15%” of the company’s almost 2,000 staff were let go.

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Clean energy firm Husk signs UN energy compact as it begins solar mini-grid expansion in Nigeria, rest of Africa

TechCrunch

Countries like South Sudan, Burundi, Chad, Malawi, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Tanzania are among some of the least electrified countries in the world, and could benefit from clean energy from solar or wind. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for 75% of the world’s population with no access to renewable energy solutions and electricity.

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