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Central African Republic follows El Salvador in making Bitcoin an official currency

TechSpot

A bill governing the use of Bitcoin was adopted unanimously by parliament last week, writes Reuters.

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Could this rare bean be the solution to the global coffee crisis?

Fast Company Tech

Native to South Sudan and a handful of other African countries, including Congo, Central African Republic, and Uganda, excelsa is also farmed in India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Excelsa could play a key role in adapting.

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An Interview With Paull Young from Charity:Water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since then, over 10,000 individual fundraisers have raised more than $11 million – including over $1 million for Central African Republic as part of the 2010 September Campaign to bring clean water to all of the Bayaka people. Tell me about this year’s campaign? What are your SMART objectives?

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Win a Trip to Report for the NYT with Nicholas Kristof

Have Fun - Do Good

Past winners traveled to Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Rwanda, and Congo. The winner will go on an international reporting trip with him to focus attention on the problems of global poverty, and its solutions. Possible destinations this year are Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia and/or Ghana.

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Lynk demos global satellite connection for ordinary phones and prepares for commercial launch

TechCrunch

As to that, the company is partnering first with Aliv in the Bahamas and Telecel Centrafrique in the Central African Republic. You will have to authorize it one way or another, but there will be an app to help with that, as well as agreements among the networks.

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MARA raises $23M from Coinbase Ventures and FTX to build Africa’s portal to the crypto economy

TechCrunch

In a statement, the company revealed that it struck a partnership with the Central African Republic — the first country to legalize bitcoin as a legal tender in Africa and second globally only to El Salvador –to become its official crypto partner and an advisor to the president on crypto strategy and planning. .

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YouTube Adds Call To Action Tool for Nonprofit Videos

Care2

That's enough to build two brand-new wells in the Central African Republic and give over 150 people clean drinking water for 20 years, said, “Ramya Raghavan of YouTube. . “The response from the YouTube community was overwhelming. Charity:water was able to raise over $10,000 in one day from the video.