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Visit Zambia with LearnAsOne!

Amy Sample Ward

Steve Heyes, a colleague and founder of LearnAsOne , has just embarked on a great journey to Zambia and you’re invited! are headed to Zambia to document a community who doesn’t have a school, in as close to real-time as possible. Email the Zambia LearnAsOne team. Follow along and connect with the community!

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WhatsApp, Twitter, and Facebook are reportedly blocked in Zambia during its presidential election

The Verge

WhatsApp and other apps are reportedly blocked in Zambia during ongoing general elections being held in the country Thursday, according to digital rights organization Access Now and internet monitor NetBlocks. Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images. We’ll update this article if we hear back.

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Zambian card issuing startup Union54 raises $12M led by Tiger Global

TechCrunch

The company also claims to have processed volumes now reaching double digits in millions of dollars. Nigeria is one such market where per Statista , local labels such as Verve, the largest domestic card scheme developed by unicorn fintech Interswitch, control more than half of the market.

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YC-backed Namibian startup JABU gets $3.2M for its B2B e-commerce and retail play

TechCrunch

Its platform connects over 6,000 retailers to local and multinational suppliers — such as Namibia Breweries Limited, ABInBev, Bokomo, Coca-Cola, Namibmills — and digitizes orders, payments and logistics. And JABU — profiting from owning its supply chain — is making efforts to digitize its physical cash collection processes via wallets.

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Nigeria’s Sudo Africa raises $3.7M pre-seed for its card-issuing API platform

TechCrunch

At some point, we wanted to issue cards and worked with one of the local banks in Nigeria,” said CEO Bakori. For instance, a mobile wallet or local card in Nigeria trying to make a purchase on Amazon is always a dreadful experience. Tiger Global leads $3M round in Zambia’s Union54 for its card-issuing API.

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Sudan’s first YC-backed startup is helping consumers protect and grow their wealth

TechCrunch

Its offers a “high-yield” savings account, free FX and adjacent digital banking services so customers can save in a stable currency, the dollar, and spend-as-they-go in local currencies. The company was founded by Ahmed Ismail , Youcef Oudjidane , Khalid Keenan and Abdigani Diriye in late 2021.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There it brought teams of Google and LinkedIn employees to contribute code fixes and key feature enhancements to the open source mobile tools of our nonprofit project partner Mifos , whose mission is to enable financial institutions to become modern and digitally connected providers of financial services to the world’s 2.5 Martus Desktop 4.5