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Geoff Livingston Guest Post: Follow @childfund and Help Feed Children

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These efforts will directly benefit children in Gambia, Zambia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Vegetable seeds in Ethiopia. As part of the effort, ChildFund International is sending Flip cameras to program directorate offices in each of the four countries to report back. A goat for a family farm in Zambia. Mango trees in Kenya.

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Google to offer 40,000 developer scholarships in Africa; continues accelerator program

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In 2020, it selected 20 startups into the program (eight from Nigeria, six from Kenya, two from South Africa and one each from Ghana, Tunisia, Ethiopia and Zimbabwe). Formerly known as Google Launchpad Accelerator, Google for Startups Accelerator Africa has worked with up to 50 startups across 17 African countries.

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mPharma raises $35million in round participated by Tinder co-founder’s JAM fund, Bharti executive

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Patients in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda and Ethiopia, where mPharma has a presence, now have access to the virtual services. It also entered Ethiopia in March last year by signing a franchise agreement with Belayab Pharmaceuticals through its subsidiary, Haltons Limited.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

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The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades.

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An Interview With Paull Young from Charity:Water

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Fast forward a couple of years, and Paull is following his passion for clean water around the world and is the director of digital for charity:water. In 2008, even more people joined and raised over $1 million for clean water projects in Ethiopia. charity:water continues to be an innovator in the area of online fundraising.

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African talent recruitment company TalentQL joins Techstars to further global ambition

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First is how it operates going forward in a crowded tech talent marketplace with the likes of Ethiopia’s Gebeya and Nigeria’s Decagon and Semicolon. The other would be helping the company to be a global company, not just an African one. How nontechnical talent can break into deep tech. ”

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Pangea to unlock diaspora remittances as funding source for African startups

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And as annual inflows grow, Pangea’s country director and CEO for Kenya Anne Lawi told TechCrunch, diaspora remittances can be tapped to increase the amount of funding injected into startups. Remittances from abroad reached $45 billion in 2021, with Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Zimbabwe leading the list of recipient countries.

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