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Pangea to unlock diaspora remittances as funding source for African startups

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Norway’s Pangea Trust, through its equity crowdfunding platform Connect , is unlocking diaspora remittance inflows as funding source for early and growth-stage startups in Africa. 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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South African startup Talk360’s seed funding hits $7M after new backing

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The company plans to use the new funding to launch a pan-African payment platform next year and grow its VoIP market share. Hiine, who co-founded the startup with Hans Osnabrugge and Jorne Schamp in 2016, hopes to tap the payment platform to enable more people across the continent to make international calls through its app.

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This pan-African freelance platform is the first Zimbabwean startup backed by Techstars

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The accelerator, which has accepted only a handful of African startups, included one from Zimbabwe in this class. Quite a number of international and local freelance websites exist to meet these needs. As peculiar to most African startups, funding has been hard to come by for the team. Roger Roman (co-founder).

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South Africa’s Talk360 raises $4M to build single payment platform for Africa

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Meanwhile, the startup is also looking to expand its international calling operations across Africa after closing a $4 million seed funding round, led by HAVAÍC. South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh are some of the markets where the calling app is widely used.

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New data for strategic disaster philanthropy 

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Cyclone Idai struck Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, causing widespread flood destruction. The Rohingya crisis continued unabated, increasing the number of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people in Bangladesh and surrounding countries. As with previous years, this report sheds light on pervasive funding gaps.

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World is an international nonprofit organization and citizen journalism initiative. I had the feeling that there was something else that I could be doing with my passion for journalism and my knowledge of international reporting. I have a story that you have to hear.'" CH: Yes, we do.

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Women Who Light the Dark by Paola Gianturco

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Women Who Light the Dark by photojournalist Paola Gianturco (powerHouse books, September 2007) begins with a profile of Betty Makoni and the Girl Child Network in Zimbabwe. Eighteen Global Fund for Women grantees are profiled in the book, and Gianturco is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women.