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Nigerian fintech Appzone raises $10M for expansion and proprietary technology

TechCrunch

Other countries with a presence include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Tanzania and Senegal. Still, while it might present a problem to other companies, Emetarom says the company has no issue training promising junior talent to grow in expertise. “ Obi Emetarom, co-founder and CEO, Appzone.

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Citizen Philanthropy: Delivering Impactful Pro Bono Support From Anywhere

Saleforce Nonprofit

Venture 2 Impact leveraged technology to continue providing nonprofit partners and volunteers around the world with necessary tools and training to advance their mission despite challenges created by the pandemic. This concept addresses the needs of nonprofits for continued support, training, mentorship, and engagement with their communities.

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How social media is supporting small charities

AFP Blog

How social media is supporting small charities : he true value of the impact social media has on fundraising projects was demonstrated to me during a recent visit to The Gambia, where I worked with the Glove Project, an organisation which works to improve local villages through a mixture of aid and enterprise.

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Facebook’s big QAnon crackdown might have come too late

The Verge

The group has been linked to more than a dozen violent incidents over the last year, including a train hijacking ; last month, a QAnon supporter rammed a car into a government residence in Canada. The Gambia doesn’t have either kind of agreement with the US, and the SCA doesn’t include exceptions for international justice efforts.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

Facebook is rejecting a request from The Gambia to help it investigate the genocide in Myanmar, saying the request was “extraordinarily broad” as well as “unduly intrusive or burdensome.” The scientists trained a machine learning model to “predict” what final MRI scans look like from just a quarter of the usual input data.

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