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Ghanaian fintech Dash raises $32.8M seed to build connected wallets for Africans

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Global financial transactions are facilitated mainly by payment processors such as Visa or Mastercard. Other investors in the round include Global Founders Capital and 4DX Ventures. They are responsible for communication between banks and fintechs to settle transactions for consumers and businesses swiftly. Africa has it different.

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Tanzanian fintech NALA raises $10M seed to build Revolut for Africa

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to East African countries (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), thus ushering the Tanzanian fintech into the remittance business. to Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Ghana. We also got our license approvals to go live in the U.S. We’re scaling that up, not just being in Tanzania and Kenya and Uganda as a consumer-facing product.

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PawaPay raises $9M seed backed by MSA, 88mph and Mr Eazi’s Zagadat Capital

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African startups join global funding boom as fintech shines. An interesting instance would be freelancers in Ivory Coast trying to receive payment for services on a global payments platform. This alternative financial infrastructure is one of the largest globally. He also sits on the board of 88mph.

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These 5 simple ideas could fix our food system

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Below, Julian shares five key insights from his new book, How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy. But the Hadza hunter-gatherers of Tanzania have a really healthy gut microbiome, and they dont eat anything like kimchi or kefir, let alone manufactured so-called gut-boosters. They only eat what they have gathered that day.

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How Audiomack became an unlikely Spotify competitor

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If you are in Tanzania or Liberia, nothing is going to offend you more than only being served Nigerian, Ghanaian, or South African songs. As Western markets reach saturation, most future streaming growth will come from Global South regions, of which Africa is an important part, she argues. A lot of our growth in Canada, U.K.,

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

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If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Musoma, Tanzania: Adobe Spark: Storytelling for Nonprofits. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing.

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Telling Your Story: NetSquared #Storymakers2017 Workshops for Nonprofits

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