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How data enabled Senegal to respond to COVID-19 while continuing to fight malaria

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When word reached Senegal of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the globe, health practitioners in the country immediately thought back to what happened during the Ebola crisis of 2014.”There While COVID-19 certainly sped up the process for Senegal integrating its approach to health-system data, the idea was already in the works.

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Senegal’s logistics tech startup Chargel raises $2.5M seed funding

TechCrunch

We realized that there were so many inefficiencies, and that the logistics sector in Senegal was so fragmented, but we felt that technology could help. In its next phase of growth, it is opening up its platform to more clients, as it had limited access to 10 companies. And that is how their logistics tech startup, Chargel , was born.

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How data enabled Senegal to respond to COVID-19 while continuing to fight malaria

Tableau

When word reached Senegal of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading across the globe, health practitioners in the country immediately thought back to what happened during the Ebola crisis of 2014.”There While COVID-19 certainly sped up the process for Senegal integrating its approach to health-system data, the idea was already in the works.

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Pangea to unlock diaspora remittances as funding source for African startups

TechCrunch

Remittances from abroad reached $45 billion in 2021, with Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and Zimbabwe leading the list of recipient countries. 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.

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4DX Ventures and Flutterwave back Francophone Africa’s CinetPay in $2.4M round

TechCrunch

.” The Ivorian startup acts as an online and point-of-sale payment solution for merchants to process payment from more than 130 different payment operators — mobile-money, bank cards, wallets — in nine French-speaking African countries: Ivory Coast, Senegal, Cameroon, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Congo, Guinea and Benin.

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

“When Thomas and I launched Pula in 2015, we had one goal in mind: to build and deliver scalable insurance solutions for Africa’s 700 million smallholder farmers,” Goslinga said. They include Senegal, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique. million farmers.

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YouTubers’ #TeamTrees campaign overcame big hurdles in its first year

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A year after YouTubers launched a campaign to raise enough money to plant 20 million trees, the campaign is in a critical phase: planting the trees and ensuring their survival. The charity coordinating the tree planting, Arbor Day Foundation, says it’s on track to reach its goal of having all 20 million trees in the ground by the end of 2022.

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