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MFS Africa collects $100M to expand its digital payments gateway across the region

TechCrunch

In a call with TechCrunch, founder and CEO Dare Okoudjou was quick to highlight MFS Africa’s mission on the continent: to make it easy for Africans to send and receive money just as they do with calls. The London-based company connects more than 320 million mobile money wallets across 35+ African countries and 700 corridors.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . People are willing to spend money on information that is important to them.” .

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Empowering Women Citizen Journalists: An Interview with Cristi Hegranes

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I was actually making money as a feature writer in a great city, but it became really obvious to me that my definition of journalism, and the definition of journalism that I was being asked to practice, as a member of mainstream media, were not the same. CH: How much money can I donate? It was what I thought would be my dream job.

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Construction insurance company Billy raises additional $2.5 million

TechCrunch

Nyasha Gutsa and Grant Robbins started the company in 2020 as a pandemic project. Billy plans to use the money to accelerate sales and increase customer retention. Born in Zimbabwe, he was a childhood pen pal of the late Michael Tyler Fisher , a member of the billionaire Fisher Family real estate dynasty.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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And, of course, because women's organizations always have too little money, I thought maybe a book would inspire other people to help. A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. In 2001, I began photographing.